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  1. eyeheartawk

    D&D 5E (2024) Wrapping up first 2-20 2024 campaign this week, some of my thoughts

    I'm still shocked they didn't fix this. I know that they dialed up the superheroics for player characters even more, but the way yo-yo healing stands you up without consequence all the time surely couldn't have been intentional originally. But man, they've really just run with it since.
  2. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    Bro, my FATAL character has the BEST butt circumference. Your game doesn't even have rules for that, I bet.
  3. eyeheartawk

    Jeremy Crawford Interview: The Monster Manual and More

    I like the non-answer to the question about, hey can you provide us some guidance for variations on the humanoid stat blocks. I can only interpret the non-answer as Also, you still can't convince that Hold Person not working on a basic Goblin is a good idea.
  4. eyeheartawk

    D&D General Chris Perkins and Stan! - previous D&D edition thoughts

    I can kind of see where Perkins is coming from here, to an extent. Like, yeah, I guess if I had to say which edition 5e feels most like, I would say 2e. But really, even then, it does not even come close to feeling like it. And yeah, like you, I think the main difference is player expectations...
  5. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    Yeah. I was mainly asking why buy it on DDB, Foundy and Roll20. Gotta be WotC's favorite customer of all time.
  6. eyeheartawk

    RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Glumdark, The Secret World, ZineMonth 2025 Begins, and more

    This is like a fractal of crowdfunded zines. We've gone too far. Go back.
  7. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    I'm a big fan of Marshal Law so my favorite Ray thing is definitely Underground, but yeah Ray's been doing good stuff for a long time now.
  8. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    coughs in 2008 collaterized debt obligations Joking aside, to your broader point, there is nuance there. I'm not saying there are no long term-investments made by anybody in late-stage capitalism or whatever. It's just that in the quest for endless growth demanded by shareholders we've sort of...
  9. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    If D&D were still owned by a privately owned company, I think we can safely speculate that the pressure to revoke the OGL, claw back more things from system identity, squash potential competition etc wouldn't be as great. I don't think anybody is arguing that it's a 100% certainty, but yeah...
  10. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    Oh, okay. Well, we'll consider that settled then.
  11. eyeheartawk

    WotC 5E Designer Mike Mearls Talks About The OGL Crisis

    Wanna bet your business on that? I wouldn't. Not counting the OGL debacle, there is also the 3.0-->3.5 rug pull that alot of publishers still remember too. Generally speaking, it's not good business to have your business depend on the largesse of a corporation. Especially one with an already...
  12. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    The fundamental problem is that Hasbro is a public company. Old school Keynesian economics would dictate that people/entities generally make decisions that are in their long-term self interest. This however did not really take into account the pressures of entering the capital markets. How many...
  13. eyeheartawk

    WotC 5E Designer Mike Mearls Talks About The OGL Crisis

    I can't imagine trying to untangle that onion of nested OGC some of these small publishers built upon. You'd have to hire forensic accountants or something. It would be an absolute nightmare. That threat is still there. Releasing the SRD in Creative Commons does nothing to protect people who...
  14. eyeheartawk

    WotC 5E Designer Mike Mearls Talks About The OGL Crisis

    I would love to see their balance sheet. It's alot of spray and pray but they have nice production. But I don't see most of their catalog, both board games and RPGs, with a few exceptions, moving a ton of units. They kind of just came out of nowhere, with what, Achtung Cthulhu and and were...
  15. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    I agree with everything you've said here. But it doesn't stop them from bankrupting you if they want to. It's not zero risk is all I'm saying.
  16. eyeheartawk

    The D&D 4th edition Rennaissaince: A look into the history of the edition, its flaws and its merits

    I know for some friends of mine, this was a big issue. They came from a place where achieving total system mastery rewarded you with a substantially better character at the table. Which, if you have a wider array of "valid" or useful things to do at the table than everybody else that equates to...
  17. eyeheartawk

    The D&D 4th edition Rennaissaince: A look into the history of the edition, its flaws and its merits

    Re-reading 4E right now and I'm a known Reynolds hater. But whatever, it doesn't make the game unplayable or hard to play. But I'm weird with my art. If it were up to me it'd be all like, Brom, DiTerlizzi, Otus, Mulligan, Kovacs, Easley etc. The problem with art direction for a game line is...
  18. eyeheartawk

    The D&D 4th edition Rennaissaince: A look into the history of the edition, its flaws and its merits

    I think that's pretty universal. I remember one of the first things I would hear when discussing 5E, when it was new, was people saying they could see themselves playing most classes (with a couple exceptions, Warlock etc) all the way to level 20 without needing/wanting to multiclass. To be...
  19. eyeheartawk

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    Very true. But as we learned during the OGL debacle, in practice, where the rubber meets the road; not so much. Everyone told WotC you can't revoke the OGL, it says so right there. But before they blinked for PR and shareholder reasons they were just betting that nobody would fight them over...
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