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That has the opposite effect on me. They’ve known that 5E is coming for two years, what the changes are, and it’s still an ongoing dev process for the VTT module. That tells me the changes are absolutely massive and that 5E will be dramatically different from 4E. If it were a few minor fixes and...

I was going to ask in another thread, ¿what’s a good way to measure PBP games? I run them fairly regularly but it seems like a weird outlier. How many posts? How much time spent reading and writing posts? Given I read in snippets and work on writing posts in fits and starts on my phone at random...

No. I really hate the voices players largely fail to do when playing RPGs. It’s one of those better no gaming than bad gaming things for me.

Right? How many millions did they just flush down the toilet?

Water's not wet without a citation on Wikipedia. It's been a reliable source for more than a decade.

That's really depressing. Bottlenecks and monopolies are always bad news. Makes me thankful something like the OSR/NSR exists. Lots of free-flowing creativity and people trying all kinds of games. It's almost like those two are directly linked.

Yeah. This is the internet. Most opinions expressed are by people who only have a theoretical knowledge of a topic and they pretend to be life-long experts.

Yeah. This is why I don't like really built-up VTTs. Gimme something that's a digital white board with a die roller. The ability to import images and maps is a plus but not required. Paying for system modules or adventures that are locked into someone else's business, servers, etc just seems...

Oh gods. Yeah, that'll be tedious as hell if they are. Here's to hoping they're not at the same table going forward.

I find it distasteful even in this context. I hate railroading with a passion. If it were curated in the sense of the players being in on it, then . But it could also be read as the NPCs simply having a goal and pursuing it regardless. Or it could have been Brennan improvising something to

At most quite a few gamers seem to want their VTT to handle all the system bits and math with a click, but not the fully visual experience of a video game. If they'd stuck with that full automation, it probably would have been a winner.

Yeah. How many blinking red lights do you need before taking the hint. Also, at the end,

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If anyone needs to see what it looks like when a party refuses to run despite overwhelming odds, they should look no further. To me it read as an encounter with clear secondary goals that happened to be during a fight...and so, of course, the players decided to ignore the secondary goals and...

I'm curious so thought I'd start two threads, one for D&D and one for all other games. This thread is for D&D. Edition doesn't matter. The rules are simple. It needs to be 1) a live game, played in real time (sorry PBP gamers); 2) it needs to involve other people (sorry solo gamers), and; 3)...

I'm curious so thought I'd start two threads, one for D&D and one for all other games. This thread is for anything except D&D. The rules are simple. It needs to be 1) a live game, played in real time (sorry PBP gamers); 2) it needs to involve other people (sorry solo gamers), and; 3) it needs...

LOL. Watching CR. I can feel players around the world exploding in rage at the PCs facing the consequences of their actions.

Exactly. Unless people are actually playing the games, they're nothing more than expensive decorations collecting dust. If money is the most important factor, then the second most important factor is how many people are actually playing those games. At a guess, the actual player base of the...

I look at it more from a broadly healthy perspective. That WotC and 5E 3PP are making money is great for them, but 5E is effectively strangling the life out of the rest of the hobby / industry, so it's not a particularly healthy time for the whole despite a few making money. In other words, it's...

I get the feeling that some people will always complain if PCs have to face the logical consequences of their actions. There’s no point arguing about it endlessly. For some the point of RPGs is to have a power fantasy in a consequence-free space. After watching the scene 4-5 times now, it’s...