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Disagree. Certainly, when releasing new products, RPG books tend to be underpriced for the work and value put into them. But these bundles usually offer older products that would otherwise struggle to see current sales. Or indie products that struggle to reach a wider audience. And sales...

While I know D&D is huge now . . . my inner 12-year old still remembers being picked on, struggling to find books in stores, and avoiding my grandparents worries about the Satanic Panic . . . I still sometimes think about the game in those terms, where fans were an elite club daring public...

While it is annoying to see a bundle with stuff you just bought at full price . . . but hey, that's how sales work all the time anyway. Personally, the charity aspect of these bundles helps me over that particular annoyance. The biggest "con" I see with the bundles, as a customer, is that they...

Yasss King!

I don't think I'd buy these on my own . . . but I'd be pretty stoked to get them as a Christmas present or something! I did splurge on some fancy Lord of the Rings card decks, one for each book, and I'm pretty happy with them . . . but they're so pretty I haven't actually used them to play any...

Yeah . . . that is what makes me the saddest as AI continues to grind us down . . . we turn on each other with false accusations . . . I've been seeing a lot of that too, and I'm constantly second-guessing my own "AI-eye". :(

With recent news in the US . . . sadly I think I would be more comfy with the Chinese having all my personal data . . .

We'll see when it launches, but that's my impression, a streaming platform similar to Dropout. And you went to a Gleemax comparison?

Dying in the climate wars before retirement?

Perhaps your sales volume isn't up there with the big boys, but . . . your work is amazing and appreciated! Hopefully you're pulling in enough to keep the lights on! (and afford health insurance and retirement savings . . .)

Beacon is a streaming platform. Gleemax was a social media site. Completely different animals. It's like comparing YouTube and Facebook. There is overlap, of course, but different purpose and functionality.

They are the same thing. When you prioritize profits over people, that is evil.

Necessity? Depends on your needs. There are very good, even necessary reasons, for some folks within the US to learn a second language even if they never leave home. Depending on your career and where you live, Spanish is very useful and possibly even necessary. If you are traveling . . . what...

Not quite. Certainly, the shift from the white box to AD&D, then 2E to 3E, then to 4E, then to 5E created almost entirely different games. But there was an incremental series of revisions between the white box and the Rules Cyclopedia. All mostly compatible. The transition from AD&D 1E to 2E...

Yeah. A lot of digital ink spilled over small stuff.

Well, with that resume, I'm certainly not hiring Dancey for my RPG start-up! But I'm not going to hold all of that against him as a person. He was in charge for a lot of that, but not exclusively so, and no doubt holds a reasonable amount of responsibility for the various failed projects (the...

I respect your own recall of events, but . . . I'm taking all of that with a grain of salt without more solid links. Not that you need to worry about solving my curiosity, it's just that I don't recall any of that . . . of course, it's been a long while. D&D 3.5 came only 3 years after 3.0 . ...

What were Dancey's shenanigans during the TSR acquisition? How did Dancey crash and burn with D&D 3.5? What happened with Eve Online and Pathfinder Online? Not that I'm doubting your list of negative Dancey events . . . I'm honestly not familiar with most things on the list!

I agree that learning and playing multiple RPG games is a way to improve your enjoyment of the hobby! I also think the hobby supporting multiple games is healthy for the hobby and industry. Not that there is anything wrong with sticking with your favorite game to the exclusion of other games...

That's a take I have a hard time agreeing with. WotC promoting D&D and working to keep it at the center of the industry by making it an open game . . . certainly incentivized publishers to create d20 products, but didn't prevent them in any real way from publishing non-D&D games. WotC didn't...