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From a purely technical standpoint, the DDB versions are much easier and convenient to pirate and don't contain icky PDF DRM stuff.

Is copypasting the entirety of the DDB adventure into a Word document for personal use any less owning than being given a PDF? I just copypasted the entirety of the Baldur's Gate Gazetteer into a Word document. It took 25 seconds. Sure, it feels like "picking favorites" for a bigger cut but...

I'm on the BMG Discord and nobody announced it there. Feels like a DDB fat-fingered this one...

If anything they haven't been utilized nearly enough. I feel like they really missed the train on milking that cow.

Sometimes when I'm bored at work I ask Gemini to run a solo game of D&D for me (we're encouraged to use AI at work, so not even a strange sight) but I figured that all the stories I liked are part of some conversation where I as a player get to have choice in the adventure or what happens next...

Roleplaying dump stats or horrible 3d6 rolls can be funny for one-shots, but it sounds exhausting when doing anything long-form. At some point you gotta ask yourself, is Ravenloft about People braving the Dark and Triumphing over Evil TM or Grog the Barbarian being really really deficient in...

Why not just let players choose based on narrative "positioning" and intent? "Risky" 1d20 "Balanced" 2d10 "Conservative" 3d6 A GM might rule that a skill check must be rolled "Risky" because the player has to do something quickly. A Player might elect to roll "Risky" by attempting a challenge...

I feel like this whole exercise of meddling with a big and well oiled machine and interlocking systems can be avoided by simply turning the knob named "Encounter Difficulty", unless the express purpose is to take tools away from the players.

Dominik Mayer is great. https://scryfall.com/search?q=a%3A%E2%80%9CDominik+Mayer%E2%80%9D&unique=art In case you felt the art feeling familiar its cause he did a truckload of Magic: The Gathering art, especially around when WotC was brewing up Strixhaven and experimenting with new artstyles...

Dungeon Crawler Carl has a large (and financially untapped) audience that largely exists outside the RPG space. I am not surprised there's a boatload of people excited to play this.

I keep seeing talk that AI augments people's creativity and makes game creation and creative work more accessible to a broad audience. We've had heavily subsidized OpenAI and Google models for a while now. Companies are basically giving away this marvelous and extremely expensive technology...

I can guarantee you nobody is buying games on the basis of how to resolve "Roll for Target Number" or any kind of mathematical mechanic that doesn't further in how we interact with the game on a fundamental basis. Or any kind of finagling around with modifiers and probabilities on top of a PbtA...

Why not just publish this prospective Zine for free as is with the input of your players and just see what people resonate with? At the very least you had fun.

There is more first party content and 3rd party content with serious cred published than I will ever be able or willing to read. It's not like Elf Games have received any extremely meaningful technological advancements in the past decade. Amid gas prices, familial obligations and an uncertain...

That would be really disappointing because the 5.0/5.5 era FR books are in an entirely different point in the FR metaplot

DDB not having been developed in-house paying insane dividends right now

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