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It is really the only place you can write a product based on their IP and its possible you might get better visibility on there than any other single platform, but you're essentially selling your product to WOTC. It's not really yours anymore. You can't Kickstart it. You can't make it a free...

You see it one way, someone else in charge sees it another, and you still have a corrupt system. Here's a good example. Tell me how a company gets their product on D&D Beyond.

Fantastic summary! I'm glad you came to the same conclusion I did about Ray saying the team was too small to put out a lot of products -- which Mike Mearls contradicts here in this thread. At least I wasn't wrong in what I heard!

Then you get into a "who watches the watchmen" problem. This happened pretty badly during the whole DM Guild Adept thing. You either had to be a super-well-established creator or a friend of the people in charge in order to be part of the Adept program. It was pretty corrupt.

Aha! Either I got the wrong message from what Ray said or Ray was wrong. Sorry for the misinformation! I'll go edit my post. BTW, I'm listening to your own interview with Stan! right now!

That's a great point. It's the one place where he might be able to make a profit on it.

He brought up the DMs Guild as the way to build those deep catalog products. He didn’t talk about the fundamental business model problem of the Guild, though — that an exclusive perpetual license and a 50% revenue split means it’s very hard for a Guild creator to make enough revenue to make...

Stan!, a longtime employee and contractor for TSR and Wizards of the Coast has an amazing YouTube interview shoe he’s been running talking to many luminaries who worked at TSR and WOTC. You can find the playlist here. Thanks to @MerricB for pointing it out! He had a recent interview with Ray...

These two articles include my thoughts: https://slyflourish.com/delving_into_shadowdark.html https://slyflourish.com/shadowdark_ravenloft.html I tried two things at a recent Shadowdark one-shot game that I'd probably try again: 1. Let them start each session with a luck token and let them...

I seriously doubt it.

I think we can do our part by sharing these other alternatives with as many people as will listen.

Interesting ideas. They could all be done with ability bonuses, right? Not that it matters. The 2025 MM is going to have them but you could do a similar thing with KPs monsters if you wanted to.

One missing reason is a lack of easy digital tools. My players prefer D&D 2014 or D&D 2024 because Beyond is so easy to use. It vexes me but it's true.

Not that my opinion matters but I agree that AC has a meaning in the game's world in a way that hit points and attack bonuses and other stats dont. An AC 10 has some meaning (basically, an unarmored average dex commoner type) as does AC 20 (a plate-armored humanoid with a shield). In Forge of...

what do you use ability scores for?

I think that was true for a long time just with email spam. But now I think internet traffic is primarily video, isn't it?

Oh man, Washington Post (which, in my opinion, completely lost its way during the last election), recently dove head-first into AI slop and added this to their comments: "This summary is AI-generated. AI can make mistakes and this summary is not a replacement for reading the comments." Like...

The linked phrase in the polygon article was tied to the first on my list, the 2014 spell switcharoo. That’s not exactly a pure enshittification step but it puts internal business processes above customer purchases. I actually think that whole episode was valuable because it shows us the...

That's a really good point. I removed comments from Sly Flourish many years ago and wrote this about it: Now my own communities exist in two places: on Patreon and Discord; either of which could enshittify in coming months or years. Moving to a self-hosted forum is definitely something I've...

I think both things can be true. WOTC has put out some great products (I don't think I agree with the Polygon reviews if I recall which products they were reviewing) and they can also steer their business towards enshittification (be great to your users, then be great to your business partners...