Recent content by Dire Bare

The board game, not the D&D adventure.

Not the average PC user . . .

Why? Just like Windows, Steam has iterated on their OS over the years. Do you have experience with their current OS that runs the Steam Deck?

I've always felt that ancient Netheril wasn't a very interesting place to visit, should you stumble across a time-gate. Flying cities are cool, but overall if just felt like the ancient Realms that are pretty much the same as the modern Realms. This supplement doesn't change that, of course...

Just read through both the Astarion and the Netheril books last night on D&D Beyond. I'm cool with each product being $15, I think it's a reasonable price for the amount of content. I wouldn't complain if it was cheaper, but I think it's fair. I kinda want to roll up a dhampir character now!

You look really, really cool while playing!

Yeah, but . . . A lot of this is coming from our current generation of oligarchs, who are pretty nerdy. I think their love of Tolkien and other fantasy/sci-fi is genuine, if prone to misinterpretation. There is a lot of ink written about how techbro oligarchs are using their favorite sci-fi...

I'll pushback on US companies considering the rest of the world "less important", it certainly isn't a case of "second class citizens". Do some companies FOCUS on their home markets? Yeah, sure. Why wouldn't they? Do some companies expand and try and focus more globally? Sure! But, do some of...

Oh good lord. I highly doubt the delays are due to non-Americans being considered "second class citizens". The delays are more likely due to printing, shipping, or even tariffs. Delays happen. It sucks, but I have faith you'll be able to handle getting your books later.

I was wondering why I couldn't get the link to work! You're right, a quick copy/paste minus the extra text got everything working!

DLC can be used in an anti-consumer manner, but isn't inherently so, I can agree to that. There are a lot of issues with digital content across media, for sure. It's just not all horrible and bad, IMO.

I do think it's "digital or nothing" . . . in the sense of, WotC would not do these releases at all otherwise. It only makes financial sense for them to do them digital-only. They certainly COULD release this material in a print format . . . and if they felt it would make enough profit (or...

Boycotts can and do work . . . but you have to have a LOT of folks participating. Not necessarily a majority of customers, but a significant minority at least. D&D fans, like all fans, complain and threaten boycotts all the time . . . but if it's just a few loud folks, it won't have much of an...

Just because you are not okay with it, does not make it predatory. How are these three upcoming releases predatory and anti-consumer? One issue is the digital format, something downloadable (PDF) versus the web-format that is hard to archive. But that isn't "DLC is predatory" but rather the...

Huh? That sounds like "not financially worth doing" rather than "could not possibly work financially".