Gau posted:

Clearly, the rational response is to write a D&D adventure where you go around killing a bunch of rape-justifying goblins and orcs who like awful games, led by the lich Ditpun and a huge troll named Frank.

Ewen Cluney posted:

But to me the bigger issue with the license is simply that if you're a current or aspiring game publisher, the Numenera license has basically nothing to offer over the many other open systems you can use for free. I've heard good things about Numenera overall, but if I decide I want to use an existing system, right off the bad I have d20/Pathfinder, Fudge, Fate, Savage Worlds, Open D6, etc. available to me for free, several of which have a much more proven track record.

8one6 posted:

Ha! I'd loving love to see them try to move to the KC metro area (let alone Lee's Summit.) I'd say we have the con space, but everything is so spread out around here it would suck to have try to hold a con that big here. We might have more hotel rooms than Indy has right now, but that's only if you count the entire metro area, parking sucks on the best of days, and public transit in KC is a loving joke.

And that's assuming that weekend doesn't have a concert or a basketball game.

MalcolmSheppard posted:

Board wargaming is very much a thing, but computer games hit it pretty drat hard. Nowadays you get company-based crowdfunding, where if X customers order, it comes out, and they hand out draft rules and such along the way. See: http://www.gmtgames.com/t-GMTP500Details.aspx

Fossilized Rappy posted:

EDIT: To avoid keeping the topic on nothing but the vengeful devil man's game, I have a question on the TG industry that's been rattling around in my head lately, even if it's not a particularly interesting one.

Exactly how viable is it to keep your business afloat with mid-range cost ($6 to $15 range or so) PDF sales? It's the bread and butter of the majority of OBS publishers, and Steve Jackson Games has more or less entirely moved GURPS to that format (though admittedly they have Munchkin sales that probably contribute more to their buoyancy), so it seems like it is at least somewhat successful, but I was curious if anyone had an actual insider opinion on the matter.

Leperflesh posted:

I think it'd be nice to resurrect a timeless classic: "chauvinist pigs."

Asimo posted:

This isn't really in doubt, no. Heinsoo fought a long and hard battle to keep Wizards from being an invincible god-king class among several other things and he basically got harassed out of the company due to it.

Iron Crowned posted:

homullus posted:

They would have made 5e anyway. It probably would have been a little later, and it definitely would have been different.

Elfgames posted:

1 the ogl is the gaming equivilant to a tire fire and 2 they really could because guess game mechanics can't be copywritten and just about everything you need to make 4e is already under the 3e ogl if someone wanted to make a true to life bastardized 4e i doubt wizards could stop them.

gradenko_2000 posted:

True20 already converts Saving Throws into Defenses (insofar that itself was a 3.5e UA variant rule), and you already have the Move-Standard-Swift actions as the equivalent of Move-Standard-Minor actions, and we've seen games like FantasyCraft muck around with what actually triggers OAs, and 5e itself can define a Short Rest as 5 minutes and an ability as only being reusable once every Short Rest, and so on and so forth, so yeah, it should be possible to make "not-4e within the OGL" if you had enough time and effort.

It'd be wordy as gently caress if you tried to describe these abilities the way 3.5e/Pathfinder does it*, but it should be possible.

* there's also something to be said about differentiating 3.5e/Pathfinder's "writing style" with 5e's "naturalistic" writing style. 3.x wrote out rules in full paragraphs, but it was still firmly ensconced in mechanics and were generally structured to be mostly bulletproof.

Asimo posted:

I love the "oh I would totally love a plaintext file instead!" arguments because they are so transparently bullshit. A proper layout and art are actually pretty critical to RPGs, since they help break up the text and make it easier to remember where various sections of the text are in the book. It's the same reason good textbooks have chapter illustrations, tables, and other visual cues. Someone who claims they would prefer going without is like, the perfect example of someone who has no idea of what they actually want in a product.

Covok posted:

I never played it or read it, but Cartoon Action Hour(?) is all about 80s shows like He-Man.

Halloween Jack posted:

As Malcolm Sheppard put it, Palladium's hiring conditions at this point essentially filter out competence. They really only want fan writers who would consider themselves lucky to get their work published anywhere. Not that that makes their practices acceptable or that their writers deserve the now-infamous Siembieda treatment.

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

I'm still getting money from it which is cool and still kind of insane

code:

Publisher	Title						Units Sold
Lee's Lists	100 Dances					1		
Lee's Lists	100 Fantasy Villages				3		
Lee's Lists	100 More Fantasy Villages			2		
Lee's Lists	100 Steampunk Inventions			4		
Lee's Lists	100 Useless Summonings and Conjurations		2		
Lee's Lists	102 Martial Arts Styles				3		
Lee's Lists	2400+ 19th Century Occupations			6		
Lee's Lists	53 Medieval Occupations				7		
Lee's Lists	Fantasy Maps: Villages of Adventure 1		2		
Lee's Lists	List Compendium, Volume 1			3		
											Total:	$16.21

edit: this was 01/2016 to 08/2016

Valatar posted:

Wow, yay, some people whose things we've bought gave a handjob to the blindingly corrupt money-grubbing candidate over the bugfuck crazy grandpa candidate. I feel hope and joy and love, let's all join arms and sing kumbaya together.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

To be fair lowtax had over his absence been completely unaware of loosechange.jpg and when he found out he banned him instantly

Same as aatrek being outed

Kurieg posted:

If you're still talking about BHM. When confronted with the accusation he voluntarily stepped down. And the accuser was in touch with the mods in private. There's very little doubt that something happened, we're just in the dark on degree.

Subjunctive posted:

Does verification require a real person to appear in front of an RPGnet mod, or is it mere internet conversation?