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I do understand economies of scale, particularly when it comes to large vs. small vs. micro publishers. As a librarian, I deal with publishers all the time, and as a horror fanatic, I have given more of my share of money to micro-micro publishers. As a consumer, though, I do a cost-benefit...

How much of the app has already been developed?

All the X-Men movies suck. I don't expect Age of Apocalypse to be even better, especially after seeing Apocalypse talk.

I have been disappointed by every X-Men movie so far. Chances are this one won't be much better. Apocalypse in particular bears little resemblance to the comics version. I do want to see any scenes with Quicksilver, though.

Go with anthropological monographs and other scholarly sources.

I bought Hero Lab back when I was playing Pathfinder, and it saved me a ton of work. For more complex games like Pathfinder, with a lot of options and crunch, it can be a big time-saver. I probably won't buy the 5e extension, simply because character creation in 5e is much less work than in...

If they went back to the oWoD basics (original magic system, vampire clan descriptions, etc.) and simply upgraded the rest of the mechanics, I might consider moving to a newer system. The changes to the Mage magic system and the changes in the vampire clans were the main things that made me...

Hero Lab's Pathfinder stuff was worth purchasing back when I was playing Pathfinder. It's clunky and poorly designed, but it saved me enough work to make it worth it. D&D 5 is a much less complicated system, though, so I'll just stick to doing it the old-fashioned way.

You're right, I haven't bought any of them. I have no problem with people paying print prices for PDFs. I'm just not going to do it. When you cut out publisher middlemen, distribution costs, printing costs, bookstore return costs, and the other costs that go into print publishing, then add on...

No more than $4.99 for something that is at least 100 pages long. I could see a couple of dollars more for something that has a ton of very good, professional art. Since there is no ongoing cost of printing and distribution for an electronic product and you can take advantage of the "long...

No, but the game is. That's too much for any PDF, to be honest.

That has more to do with personal interpretation of the deity than historical development of belief in it. YHVY, God, Allah, etc. all derive in part from the same root deities from earlier pantheonic religions (El and Yahweh). Aspects of them were combined to form a deity in monotheistic...

You're right, I should have worded that differently. There has never been any real doubt about it among the vast majority of people who are knowledgeable about the history of religions and theologies. Religious insiders who have vested interests in proving the contrary don't really count...

Way too much money for a PDF of an unknown game.

I can't really think of any movie or TV that was ruined for me because of hype. That's probably because I don't pay much attention to hype in general, or other people's opinions on movies, TV, books, or music. I have eccentric tastes (even for a geek), so I'm used to the idea that reviews...

All the Abrahamic religions worship the same deity. There has never been any doubt about that.

I have GMed and played for 35+ years, and have always built my own worlds. I have never run a campaign set in someone else's world (that includes the D&D ones). Some worlds come with unusual restrictions. To the best of my knowledge, no one who has played in my games has ever had a problem...

For me, the big question is whether or not the new Paradox/White Wolf oWoD (now just WoD) materials will fit in with the many, many oWoD books I own. If they really are starting up oWoD stuff again in a serious way, that's great, and I might be interested in buying some of it, as long as there...

After 35+ years of gaming, I have found that I can run any sort of campaign/adventure under almost any ruleset. I can run an investigative game using Pathfinder, D&D, Savage Worlds, BRP, Toon, WoD, Wild Talents, or any other rule system because I don't make finding the clues and solving the...

One of the reasons I disliked it so much was due to who was in the presidency at the time (in the real world). Some aspects of the storyline hit way too close to home.