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Chris and Owen are among the few people who have insight into both D&D and Pathfinder sales numbers, on account of having worked for both Wizards and Paizo. They are likely bound by NDAs preventing them from sharing exact numbers, but when they say 4e sold more than Pathfinder, I believe them...

Hasbro isn't exactly known for selling IPs. They'd be more likely to mothball it and bring it out after a decade or two to cash in on nostalgia vibes.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I do implore you to read the link. Here, I'll include it again for your convenience: Pathfinder Never Outsold 4E D&D (ICYMI) 4e didn't live up to Hasbro's expectations, but compared to any other RPG it was a magnificent success in objective...

There was a thread (or a couple of them) a year or two back about it, where we had some Twitter posts by people who had worked for both Paizo and Wizards who denied that it did. Most of that is in the link @zedhatool posted. The one public indicator we have are the ICV2 rankings, but those are...

In my experience, rules determine what kinds of adventures work, or at least work well. The prime example here are the Savage Worlds versions of Pathfinder's Rise of the Runelords and Curse of the Crimson Throne. PEG's license to convert them to Savage Worlds apparently required that they remain...

They're somewhat common here in Sweden as well – not to the point of everyone having one, but you don't get surprised when you see one. But I have some vague memories of the first time they became popular, when I was a kid in the early 80s, of there being lots and lots of different flavor syrups...

Yeah, Chris and Jeremy have been the guys doing all the promotional "interviews" (usually with Todd Kenreck!) since 5e started. They probably have a fair bit of name recognition among the DMing crowd at least.

Huh. In Jess's post, she sounds like she left voluntarily ("I have made the totally reasonable decision to leave a job"), but Todd says he was laid off. That's a bit of an odd koinkidink to happen simultaneously. Unless it's one of those situations where they start by asking around if anyone was...

I thought this was going to be a thread about eating/killing/loving RPGs themselves. As in, a game you love is one you'll actually play for itself and enjoy doing so, a game you kill is one you don't like and thus prefer not to play, and a game you eat is one that has some good ideas that you'll...

The two possible solutions I see are: Explicitly make vehicle combat a central part of the game. Basically, don't make "Star Wars", make "Rogue Squadron". You might even want to give PCs separate character generation resources for the vehicle combat part. Make vehicle combat use mostly the same...

D6 Star Wars 1e. But it's very focused on 1v1 or 1vMany, with the PCs having the one ship and any other ships in the fight being defined by their relation to that ship. So for example, if the PCs are in a YT-1300 light freighter with some mods, as they often are, and they're at a Short distance...

It depends on what you count. The first RPG-related things I bought were either The Kingdoms of Terror (Lone Wolf gamebook 6, but it was the first one in the Magna-Kai series!) or Sinkadus (house magazine of the biggest Swedish RPG company) issue 5. The first RPG books I owned were Drakar och...

I can understand using "coke" as a synonym for "cola" – including Pepsi, RC Cola, Jolt, or whatever. I mean, it's not right, but whatever. But I can't deal with how some locations use it as a synonym for soft/fizzy drinks of whatever kind, as in considering a Sprite a "coke". Though my...

Huh. I was under the impression that there was a previous "death spiral" of sorts with returned fiction. The way I understood it was that Random House started returning books, and were originally repaid with "store credit" (return a thousand books, get a thousand other books). And eventually...

As someone who has been following discussions on the topic for near 30 years now, but doesn't have any first-hand insight, I often see people say "TSR went under because of X." There's the book returns thing, which as far as I can tell was the actual killing blow. There's the stuff you write...

This I would tend to agree with, albeit it varies a bit depending on the campaign/game. But I generally want highly competent "mundanes", not super-beings. This site's has a pretty strong D&D bias, and D&D turns people superhuman at high levels. A high-level D&D character can kill a dragon with...

I mean, I generally prefer my PCs to be experienced people at the start of a campaign, though usually thrust into a new situation. Think Leverage, Star Trek (at least TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, Discovery), Babylon 5, Dark Matter, Farscape, the Expanse, the non-hobbit half of the Fellowship in Lord...

In increasing order of specificity: "läsk" for any type of sweetened carbonated beverage, "cola" for the specific citrus/vanilla/cinnamon taste, and "Coke" or "Coca Cola" for that specific brand.