Recent content by timbannock

By insinuating no one knew with the statement "it was a surprise to everyone." Come on. This isn't either/or, black/white.

None of that lessens that WOTC should have suspected success. Sure, probably not the magnitude, but burying the only tie-in deep into Descent Into Avernus? Nah, my point still stands. WOTC continuously fails to leverage their own success. Maybe Dan Ayoub will change things, but an incredibly...

Clearly that was the case for WOTC, but...why did no one see this? BG1 and 2 were massive hits, and even they had tie-in products. They (along with several other similar era D&D video games) got hugely successful remaster releases just a handful of years ago. The team working on BG3 clearly did...

Probably hurt by poor long-tail success. I'm sure I'll miss some exception, but of the ones I remember: D&D Stranger Things Starter Set was neat, but the adventure had no replayability, and beyond that adventure, nothing offered wasn't already in the Starter Set or Essentials Kit or the later...

It’s here! 65 million years in the making and it all comes down to this: butchering the memory of Jurassic Park with the over-the-top, end-of-the-world RPG Mork Borg! Enter The Nerdom‘s hosts Chad, Watson, and Stan are players in this insane romp through what at first might seem like a re-hash...

I can't think of anything obvious, but if you squint real hard there are some Skill Challenge-like elements here and there, and the monsters do have a few abilities that err on the side of probably being inspired by more grid-based combat stuff. But only very loosely, if at all.

Orcus, the 4E retroclone

After a billion years of doing this, I've found the best setup for me is: #. Plain-English Room Title. Keywords. One-sentence overview, if such is deemed necessary in addition to the keywords. Keyword that needs description upon closer inspect, preferably no more than 1-2 sentences. Minimal...

I was planning to do the exact same thing, actually. I really can't justify any more benefit of the doubt for Goodman. They are showing us exactly who they are.

Favorite for years: Cortex. Even though, or maybe because, I'm a child of the early 80s and my first real frames of reference are GI Joe, Transformers, Robotech, He-Man, Knight Rider, A-Team, various Marvel comics-turned-TV shows, and wrestling. Even though I don't much care for several of...

Agreed. Whiterock made a megadungeon work in the milieu of 3E "physics" but was pretty easily backwards compatible with some simple statblock swaps. It's really, really good, and frankly didn't get it's due upon release because it came out just as 4E was about to lift off. I would have almost...

Be interesting to see how Castle Whiterock and subsequent campaigns compare. Whiterock surely isn't going to get the same sorts of folk excited as CSIO did.

Yeah, any doubts he had about this whole situation have probably mostly or completely evaporated in the face of "well I wasn't the only one who cared about seeing this project through."

It's not that clear cut, or maybe better said, it's not like we would know whether or not Goodman is/would pursue such an "out". The wheels of justice turn slow, and there's always the chance that Goodman is already pursuing legal recourse on some level over this contract, but because such is...

Vague-posting doesn't help a conversation. It becomes more a monologue, or a series of people peppering you with questions that's at least somewhat frustrating to watch in a thread that is otherwise really interesting and filled with (mostly) good back and forth. IMHO YMMV and all that.