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Which doesn't mean it isn't the majority of their licensing earnings or the like, just that they didn't name it - indeed I am not surprised by that given it's embarrassing that they screwed up the relationship. And "down 3%" is an incredibly small amount to be down as a % lol.

That's why I said compare 2018 to 2028, not compare 2018 to 2025 so... not sure what your point is... could you explain? LOL no it absolutely is not, what are you talking about? Do you think that Larian stopped paying WotC? I assure you they did not and cannot. They've got is believed to be a...

I'd definitely believe that! 5E had a slow-ass start. Hell I didn't buy it for a long time. I think the big question will be after a few years, what do sales look like? Because my perception, which may or may not be correct, what that 5E sold a certain amount at launch in 2014, and not a...

I remember a long-ago thread on maybe Shadowland.org or something (so like, probably 1997 or something) where people had to try and make HERO versions of major comics characters on a strict budget actually showed off some really cool build ideas as a result of the inverse of this.

I suspect if we look at the actual examples of this they will be a lot more specific and less general than you're suggesting. I.e. someone will be moaning about a game having a D&D-like class and level system in one thread, and then suggesting that a game should use an HP system like D&D...

Yes that's true. I mean, I know executives coming and going has also factored into major decisions re: cancelling and commissioning and the like (as has nepotism of a very literal kind c.f. a certain conspiracy theorist getting multiple seasons of a show when his son got in charge of documentary...

Yeah that's extremely difficult to model outside of narrative situations because it's essentially a narrative ability even in the comics. JLA-tier Batman has a plan and methodology and potentially equipment to defeat basically every single superhero and supervillain in the setting. That's a hell...

Yeah I think that actually was kind of true of lot of 1980s and 1990s, if you really looked at the math, many choices in combat were just either: A) Objectively a bad idea - i.e. simply does less damage than normal or is an obviously bad trade-off mechanically (like a big penalty to hit in a...

Did he? That's slightly surprising, because I always assumed, from the initial two books, that the main characters were pretty much exactly the colours they were on the show, and it's weird that he'd missed that. But then I guess half the people who read Hunger Games somehow missed that Rue was...

I think you were being deliberately difficult but just linking links and not explicating what it is you think I should be looking at, so y'know. But I can see from the above that you literally missed the point of my argument, which was never "humans don't use base-10" (though the...

Absolutely agree. But it's a very different kind of combat to what HERO delivered, for better or worse. I think actually HERO is really good for like, some kinds of battle fantasy, but like, for superheroes, I get that theoretically a speedster acts faster than other people, but that doesn't...

They mean the TV series, not the books, but it's equally implausible. I'm not sure Sanderson actually hates anything, let alone that he has enough time with churning out implausible numbers of pages per year to get mad about TV shows.

Yeah I think a lot of this comes from authors coming at the issue of worldbuilding "backwards" as it were. I.e. instead of thinking about the society they envision and how it would work, and how things would come to be from that society, and just building things up, they decide on the...

Because HERO/Champions specifically mechanically feels like a game in a way that's very perceptible to a lot of people, not like a superhero anything. Specifically in combat it feels like a very detailed squad-level skirmish wargame, that just happens to be superhero-themed. It got in early...

I'd definitely also be looking at Outgunned for the proposed setup (modern action, moderate to low crunch, etc.), it's absolutely made for that, and is a pretty cool game. Apparently there's a Foundry module for it (I don't use VTTs much so know nothing beyond that).

Outgunned is a good idea though it is worth noting Outgunned campaigns are intentionally relatively short and contained by the design of the game, rather than potentially open-ended like Shadowrun. That might actually be a benefit if you're not wanting to run an open-ended campaign though...

I gotta presume the cyborg (Marrow) was a major part of capturing most of these species, because I don't see anyone else on the crew who is up to that, and he also clearly has and knows how to use capture equipment. I guess the blood bugs and the eye-octopus might just have been tempted into...

I think we have to see the this as an alt-history given the Maginot necessarily launched in 2055, and yeah we're definitely not going to have the capability to manufacture a space-faring vessel with that outward appearance by 2055 (and it'd have to have been started building, completed and...

Yeah same with The Witcher tv series. We got two ridiculous narratives out of that, firstly that Cavill was a nasty and hateful person to the rest of the crew, which seems to have been made up by a guy with like 50 followers on Twitter (and zero connection to or knowledge of the show), and then...

LOL obviously it does. Trivially obviously. Come on. Obviously it's a bigger deal if something which thousands of people spent millions on vanished without a trace than if it's something only dozens or hundreds of people cared about in the first place. A TTRPG that makes $10K is fine to make...