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To voluntarily waste time by replying to the absent: I'm certainly no fan of Hasbro's, but the evidence just isn't there to support the idea that D&D is in financial trouble, that angry right-wing grognards are the only paying customers for it, or that representation drives anyone away from the...

Fair enough. All I have is proof that some limited sample of this community was willing to argue for several pages, not that anyone actually liked it.

Eight pages to establish that nobody actually knows anything and people like to argue. I'd like those minutes back, please.

You could always run it with Prime-Time Adventures.

Looks like I either mixed up something he said about filmmaking with his actual worldview or I conflated him with some other die-hard cynic. I stand corrected, in either case.

It doesn't help that there are two properties that go by "Avatar" and while one has an incredible implementation of PbtA that resulted from a record-smashing kickstarter, the other definitely would make a solid TTRPG too. Just ... what would you call it? The brand confusion is bad enough talking...

And as long as EN Publishing continues their generous policy of putting new rules under an open license (a safe assumption), you can rest assured that the third-party community will create some "bridge" content with elements of both for those who like to mix their sci-fi peanut butter with their...

Also: I will give Snyder unironic credit for one thing: the man does have a sense of visual style. I wish he wouldn't desaturate everything quite so far, but I can definitely admit that he can make dramatic set pieces with the best of them. And the fact that I'm about 99% sure that the club used...

I'm definitely being hyperbolic, but not by that much; unless my memory has completely betrayed me, Snyder has expressed some pretty breathtaking levels of cynicism about humanity in interviews (if it has betrayed me, well then I am sorry I maligned Mr. Snyder's character). He's not alone in...

IMHO, you just answered your own question. GRRM doesn't believe in cartoonish paragons. Snyder doesn't believe fundamentally decent people exist. Like, Snyder is one of those types of folks that thinks that Fred Rogers must have secretly been a serial killer or something.

One of the fundamental problems with Snyder is that his personal worldview is so bleak and cynical that he finds paragons and other straightforwardly heroic and likeable people to be cartoonishly unrealistic. That makes a story with a hero a lot of people really like and want to cheer for hard...

Having watched Rebel Moon, I have my doubts that the game would have been very popular. Kind of a weird situation all around. Reading between the lines a bit, sounds like Evil Genius has maybe cannibalized the design work they did for that "new sci-fi project" and just stripped off the IP.

Yeah, that's an excellent point. I've gotten to play the Avatar RPG, Impulse Drive, Monster of the Week, and Wanderhome in the last year or so (it was a good year for PbtA stuff, clearly!), and I still have a hefty wish list of systems I want to try.

Perhaps "not having the system they want to use ready yet" is the thing stopping them?

I'm sure it's not hurting them, but I think D&D could vanish tomorrow and their audience would not. It will be interesting to see what transitioning to a different system or systems do for them.

sigh "It was regrettably cancelled again."

I will also say that I think breaking D&D's stranglehold on the industry is an unalloyed good, even if it comes with some pain. Pre-Hasbro WotC was a pretty decent actor a lot of the time. Hasbro is awful.

Are their things with other systems big, lengthy campaigns with lots of chapters you can get invested in like a TV show and talk about at the water cooler? I suspect that if not, that campaign structure may be the missing bit. It'll be interesting to see what happens when they switch to...

I'm coming in late, but "the brand recognition that drove people to Critical Role is gone" almost made me laugh aloud. Critical Role trades on the fact that its cast is a bunch of attractive and incredibly charismatic voice actors. And I say this as someone who has bounced off of Critical Role...

I was one of the backers on the crowdfunding campaign for this, and I cannot recommend it or the volume before it, Into the Wyrd & Wild, enough. Absolutely fantastic books, both.