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Just read through both the Astarion and the Netheril books last night on D&D Beyond. I'm cool with each product being $15, I think it's a reasonable price for the amount of content. I wouldn't complain if it was cheaper, but I think it's fair. I kinda want to roll up a dhampir character now!

You look really, really cool while playing!

Yeah, but . . . A lot of this is coming from our current generation of oligarchs, who are pretty nerdy. I think their love of Tolkien and other fantasy/sci-fi is genuine, if prone to misinterpretation. There is a lot of ink written about how techbro oligarchs are using their favorite sci-fi...

I'll pushback on US companies considering the rest of the world "less important", it certainly isn't a case of "second class citizens". Do some companies FOCUS on their home markets? Yeah, sure. Why wouldn't they? Do some companies expand and try and focus more globally? Sure! But, do some of...

Oh good lord. I highly doubt the delays are due to non-Americans being considered "second class citizens". The delays are more likely due to printing, shipping, or even tariffs. Delays happen. It sucks, but I have faith you'll be able to handle getting your books later.

I was wondering why I couldn't get the link to work! You're right, a quick copy/paste minus the extra text got everything working!

DLC can be used in an anti-consumer manner, but isn't inherently so, I can agree to that. There are a lot of issues with digital content across media, for sure. It's just not all horrible and bad, IMO.

I do think it's "digital or nothing" . . . in the sense of, WotC would not do these releases at all otherwise. It only makes financial sense for them to do them digital-only. They certainly COULD release this material in a print format . . . and if they felt it would make enough profit (or...

Boycotts can and do work . . . but you have to have a LOT of folks participating. Not necessarily a majority of customers, but a significant minority at least. D&D fans, like all fans, complain and threaten boycotts all the time . . . but if it's just a few loud folks, it won't have much of an...

Just because you are not okay with it, does not make it predatory. How are these three upcoming releases predatory and anti-consumer? One issue is the digital format, something downloadable (PDF) versus the web-format that is hard to archive. But that isn't "DLC is predatory" but rather the...

Huh? That sounds like "not financially worth doing" rather than "could not possibly work financially".

DLC is anti-consumer? Not this consumer. I'm fine with it. Prefer it for some small releases, like the three digital-only products releasing soon.

Are you sure about that? I really don't remember anyone claiming that these three digital-only releases were ONLY possible (financially) as digital-only releases. Only worth doing financially in this format, that's seems reasonable, even if everyone doesn't see it that way or would prefer it...

Thanks! Wow! I shouldn't be surprised that folks are up in arms, even if I think the Darrington and HeroForge collab is completely reasonable. Well, hopefully for Darrington and HeroForge, it's a loud minority making all the noise.

Hoo boy . . . yes, parenting in the 80s was a combo of parents not keeping up with societal changes and also being more "hands off" . . . and I thank the gods of Law and Chaos for that!!! Kids these days can't sneeze without oversight it seems sometimes . . . Soo many books, comics, and movies...

Well, sure, if you're going to be hyperbolic about it. Could the digital only material we'll be getting in a few weeks have worked in some sort of print/digital product format? Sure. But would it have been worth doing financially? WotC doesn't seem to think so. And that makes sense to me, and...

What has Darrington's collaboration with HeroForge done to the Heroforge community?

Yes, what an insane position to take, it couldn't simply be a difference of reasonable opinions.

November is a busy month for crowdfunding campaigns, for me at least. Oof. I backed Lodestar, because it does look so pretty . . . in spaaaace . . . I hope the content lives up to the presentation!

Oof. Bio of a Space Tyrant. As a kid, I missed the creepy themes in the Xanth books and I chased after new books by Piers Anthony. I don't remember if I was still in middle school when I read Bio, but I was young. It was the first book I remember reading, stopping, and wondering, "What the...