Recent content by Desdichado

"Other than the core premise, it's nothing at all like Planescape! Because, see, they added all kinds of 2023 social activist talking points and diversity, turning it into a bizarre time capsule of 2023 that already feels dated and chintzy!" C'mon. You know what I mean, you're being pedantic...

I'm talking relative to the requests in this thread. Yeah, sure, those are newish. That gets to the other part of my post; I don't trust them to do anything new well enough to be good. Radiant Citadel was a poorer Planescape pastiche, for example, with a focus on going to festivals rather than...

Most of these suggestions are for WotC to bring back something old. That old stuff already exists, and can be readily adapted if desired. I don't think I've been excited by anything WotC has produced since Eberron, and I would have been excited for a Nentir Vale setting. I kind of want them to...

You've always been an optimizer and you don't think optimization is the problem. Well, of course not.

Not really. Not at all, actually. It's not any problem at all. You're just not getting it. I'm saying exactly that; that what you're calling bad behavior isn't universally seen as bad, and what you're calling perfectly fine behavior isn't universally considered perfectly fine. You're so close...

Yeah, well, that's certainly at play here too, no doubt.

Like I said, it's a question of degree. I can work with the former, although I'd honestly prefer not to, because they're doing the same thing as the latter, just with admittedly more restraint. No it doesn't. I guarantee you that I've played with many more "optimizers" who insist that their...

What they says that? Some they who likes being wrong! :p I've long ago realized that one of the key elements of having a really great (as opposed to merely adequate) gaming experience is being more or less on the same page with your group about what the game is like. Playstyle really matters...

And that classic meme doesn't have optimizers as a separate category. Sure, sure... if you want to be... again, pedantic and nitpicky, then you can say that optimizer doesn't have the same stigma as munchkin, and that maybe there's a line somewhere on the spectrum between the two where you stop...

I'm sorry, but of course it is. If I don't like optimizers because they mess up the game (vs my expectations and hopes for the game, anyway) then of course I'm going to decry them. Why wouldn't I? I don't like the way they play, I don't prioritize the things that they enjoy, or even enjoy those...

I very much doubt that. That doesn't seem to be Amazon Studio's MO at all. And Villeneuve doesn't pull that much weight; the Bond franchise is a big deal with a lot of people having a lot of opinions on what its supposed to be. I doubt he'll even have carte blanche in who to cast, since whomever...

D&D variants are games that vary from the rules (of some official edition) of D&D, and can be used in place of it. On the tight side, I'd even suggest that some D&D settings are best described as D&D variants rather than D&D per se, because they feel too different from D&D as we know it. Dark...

The OSR is, essentially, three big patterns on a scatterplot that kinda overlap sometimes, but are clearly recognized as different clusters: 1) those who believe that the OSR is based on recreating old rules, or at least creating similar rules to old D&D. This movement is centered on...

While I don't exactly use it a lot, my favorite one to read is Fiendish Codex 1: Hordes of the Abyss from late in the 3e cycle. It's just a wonderful, wonderful monster/cosmology book with a great Lovecraftian vibe that I can't get enough of. Other than that, I think I most enjoyed some setting...

What does that mean that he did, though? I'm trying to understand what this means for the brand and for the game.