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Mearls said the first generation was 1974-1983. Gen X is born 1965-1980. Anyhow, I started playing in 1982, with AD&D. Most gamers I played with from my class or about +/-5 started with AD&D 1e, which was 1978 to 1988. That Mearls first generation is OD&D and AD&D overlap, and cuts off AD&D...

I think Mearls is mostly right, and it’s about design generations, not player generations. Gen X played all of the design generations (were faded and jaded), whereas younger generations for the most part caught only the current (2000-present, 3e-5e2024) “4th generation”, with some Millennials...

Newbies - AD&D 1998 Fast-Play Game (The original scenario is in Dungeon Magazine #70, and was repeated in 71 & 72. Good for a short taste of D&D, though I converted it to 3.5e instead of simplified 2e.)

It is famously bad. Has WotC D&D ever had as disliked and disappointing a product? I can’t think of one. Even the Dark Alliance console game of a few years was only very boring and not worth playing again after a half-hour try … which is a much more positive review than WG-7 gets from the...

Two BRILLIANT opinions, one meh: 1) Castle Wolfmon sounds like Castle Wolfenstein 2) Snarf is always right 3) Anyone involved in a lawsuit about RPG’s who doesn’t have Snarf as their attorney is a fool of a client.

Seems like the question of “is 5e2024 successful” has devolved into arguments about power creep, balance, which editions are better, and “I’m right/your wrong”. Aww, ENworld, don’t you ever go changing on us.

Could be. Sounds reasonable. But only Hasbro knows for sure. I saw on the TV news that Hasbro complained about tariffs hitting the toy industry hard. Lots of business headwinds.

There’d more conflict and the 2015-2024 generation would experience the pain of all their stuff being made obsolete or having to switch. Compatibility makes sense to me, especially with WotC wanting to essentially keep the same popular game but ditch “problematic” pre-2024 wording if things...

If it’s Chapter 7. Chapter 11 is reorganization to deal with unpayable debt. Snarf will correct me if I remember it backwards. My point is bankruptcy is not necessarily dissolution.

Adding to anecdotes and vibes … from 4 groups I’m involved with - DM of the first 3. 1) 5 players in 3.5e on email, 1 is a game producer (including console RPG credits). 3 have played 5e or BG3, 2 have even mentioned 5e24 exists, 0 interested in it. 2) 5 players in 3.5e on email, 1 has done a...

As for revisionist Westerns, I think of it more as the “serious” Westerns revival produced after Spaghetti Westerns and things like Dirty Harry displaced traditional Westerns. Imho the genre mostly ended circa 1978, but movies in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s revived it. In terms of moral...

“The Oregon Trail” is one of the oldest computer games - first version in 1971. It was the first thing I did on a computer - an Apple ][ b in elementary school, probably around 1981. It’s good stuff in its own way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(series)

Not a lawyer … but if it’s an open-and-shut case that the viability of the business depends on, I wonder why an attorney working on contingency or a bank offering a line of credit are not options? My guess is “it was on consignment” is not legally precisely true. I assume the bankruptcy court...

Maybe ask at a local FLGS or comic book shop? Or put up an invite there and be the DM?

Is DM now District Manager? How large is the exclusive area for each franchise? Can I buy the franchise for Renton, WA and make WotC employees pay-me-to-play? What percentage of DM fees do I have to profit share with WotC? Do I need to use WotC’s supply chain, or can I source my own dice and...

Yeah. But will there be another Red Dead AAA game and some blockbuster and award winning Westerners? You betcha partner! Yellowstone shows the genre isn’t worn out just yet. (Edit: “The Revenant” was awesome too, fairly recently. And “First Cow”, an A24 indie film about the Oregon Territory...

Right, but I was talking about the subgenre of Revisionist Westerns that was peaking around 1985-1995. Silverado was not a revisionist Western, but more traditional. All the things you annd I mentioned were part of mini-revival for Westerns, but the Oscar Best Picture revisionist Westerns —...

Red Dead Redemption 2 is another bit of recent popular culture fitting Boot Hill. IIRC correctly it takes place around 1899.

1883, the Yellowstone prequel, was a very good Western, and right in the Boot Hill time period. However, I’ve heard it wasn’t very popular, particularly with younger audiences who don’t “get” Westerns - aren’t familiar with the genre and find the past to be cringe and hard to understand. To...

Stick to the Core Rules; ignore the splatbooks. This may already be accomplished by using Trailblazer.