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Terrible Opinions posted:From the numbers I've heard it's okay for business but nowhere near as good as owning the rights to either the Star Wars RPG license or the 40k RPG license. So, the biggest name in RPGs is now Fantasy Flight?
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Jun 4, 2015 23:44
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And only a year late. Serf posted:Their business plan is bizarre, because you gotta sell books to make money, but they're not doing that. I think it's pretty clear that they weren't making any money selling books, and that's why they're going to stop. There was an article by the D&D Brand Manager a couple years ago about how the brand is so much bigger than just the RPG. I interpreted that to mean that Salvatore and Greenwood are making Hasbro money, but Mearls isn't (directly).
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Jan 14, 2016 01:04
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Maybe I'll do a more detailed look once we're a month in or so, but it'll be interesting to see if anything actually... well, interesting comes out of this, or if the store will just be buried in this generation's equivalent of Power Classes. Well if someone was going to make a proper adventure I'd hope it would take more than a couple days. There could be a chance that crowd-sourcing in this way would have a beneficial effect on development like Murano glassmakers. A hope, not an expectation though.
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Jan 15, 2016 03:15
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Halloween Jack posted:Here are some more thoughts now that I'm not phoneposting: what are the reasons to use the DMG, or the 5e SRD, or the OGL? Well with the DMG you get direct access to the entirety of Wizard's carefully cultivated community. Just look at their forums... Oh, they shut down their forums. I'm beginning to think that they're just bad at this.
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Jan 18, 2016 20:34
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I'm not sure why spiked chain usage always seems to be ascribed to psuedo-evil cultists rather than the more likely batshit insane wire-fu martial artists that looked at the nunchaku and said, "That's nice, but you didn't go far enough"
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Jan 20, 2016 06:01
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Kai Tave posted:Star Wars was firmly in WotC's hands at that point so good luck there. Wait, now I want to hear about who made the mistake of dropping this license.
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Jan 26, 2016 06:13
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No. I meant who dropped it at WOTC so FFG could get it. Okay, you sort of answered that too.
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Jan 26, 2016 07:36
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Nuns with Guns posted:So what do you guys think about the third party making an oculus rift virtual tabletop featured on Dragon+? I can think of multiple ways you might do a VR or AR experience that fits into a Virtual Table Top. So why is the one these guys came up with so amazingly stupid?
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Feb 12, 2016 05:04
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Bar Crow posted:Good design involves abstraction. You want to separate the overall meaning from the specific complexies so you can bring it to forefront. I didn't even think about this. It's such a basic tenet of design that I guess I assumed anyone capable of designing such a program would have already understood that.
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Feb 15, 2016 02:42
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homullus posted:In the case of Dragonlance, the name of the setting comes from Important Items That Exist in the setting. There is lancing of dragons with dragonlances, which are . . . lances that do lots of extra damage to dragons, and are wielded primarily while mounted on dragons. TSR 1982 "Hey, I played this cool arcade game called 'Joust', have you guys heard of it?" -Tracy Hickman
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Feb 21, 2016 03:44
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Evil Mastermind posted:Remember Mikan and the rat swarm? Insect Swarm is a creature in Basic Rules Cyclopedia that could easily be abstracted as a template. So, a solved problem for at least 25 years.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:23
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I still can't believe that WOTC opened up a storefront that's name has the acronym DMG.
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Mar 12, 2016 01:00
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Arivia posted:Which works out amazingly well for one person who is primed to make extraordinary good use out of the DM's Guild: Ed Greenwood. He has already started the wheels rolling to get his own stuff up in the DM's Guild, since basically all the core design team of the Forgotten Realms has wanted for decades is the ability to print more stuff as much as possible and to do it without editorial interference.  I've been trying to figure out who the target audience for submitting to the DMG is, here it is.Good for him!
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Mar 15, 2016 00:19
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It's just a ploy for attention. He knows perfectly well his target audience is people that already shop at Raggi's storefront and he'd get a better cut there anyway. I'm gonna go back to forgetting this guy exists.
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Mar 23, 2016 00:11
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Libertad! posted:Sounds like Yu Gi Oh was originally a horror manga, then became something else to make it more palatable to the masses. The Shonen Jump strategy for success involves removing all the interesting ideas from your manga and instead adding tournaments.
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Mar 27, 2016 22:10
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Ettin posted:Did he ever say anything publicly? Not that I don't believe he'd wash his hands of the Marxists are coming to impose Sharia law on gamers! guy, but still. I also want to know if Mike Mearls ever held those con roundtables about social issues he claimed he was secretly organizing. The only thing I have heard about WOTC and cons in two years is that they bailed out of gencon, presumably because Hasbro stopped their buck.
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Apr 14, 2016 23:45
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Asimo posted:Yeah. It's interesting census data because it at least shows what people say they want to play (on that site...) but it doesn't really have any correlation to the numbers of what's actually being played. Especially since there's a notorious number of "bathroom reader gamers" in the hobby. I don't have either of those profile entries filled out. If you're a GM that has to use roll20's comically inept search system to find players then I'm not interested in being in your game. Terrible Opinions posted:I think it's only active games because at least the Munchkin number went down from the last time we got a report. It's probably 'campaigns that currently exist'. If I wanted to play Muchkin I'd probably whip up a campaign instance and then destroy it when we were done playing because all you need is the card deck. Actually, I'd probably just run it in my test campaign and not change the game type tag. DalaranJ fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Apr 24, 2016 |
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Apr 24, 2016 07:27
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paradoxGentleman posted:Hm. Is it at all possible that this exposes the ugly underbelly of the D&D community? Could WotC manage to swipe that under the carpet should that be the case? I'm not sure how this is going to cause people who previously didn't care about Magic to mingle with Magic nerds. But maybe that's because I think Zendikar is phenomenally dull.
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Apr 29, 2016 01:04
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Fair enough! Small production teams usually license a physics engine. Large production teams sometimes are able to 'roll their own'. Ryan Dancey. You now have all the pieces you need to determine what went wrong.
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May 2, 2016 05:58
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Paolomania posted:Who coined the term "bennies"? It's an annoying word for an expendable resource that sounds like trying to be 90s monetary slang. It's in my copy of Paranoia 5th so it was almost certainly coined in the 90's.
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Jun 1, 2016 02:01
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According to BGG, Greg Bilsland is leaving WOTC? https://rpggeek.com/blogpost/54880/greg-bilsland-announces-departure-wizards-coast Is it just Mike and the "Brand Manager" left?
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Jun 8, 2016 00:34
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Golden Bee posted:Great qualifying questions: My family and friends have abandoned me. All I have left are the ENnies.
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Jul 6, 2016 23:26
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Mors Rattus posted:In fairness, this exact thing happened to Apocalypse World, too. Okay, but AW was good, and the Black Hack was mediocre at best. Kai Tave posted:ridiculous elfgame partisan, Pretend I posted a polearm joke.
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Aug 4, 2016 03:32
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dwarf74 posted:"Based on the patterns, the problem is clearly about getting new players, which Pathfinder gets few of with 5E available. It's a hard sell at this late stage for a staff member to suggest Pathfinder when 5E is right there." This is hard for me to understand. Pathfinder and 5e seem about as mechanically distinct as two 3e clones could be. All I can imagine is that customers are coming into the store and literally asking "Do you have that D&D game?"
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Aug 14, 2016 23:04
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Jimbozig posted:This is silly. Most people don't care about mechanics at all. Ah, let me rephrase that. This is hard for me to accept.
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Aug 15, 2016 04:02
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How about I give you 10 bucks and you give me an empty cardboard box that Monte Cook spit into?
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Aug 16, 2016 01:13
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Evil Mastermind posted:Does it have to be Monte's spit? No, no, no, something's wrong here. This is... this is Johnathon Tweet's spit. That wasn't the deal!
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Aug 16, 2016 01:24
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gradenko_2000 posted:And personally, I as a GM pick the games I want to play, and run the games I want to play, as long as I can find mutually interested players. Someone coming up to me with a copy of ... Eclipse Phase without any prior warning and asking me to run it for them would probably be met with a flat no. If somebody bought me an RPG and asked me to run it I would be much more likely to feel insulted than honored. Unless they chose the RPG very carefully.
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Aug 16, 2016 23:51
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Mors Rattus posted:cowards Luke Crane stomps angrily back and forth in front of a row of d6s lined up on his desk berating them for failing him, yet again.
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Aug 31, 2016 02:33
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Evil Mastermind posted:That came up before, but I still love how nobody in the comments is buying it. And GMS's passive-aggressive "I don't wanna deal with critics" post. I don't like critics either. And I deal with it exactly the same way GMS does, by never releasing any products.
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Sep 8, 2016 00:27
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ErichZahn posted:Do you remember the Paranoia weapons chart that just has random loving numbers that don't make any sense? I'm not sure if that was a joke about the industry or just, just a normal chart. Working as intended.
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Sep 8, 2016 06:42
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Evil Mastermind posted:"How about other games like Pokémon or role-playing games? (Who can remember them, now?)" - Tom Kirby, GW Chairman, 2013 "It's not like a formerly wildly popular property would ever regain it's former popularity by innovating in some way, that's for sure." - Tom Kirby, probably Edit: Although to be fair, I guess GW has innovated, just in increasingly terrible and stupid ways. DalaranJ fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Sep 10, 2016 |
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dwarf74 posted:I think we can break it down to its literal meaning here, since we're talking about Monte Cook - "inventing again." As in, "inventing" stuff that someone else already invented, while claiming credit for innovation. Passive perception, Compels, the list goes on.... Is Monte Cook Games reinventing the wheel? Desiden posted:What I find most hilarious about that article is they make such a big deal about how they've never seen anything like it, omg, the kicktraq curve is like nothing else in kickstarter! Not only is it a perfectly normal curve with occasional spikes like any other kickstarter with marketing pieces and stretch goals in the middle, but they actually provide a picture of the curve that shows that its bullshit. Yeah, the daily data is exactly the picture of any niche product with a kickstarter of that size. Can you guess which days they did publicity interviews? Yes, yes you can.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:That seems to be exactly whats going on. I suspect a lot of what happened is that the D&D team found themselves having to justify their existence to upper management, and made an internal pitch that was a lot like the external pitch to the consumers. This has been my working theory for awhile, as well. Whether it will play out that way, well I don't know, because Liquid Communism posted:Irrationality in this market is a norm.
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Mar 30, 2017 01:10
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Theater industry really feeling the pain of losing the audience of people most likely to explosively vomit inside their theaters.
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Apr 8, 2017 17:56
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Halloween Jack posted:This is the dumbest thing in BECMI: This is a rule that would have made perfect sense in OD&D but makes absolutely no sense outside of that context.
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Apr 21, 2017 22:19
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Halloween Jack posted:Rob Kuntz wants $24 for a 72-page book about Dave Arneson. I'll give him ten for a PDF.
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Gobbeldygook posted:it was just 5e versions of classic dungeons. This entirely explains why it was nominated for an ennie.
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Jimbozig posted:I'm a bit surprised at the love for Veins of the Earth here, but I'm still reading through the bestiary, so maybe it gets better later. I think the bestiary is the weakest part of the book. That said, my standout thought about Veins was when it dawned on me that, I had just read about a setting that was a days march underground. It has dozens of monsters that are almost certain to kill party members. And all the people that live there are too alien to be playable as characters (arguably, I guess, but there certainly isn't any advice for it.). Edit: Bestiary? More like worstiary. 
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