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I'd go so far to say that it's impossible to do zero prep. Every bit of genre fiction you encounter is prep for your next game. Even the daily news might wind up in your next game. I could read something here (or social media) and have it in the game. Those newsletters I subscribe to? Prep. A...

To put some scale on this. Umbran is off by at least two orders of magnitude. To dethrone D&D you need more than 1 million (maybe even 10!) people playing it year to year. 100s of thousands of books sold every year. You need when normies see the actual play they think its the actual game being...

I'm not a big comics nerd, but I know Greg Pak's work. I like that they have someone with extensive experience working within, while expanding, a familiar universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Pak

For some perspective, D&D was about a quarter billion brand last year. It's selling better this year, now that all the core books are out, plus there are more books and the starter set to come for the holidays. Daggerheart had a very strong launch, but there's no reason to think Critical Role...

It didn't have a kickstarter at all.

Critical Role is bigger than Daggerheart. CR should do what's best for CR, not for one of their several games, which they will of course play, because they're literally playing it in shows now. Just like they played their board game and their other games. Critical Role is a brand with several...

No, look at the stock of every company that announces shifts towards public AI. It's a not-secret bell to higher valuations. That's why so many Fortune 500 are making very public announcements about AI.

it would make stock go up and right. investors seem to love that

He also doesn't talk about using it as an output service, but to aid on the backend with analysis, formatting, etc

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As someone who does marketing for a living, I like the amount of influence people here think a single marketer has on product

They also released another D&D book, put three on DnD Beyond, extended their D&D cartoon contract with Prime Video and hired the two most famous TTRPG designers of the current era (while not letting go of the people who helped build Daggerheart). They're a growth stage business adding new...

I didn't present that name recognition was why they signed the two. I did suggest it was because they wanted to maintain strong ties to D&D, especially 5e. There's no evidence at all that they are trying to move away from D&D, considering the larger resources they've put towards 5e than any...

they have three 5e books for sale on DnD Beyond. They still play D&D on their channel. They sell D&D books on other VTTs. They have another season of their D&D cartoon coming out after releasing three. If they didn't want to be associated with D&D they're not really going about it in a way that...

The rest of their post as shared on Threads "The worlds we build are always connected—and sometimes, the best stories come from unexpected reunions..." Washington State nearly eliminated them, but since Hasbro/Wizards doesn't seem hostile to the move there's no point in trying to enforce it...

I see this as making it more likely that CR sticks with 5e in some capacity. You don't hire massive 5e voices to force them into a sandbox built by someone you already hired to lead that project (or those leaders will disappear).

Before things make a UA they've already gone through a playtest with large group of players who sign NDAs and such. It's not like they're this weird company that only develops in public with no private work whatsoever.

They do have a larger internal playtest community than most TTRPGs have players

A 5e variant where every class-subclass is a 2 or 3 attribute MAD would be intriguing

Greg Bisland, on LinkedIn, calls these opens "on his team." I think this means in parallel, rather than working for him