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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.

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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!

Unrealistic? Yeah, but it would be cool! I'd love it if WotC did their own official "OSR" game based on classic D&D. Yeah, yeah, I know there are plenty of those on the market currently, but having an official "old school" D&D game would be neat!

That was me. OSR sometimes stands for "Old School Rules" but sometimes the "R" stands in for Renaissance or Revival. It's about rules . . . and about the feel, or nostalgia. Luke is popular with the GaryCon crowd, which is definitely an OSR crowd, regardless if they are playing some B/X clone...

So, now we're nitpicking the use of "rift"? Sheesh. You're right, Gygaxes haven't been involved with official D&D for quite some time . . . which is part of the "rift", part of Ayoub's point. Gary was famously ousted back when D&D was published by TSR, Adkinson brought him in as a consultant...

Anyone can do a Forgotten Realms book on D&D Beyond, but the books involving Ed Greenwood are orders of magnitude more popular than books by random fans. Like the current "Souls for the Taking" sitting at #1 for at least a couple of weeks now. Anyone can do an Eberron book on D&D Beyond, but...

Looking forward to this! Will this be the Q4 release or something smaller associated with organized play? Or perhaps something Luke is doing on the DM's Guild, similar to some of Greenwood's Realms projects? Either way, excited to see what they come up with!

Disagree. Having a rift in the community, between the OSR crowd, the modern D&D crowd, and WotC is not good for WotC or the community. For the current WotC management to be working on mending that rift and including Luke in new D&D products is a good move.

Should Melf (Luke) not get paid for writing a D&D book? Of course there's money involved, there has been since 1974. This is good for Luke, this is good for WotC, and this is good for fans.

Yes . . . . Demiplane manages to support multiple systems with a very similar interace to D&D Beyond. It's very possible, but of course, WotC is choosing not to do so. Which was my point. Likely, WotC is still shy of spending resources on a non-D&D game that could be spent on D&D. We're more...

He was also the ruler of his domain in Krynn.

Fans are passionate, to be sure. And yeah, that's not always in a positive way. And I know I'm pushing back against human nature. I suppose it boils down to positive thinking versus negative thinking. I'm so very tired of all of the negativity in fan spaces. Just trying to get folks to try and...