Recent content by Desdichado

Says who? Seriously; the idea that college students have "aged out" of being targeted is absurd. Since when is D&D a kids' game and nobody wants to target anyone out of middle school?

I can't really do someone else's setting very well and I love homebrewing, but I've enjoyed reasonably well playing or running Eberron, Planescape, Star Wars, Delta Green, "vanilla" Call of Cthulhu, Iron Kingdoms (before the minis games took over), Freeport, Iron Lords of Jupiter (brief though...

The Story Hour forums here predated any streamed actual play, but filled a similar role. And I'm sure that there were blogs and Usenet posts that did the same thing from nearly the inception of the internet. Prior to that, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anything that had wide distribution.

Yes, I have. Because it has. Repeatedly, blatantly, obviously, consistently, persistently, and ubiquitously. Are you suggesting that I should believe you instead of my own lying eyes? C'mon. No, that was the FIRST time it happened. Factually completely incorrect. Speaking of which, weren't you...

Uh... no. I've seen it already half a dozen times in the last three months. And it's kinda funny that this "imaginary nonsense" comes straight out of mainstream journalism, and literally out of the mouths of the actors, directors, showrunners, and more. It's not out of date at all, in fact it's...

Index Card RPG. Admittedly, not the catchiest title. But a lot of folks say it does D&D better than D&D does these days.

The problem with the concept of the fantasy heartbreaker is that there isn't any need for one. They imitate D&D too closely, and there's no compelling reason to not just play D&D. Context is different when there now are much more compelling reasons to not play D&D specifically.

If they've been taking their cues from Hollywood, that's not the worst case. They double down, blame the fans for not liking the OGL 1.1, and call everyone racists or sexists or something (Williams is a woman after all... although maybe its presumptuous these days to assume that) and get all...

Yeah, that movie isn't giving off great vibes. It looks like an aging star who's prime is past making a made for TV movie. I'd like it to be good, but I doubt that it will be better than made by committee mediocre, and I'm bearish on box office for it. Here's hoping that I'm pleasantly...

Eric was specifically talking about the values of Paizo and how much they value open gaming. He also said that they can't be expected to have a coherent response so soon when it impacts their business so deeply, but to expect an announcement soon, and that we'd REALLY hear it. That's what I'm...

Based on Eric Mona's comments on that Age of Worms stream earlier, it doesn't look like there's been any real change there.

2:09:00 is another interest snippet.

However, unfortunate connotations to Sauron and the Rings, which have been comparisons that are too easy to resist this week.

And strangely, you don't mention the Twitter Files. Equally strangely; is it bad for WotC to be grasping and go after every penny at any moral cost, but GOOD for Twitter to do so? Look, it was probably a bad comparison anyway, and shouldn't have been made, and I shouldn't have jumped on to...

Indeed, let's look at Twitter. Since Musk's takeover, downloads and activity on Twitter as reported by independent analysts Apptopia and Sensor Tower, are up 23% since the month before Musk took over, and 42% since this time last year. And, as has been proved in numerous data drops from Twitter...