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There might be a pause in new Star Trek, but . . . there will be new Star Trek. A pause might be a good thing . . . .

There's been talk about a comedic live action series with Tawny Newsome as one of the showrunners . . . but it's been a while on that . . . I don't think there is anything solid that's been released publicly. :(

"I didn't like it" is a fine response to a D&D book. But . . . that isn't the same thing as claims of no theme, purpose, or quality. The book had all of those things. Doesn't mean you have to like it, but hyperbole isn't useful. All D&D books these days are designed by committee. Have been for...

Why would you think that? It's pretty obvious to the point where I'm honestly perplexed about why some folks are perplexed about it.

I would be very surprised if they reversed any of the lore changes from the previous book. Also, I hope they don't! Personally, I appreciated the lore changes.

Nope, that's not it. Especially that's not even remotely true, there was nothing "questionable" in the coffee table books put out in recent years, no disparagement of old timers. Apologies for past racism and sexism in older products, sure, but . . . that was all that was there, in those older...

Tribalism? Nah. I mean, some folks in the ENWorld threads are trying to make this "rift" between OSR fans and modern D&D fans. But Ayoub is simply referring to the rift between the Gygax family and the D&D game. That impacts fans (at least the fans that care about such things), but it isn't...

Yeah, we do. At least those of us who have been in the fandom since the 80s. Or who have read or listened to the various books and podcasts on the subject. It's not rocket science.

Try reading the several threads on this topic right here on ENWorld.

Me.

You do realize that Luke was a kid when he created his character "Melf the Elf", right? Not every at Gary's table was so young, although Luke wasn't the only kid in the group. A lot of the silly names are the result of . . . nobody was a professional game designer or writer, and names are hard...

A new take on Castle Greyhawk that fell flat . . . yeah, that would hurt. But I'd love to see Luke and WotC give it a try using Gary's original notes. While WotC owns Greyhawk, other companies have licenses for the Castle Greyhawk notes, so not sure how likely that is . . . but I think it could...

Well, yeah, the rift goes back to TSR in the 80s, but it's still there. When WotC purchased TSR and D&D in the late 90s, Adkinson made it a point to bring on Gygax as a consultant and to heal that rift, but it didn't last long. I don't think WotC as a company has a problem with Gary Gygax, and...

Gygax, co-creator of D&D and co-founder/owner of TSR lost control of both the company and the game and was pushed out in the mid-80s. After that, Gygax tried to create and publish other games outside of TSR, but TSR took legal action and shut it down. So, I think "rift" is fair . . . .

Kinda. Gygax was ousted by then TSR management . . . but it wasn't without cause.

WotC did create Exodus. The Exodus video game and tabletop game are being developed by Archetype Entertainment, a subsidiary of WotC. WotC published the initial tabletop RPG, but have since licensed it to Renegade Studios. But it is still a WotC developed game, and fully owned by WotC.

We choose the evidence that supports the narrative we prefer.

So, you'd prefer if Luke had more experience writing and publishing game products . . . . which is exactly what he is doing with this project . . . . Luke's main draw is his personal history with the game and his activism within the RPG community. He certainly has published RPG products...

Not fair to WotC. The community wasn't aware of Phoenix's toxicity until later.

Shrug. You don't like the idea, I do!