Whybird posted:

Now if only he could publish a book that Raggi had nothing to do with.

Cassa posted:

I mean if you look at what people pay writers working in a non-dead industry, 1c a word is laughable bullshit, and even 30c is a joke.

http://www.meaa.org/connect/rates/

Nuns with Guns posted:

5e's virtual tools prospects weren't looking too great for a while at first, either. The original semi(?) official character builder WotC was working on with a third party contractor was apparently hot garbage and they cut ties with them. Then actual play streaming brought in a surge of interest in online games, and suddenly working Twitch (now Fandom) on a virtual tabletop platform (where they didn't have to do any of the heavy lifting) and supplying similar official resources on Roll20 was looking like an excellent idea.

MadScientistWorking posted:

Speaking as someone who has signed legal documents from Paizo they have a pretty poor reputation with how they handle them. I think at one point there was a year backlog on sending them out. I know a dozen or so people that were in a similar boat of supposed to be under legal documentation but not.

potatocubed posted:

Black game designers I can point you towards:

• Eloy Lasanta, creator of Ninja Crusade 2nd edition (rad) and Orun (forthcoming) amongst other things.
  
• Misha Bushyager, who has credits on about eleven million things and I think was lead editor for the #Feminism anthology.
  
• Nick Butler, who hasn't done much yet but I reckon is one to watch in future. His Tidebreaker is currently in... open beta, I think?
  
• Allie Bustion, who has a whole bunch of designs on itch and should probably be better known than she is.
  
• Quinn Murphy, who is an extremely insightful designer and has been around forever.
  
• Chris Spivey, who I just sort of assume everyone knows but maybe people don't? He's the man behind Harlem Unbound and a new weird west game that I can never remember the name of.
  
• Mike Pondsmith, who I also assume everyone knows about but maybe not. Creator of Cyberpunk 2020.

That should get you started.

Gray Ghost posted:

I actually think the Ancestries & Cultures release by Arcanist Press should probably just be used instead. Check it out here .

Took them 2 months compared to however many years for WotC.

UrbanLabyrinth posted:

I think you meant https://www.dmsguild.com/product/250734/Mordenkainens-Musings-Nature--Nurture-in-the-Multiverse ?

UrbanLabyrinth posted:

This Jeff person came out of tweet-retirement (6 months of silence) to post this?

(their last tweet was responding to a criticsm of their Zak-defending blog by saying that "when in doubt, [I] feel that sticking with a friend is the best move")

Mors Rattus posted:

Or check by googling, apparently, which is what I did. That’s weird.

TK_Nyarlathotep posted:

https://twitter.com/funtasticFunman/status/1280318593113165825

Meinberg posted:

I absolutely believe that Critical Role should switch from D&D 5e to a game that more usefully helps to drive their play, something like Fellowship as a for instance. I also further believe that no one should be actual playing D&D 5e and I’ll start hollering at TAZ once I’ve gotten CR to nudge.

Like, I get that smaller APs use the name recognition to help propel themselves, but also there are other ways of marketing, and other values in promoting smaller games. It is a massive sea of games out there and the fact so many of Actual Plays (which have become the main means of marketing for the industry) play only D&D 5e with all of its attached baggage is a indictment on these Actual Players and their audience’s unwillingness to play another god drat game.

Tibalt posted:

I get that some people think that the system doesn't matter for APs like these, but all the evidence points against it. If you're going to start up an AP, it's pretty clear you've got a choice between "D&D or everything else" because the D&D AP viewers only watch D&D streams, at least according to the streamers. On top of that, TAZ clearly lost a chunk of audience as soon as Amnesty started, and it seemed to come back when they switched back to D&D with Graduation. You can point to differences in how Griffin ran things, and maybe that's true. But it really looks like viewers care more about system than you'd think, and social media algorithms are amplifying that effect.

Kai Tave posted:

Remember they also pulled someone's product for "provocative content" which turned out to be "gay content specifically" while leaving swathes of the usual bikini maiden/sexy concubine stuff up for sale.

Arthil posted:

Now I want a King of the Hill D&D box set.

Arthil posted:

Are there issues with Zzarchov Kowolski specifically that I've not seen in this thread, or is it just the branding for LotFP?

Xiahou Dun posted:

This is making me wonder*, is there ever a (most certainly fictional) example of a group that you could call "savages" without it being gross?

Toshimo posted:

So, here's a loose org chart of current D&D Staff:

• Head of Franchise: Nathan Stewart
  
• Head of Publishing and Licensing: Luz Schuh
  
• Executive Producer: Ray Winniger
  
• Senior Producer: Chris Perkins
  
• Design Manager: Steve Scott
  
• Franchise Creative Director: Mike Mearls
  
• Principal Rules Designer: Jeremy Crawford
  
• Game Designer: Dan Dillon
  
• Game Designer: Taymoor Rehman
  
• Game Designer: Kate Welch
  
• Organized Play Lead: Chris Lindsay
  
• Digital Marketing Manager: Bart Carroll
  
• Community Manager: Brandy Camel
  

Nathan Stewart was the previous VP and got promoted, so you're probably talking about someone just above Winniger, which is like... probably still 2-3 steps above Mearls.

admanb posted:

Step 1 in fixing WOTC D&D's diversity problem: lay off the woman.

paradoxGentleman posted:

Glad to hear Paizo is doing this. I don't expect them to turn into a decent corporation (as decent as a corporation can be, at least) overnight, but it's a good first step.

Leperflesh posted:

LLC stands for Limited Liability Corporation

Leperflesh posted:

nope Eastmabl is correct and I was dead wrong. LLCs are not corporations. Gonna leave that embarrassing evidence of correcting someone incorrectly up there for all to see.

dwarf74 posted:

CitizenKeen posted:

Conan the IP doesn't do anything for me, but the 2d20 implementation is this sweet spot in the 2d20 spectrum that I really like. It's a really solid system.

There's a good 2d20 thread as well.

Personally, 2d20 has gone from being "We wish were Genesys, but we've just got regular polyhedrals" to "We wish we were playing Cortex, but this is the system we own", and while I find it weird and frustrating, most people seem to really appreciate its breadth.

alg posted:

this job has it all!

You don’t have any substance abuse problems. Your drinking is specifically “downwards” of social.

https://www.indeedjobs.com/indie-press-revolution/jobs/6ae46592e7b9329204e5

Leperflesh posted:

OK well maybe it's not "retainer" and just a salary then?
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/disneys_top_lawyer_is_best_paid_general_counsel

They were paying their top lawyer $7M in 2016, the best-paid corporate council in the country, and if I'm reading this right they have like 70 more lawyers too. Employees or on retainer or whatever, the point is they have a big legal budget already spent and dealing with this little bitty lawsuit by some random book authors is an insignificant cost for them.

Meinberg posted:

She Kills Monster is an independent stage play about a woman who, after her family dies, seeks to learn more about her insular little sister by playing through the Dungeons and Dragons adventure she wrote. I say it at the Flea and was blown away.

CitizenKeen posted:

"Without prejudice" means they're free to refile. Without prejudice often means that a case is missing a key pedantic component and the judge wants to allow it to be refiled, or more likely, a settlement was reached.

Lord_Hambrose posted:

The worst that would have happened is some executive would just sigh and shrug a little as they wrote a check.

Roadie posted:

Pathfinder 2e does relatively well at the CR thing (barring janky stuff in the first adventure books finished before they finalized the core rules) by doing basically the same thing D&D 4e did, where creature level determines the acceptable range for its stats and bonuses to things, rather than the D&D 3.x and 5e 'come up with a monster and then try to eyeball a CR for it'.

potatocubed posted:

There was a thing last month (?) where Sinclair and his pals decided to go all in on a much smaller creator, including pushing the rumour that said creator was a Zak S sockpuppet (which they transparently aren't). On the other hand, the person in question was going all-in right back at them, including dropping lists of names into Discord channels with a 'please harass these people' vibe, so it's not like anyone came out of that covered in glory.

Whether that's a red flag or not... I feel is more of a personal decision?

potatocubed posted:

loving... tell me about it. As a freelancer and sometime hirer of people in the RPG industry I feel like to protect myself I have to maintain an encyclopaedic list of beefs, grudges, abusers, rapists, racists, misogynists, alt-right sympathisers, and people who I suspect are going to out themselves as one or more of the above eventually.

Deptfordx posted:

Eh. If a 1st level spell can convince someone that you're their best friend, and a 5th level spell (4th for a Bard)can literally dominate peoples minds. I don't see why a 3rd level Bard spell shouldn't allow you to tell completely believable lies.

It's ridiculous, but no more so than other 3.5 magic.

Froghammer posted:

There's a reason Bards get access to Glibness at level 7 in 3.5 and level 15 in 5e

UrbanLabyrinth posted:

https://theop.games/2021/05/monopoly-dungeons-dragons-available-now/
"The Bugbear, Demogorgon, Beholder, and more awaiting you to buy, sell, and trade them"
Monopoly: now with slavery?