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I'm not saying everyone should be the same, I'm saying they each have an active and useful role in whatever situation. A useless goal keeper is still going to frustrate everyone. One player uses melee combat to deal damage, another ranged combat to deal damage, someone else uses spells to...

Look, it's like a ball sport where everyone is very competent and one isn't. While that might be fun for a while, eventually the strong players will get annoyed by the weak player, and the weak player gets annoyed because they don't really contribute like the rest does (and don't get the ball)...

I think that's based on assumptions, randomness, not understanding the system, and a certain level of unintentional min/maxing. In D&D 3e the issue was worse, partly due to how the system was implemented, partly due to how much choice there was with all the official books and people assumed...

That thus depends fully on the DM/group style if that works or not, and imho that's not balanced! In the social setting the the combat person is useless, and in the combat the social person is useless. You're essentially playing different games, with different people, and the rest of the people...

They made certain choices, some love it, some hate it. I'm one of the later, I wasn't even able to watch beyond the first 10min when it was on one of the streaming services I subscribe to (I almost never go to the theater). And if anyone expected some blockbuster from a D&D movie, they were...

I would even go so far as to say that individually optimized characters will be a LOT less effective then a good group build. And that's not just about min-maxing, but playing characters that mesh well with each other. OR an imbalance in the party where both started with the same resources, one...

Nope. Not in the least. How unbalanced depends on the specific build, the player, the DM, the adventure, the style, the group, the mood, and the phase of the moon. As long as the whole group uses the same generating method, everyone starts equal and the end result depends on the specific...

Sure, sure... 'Evidence'... :ROFLMAO: If every management shakeup would collapse your plans for the complete next year, businesses would be in trouble and WotC would not have survived for so long. What's having a far bigger impact is probably the US tariff shenanigans, at the end of 2024...

I actively disliked the Planescape one, the Eberron one I found dense in a bad way, and the previous FR books were Meh!(tm) at best. Only the newest FR duo did a good job imho, not that I liked everything, but it was a well organized, but still dense book, with lots of easily accessible...

Depends on the patches, I spend WAY too much money on the Battletech patches, pins, and dice sets. Stickers and post cards are generally very cheap and easy to produce and won't delay the KS delivery much or at all. It still gives the feeling to most people that they are getting 'more' for...

That was never proven or admitted, they mixed company and private funds, something that happens often with small companies. And don't get me wrong, CGL has had 'issues' paying their freelancers since that drama as well. CGL isn't a good company to work for imho. But so are so many other small...

Mr Trollman did work in the RPG industry on Shadowrun, two books as far as I can tell (2006&2007) and CGL really regretted hiring him... Mr Trollman created a LOT of drama in 2010 for CGL and the SR community. No one ever repeated that mistake... ;)

The title says "...Archetype Entertainment Head...". A writer might be done, a designer might not be. 1-2+ years before release is a bit long for just polishing imho.

The ability to say "It wasn't me!" or are they already leaving the ship?

We roll on a table... ;)

It's going into anything but INT... Putting it in DEX or WIS could be hilarious!

There That was no terrorist attack, they just returned to sender a lot of stuff, all at once. The terrorist attack was the humans delivering an exploding ball by suicide bomber... It was obvious from the start of the first episode that this was related to the Dr. Who IP (the mention of UNIT in...

The increase in population is about 35% over 25 years. Global PC sales have about doubled over the same 25 years. And the shift in 'nerd' culture has been going on for a LOT longer then a decade. The highest number in there is just double the PC sales in a quarter century, while the difference...

Let's talk context: BG2 did 2 million sales in five years, BG3 did 20 million sales in two years. When you want to make a game that's not a niche within a niche, like most D&D computer games, you need to use a similar target audience as other successful computer games. Like Cyberpunk 2077, The...

Deadfire is old, 2018, Just before the acquisition by Microsoft. These days Obsidian is all about games like Grounded, The Outer Worlds, Pentiment, and Avowed. Many of the great studios of the past are no longer what they were, the people that made them great at that time either moved on or changed.