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Just realized how awful the timing of this is for Zinequest...

Ah yes, one of the more execrable responses the internet has loosed upon us. Anyways I worked at the biggest hobby shop in NYC at the time and had to do monthly inventory counts for our location and others in the Northeast. Plus WW’s splatbooks became a thing because they were insanely good...

Games like Shadowrun and WoD didn't have to beat D&D to make an impact. They were still major influences, and had a much greater market share than similar games have now. But also...were you gaming during that period? It really was very different. D&D was still D&D, but it didn't suck up all...

Yeah this is making me realize, to my chagrin, that I have no idea why non-D&D-ish games ever used it.

Seems a little odd to me to frame the idea (and celebration) of open gaming only in the context of D&D. Open gaming in general seems irrefutably awesome. But the fact that there are lots of open SRDs and such out there for a ton of interesting games, and here we are, as usual, talking about open...

By that logic you could use the old OGL and publish on any platform and just hope WotC doesn't come for you. The deal Kickstarter made is just formalizing what you're going to have to do with OGL 1.1 to avoid WotC's wrath.

Are you under the impression that Indiegogo doesn't charge processing fees? If they don't negotiate a deal with WotC similar to Kickstarter's (and they're not in a position to do that) creators would lose even more money there.

As far as I know there hasn't been a large 5e-related campaign on Game On Tabletop so far, so I doubt it's even really on WotC's radar. Despite all that talk of RPG creators moving away from Kickstarter (especially over blockchain stuff) it seems like most everyone's slinking back, but...

I know we're in hypothetical territory, but Forged in the Dark games aren't really made to run for that many sessions, unless you continue the campaign with new character groups. Characters tend to max out somewhere between 12 and 20 sessions.

Great thread idea! My pick would be Delta Green, using either DG's default system, Gumshoe or something insanely detailed, like GURPS. Play would alternate every so often between PC groups in two or three different eras, where actions in one era impact the other(s). And I'd need to play it...

I'm not convinced that a trad system makes sense for Pendragon anymore, but I'm definitely excited to see what Chaosium does with this edition.

My biggest problem is building up to and prepping truly harrowing situations, and then in the moment not having the stomach to actually wreck the PCs. As soon as they come up with neat improvisational plans I become a fanboy and the challenge sort of melts away. Ideally I'd still be a fan of...

Only thing that might tempt me back to D&D would be a fantastic Dark Sun book. It's the only D&D setting or lore I've ever liked, and I like it a whole lot.

The only thing I liked about the Doomsday crossover (leading up to Superman's "death") was the JLI issue, which started off as goofy as usual and then got real dark once it was clear how much destruction that dumb monster was dishing out. Actually gave that bad storyline a little heft, at least...

See my response above to Ryujin about Kevin Feige. Feige was basically a producer of some well-performing superhero movies and then a slew of terrible ones before he made the MCU into a thing. You gotta do something before being handed the reigns to an entire portfolio of IP. And at least he...

Yeah, I mean, whatever other flaws Black Adam had (boring needle drops, an unstoppable protagonist, weird squandering of Hawkman, etc.) it took all of Johnson's considerable charms and buried them behind a glower. His body was a great practical effect, but that's all he had to work with.

Great point. Plus if we're going strictly by track record, when Kevin Feige muscled the MCU into existence he hadn't written or directed any movies, and his seven most recent producer credits included such winners as Blade: Trinity, X-Men: The Last Stand, those two Fantastic Four movies, and...

For sure, if Corman's FF movie had come out in the late 70's or even in the 80's I'd think it was a charming micro-budget schlockfest. But it was supposed to be released in 1994. I saw more competent student films in that era.

...did you watch Peacemaker? About as hard-R as it gets, and that series is arguably what landed him this new role. I feel like if we're going to weigh in on this stuff, it's helpful to know the stuff we're opining about.

In a general sense Gunn has always done basically the same thing his whole career—edgy action comedy—so saying he's "one note these days" seems like a misread to me. The guy who did Super is the guy who did The Suicide Squad. But he's also never had this sort of position, so judging him as a...