Recent content by mamba

drink, dance, and song. Also has a thing for the ladies, typical bard

he wasn’t included in the movie for a reason ;)

the writing the novel bit? That was both a hypothetical and a question, not a ‘the GG guys should write novels instead’. Specifically, if you forego a lot of usability purely so you can present a story that is enjoyable to read by oneself, wouldn’t you accomplish your goals better by writing a...

there is, I said how imo both GG and OSE could move towards the middle without compromising much / anything Too much duplication for my taste but definitely possible. My compromise was more do some of both, ie have a description, but not overly verbose, that gives you the important and...

I am surprised there was a separate Boss Battle KS, I got that book from the Flee Mortals one

Them rejecting an idea the DM had does not mean they are forcing anything on the DM, and they also are not in the wrong for rejecting it either. They are in the wrong when they write stuff like 'I can't believe they did not let me play a turtle, what a jerk' You should find something else to...

Worldbuilding has nothing to do with this. I brought up writing a novel in case the goal was to present an entertaining read for a single person to enjoy reading it and being willing to disregard usability to achieve that. If you want to worldbuild without too much concern about usability at...

can you name an example that achieves both to a high degree (without basically duplicating things)? I do not see this as dire, being a good read to me means the text flows well with very little interruption, whether for technical reasons (stat blocks, possible DC checks and their outcomes)...

they are not involved in the creation of the setting, I don’t think you can extrapolate that they have no active role in shaping it afterwards. A part you quoted but did not highlight reads ‘it's art I'm putting together that they view through interaction (and has the fun property of changing...

this framing is already wrong. It’s not that they are uninterested, it’s that they have some limits on what they allow as race / class for one reason (story / theme / setting) or another (personal dislike)

he compared GG and OSE / Necrotic Gnome. For GG he got 50% play, for OSE 70%, so no, it is not uncommon. The question simply is which of the two you should go for as a designer (and maybe why you do not write a novel instead when you go for the reader-audience)

yes, I believe they are in conflict at least. Up to a point you can satisfy both, but you won’t be great at both. So at some point one will have to take precedence, but you clearly can have adventures that are bad at both ;)

yes, there definitely is a part of the hobby that enjoys just reading the stuff. Ben’s argument of 50% of sales are not to run the module is bad falls apart when you do not care whether you got the sale because someone wants to run it or not, as long as they just buy the damn thing. I am not...

Clearly they did, but it is also not just them being a complete outlier, I have looked at dozens of kickstarters per year, and 3 years or so ago x 2.5 the first two days was a good approximation of the end result. This factor has been gradually decreasing and is now basically x 2 to x 2.1. This...

They definitely mimic the TSR style, whether that is a good thing is another matter. One could argue that it is intentionally ignoring 40 or so years of progress in usability