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I live in the DFW Metroplex. There are a lot of game stores in the area, including two that are within 10 minutes of me. There are at least a dozen others within a 20 minute drive. Only one ever carries the things I am interested in buying, though, and it's 45 minutes away. I go there when...

>Why didn't the Lord of the Rings trilogy pay royalties to D&D? >It looks very much like a D&D game, has the same tropes -- >classes, Scottish dwarves, fragile elves -- all the trimmings. >But D&D got nothing from it because core D&D is too generic to use as a brand. There's also that pesky...

I suspect that the opportunity to successfully capitalize on D&D across media is long past. There was a time when it might have worked, but both TSR and (later) WotC let it pass.

[B] 15,938 attendees would equate to a fairly large convention. The local-ish ones I attend are more in the hundreds or low single-digit thousands range.

I would. So would every other GM that I know. The vast majority of the ones I have known since I started playing rpgs (in the late 70s) wouldn't go for that kind of thing, either.

In 35+ years of GMing, I have never used a dragon in one of my campaigns. I just don't care for them. I tend to use the less common monsters than the more well known ones, too.

That was the Kickstarter campaign that made me swear off ever supporting Kickstarter software campaigns again. In fact, it has led me to be much, much pickier about what I back on Kickstarter, period.

We'll see if it actually launches, how well it works, and how many people actually purchase any content developed for it. They have let this drag on for so long that they're going to be lucky to find many people who are even willing to put in the effort to develop decent content for it.

When you look at what they promised (and continued to promise) versus what they delivered, it wasn't worth the money, at least for me. Being a programmer/developer myself, I don't have a lot of patience for businesses that under-deliver promised functionality to that degree and continue to make...

I made the mistake of buying into Realm Works years ago. I haven't put any content into it because there is no good way to get my content back out in a usable form. I don't trust them to actually get the content market functioning, based on their past delivery problems, and doubt whether many...

I always create my own worlds and settings. The canon that matters to me is the canon that I have established in my worlds.

I would like to see more options to customize characters. Note that I said "customize," not "optimize." One good approach would be to add some new feats, some new subclasses, etc., rather than just beefing up one of them.

>Its a tough sell at $99 for the complete game in print. I backed it at $10 so I could look through the early drafts of the books. If I don't like them, I'll cancel my pledge. If I do like them, I may back it for the print books (I don't buy PDFs), but $99 is more than I really want to pay...

As long as Open d6 remains open, I'm happy.

Ugh - another unintentional double post. Not sure why it keeps doing that.

You can use click-bait titles to draw people to an article. Those titles don't have to be the type that will alienate a good portion of your readers, though. Even if you use one that is, you don't have to carry the sensationalism over into the article itself. Doing so tends to do more harm...

I agree - many of the examples she pointed out would be classified as sexual assault, which is a criminal issue. That doesn't really change my points, though.

(sorry - accidental double post)

As far as the question of "what do to with sexism/harrassment in gaming," the answers are pretty clear. They are the same as the answers to any social issue involving bigotry, sexism, racism, etc. 1) Continue to point out the issue in a sound, logical, mature way. 2) Don't descend to the...

Precisely. Hyperbole, overgeneralizations, etc. are very counterproductive when you are trying to raise awareness of an issue and make a general call to action. When the overgeneralization is specifically directed towards the people who you want to buy into your idea, you are likely to lose a...