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To be fair to Mordenkainen, which I don't really wanna be but w/e, the concept of The Balance in an FR perspective relates specifically to the gods, and is backed/enforced/desired by AO, the super-god, it doesn't relate to like, day-to-day activities/horrors normally. But it would mean, at the...

According to Gary Gygax literally everyone in this picture could be Lawful Good except the bearded guy holding Stabby back, who would have to be NG or CG. I'm not kidding or exaggerating, note, he was very clear that killing defenceless prisoners was A-ok for LG, even women and children (he was...

This is probably the most coherent take I've seen on this - there's no logical reason it should be generally appealing or even seen as correct (it's basically a pure anti-change position) but it's one that has consistency and makes logical sense, even if you say "Well that's codswallop!", which...

What exactly are you referring to? I can't see anything they did as actively fighting back against good or promoting evil for the sake of evil, but perhaps I'm forgetting something. He talks the talk re: The Balance (which is a formal but basically deprecated concept in FR cosmology - it's been...

I don't think Daoism can really be argued to oppose Good, or to promote Evil, in D&D senses, though. Daoism certainly fits with Moorcockian neutrality - i.e. between Chaos and Order, but ultimately it's actually pretty concerned with what it sees as "good". I mean, for example, the "three...

Yeah the second point is the huge issue. The whole thing is very firmly Gygax and Arneson's own stupid fault. They're both worthy of significant criticism for creating the whole situation. True Neutral made sense when the Cosmic Forces were Chaos and Law, neither of which was inherently "good"...

Priests healing people isn't remotely a D&D thing. Sorry but no. Priests have had "healing powers" in myth and legend and even people's day-to-day lives (as far as they believe) for at a minimum 5000 years. D&D doesn't get to claim that lol. Clerics are very different to priests. Clerics and...

Warhammer Fantasy is interesting here because it has some D&D influence but a lot more direct Moorcockian influence. Like I think it's probably reasonable to say Moorcock was the biggest early literary influence on Warhammer Fantasy (40K is a complex one), with Tolkien next, and D&D third. D&D...

Definitely not. Games Workshop did that. Green orcs with tusks are 100% a GW thing. They had them from the mid-1980s or earlier, and D&D continued with pig-orcs and grey orcs as the main approach for a very long time after that. A lot of Warcraft is taken from Warhammer Fantasy because...

Why you gotta hurt me like this man, that's brutal. That said I can't rule it out when they're trying to sell games for $90 and stuff already (I mean, they always did, but it's becoming a lot more common). God knows how much GTA VI will cost.

I think the big question with AI doing a lot of that stuff is "Why would I want to read something nobody wrote?" and that very much applies to powerpoints. It's bad enough, criminal even that 100 slide powerpoints exist (anyone who uses more than 10 slides for a non-super-technical presentation...

I'm pretty sure we've already had products like that, just for years and not for major RPGs. I suspect if I thought about it hard enough I could come up with one. But yeah when we see this for D&D or w/e that's going to be pretty bad. And it will happen. How people and WotC react to it will be...

You've made no case whatsoever for there being a common irrational sentimental attachment, merely asserted that there is one. amd just pre-insulted and pre-demeaned anyone who thinks that non-digital-heavy approaches have value! Which you now agree they undeniably do! Why come in that hot? When...

And let's be clear - this has been WotC/Hasbro's goal since 2008. The disastrous "We want to make D&D like WoW" interview in 2008 wasn't a WotC guy expressing the idea that he wanted D&D to be an MMO, or play like an MMO, even though people misrepresented or misunderstood the out-of-context...

It's notable that the wording here is extremely careful. All the actual examples given are ones that consumers don't really care about - "financial planning, forecasting, order management, supply chain operations, training and everyday productivity". But they're clearly using it in ways other...

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...