Recent content by Thomas Shey

I've seen too many people who were disruptive in some ways, but also the people who drove the campaign, could be bothered to understand the rules, or otherwise were positive support to the campaign to take that seriously, honestly. Maybe some people have such a wide variety of players available...

They're just going to keep hammering their particular take on this even though there's no sign most people in the industry share it.

And notably this is in the TTRPGs General Forum, which suggests the original poster was not assuming D&D would be the answer as a default.

Yeah, it varies of course, but I've absolutely been interactive with more than one YouTuber over the years, some of them for extended periods, especially some musicians and Let's Players.

Its an excellently made show, but you have to want what its offering (that's even more true with its companion show "Helluva Boss").

This one is not so much a case of needing rescue at this point as just they've gotten the go-ahead for seasons 3 and 4, but not yet 5. The last time I saw that situation was Babylon 5, and it produced a very rocky last two seasons (its more complicated, of course).

Yeah. I'm really hoping Hazbin Hotel gets the fifth season its creator pictured being the logical endpoint for the series.

I'd have missed some pretty interesting videos, including some musicians I've really come to avoid if I did that, but I do admittedly tend to ignore the things farther down the recommendations.

The only one I sometimes wish I'd dump is FB, but there are functional reasons to keep it. I personally find YT a useful and entertaining element of my day (I understand some people fight like hell to avoid getting recommendations they don't want, but for whatever reason that's never been an...

Sometimes a story simply needs a longer space to run. Sometimes it doesn't, but suggests successor stories. The biggest risk is when someone assumes they'll get something like four or five seasons to unpack everything, since a lot of streamers consider two seasons all they want to bother with...

"Stone and Sky" the latest Rivers of London book (though ironically, this one takes place in Scotland). As usual, the author manages to take you on an entertaining trip.

Used to be the common case, at least with books and movies. Always gone up against some economies of scale when it comes to comics and TV shows though.

It didn't have to be an entirely separate entity though. In a more expansive system, it'd have been something that could be attached to a FM or a MU. And it wasn't the only character type the system didn't handle at that point. I can't tell you how many homebrew beast masters I saw.

I don't know about bands (that is to say groups), but I get the feeling a fair number of individual musicians make their money fron Patreon and its kin.

He used D&D, I suspect, because its the first game to consider "thief" a class unto itself (and honestly, once you get out of the D&D sphere, one of the few, even in classed games) and as such has set some expectations. (If you want to argue your last part, that's at least an argument since...