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You can probably blame me for that. Didn't notice the 5e bit at first when I asked the mods why it was here as it's obviously scifi, and when I did notice it was too late. Which shouldn't matter anyway, this is clearly not a D&D fantasy product no matter how compatible it is with WotC's...

Or so you'd like to believe. :)

I mean, nothing stays hot forever. It certainly did very well for Dark Horse, and retains a lot of popularity as an IP. There's reasons it's had multiple movies, even if their quality is...erratic. Nobody's doing a remake of Barb Wire. :) A good example of "not hot forever" but still, a big...

That's much better than mine. I was thinking either: 1) In the vein of "hit the silk", a social media fad where people film themselves diving into vats of rendered fat stolen from meat-packing factories. Distressingly, not as bizarre and disgusting as some actual TikTok fads. or 2) From...

I cannot help but parse that as "a chemical spill resulted from sabotage of a biotech factory complex that assembled giants" instead of what it probably means. The idea of both larger and smaller humanoid variants coming off a production line made up of vats and tubes and tanks has been...

Good luck on correcting French pronunciations in the US. If there's one thing the last couple of decades have demonstrated, it's that many Americans positively revel in willful ignorance. Also remember that we're the country that had that "Freedom Fries" nonsense back when France was perceived...

I mean, Dark Horse has always been best known for doing the stuff the Big Two don't. Very few spandex hero books, much more diverse selection of subjects. For a long time they were probably doing best with licensed material - Star Wars, Alien, etc. The last time I can remember them making a...

Oh, "5e compatible" - that's why it's here and not on General TTRPGs.

Perhaps. Not all publishers kowtowed to the CCA, most notably Dell and Gold Key (who were already self-policing long before Wertham, in part due to the amount of material they licensed from companies like Disney - can't offend Walt) so there was still quite a lot of "funny books" and a fair bit...

If it counts for anything, I'd certainly like to see more of that sort of content. There's a fair bit of reporting about publishers here but little if any about the retail side of things, and stores thrive on exposure as much as any part of the industry. Let's hear more about the good stores...

To some degree I think you're seeing that already. There seems to be an uptick in reviving/revitalizing dormant Golden/Silver Age characters, retconning them to have more extensive careers that can be told retroactively using modern storytelling techniques, even creating "old" characters out of...

Publisher exclusivity deals in general are bad for the industry (and particularly the retail end of things) but even back in the 80s (when Diamond was still expanding) Capitol City was one of, if not the only, distributor that carried a wide enough range of books from publishers outside the Big...

Quite. I've started a comics industry thread over here to continue this.

Agreed. Here you go. :) To be fair, Diamond (and through them, Alliance Distribution for games) have been getting worse since the early 2000s, if not the late 90s. There was legitimate concern that Diamond simply couldn't do the job any more during the Pandemic lockdown, and they don't seem...

Oh, I remember that. Never owned it, but it was floating around the table in one of the early D&D games I played in, so the DM may have been cribbing stuff from it. Nostalgic image, at least. Cripes, don't jinx yourself like that. I used to say the exact same thing until the first apartment...

As far as I can tell from the outside, comics aren't a whole lot better when it comes to distribution these days. My FLGS owner is having to order from three different distributors (one of them actually in the trad publishing field with comics as a sideline) to get his weekly orders, and the...

You aren't alone by any means. US game distribution is worse than it's ever been and shows no sign of improving. The entire business model is just failing in the face of risk averse purchase agents and publishers hungry for direct sales to keep their margins up. No idea how retailers are...

Someone who's still got a copy (mine died in an apartment fire in the early 2000s), refresh my memory: "Recognition" didn't actually have hard/mandatory mechanics associated with it, did it? No PC was ever forced to "check for Recognition" on meeting someone new or anything like that, yeah...

The one group I can recall from back in the day ran a short campaign around finding and cleansing pockets of bad magic that had been scattered around their territory by an unnatural storm. So, lot of exploration to locate areas showing symptoms of corruption, trace it to the heart and then...

Do "Ed Greenwood drow breast milk" and you should at least avoid the worst of the fetish porn results google likes to cough up. It's not as bad as you're probably imagining, but it won't do much for your image of the guy. Some facts don't need to be known. Probably NSFW unless you have an...