Search results

I mean, that might very well be how they're looking at it. Though, common sense would dictate that ideally, you would try to do both. Appeal to new people and your existing customer base, growth can't be infinite after all. As for the dedicated established player who buys everything not being a...

Plus, like, look at everything that was published under PF1. There is no conceivable vein not thoroughly mined by the time PF2 came around. Their release schedule was definitely not as sparse as 5E's is. That's even more true if you combine it with the existing 3E content that predated PF1...

This is kind of where I'm seeing things too. 5.5 simultaneously changed too little to remedy edition fatigue after 10 years and changed too much for alot of people on the other end.

Lots of 3e derived games did this long ago and it was just fine. True20, Mutants & Masterminds etc.

I mean, the Section 31 stuff in DS9 is interesting and poses good questions about the nature of the Federation, and what it is you would be willing to sacrifice to maintain it etc. Yet, Kurtzman seems to be in love with the idea of cool-antihero Section 31 as they're all over his trek shows and...

Planning on watching it this weekend, but I assume they don't do anything to redeem her character? Like, of all the Star Trek movies to make they make one about a mass murdering, sentient being eating, malevolent dictator who is working for the most morally grey entity possible with the...

What do you mean? You can go up to another ship with your ship and hit people with swords. What else would you possibly do?

I know you're making a joke here. But, I don't think OSRIC has sold in substantial numbers for a long time. There are lots of other retroclones/OSR things that are better at most things. But all of those couldn't exist without OSRIC having been created first. It's utility lies in everything it...

I like terrible games and snark so I enjoy System Mastery.

That doesn't matter. You don't need to engage with the GSL at all. The GSL is there for you if you wish to make a game that is an explicit expansion or derivative of 4E. What I'm saying is, you can make an iteration of 3E with the OGL using the SRD and OGC that happens to play just like 4E...

You can't copyright game mechanics. You can write a "whole new game" derived from the SRD and various other Open Game Content materials that happens to play exactly like 4E. You can cut out the GSL altogether. OSRIC did that to clone a version backwards in time, you can do that same thing going...

I mean, you didn't even have to switch, really. By the time Dark Sun and Planescape came out alot of that was effectively not a thing anymore. Sure, you didn't have an Assassin class, but you could just as easily use the 1E one.

This one always struck me as odd too. Like, it's basically just a cleaned up 1E it's more like 1E than BECMI is and that was always part of the group. I did hear alot of derision about the whole Jim Ward led sanitization of the game though, so maybe that was a bigger part?

What about Tauqeer, doesn't he need work?

I don't really think this thread is the place to dive into this. But suffice to say, I think there is alot of "noise". Imagine being new to to the hobby and wanting a short D&D adventure so you pop into the DM's Guild, where do you start? How do you know what's any good? And that's limiting it...

Having accessible self-publishing is both the best and worst thing about the hobby simultaneously.

You can. You would just literally have to restate everything in your own language in those core books and publish it under the OGL. Nothing like that exists. Probably because it's a ton of work. ORCUS comes closest and even that isn't all that close to being a true 4E retroclone in the vein...

Okay. Me, once we hit the "courage of your convictions" part of the argument about elf game sales: