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I happened to take a drive through Lake Geneva as well, in May. I was struck by how small the "downtown" area is: the 1970s Gygax house (and 2nd HQ after Don Kaye's home), the DHSM/3rd HQ (I think referred to as the Old Gray House?), the Horticultural Hall, the Hotel Clair (4th HQ) are all in...

Monster version of the 2014 gloom stalker ranger's Umbral Sight. (y)

That depends. It isn't cheap when you're storing gobs of biological image data (as my current employer does). Granted, adventure maps are on a different scale.

There are free maps that come with the Maps VTT -- 9 at current count, plus 9 animated versions. I imagine those will stick around. Pretty basic, but broadly useful. Then there are the free adventures on DDB that also come with maps, like Intro to Stormwreck Isle. So even if you never bought a...

They were acquired, or at least semi-acquired, via some sort of deal by Quimbley's Toys and Games late last year (2024). But... now the Quimbley's website seems to have gone dark? Does anyone know what happened to their intention to fulfill past Petersen Games Kickstarters? I assume it didn't go...

My first character for each new edition was a half-elf ranger named Eldarion (Aragorn's son) for the same reason: 1e, 2e, 3e, 4e; I broke the trend with 5e. Which gives away part of my story: I love Middle-earth. I also love Moorcock, Donaldson, Leiber, Zelazny, etc.; I was getting into all of...

It couldn't. Put simplistically, the Tolkien elements in D&D didn't make it feel like swords-and-sorcery, and the pulp elements made it feel very different from Middle-earth. Nothing crammed all that stuff (plus other elements of world mythology and folklore) into one place before like D&D did...

To provide context, that's not a uniform treatment. For example, the main 5e rulebook just shows Gandalf on Shadowfax (presumably), with no hint of an imminent threat; while the TOR cover shows a group of PCs preparing for combat. None of the other covers, for 5e or TOR, are particularly...

“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real things of its own."

Is it? The spell description of Wall of Force doesn't mention that it provides Total Cover. And is there an actual statement that a clear pane of glass provides Cover? I'd appreciate a reference if there is one. I'm not sure that glass provides Cover of any kind. Saying that nothing can...

Right, this is all about a word I got hung up on. 😞 I think I was pretty clear in my last post. People can choose to respond to things negatively or positively, with anger or with compassion. You chose one. My wish is for more people to choose the other.

But the numbers we're discussing are just revenue; they don't include costs. Sigil brought no revenue, and any costs it may have incurred don't affect gross revenue. So the small growth in Digital still seems fairly mysterious. My guess is still that Digital includes more stuff than we're...

Okay, but then couldn't this sentiment have been expressed more positively as something like: "I only wish smaller game producers were in as fortunate a position as Hasbro/WotC in dealing with the current conditions." Rather than focusing ire on a so-called "megacorp", an affirmation of...

Then I'll ask, what was your thinking behind your initial comment? Because it sounds (to me) as if you'd prefer Hasbro to suffer even more than it will in the current circumstances, at least in part due to its status as a "megacorp". Is that true? And how do you think that would be helpful?

I don't believe these assumptions. First, let's talk about that confusing chart. While one's inclination might be to interpret it as a chart of increases comparing present to past in various categories (i.e. Tabletop increased by 37% compared to past Tabletop revenue), that interpretation makes...