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I agree that is helpful and does happen a lot - especially the “take a peak before buying it on Amazon”. But from a sales number perspective the bookstores HATE that for obvious reasons, and it’s still sales through Amazon that are unlikely to decline all that much if they have to take a peak at...

Did a lot of books sell through big box stores? The only data I’ve seen is extrapolation from BookScan which includes Amazon. Maybe I’m wrong and lots are being sold off the shelf at Barnes & Noble, but no one knows that outside of WotC. It‘s purely anecdotal, but I do know our local bookstore...

Most of the 5e sales were Amazon. Period. Bookstores are probably a very tiny slice and certainly not a major part of 5e’s success at all.

I disagree. The DMG and the Manual of the Planes serve two very different purposes. Maybe a little bit of overlap, but in trying to guide someone in learning how to be a Dungeon Master and improve their Dungeon Mastering skills, getting into different cosmologies, planar settings, etc. is very...

And I'm willing to bet that is still how it will be. (Especially since they have been explicitly saying that for a couple years at least.) If anything this supports that even more if they don't have FR (or Tolkein-with-numbers-filed-off) versions of all the races/species, for example. Right...

Also, I'm confused about their claim that WotC revenue increased by 46% since 2020 when their chart definitely does NOT show that (unless there was a massive drop between 2019 and 2020, which I doubt). There was a 46% increase from 2016 to 2022, which is still impressive but tracks much more to...

FWIW, they won't be official, high production value WotC releases, but I will say that many of us have been veeeeerrrryyy eager for Planescape to open up on DMs Guild and are well aware of the major gaps WotC has left, such as a Manual of the Planes. I know quite a few people with things in the...

My point isn't about who was at fault and I tried to leave that open (maybe the movie analogy failed but that's the problem with analogies). The comment I was replying to was the claim that since April was paid for the concept art then "the deal is done" - implying it's acceptable to run her...

It's not that simple. There's still a lot of questions around the dinosaur image, but what people are worried about is they hired April to do concept art, credited her as a concept artist, and compensated her as a concept artist, then IF someone else fed that concept art into an AI engine and...

Yes, it certainly isn't all AI art since there are a lot of other credited artists beyond that one person. The various images posted around seem to be related to the frost giants, as well as at least one of the dinosaurs. Many are pointing out that the dinosaur image in particular looks an...

Sadly, there are a lot more images popping up on social media that are pretty obviously AI art + some manual editing (but not near enough to, say, give giants the proper number of toes, or have an archer actually have a hand that is holding a bow rather than some misshapen blob at the end of...

If I recall, basically, under the originally published 5e rules, ships drop out of their fast speed (100 million miles per 24 hours) to their slow speed (4 mph or so) when coming within the air envelope of another large object. With air envelopes as wide again as the object, a 5,000-mile...

Or when they were just copy-and-pasting the old 2e rules, copied the whole thing rather than only part of it. These weren't even new flying rules to playtest, it was just the same old 2e stuff ported over, but leaving out a pretty important piece.

And plane-by-plane massive charts of spell changes, magic weapons and armor decreasing in power when taken to a different plane from where they were forged, and on and on. (I remember PCs needing their Abyssal sword for getting past Tanar'ri resistance, their Baatoran sword for Baatezu, and so...

Yes, but "planar products" and Planescape are certainly not equivalent, even if the separation is blurry. They are two circles that overlap without a clear boundary, but they are very far from being the same circle. There is a ton of interesting lore to build off of in the Planescape setting...

Quite the contrary - it sets up inherent conflict in the Gate Towns and the books often included ways the PCs could be recruited by the various parties to try to influence it.

Exactly. It's called the Hinterlands and is only mentioned a few times in PS products but the only actual info is in Player's Primer to the Outlands (couple short paragraphs in the book, and an audio clip). But it is stated that the Outlands are infinite in size and continue beyond the Gate...

They never denied the leaks about it being a part of the draft OGL 1.1, and in the draft OGL 1.2 that they publicly released, it is specifically mentioned in there (bottom of the second page).

Seeing as how so many 3pp's can't even manage a simple OGL Section 15 properly, this sounds like a trainwreck in the making of further downstream products poisoning the OGL and ORC wells with incorrectly mingled content. Even if it is a legally viable hack (and I'd certainly get a lawyer's...

Guess I was too brief. I was talking about downstream publishers. Products like adventures, settings, etc. for multiple game systems - some of which are OGL and some are ORC (or even other licenses). This is what I'm working on - adventures for D&D, PF (esp before Remastered), A5E, etc. I...