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The strength to D&D's magic system is its predictability of what spells a player will use, in what order, and how often. Adding another system or a system that offers more flexible choices is always going to have a demerit right out of the gate for some GMs. Also the whole, "Don't put sci-fi in...

Same. By the time I found Iron Crown's CYOA books for Middle Earth, they were already out of print - twice evidently.

I think fifth edition and the latest edition were appreciated most by fans. In the past, it's most unique mechanic was the "Saving Roll," which was the first attribute check back in the day. The bit that's still unique today is that melee combat was simultaneous with all the dice totals from...

Everything is subjective. But the author did mention colonization has some issues.

The actual pic gives me Rifter vibes as well. :LOL:

Honestly, I found many of the images in the KS to be spoiler-ly. Say what you want about Sanderson, he presented fully engrossing world AND then he revealed an even deeper universe.

I opine that the primer is a big draw for the KS for fans who won't ever pick up a die will buy the set for the system agnostic primer alone. However, those people also love pretty books on their shelves so they won't be so mad about having those gorgeous ttrpg books either way.

I’ve lost count on how many new GMs want to make sprawling continents as their first map or for a West Marches game. Few, if any of them, believe me that just a few valleys will do for our project unless we want to use teleport pads.

Graphic design and layout should definitely get more props. You can more easily promote a mediocre game with great presentation than you can a great game with poor presentation.

The expectation of where you might get a credit or byline changes across different publishing industries. For some some it is automatic, like journalism or fiction. It seem in ttrpg, it changes by publisher. It's something that has only really come to the fore in the last decade but it's always...

This is part of a challenge of running a corporate company like WotC. We have a new guy coming in who may/may not be trying to turn a new leaf and these shenanigans may have happened two CEOs ago but no one noticed for years - or it could have been yesterday.

As we all know that for many readers/gamers, any names in the Credits or next to the Byline is invisible and the only people who usually care about these things are industry professionals or super fans - who usually become the next generation of creatives. (And I'll raise my hand as being guilty...

Seeing as writers/designer names and their gamer cred is invisible to most readers/gamers, you are doing the Lord's work.

I was fortunate enough to have a DM who provided my Level 5 goblin a severely wounded, sickly dragon to fight and then claim the title of Dragonslayer. My whole table kept laughing about it for the rest of the night.

My first exposure to D&D was a week long summer camp. We used chits instead of dice.

I remember buying a few tanks from them as they were right scale for WW II wargaming only a few years ago.

I was a bit surprised you had starting players at level 8. Before my friend, Bryan Dalrymple - FLGS store owner and 20 year secretary for GAMA- passed away, we were running a "Story Time" at the local library. We used the system agnostic D&D "A Young Adventurer's Guide" series to guide them...

I always thought C&C should get more love, especially from the OSR crowd as it was one of the original retroclones. Though I suspect it is in part that C&C never went OGL or community content.

I could be wrong but I think Farscape only got one supplement at most. And at the time, it was the only decent episode guide for the series. I also recall this being the IP that broke AEG from doing more IP ttrpgs as the approval process took a long time. I've heard from old timers that...

That music video was a bit odd.