dwarf74 posted:

He has posted a long thing in response. Quoting here because it's insanely long and I haven't read it yet, and who knows, it may disappear at some point as these things can do.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...l=1#post7409271

e: Here's the thesis statement, near as I can tell, among all this self-aggrandizing and painful-to-read BS. I uh ... think he should have just stepped away from the internet for a few days or weeks.

Unfortunately, some see this period as providing fertile ground in which to plant seeds which serve their own destructive agendas. They selfishly undermine the integrity of the entire process by use of lies and distortions in order to gain personal satisfaction against someone, not in service to the needful revelation of genuine bad actors and reprehensible behavior, but to gain a measure of revenge or advantage or personal aggrandizement. They diminish the voices of those that should be heard, and that is a shameful thing at a time when honesty is the most powerful weapon we have against the shadows that have covered terrible actions and poor behaviors.

and

"That is not journalism; that's constructing an editorial hit piece for a specific agenda. In this case, I perceive Helton's agenda to be cast as a "heroic investigator, uncovering dirty little secrets" in the gaming community. There is something good and decent about getting us to talk about these things, and revealing genuine truths and exposing bad actors... but if you do so without integrity, without clear sourcing and genuine journalistic effort, all you are doing is undermining the very goal you claim to fight for."

Cat Face Joe posted:

ninja division: we have four employees and we're hosed

The Lore Bear posted:

So, either the entire pre-POD/PDF tabletop industry is a pyramid scheme or you have no idea what words mean.

Money has to come from somewhere. Most industries that make things have some level of this "buying thing A pays for making upcoming thing B which will pay for future extensions of thing A". It used to be much less direct than kickstarter, but this is how budgets and finance work. If you're good at it, you can cost things so you don't drive yourself bankrupt with the process, instead costing in some level of support for future projects directly into what you're doing with the profit you make.

They clearly did not do this.


This, however, is a big problem if you make the market where this isn't allowed. I don't see how they'd ever enforce this, because I doubt they'd tell people what to do with their profits that they budget into their projects. That being said, given the absolutely backwards-rear end margins they've got, it'd be very easy to show that's what they did in this case but it could only really be definitively shown in cases where the budgets failed like this.

Xiahou Dun posted:

We do?

Notahippie posted:

This is incidentally one of the things that pisses me off about the anarchists in Infinity - they literally have a hab named after Bakunin but the authors don't seem to know poo poo about how he proposed to order society or armed forces. It's such an irritating missed opportunity - it would be really cool to have a faction that truly embraced a hierarchyless approach to the military, and would even lead to some cool gameplay options.

Meinberg posted:

it turns out that analyzing and working on structural issues in the ttrpg industry also requires understanding and analyzing larger, societal structural issues, who would have guessed???

Warthur posted:

Halloween Jack shat his pants on this thread at 14:07 GMT, July 3rd 2019.

Toshimo posted:

Way to invent your own narrative by misquoting people and inventing bullshit. Get your bullshit out of here.

Mors Rattus posted:

https://twitter.com/CriticalRole/status/1180219441247703040

To me, what this says is 'oh poo poo, we had no idea what Wendy's is like.'

Zereth posted:

Seven.

We have Garcian, Dan, Coyote, Kevin, KAEDE, Con, and Mask.

Kurieg posted:

Uhh.. 1+6=7

Cessna posted:

Really? I could have sworn that there was some sort of "must destroy the [object] or it doesn't count" twist, but it has been a very long time since I read the adventure.

Jerik posted:

I'm... not sure where you're seeing a contradiction?
The text there lists the ways he can be damaged, and then says the skull "takes 50 hit points before it is destroyed". In other words, he's immune to most forms of damage, but if you can deal damage to him you can destroy him by doing 50 points of damage. Which is exactly what I said.

The rest of the text goes on about the fates of souls he trapped if he's destroyed, but that's a separate matter from how to destroy him.

Jerik posted:

Nope. Acererak can be done in by dealing 50 hit points of damage to the skull, nothing else required.

PST posted:

Zurui posted:

https://twitter.com/LawrenceHarmon/status/1268255676150820872?s=19

I mean, holy poo poo:

quote:

Later this year, we will release a product (not yet announced) that offers a way for a player to customize their character’s origin, including the option to change the ability score increases that come from being an elf, a dwarf, or one of D&D's many other playable folk.