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For those that have played it is this game more or less complex than 5e?

What struck me most about the podcast was not just how terrible TSR management was, but how deplorable they were to their employees. Employees there were exploited, underpaid, and treated with contempt while an incompetent management handed out cushy jobs to friends and family. And Gygax was...

It's just that it implies that everyone has a preference for how much they like the rules to be vague/codified. It's a spectrum and different people fall on various places in the spectrum. It's not that more codified = "rules that work," because things can be so codified that they become a...

What do you mean a step too far? The rules "just worked" too well?

Much of the European Union agrees that loot boxes are gambling and should be banned for 14 year olds I think it's just that you take people on a gaming site discussing WOTC as a business as... ...where no one is really saying that the house is on fire. We are just discussing where we think...

You're really downplaying the fact that for some people gambling is an addiction, and that there are these currently existing digital products that exploit that addiction. It's not an open and shut case that loot boxes = gambling but research point to a very plausible connection. Courts in...

For now!

It means precisely this--that when you are in their ecosystem they set the terms of your engagement. They can change the sharing setup at any time. That's why the real tension is not between physical/digital but in how tightly they control their digital ecosystem. It's not anything...

People who play exclusively physical probably don't need to worry, unless the push to digital starts to affect the design/creative team in some way. But people who are in any sort of mixed groups, whether physical/digital or digital across different ecosystems will have different needs and...

(I have a feeling they were being sarcastic)

I don't need the new books to play 5e, and I'd rather play other games at this point

They have been signaling quite clearly that they see digital offerings of various kinds as the path toward further growth (in $ not in players). And it makes perfect sense as a strategy; I'm sure they would love if the default play experience was via dndbeyond, with material and fees that they...

Though, by default backers will be more interested in the games they backed, and so more likely to think highly of them? I don't get the hype around a lot of $M kickstarters, but that's just because those games are not for me. I would be curious to know which $M kickstarters were...

I backed Dolmenwood and backers have basically the final PDFs of everything. It's an amazing setting and I can't wait to run it. It's extremely richly detailed and well-organized, and the adventures are up to the usual Necrotic Gnome standards. It's debatable whether they needed to include...

I noticed that too. The fact that these are all excellent actors, and we see them do TotM play really well in their other games, just made the shift all the more jarring. To constantly shift to what was going on their screen made them inhabit their characters less, I felt. It might have been...

First non-dnd game I read was TMNT and Other Strangeness, first non-dnd game I played was, I believe, Mage: The Ascension.

They probably have a whole team that they aren't crediting doing the conversions!

I was confused by this claim when she first made it. I think by based she means the overall flat math of SD, where the relative power level of characters and monsters is more similar to b/x than 5e. In terms of gameplay (i.e. its resolution mechanics) it doesn't have a lot of similarity with...

A couple principles for OS (especially dungeon) play from the Old School Primer • Rulings, not Rules • Player Skill, not Character Abilities The reason, I think, that basic dnd became the lingua franca of the OSR is not only compatibility with old modules, but because it allows for the above...

I think they see their job as getting people to subscribe to dndbeyond