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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9303431" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I think it's probably fine for the industry for two reasons:</p><p></p><p>1) It's just D&D, not all RPGs, and that doesn't seem likely to change whilst WotC owns Beyond (unless WotC publishes other RPGs, but that seems a distant prospect at best).</p><p></p><p>2) Beyond isn't that great. It's fine. You'd definitely want your product to be sold there if it was a D&D product and you didn't have ethical objections to WotC making money off you. But like, Beyond is only okay. Its VTT is still very "early days" many months after access started and the longer-term goals don't seem to want to make it much more than "A really easy to use VTT, at the cost of more powerful features". The campaign management features are... not great, even "unimpressive" seems too kind. All it's really good at is allowing you to search the books you own and letting you create and manage PCs, and even there, there are some weird holes in its capabilities (unless things changed in the last six months), and the search, whilst it has improved, is still in the realms of what my father once called "crazy search" rather than reliably finding what you were actually looking for.</p><p></p><p>Re: Eldritch horrors I concur but I also think it's unsurprising given other areas of monsters do tend to be a bit "mined out". You can still get good mileage but you need a level of originality and style that most of the sort of people who like making monster books, god bless 'em, do not typically possess, or you need to "remakes" of existing monsters to make them cooler and more interesting (c.f. the recent ToV Wight or a number of A5E's monster takes or the like). It's easier to make the latter fruitful but I don't know if it pushes sales the way "new" monsters do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9303431, member: 18"] I think it's probably fine for the industry for two reasons: 1) It's just D&D, not all RPGs, and that doesn't seem likely to change whilst WotC owns Beyond (unless WotC publishes other RPGs, but that seems a distant prospect at best). 2) Beyond isn't that great. It's fine. You'd definitely want your product to be sold there if it was a D&D product and you didn't have ethical objections to WotC making money off you. But like, Beyond is only okay. Its VTT is still very "early days" many months after access started and the longer-term goals don't seem to want to make it much more than "A really easy to use VTT, at the cost of more powerful features". The campaign management features are... not great, even "unimpressive" seems too kind. All it's really good at is allowing you to search the books you own and letting you create and manage PCs, and even there, there are some weird holes in its capabilities (unless things changed in the last six months), and the search, whilst it has improved, is still in the realms of what my father once called "crazy search" rather than reliably finding what you were actually looking for. Re: Eldritch horrors I concur but I also think it's unsurprising given other areas of monsters do tend to be a bit "mined out". You can still get good mileage but you need a level of originality and style that most of the sort of people who like making monster books, god bless 'em, do not typically possess, or you need to "remakes" of existing monsters to make them cooler and more interesting (c.f. the recent ToV Wight or a number of A5E's monster takes or the like). It's easier to make the latter fruitful but I don't know if it pushes sales the way "new" monsters do. [/QUOTE]
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