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If all my other expenses were covered? I'd probably spend $4500 on art for a vanity-published RPG product and $500 promoting said beautifully-illustrated RPG product.

Unpopular opinion: You're better off having not finished The Name of the Wind. It gets progressively worse.

Probably my all-time favorite short story. (Not a hot take. It won a well-deserved Hugo Award back on 2004.)

Pun intended?

Also, orcs were "goblin kin" in the Forgotten Realms setting at least as late as 2012.

There are people in this thread arguing that changing a few words in a game rulebook constitutes an Orwellian erasure of history. I can only imagine what they would say about expunging entire genealogical records.

Why is the default assumption that orcs are being cast in the role of indigenous peoples and humans are colonizers? That seems to be relying on flawed tropes from outdated adventure modules. I would think indigenous Humanoids should be cast in the role of indigenous peoples and colonizing...

Unicorns are friends of the asexual community and believe women who choose not to engage in sexuality should be lauded for being true to themselves, not shamed for refusing to bow to societal norms?

Has anyone with more industry knowledge than myself compiled a list of publishers that are using other creators' Open Content without contributing any of their own? (Paizo's not guilty of this, but some other publishers mentioned in this thread might be.) I would love to have that information so...

Wow. Just wow. Does that book draw upon any OGL content other than the 5e SRD? If it's just building on the 5e SRD and nothing else, I guess it's not all that bad. WotC released the 5e SRD under a non-share-alike Creative Commons license earlier this year, so anyone can use it to create closed...

This site's profanity guidelines don't allow me to properly express how much I dislike index entries that say "See X" but don't list a page number. Especially when "X" is just an entry with one page number. Seriously, it takes less ink to just print the page number instead of "See X," so why are...

When I'm running a game, I only use bits and pieces of canon provided in published sources. The game I'm running has its own internal canon only tangentially related to the works that inspired it. I often borrow maps and rough descriptions of locations on those maps, for example, but I might...

When you put it that way, I think we're agreement. Each time a setting gets reintroduced for a new audience (or new edition, as the case may be), the setting is going to be framed differently than it was before.

I would say each Star Wars TTRPG was a different presentation of the same setting. Ditto with 1e/2e/3e/5e FR*. In each case, the official setting is intended to be part of the same continuity. I haven't read Adventures in the Multiverse yet, so I don't know if that same logic applies to 2e vs...

Counterpoint: There are three different Star Wars TTRPGs, and they all take place in the same setting.

I've never really followed Greyhawk, but based on your description, it sounds like a perfect framework for creating a diverse setting written by a diverse group of authors. The way you describe it, it sounds like Gygax created a world with both European and non-European influences, then left all...

I'm pretty sure it's a matter of product branding, not a matter of pride. The suits don't want creativity and innovation interfering with their marketing objectives.

I'm surprised you're the first person to mention inflation. I know I can't afford as many books as I'd like these days.

While doing research for a project I'm working on, I discovered every deity in the Mulhorandi pantheon has both an Egyptian name and one or more "Theros-ized" (a.k.a. invented) names. So they literally could just drop the Egyptian names and still exist, as written, no retcon required. (Although...

Since one of the stated goals of the 2024 DMG is to teach new DMs how to run the game, I would say, yes, designers really should spend time and page count on a few examples of both gamist and simulationist approaches to the same problem.