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Well, sure. Exactly how effective do you think a little blue canary night light is going to be as a lighthouse? It may guide small children to the light switch with its friendly glow, but by the time Jason and his crew sees it, the Argo is gonna already be wrecked on the rocky shore.

"Different opinions" is carrying an awful lot of weight here. Liking/not liking stories about British boarding schools is an opinion. Mindsets that support or are even just uncaring keeping people from life-saving medical care or equal participation in society is quite a bit beyond an opinion.

In the sense that they have to be extremely attentive and relatively well-behaved because they're recording for an audience, sure. I'm sure that's exhausting and I wouldn't want to do it.

There are relatively few examples considering there are lot more games I've dabbled in that have gone through edition changes than I have had time or groups inclined to really play. Back in the D&D 4e days, one group I was in stuck with 3.5e (after trying 4e). That's the one really concrete...

In rough order of when I encountered them: Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: Animated James Bond movies Star Wars (I was 9 for the first theatrical run) The Hobbit by Rankin/Bass Battlestar Galactica Flash Gordon cartoon HG Wells books Barsoom books Lord of the Rings

I was well over the target age for the HP books when they came out... but my kids weren't. So they made great books for me to read to them before they were reading for themselves. The issues brought up were pretty gripping and largely well-told. The complexity of the stories increased with the...

The Pitt's main cast are all adults and that means adult workdays (which for a weekly series can be pretty long). Child actors complicate the issue and slow down production - it's one of the reasons casting twins for really young characters is so common. Recently I learned just how heavily the...

I think you mean David?

It's true that the magic items in D&D have generally simplified in how they work and most of the 'gotcha' items are gone or much de-emphasized. But I do find it somewhat interesting that the OP skips over 3e and 4e, the two editions with the most different approach to magic items of the whole...

Because if it's not, you're not going to get it. Or if you do get it, it may undermine the company's ability to continue to produce the products you like.

Maybe you SHOULD care if any new setting line (assuming book and maybe some adventures and other support) is sustainably profitable, in no small part because we've seen the effect of too many product lines that weren't sustainably profitable on D&D's publisher. TSR's problems may have been...

Sure, but people are still excited by the official D&D things that you seem to find old and boring like the Forgotten Realms. The question is WHAT NEW official D&D things will be exciting enough to do, particularly in relation to Steampunkette's important observation: For you, that might be...

https://www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/ Worth checking out

I think the obtuseness is getting to me.

I'm not sure I'd describe it as a rift between the Gygax family and the D&D brand - more like a rift between TSR, the company, and Gary Gygax (and whatever other bad feelings the family might have held for his ouster). TSR had to open up space between the D&D brand and Gygax, the man, as well as...

It's not just D&D YouTubers complaining about the platform's algorithm changes. I'm inclined to think that there's something to the algorithm complaint and that's why the clickbaitiness has increased even for channels with generally decent, level-headed information.

Not to knock Luke at all, but I find it kind of weird to hype a campaign setting product with a character whose depth of investment in the campaign setting starts out as just M Elf. I mean, I know Gygax's early players were invested in playing the game - down to the point of not spending any...

My wife took my last name, Dunn, when we got married because it's easier to write D followed by a squiggle of bumps than it is to constantly write Kipling.

Going to see Project Hail Mary tonight. For shows, our weekly habits are The Pitt and Shrinking.

Yeah, it's a gripper. I also recommend Shrinking over on Apple TV.