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We already have this. It’s called the Matt Mercer effect.

I have to ask, what’s considered professional. I have 30+ years as an adult gm under my belt, with hundreds of hours of gm sessions and design work. Or is it professional because the are now getting paid?

Because they have mutants and masterminds, and self competition does not lead to a good place?

The real question is, does it include the rules for the biotech monster known as the Beast from home world cataclysm.

... Okay, there is a thing people often do when asked to provide several of something. Offer one good one, the one they want to see used, and the others made to be "not right" for the project. See that above? Somebody did that. I'm not saying they're bad art, I'm saying the other two are...

Ah, powderkeg theory. As seen on battlestar galactica.

I want to just point out something tangent to this. If people/companies admit to mistakes, or do the right thing after, and we either figuratively shoot them in the face/mock them for doing the bare minimum… That‘s NOT going to encourage the behavior we want. Companies and corporations are...

What he said. Combined with: "No. Nothing you say will spin this better. Stop trying to make it better. It makes it worse!"

It's not. And not long. Paizo - Paizo Workers Unionize

It's all legal and semantics right now.

Let me be clear, the gaming industry is not just rpgs. It’s board games. Computer games. Mobile game industry… this could have VERY wide reaching effects. Then again, might not.

Well, as they themselves have said, it’s not possible for them to do so, really. Game design and writing are very skilled labor, with a large part of the workload front loaded learning the tone of what your writing for, formats they want, and the background of the setting to make things line...

Ah, my own fault. They both had the same icon image, and I never noticed they were no the same article. Sounds dumb, but when scrolling the news, it just hit me as item, item 5, item that’s a repeat of item 1…

What really disappoints me is that this article has only gotten two pages of discussion, while articles dealing with “new shinies” have a half dozen. This seems like a fundamental change in the publishing landscape, and should noticed a more. Facts are, if one union happens, others will...

Oh, that's not going to happen. Not until they've lost all internal options to stop it happening. Any comment they make is going to lock them into events they would VERY much like to avoid.

As someone who worked in the ttrpg and computer game industries, I really agree with the idea of unionizing. Simple fact is, companies that deal with workers with enlightened self-interest are few and far between. While unions have earned a bad rap due to issues with corruption, they are still...

Deck of stories links are borked.

Yup. I was responding to the more generic programming theory discussion. in the case of this, yeah, looks like they may have painted themselves into a corner. It‘s real easy for a programmer to do, and why rebuilds of a project from scratch happen so often. but… doing it “properly” is not...

As a programmer and game designer, let me put the problem this way…. some things are easy for computers to understand, but hard for people. some things are impossible for computers to understand, but simple for people. this rule cannot be be more true than in the rpg industry. Many rules and...

I'm not telling anyone not to discuss this anymore, but... Didn't this horse die, like... years ago? I just feel like we got most of the points out of the way, and it's just kinda like dumping the horse in a blender now... That's not to say we shouldn't warn off the innocent from this utter...