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Eggs are one of two foods that I generally feel I should enjoy rather more than I actually do (the other being fish) - they're just so versatile that I'd have thought there should be some form of eggs that I'd enjoy... but I just haven't found one. I do enjoy other things that are made with...

On the one hand, there's no such thing as a truly perfect movie. There's always something that could be tweaked. On the other hand, there are a handful of movies where pretty much any change would end up being a change for the worse. I generally put three movies in that bracket: "The Empire...

Yes. He made the classic management mistake of badly underestimating the difficulty of the job being done by his staff. He then compounded it with the currently fashionable management mistake of dreaming that AI is an adequate substitute for that staff.

I have no idea - I'm not a lawyer. But I wouldn't bet a business on it!

Well... three years ago there were several lawyers on here who took a look at it, and their conclusion was that that assumption wasn't as iron-clad as had been assumed (and, indeed, intended), that there was just enough ambiguity in the word 'authorized' to suggest it might be possible to...

I deleted my previous reply, but I do owe this a proper response. My view is that everything good that has happened since (and there is quite a lot, as your OP lays out) was either possible regardless of the OGL situation (things like the DDB market), or alternately happened despite what...

Edit: on reflection, I can't see how this post can help the conversation. Apologies to anyone who read it in the interim. Fair to say this isn't a happy topic for me!

IMO, we got something close to the least-worst possible outcome. That's not a 'win' for anybody. To hear it described as such frankly turns my stomach.

AI won't displace those workers, but there's nothing in a drive-through kitchen that can't be automated - McD and the others have put huge amounts of effort into standardizing everything to the point that the work is essentially automated already. It's just cheaper to pay someone to flip the...

I've been in the happy position that every Kickstarter I have backed has delivered what was expected, to a high quality, and in a reasonable timeframe. It's kind of hard to have regrets when that's the case. That said, there are a couple of things I would have done differently had I known the...

Either the sorcerer or a new class - it depends on how many classes the hypothetical 6e has. Alternately, rebuild all the classes with a simple chassis that you can then optionally add complexity to. Though that would be a fairly radical reworking of the game, I think.

But to engage with the premise of the thread in good faith, I'd look to make two big changes: - Get rid of ability scores completely - no 3-18 range, but not even the modifier. Roll most of what the ability scores do into the classes directly, but then expand the use of feats to provide...

I wouldn't. With the D&D movie flopping, the TV show(s) seemingly being in development hell, Stranger Things ending, and Critical Role seemingly losing steam, D&D is dropping out of the zeitgeist - possibly only briefly, but potentially for a very long time. Under those circumstances, the last...

I've generally taken the view that we're quorate if 3/4 of the group are present; if not, we cancel. Unfortunately, I've now twice had groups shrink to the point where even a single absence took us below the threshold, at which point it becomes better to fold the group than to struggle on. (For...

I was about to say exactly that. Though I'm not sure that's a bad thing. That said, Nottingham and its environs are a lot more vertical and a lot less forested than I'd expected.