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Glad to see Spelljammer coming back. I thought it was a nice addition to D&D back in the day. I just never got to play with it due to the dearth of interest in gaming in Northeast Missouri back then.

They're moving to a vertically integrated business model, thus controlling their product in all aspects from creation to the sales to consumers. This is looking more and more like they're going to freeze out third-party content creators unless those creators have a signed business arrangement...

This is a very smart move by Paizo. First of all, they tap the 5e content market with a product that should at the very minimum return the investment, which after all, is only the conversion, printing, and marketing costs. The development of the product (content) itself is already done and has...

Overpriced was the first thing that leaped to mind. P.T. Barnum's saying, "A sucker is born every minute," came up next.

But then again, the people who enjoy 2e more than 1e can say the very same thing about the D&D 3e chassis and that 2e is a major improvement upon that 3e chassis. Judging by the pretty swift decline of 1e PFS games and the large increase of 2e PFS games being reported, 2e replaced 1e incredibly...

Don't forget the much better than 1e part. It is simply a much better edition which improves upon the foundation of its predecessor.

This is where the problem is. Some people threw an absolute fit that Paizo would move to a new edition. Some of those people were Organized Play Venture-Officers too. Sadly, they abused their positions and did everything they could to sabotage 2e sales. I felt like this was changing slowly, but...

Sorry to hear that. The question is whether or not they're moving that stock. If it is just sitting there month after month, then it is not selling. If anything it is telling us that 1e is over with and that the store should be stocking stuff that does sell. We have a FLGS with a shelf of 1e...

It tells us a lot. Paizo stopped printing 1e products 3 years ago. The backstocks are almost completely gone. Those sales you see today are almost entirely 2e products. I wouldn't say Pathfinder is just above Goodman Games. This could easily reflect a huge gulf between the #2 and #3 spots.

Good to see Pathfinder back in second as strong sales of 2e continue to propel Paizo's growth.

Piracy did not do in IBM's PC business at all. IBM's business strategy failed to keep up with a changing market. They could have competed, but chose not to. The cloning of IBM machines was not piracy at all. Plus, the cloning of IBM PCs is not at all the same as sharing PDFs. Please note that...

Grand Bazaar is a very good Lost Omens book. If you are a Society player, this is a must have book due to the myriad items available to purchase from the Bazaar. Of course, if you are not a Society player, you will want this book due the myriad items available to purchase from the Bazaar. That...

The industry has grown significantly and that is why you are starting to see employment changes. These companies are evolving to a point where they are not small startups anymore. Some are, but others are not. Also, employees are aging and entering a point where they want more security. Their...

Again, my personal experience makes me disagree with you.

I disagree. Companies can make more money on digital sales than print sales. Right now, print is still the higher volume seller, but that will eventually change. But higher prices are not going to kill this industry at all. Some people will pirate content, but as we've seen repeatedly throughout...

I've worked online for over ten years. You can easily do in person networking online. You don't even need Zoom for that. Zoom helps with some other aspects of networking but the pandemic is showing us that the need to have physical offices for most things is an illusion. I am teaching college...

Yes. The gaming world has learned something they should have already known because of the way they use freelancers, but it is possible to run a successful company with many employees working from home. Today's technology is making this extremely easy. I taught multiple college courses via Zoom...

I think this is still a problem today for the game and the industry overall. The salaries are too low for a high expense area of the United States (Seattle). There is a mentality out there among people I've raised this topic with that raising the price of the printed content would negatively...

This is definitely going on my 2022 reading list. I've enjoyed a lot of DragonLance over the years and want to read more!

It really doesn't matter what the books say regarding alignment or any cultural stuff. It's your campaign. Make it the way you and your players want it. We were doing that in 1979 and have been ever since. To me, that's the real beauty of this system or any system. They're just a set of rules...