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One other aspect to the whole issue of Gary claiming royalties, was having his name added to the works of others. I probably need to listen to the podcast again, but I don’t think any of the sources really discussed this. One theme the creators repeated was “culture eats strategy for...

Mr. Colville mentions this a couple of times in his videos. He interprets it as the difference between the open DM that encouraged players to make the game their own, and the Head Honcho of They Sue Regularly Inc., who was trying to maintain what he saw as their rightful hegemony of TTRPGs. I...

I can’t take credit for this, as I read it elsewhere, but I think it is applicable here. There have been a number of discussions lately trying to label people or companies (Gygax is sexist, WotC is evil, stupid, etc.). Rather than try to come to a conclusion, it can be better to simply describe...

For the sake of the discussion, this is the quote from the former CEO of Nestlé, in response to the suggestion that water should be a human right. I think it’s bad, and it’s no surprise that he walked back on this statement: "Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in...

You shouldn’t trust them. Their promises are irrelevant. What matters are the decisions they make. As it turns out, we as the customer base appear to have influence over the decisions they make. That power will last only as long as they worry about losing us as customers.

Late to the party, but…. Fair enough that we feel that, in hindsight, WotC/Hasbro should have known that some of their recent decisions would anger many of their customers. However, the fact that the D&D customer base has the power/influence to compel them to backtrack on unpopular decisions...

Being someone who works in an office, the idea of a “really great guy” who is just an ineffectual boss really resonates.

Certainly very few if any people are irredeemably bad, and people also can mellow out in their later years. He definitely did kind things for people. My issue, though, is what seems to have happened whenever he felt someone was not squarely on his side- when things got difficult he would...

Having finished the podcast and read a number of sources recently and in the past, I have come to two conclusions: Gary definitely had been crafting a story where he was the hero and Williams was the villain, after he had dispatched the incorrigible Blumes. Gary really wasn’t a nice person...

Doused the Light of Xaryxis.

Hello. To me, the reason I don’t like firearms in TTRPGs (mostly D&D) is that I know what firearms can do, from a minor wound to an unimportant part of the body to instant death from a .22 calibre bullet in the right spot. There is no way that modern TTRPG rules can accurately reflect what we...