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I am terribly puzzled how you feel it was more diverse in the 80s.

I thought we were Sparticus?

it predates the forge by at least a decade of my knowing it and I'm sure is older than even that. I would be very unsurprised if it's another term picked up from Wargaming.

Umm. Okay. I don't have a current edition of InDesign, I haven't used it in two decades, but Affinity confirms this is an exporting/distilling configurable depending on your particular package. Reading the PDF 1.7 spec I found no explicit list of supported image formats nor have I found, so...

Again. Thats not the same as forcing a bitmap conversion of a vector file for insertion inside a vector container.

Unless something has changed radically since I dealt with this on the regular, Acrobat does not, as a format, require images convert to JPEG for conversion.

This depends on how things are put together. PDF is postscript on steroids, after all.

That seems ridiculous for someone to do and I say that as someone with a hardbound copy of Feast of Legends.

I tend to think about this as multi-dimensional. Chargen GM Prep General mechanics Combat ( and other specialty mechanics, say Netrunning ) Character growth Crunchy, for me is about the number of dials to keep track of and how many decisions into the future I need to take in advance. I don't...

Adam Jury does fantastic things. I'm also a big Hal Mangold fan.

Not every product needs to be Newly Innovative or Creatively Distinct. Some industries (or rather, their purchasing channels ) require what should be an evergreen to be refreshed. Every "Module" is a new Module to someone. etc. It is harder as a consumer when you've been around forever and a...

Back and forth is not quite the same thing as my ask - but it is also a useful case.

Not less fun. Differently fun.

Not to be argumentative here - al of the examples I have seen ( and a few I knew of who haven't been listed) are people I know of as going from TTRPGs to Digital space. Do we have any examples of the opposite?

And to dovetail this. They don't always agree on what is in the best interests of (x). Incompatible outcomes can be equally "best" depending on area of focus and timeframe. And this assumes the inputs generate the expected outputs....

That's a curious assumption.

No, it is not at all. The point I was attempting and failing to make is that the cut at DDB (or RPGNow, or ... ) is entirely different than the proposed and killed 25% royalty.

Right, but that cut comes at a very different place with DDB than it would without it.

That's fair. And it's not like all of us out here have a unified idea of what's good for the hobby. I don't think you can even get 100 out of a 100 to agree that getting more people in the hobby is a good thing. :)

I think the change here is not an "I trusted them" to "I don't". It feels like, most of the time, "I trust that what they think is good for their business is usually good for the hobby" to "I no longer trust that what they think is good for their business is good for the hobby."