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You might like to watch Reading D&D Aloud this week, where Mike Mearls and Kelsey Dionne talk about the DMsGuild and the OGL and how it was seen and used. It's just a great conversation either way. (is there a way to suppress embeds? that thumbnail is obnoxiously huge) s

Goodness gracious. It's BOTH duck season and wabbit season! Altruism and enlightened self-interest are not mutually exclusive

Yes, and B/X and BECMI became increasingly more kid friendly as well. The original Munchkin generation (those of us who were kids who played when AD&D was released) are basically the same GenX latch key kids who suddenly had access to R-rated movies for the first time through cable. We were...

I know it's not what you meant, but at first I thought the 'it' to which you were referring was 5.5, not D&D and my reaction was, well they missed the boat on the branding of that, since they wouldn't take a stand on a version #.

Crack is whack.

And Magic's entire business model isn't?

Looks like the digital microtransaction on Project Sigil stops there...

no, that's YOUR point. My point is that there IS a difference, otherwise I wouldn't have made the distinction.

But I do see a difference, hence why I made the distinction. I established my terms, I defined them, I applied them. If one has a problem with that, then that's their issue. I see many similarities between Project Sigil and the failure of 4th edition. It was a great product. The business...

Yes, and I am speaking from the point of view of the customer (and also from someone who worked at a startup who attempted the same kind of thing in the past, which also lacked a business model in much the same way).

The most unhelpful phrase, ever.

I don't consider the business model of a product to be a part of the product.

I neglected to mention worldbuilding for others to play in in my other post when I talked about options for the future. I had mentioned it before on another thread. I envy people who have the perceptive skills to render in 3d, and I happily consume their efforts. Would I pay for it? Probably...

I don't think the product is a failure. I think the business model was. That's all.

Emphasis above mine - it's not that Project Sigil was a failure - they just concluded (correctly, IMHO) that it's not a money maker unto itself. Real Estate and clothes and furniture as a money making enterprise when it's essentially infinitely available just doesn't work. I personally don't...

Forums predate 'social media' as a term. It may be applied retroactively, but as a form, it was not created after the term. The application is therefore arbitrary.

They should just make it a VR chatroom that you can build in, like Second Life was years ago. Make it a social space to find other adventurers. Tavern brawls, pvp arenas. "Use my world for your adventures" stuff.

The larger the potential audience interaction, the more structure it needs to be palatable. In some ways, that's what the playtest surveys do, and did during D&DNext, according to Mearls. When it just becomes hundreds screaming into the ether, it's unproductive. It helps when the surveys ask...

The beta is now open and live. The official press release: Open Beta goes live today and you wonderful Moonbeamers are asking us for a press release for a recruitment drive (thank you!) If you're interested in letting people know why Moonbeam is great, here are the things we are proudest of...

Allow this Michael to hype two other Mikes' views on the topic. Mike Mearls in one of his many recent interviews (the 'Read Aloud' show) talked about the need to decrease the 'virtual distance' (my term, not his) between creator and consumer. It worked during the D&D Next period with the open...