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Go to the subreddit, and tell me how many people agreed with you about how "The #1 theme of Dark Sun is how important religion is, and why the world sucks if we aren't religious".

I get that you're focused on this, and can dig up videos by probably Gen Z guys which mention it in passing, but it isn't a thing bro. You're not going to make 'fetch' happen here. Why don't you go to the Dark Sun subreddit and explain to them how the #1 theme of Dark Sun is that the world sucks...

They've tried dozens of ways with projectors, AR headsets, VR headsets, VR/AR hand controllers, and so on. Those are fine for piloting a drone. But when life and death are on the line, and you're planning or providing information, you need two things: 1) Correct information. 2) Awareness of...

LOL what? No. Both those scenarios mean you're wrong. In fact, in the second scenario, if WotC release a "faithful interpretation" of YOUR ideas of what Dark Sun is about, then I'd absolutely be saying "That's not a faithful interpretation", so if people are saying that, it's more likely they...

Dude lol. D&D Shorts agrees with you? Who next, a luminary such as Howard Stern? Like D&D Shorts is great if you want weird D&D gossip, especially a couple of years ago. But his takes on D&D subjects tend to be well, very much hotter than the surface of Athas, that's for sure, and often just...

We've got that. It doesn't solve any fundamental issues. The lightest ones aren't cheap but are insanely light but the wealthy people who buy them follow the exact pattern everyone does - 2-6 weeks of "Wow" followed by a few months of "Oh yeah, I guess I could" followed by "Meh, can't be...

Any longer? Not trying to be a big downer, but they never were. There's no period in RPG history where that was a major, popular thing in RPGs. The earliest RPGs are wargame-adjacent "kill your way through a deathtrap of a dungeon" deals. There was no "medieval sim" let alone "dark ages sim"...

AR and VR both just keep swinging and missing, over and over and over, have done for my whole lifetime and I'm 47 man, because it's a solution looking for a problem, and not willing to wait the tech is so good it might become viable, because that might mean a competitor got there first. The last...

😭 No why you coming for them! I thought they were horrible when I was a kid but I quite like them now, so long as they're not sloppy (they should be more at the mashed potato end of things).

Work on Sigil started before the Beyond acquisition, and head of WotC's digital was actually opposed to the Beyond acquisition (this came out, of all times, during the OGL 2.0 deal), so yeah I don't think there's any question internal politics was in play here. Interesting re: the small updates...

Factorio is a wild and crazy impressive game, but... I don't think anyone is going to hire them with their current guy in charge, who has a history of attacking age-of-consent laws as "woke" and immoral (he thinks there should be no laws there, so probably going to get arrested on "serious...

I think I have to agree with @Dausuul here, though also with you re: Exodus. Beyond wasn't a WotC product at all, the only credit they can take is that they gave that licence to a company which made good use of it, and had the sense of eventually (after they'd been sold twice already!) buy...

I mean, it kind of does actually, just in a different way. In BG1/2 the abrasiveness doesn't usually come out in talking to the PC, it comes out in the barks and inter-NPC chatter. They basically behave like a bunch of children stuck in the back seat of a hot car on a long journey, insulting...

The only one I've actually "read" of this year's crop is Caves of Qud, which my god is that a well-deserved win. Cave of Qud is probably most surprisingly brilliant game I've come across, especially wild as I bought it years ago, though it was kind of pretentious and unfun after like fifteen...

I heard that it pretty much "got pandemic'd" in that Jemisin by her own admission totally lost enthusiasm (not because she didn't believe in the story, but pandemic blues, totally understandable), but felt she had to finish it, and combined the manuscripts from the two next books in the "We...

I do think "Mangetout" - "eat everything" would have been another very on-the-nose name! To be fair to the Maginot line btw, whilst the cultural valence in the English-speaking West is as I describe, the French designers did actually understand the Germans could go around it, they just thought...

Man the stick I'd get for Cargill-84 lol! At least you dropped the S to disguise it slightly! I once made up the name "Agadir" for a major dragonborn antagonist (not quite badguy) in my D&D campaign only to find out a week or two later that it was the name of a city in Morocco and the way I...

Oooooh I like this

It's not. It's the first thing you see in the show (IIRC) It's foreshadowing what's going to happen more broadly. It's irrelevant that it's a ship, it's irrelevant that it's collecting specimens. It's a theme, if we're going with the "EXTREMELY ON THE NOSE" approach the show seems to be taking...

This was fascinating because the spells I got, the vast majority of them were just very very much too high level. Like, level 3 spells with level 1 or even cantrip-tier effects. A level 7 spell that would have been bad at level 5. A level 5 spell that was kind of objectively worse than upcasting...