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Definitely incorrect, I'm afraid. The reason 4E was created (and this has been discussed in interviews etc.) was that Hasbro issued an ultimatum that either D&D would start making $50m revenue per year, or D&D would get vaulted for now. 4E's approach to design, particularly to going...

I don't think that would stop them, sadly, when owned by a corporation. I think, based on the history of D&D at WotC/Hasbro, there's a very narrow band of existence between "The execs have Big Ideas for D&D! < shark-like grin >" and "We've decided to vault the respected D&D IP for now until...

I think a lot of it has to do with most of the screens being used for games being multi-functional. Like, it's fine to effectively keep your character sheet on your phone, but if you're also rolling dice on it, no-one else can see, which makes things less fun, and almost certainly you're getting...

I mean, I'm not sure D&D has ever really been in that situation for very long at any time. You could perhaps say when TSR was small that was the case, and then again when WotC first got hold of D&D that was the case but Hasbro bought WotC like, what less than three years after WotC bought D&D...

It's sadly a truism that cutting staff causes your stock price to go up, even often in situations where cutting staff doesn't obviously benefit the company and might potentially harm them. As execs tend to have a lot of shares in the company (often it's a major part of their renumeration, making...

Presumably you mean no reason not to use a computer? But that doesn't really follow, because just because someone "has access to" a computer of some kind doesn't mean that they have one which is appropriate for use at the table. In fact I would say, in my experience, it's a fairly small...

Yeah, this is what I've been expecting for quite a long time, now they're calling it "digital first" but previously it was also the logical consequence of them wanting to move D&D to being a "lifestyle brand", plus ca change I guess.

Uh-oh. Last time WotC did good and was profitable, and non-WotC Hasbro did poorly, WotC saw huge cuts to staff. Maybe the stock going up will prevent them feeling the need to do that at least.

I sincerely hope the two lead writers are in that meeting and not really Vincke who has kind of a contempt for the setting.

I don't think it has an official genre name, but the furthest back common ancestor of this kind of game is Desert Strike, which was directly inspired by Choplifter, but took the similar gameplay into an isometric perspective (and added a lot more weapons) which worked a lot better. That also...

As an aside, not an attack on you, no-one should really be using the term "Caucasian" nor really expecting anyone outside the US to understand it. It's an outdated, not-just-inaccurate-but-outright-wrong and inherently racist term based on weird pseudo-scientific myth-making from literally the...

That largely eliminates 1 & 3 and gives them a chance to reduce 2 and an easier run at 4. Obviously it also generates other potential issues, depending on what choices they make, but that's probably a better starting point. Slightly more optimistic about it being decent on that basis, though...

In season 1? I doubt it. You don't get those kind of numbers, nor is your production that competent, in a season 1, typically. And that's assuming a lot. This is a show with several potential points to fall down on: 1) Not giving a compelling onboarding point to people unfamiliar with the game...

I mean his problem there would be that Aaronovitch almost certainly agrees based on his Twitter (just placing the peak of the 1990s as probably 1997 post-election, or maybe seeing things as peaking at some point before the 2008 crash) so it would be awkward to write his villain that way! I feel...

I can't really blame people for the delusion, because it's so well-supported by the tiny exposure modern British people tend to have to that war, which usually boils down to: 1) Some Agincourt-related media and/or teaching. Longbow longbows longbows as you say. 2) Henry V by Shakespeare...

It probably was authentic! Many US Indian restaurants are more authentic TO INDIA than British ones. British ones tend to serve "Anglo-Indian" cuisine, which is quite different - like there's a very classic set of curries which don't exist in or are not similar in US restaurants (Madras...

I'm talking about the facts, not my "memories". I can support all of this. It's very easy to show what I'm saying re: Classic servers because you don't need a "memory", you can literally go to one today and get screamed at by weird nerds because you aren't playing super-super-super optimally...

That's a fascinating one because it's essentially been astroturfed into being a thing by (I suggest by initially paid) influencers. The UAE have been looking into and willing to put their huge amounts of money behind anything they could claim culturally for quite a while (as people may be aware)...

Even ignoring political aspects and people not wanting to channel switch, I think that also reflects the relative popularity of the acts involved. Is Bad Bunny at least 25x more popular by all possible measurements than Kid Rock in 2026 AD? Yeah probably. I'm pretty sure even at Kid Rock's...

My mum still drinks posh versions of Bovril, i.e. beef tea, albeit extremely rarely and she is in her 70s. I am not aware of anyone younger who does. One thing I must note about the UK that fascinates me - maybe it's true of all countries/places, I dunno but... - is how much fast food and...