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It's been getting worse and worse. I just want to go and grow my own wheat and live in a cabin in the woods.

Fair! I've been playing from launch and in my experience new players really want to play a funnel and I don't blame them. It's a super cool concept! But in practice? Players get to determine marching order of their four level 0 dudes. So 9/10 times, who survives? The guy they like the best at...

I find the inherent nature of spells in DCC to be a feature and not a bug. Given the huge variance in effect, further modified by mercurial magic, makes no two wizards the same. But more importantly, for me, it makes a high level wizard a questionable occurence. Like, if you've made it to level...

Typical degen gnome behavior.

Yeah it's really wild. He's moving his way through different scenes grifting as he goes. I was going through some old RPGs at a comic book store recently and came across his name on some T4 stuff. Kinda wild to think that forever ago he was sort of a normal non-scammy game guy. Kinda like Nystul.

Yeah, same. I got my copy a few years ago for like twenty bucks. Surprised it's still so cheap, given its place in history.

You just made me check Not Another Dime for the first time in years.

FATAL

Oh Ken Whitman, it's been a minute!

Yes, 100%. But also it just irks me somehow, deep down in what remains of my soul, when I see Patreon paywalled posts that would have been just like, a normal blog post ten years ago. I can't help it. It's like when there is a bag of slop in front of me from Taco Bell. I'mma eat it, it...

Gimme dat Sturm Brightblade full frontal nudity

I consider those more analogous to expansion packs PC games used to have. But yeah, the line can get blurry.

Hottest take: I miss the TTRPG internet from before Patreon and Kickstarter. Where the only monetization was you made a tangible product, and if it looked cool, I gave you money for that tangible product. Not some arrangement where I give you money for some nebulous future content that I may or...

Excellent article. Alot of this rings true to my experiences working with Silicon Valley Tech Bro Disease. I'm sorry for all the bad expriences and tangible harm the former and current employees suffered. That being said, I am not at all sorry to see a VC backed Web 3 MBA buzz word...

That's another good point. On a more general matter, who looks at WotC's behavior for checks notes all of 2023 and is like, "Yeah, I'ma fix to hitch my business to these fellas" ?

I really am curious what the terms are for third party publishers to get on DDB. Unless I'm wrong, none have ever said? I imagine it's a consequential amount of the sales.

Speaking of DCC RPG crowdfunding this looks interesting. I've definitely run multiple games where people want to play goblins and I just re-skin the thief and give them vomit powers. Looks like somebody had the same idea.

I think you'll get the PDF once the campaign ends. I think that's how they did it before if I remember right. And yeah, they don't change the rules really at all. They change the covers, maybe change some spellings and what-not. About the most reliable thing they change around between...

Those are all licensed directly through Goodman, they got that DCC logo on them.

Big DCC guys myself too, and yeah, very dissapointing. Building a game off of the OGL and then marking everything under the sun as product identity is like rescuing a dog from the pound just to turn around and breed it in a puppy mill. Kinda misses the whole point of the exercise.