Recent content by FitzTheRuke

Wow, I've read a whole lot of Naval Rules, but most of them are (for me) too cumbersome. This hits a sweet spot, I think. I'll have to give it a try! Thanks for the heads-up!

I have everything on DDB myself, but I read "real" books when I'm sitting in bed at night, and I generally cut-n-paste into MS Word, and edit down, information for "at the table". I don't like digital tools at the table. I find that anyone who uses DDB for their character sheet always takes...

I don't really care one way or the other about Spelljammer, but I like Ships, and I thought that SJ would improve on the lackluster Ship-to-Ship-Battle rules from Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Unfortunately, if anything, they were made worse. I also tried to give Light of Xaryxis a fair shake, and I...

Team Caves Valendra grunted at some of the suggestions, and said, "If I may: Urbone, Chief of the Kobolds is a petty tyrant who treats his subjects with little to no concern, while he takes and eats all that he desires. If you give us to them, they will most likely kill us for his...

I think you are wrong here. I think that people who like old DS who will like new DS are very common. It's just that people who are guaranteed to dislike NEW DS (no matter what) will shout much louder on the internet. Here on ENWorld, there will certainly be both. And they'll argue.

Yeah, I think that's actually a big takeaway here. It explains why WotC "fixed" the "Amazon problem" of deep-discounting the books. It wasn't to protect us FLGSes who were losing sales (and frustratingly being undercut at our freaking COST) to Amazon, but so that they themselves would be more...

You may be right, but there were also other reasons. Knowing my customers is a big part of how I do business (I generally know what they will buy better than they do - it's exhausting, but it's how I do as well as I do) - and there were multiple general consensuses around that time: The...

I don't think that you can really conclude this. What is an Adventure and what is a Setting is pretty muddled in 5e. I don't think that a "regular" person can tell the difference. OTOH, the products that WE would list as "Settings" are usually the experimental, often Magic The Gathering or...

I don't know why excel was spitting out the dates in that order. I agree with you that it's a strange way to write August 2023.

I typed that in when I posted the chart - the store has it listed as STARTER SET and I wanted to be more clear here. But I'd call that a typo or more likely a brain worm. I'm aware that it's called Lost Mines. Must be, like you say, from seeing it typed that way too often.

There are many factors in play when it comes to that. In no particular order: 1) Both our orders (the number I "guess" we will need), and our allocations (the number they choose to actually provide us) doesn't ever really line up consistently. On top of THAT, we can't assume that I ever "guess"...

No idea overall, but IIRC, it sold very well for me, and the organized play at my store had a lot of fun with it. This was back when WotC regularly sent us physical modules to run, and made their "Seasons" line up with whatever books were coming out. I remember liking it, myself.

They're pretty pathetic by comparison. We struggled to get Daggerheart after the first release (we have a copy or two now) but we didn't HAVE IT when people were asking for it. It's going to be only a handful, tops. Shadowdark, I kickstarted it, but since then I've been unable to get them (I...

Oh yeah, I said "Ten" up there, but you're right, it's eleven. We still have, and still occasionally sell, the 2014 PHB. We've certainly sold a few copies in the last year.

I feel like that's an RP thing. The ogres are too busy eating a tiefling, and I don't think that they care at all what happens to the goblins. If the PCs are fighting the nearby goblins, I'd have an ogre peek out (with the possibility of a PC spotting them) then shrug and go back inside.