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You didn't define that, so the natural interpretation is 1 of each of the primary polyhedrals. And that's nowhere near enough for comfortable play of most games.

I mean, it is though. It absolutely is. Because not only are those dice useless, but you have to keep track of those dice specifically, and after a certain amount of time, you probably can't replace them. Hell, like I said, I tried to buy funky dice for a game less than two years old, and could...

What exactly, do you mean? Dark Sun (1991) is far more relevant now than it ever was in 1991. Literally every single major theme and idea in it, is more relevant now than it was in 1991! So the idea that it is "weighed down by 1990s baggage" is utterly untenable, I would suggest, unless you're...

It would be but on a "Corporate-ness/Rank Cowardice" level from 1-10, where "No effs given" is 1, and 10 is "We will never knowingly offend, disturb or cause any kind of thought to occur via content/art", I would say WotC overall is at a 7 (up a ton from say, 20 years ago) and D&D specifically...

I mean, but do results like that have any extra value? Maybe it's just the example but it sounds it's producing a somewhat nonsensical result. Like, not completely, but also not possessed of special value compared to say a d6 dice-pool system which counted 1s as indicating something bad. That's...

If WotC puts out a Dark Sun that is mostly about: A) Fighting ultra-oppressive billionaire/dictator-type badguys (which is exactly what Dark Sun is about) and B) Anthropogenic climate change (or dracoanthropogenic lol) In the current US political climate (which we obviously cannot discuss...

Everyone who owns more cutlery and plates than they use at dinner on a regular basis has useless cutlery and plates. Everyone who has more pairs of shoes than they absolutely hard-need for the activities they do on a regular basis has useless shoes (so probably 2-4 pairs max). Everyone who wears...

Netflix produce almost nothing I like these days. And that which they do produce tends to be 1-2 series then cancelled. Almost all their movies are D/E/F-tier (occasionally reaching C with an non-comedy action movie). That Ryan Reynolds/Rock/Gadot thing was physically painful to watch. The only...

Don't you? That sounds awfully like Daggerheart or PtbA or Spire. What's the distinction you're making? I mean Daggerheart has you roll two dice, no special dice, and the potential results are: 2 of the same numberCritical success Beat DC and Hope die is higherYes and... Beat DC and...

Given Shadowdark's apparent continuing popularity it seems like as per Pathfinder 1E benefiting from 4E, people liked what they got enough to stay with it too, which is interesting. Sometimes, esp. with videogames, people will resentment-buy a game, but then just go back to the one they resented...

So what is the figure for their licencing? Because it's below, like $20m, they're pretty much got to be counting the BG3 sales revenue cut elsewhere (maybe in "digital" or something?), because BG3 is selling very well still (and at full price or close to it), and there are quite a few other F2P...

Wow I'm actually really surprised by how low that is for like, GenCon where you're looking at very serious RPG enthusiasts. I honestly would have expected close to 100% of games to be using 2024 rules. Maybe my expectation is what's faulty here but wow.

I'm sure that's true but given 20m+ of them are likely "people who played BG3" (given it hit 15m last year), and probably tens of millions of people saw DADHAT either at the cinema or in streaming (given it looked like it did pretty well when it was on Netflix), so that could be easily just the...

Which doesn't mean it isn't the majority of their licensing earnings or the like, just that they didn't name it - indeed I am not surprised by that given it's embarrassing that they screwed up the relationship. And "down 3%" is an incredibly small amount to be down as a % lol.

That's why I said compare 2018 to 2028, not compare 2018 to 2025 so... not sure what your point is... could you explain? LOL no it absolutely is not, what are you talking about? Do you think that Larian stopped paying WotC? I assure you they did not and cannot. They've got is believed to be a...

I'd definitely believe that! 5E had a slow-ass start. Hell I didn't buy it for a long time. I think the big question will be after a few years, what do sales look like? Because my perception, which may or may not be correct, what that 5E sold a certain amount at launch in 2014, and not a...

I remember a long-ago thread on maybe Shadowland.org or something (so like, probably 1997 or something) where people had to try and make HERO versions of major comics characters on a strict budget actually showed off some really cool build ideas as a result of the inverse of this.

I suspect if we look at the actual examples of this they will be a lot more specific and less general than you're suggesting. I.e. someone will be moaning about a game having a D&D-like class and level system in one thread, and then suggesting that a game should use an HP system like D&D...

Yes that's true. I mean, I know executives coming and going has also factored into major decisions re: cancelling and commissioning and the like (as has nepotism of a very literal kind c.f. a certain conspiracy theorist getting multiple seasons of a show when his son got in charge of documentary...

Yeah that's extremely difficult to model outside of narrative situations because it's essentially a narrative ability even in the comics. JLA-tier Batman has a plan and methodology and potentially equipment to defeat basically every single superhero and supervillain in the setting. That's a hell...