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It would be cool if another RPG rose to the level of popularity D&D has enjoyed for 50 years now . . . But good luck with that! D&D is the originator of the genre and remains a very compelling game. Gygax and Arneson captured lightning in a bottle, which is incredibly difficult to do once, let...

And yet . . . the most successful and talked about RPGs are "fantasy heartbreakers" or D&D adjacent games, like Shadowdark. So, clearly compelling to a large segment of the fandom. Shadowdark is an awesome game and take on the genre, but it is very much a D&D-style game, a "fantasy heartbreaker".

Publishers creating more resources to help support and encourage gamers to take the GM's chair is a good thing. But . . . expecting your average GM to rise the level of the top stars in various streamed games isn't a realistic expectation. Even with good tools and support. Providing tools or...

Shadowdark isn't a "damn" D&D adjacent game? Anyway, there are a lot of "fantasy heartbreakers" for two main reasons. 1) Lots of designers want to try their hand at "D&D but better/different", and 2) lots of players want to play D&D style games . . . but "better/different". Groups choosing a...

If the D&D Beyond team can't support the mechanics of Symbaroum 5E . . . why bother at all? Free League and DDB have already implemented Lord of the Rings 5E without fully supporting the mechanics of the game . . . and there are official D&D mechanics from various books that have never been...

Personally, I prefer the web format on D&D Beyond to PDF format. Both formats have their pros and cons, of course, but the web books are a lot easier to search during a game. However, it seems odd to release a book on D&D Beyond without including character options. Symbaroum is a 5E-adapted...

Reaching "full accessibility" is like reaching perfection . . . you're never going to get there, but should always be striving to do so. Every publisher should make improving accessibility an important part of their development process. A good start would be reaching out to gamers/fans in...

I don't know about "killing" prep, but tools to reduce prep to as close to zero as possible . . . yes. The hobby assumption is that each group has a DM with the time to lovingly craft a world and story . . . and of course, folks like that are a lot rarer than folks who want to play!

What exactly are you thinking? Sounds interesting . . .

I don't know about the hobby at large, but I know what I'd like to see . . . More publishers putting their stuff on web-based platforms like D&D Beyond and Demiplane. Preferably bundled with PDFs and perhaps other digital formats as well. I'm currently running a LotR 5E campaign, and having...

That sounds like a good plan! If the B&W option is cheaper than the color version, that would be ideal. Not necessarily way cheaper, but a reasonably lower price. IMO, of course. Few publishers do this, but . . . I'd throw in the B&W edition (digital) with higher level pledge tiers, like the...

If I wasn't familiar with the publishing company or the author/creator . . . no, I would not back a campaign where AI-generated art is part of any version of the book. But, in cases where I am somewhat familiar, such as with folks here like @Steampunkette or @Upper_Krust, if I feel there is a...

I'll just drop in to add . . . I'd be happy to back an RPG book that had a mix of artist-commissioned black-and-white illustrations, artist-commissioned color illustrations, "sketches" and even stock art and public domain art. I'd also be okay with a book that is relatively light on art...

I'm excited for your long gestating project to finally come to light . . . But I'm one who won't be backing if AI generated art is used in the book. It's not that YOU are stealing an artist's work, it's that you would be participating in a technology that is based on scraping artists work...

Sorry, what I meant was that the US would benefit from being back manufacturing to the US. And that Canada would benefit from bringing back manufacturing to Canada. Et cetera. And, should we weather this insanity and return to a time where Canada can trust their southern neighbor . . . bringing...

The Pathfinder brand . . . products designed to work with D&D 3E, was in response to Paizo losing the Dragon & Dungeon magazine licenses and realizing their business depending on WotC wasn't sustainable. Transitioning Pathfinder into it's own 3E retro-clone was in response to WotC initially...

Cool. Not me! Yes, WotC has the resources to easily avoid AI generated art. Hopefully they will continue to do so. But I will not support ANY creator using AI generated art in their projects. If you want to share an RPG with the world (or any other artistic project), do it right. Does that...

Probably. But I'd still be curious to visit my alternate-world self to see how well an open 4E did. Would there be a Pathfinder? Would there be an OSR? If there was a 5E, would it look the same as the one we got in our own universe? The WotC of the prime universe (ours, of course) really did...

In the current environment, yes. In the long term for their customers, all of them. Every country (or region) could benefit from bringing back manufacturing outsourced to China and other countries across the ocean. The trade war is incredibly short-sighted and stupid overall, the most extreme...

In an alternate universe, where WotC made 4E just as open as 3E was . . . Would we still be playing 4E?