Recent content by FitzTheRuke

Sorry for your loss, @Umbran.

Sure, but author pretty much goes on to say something along the lines of "Is it... this? No. Probably not." So I feel confident that even the author of that piece doesn't believe what they speculated.

Yeah, that was a weird thing to say, but I don't think anyone sensible agrees with that statement, including the author of the article.

I don't think anyone thinks that, nor do I think that anyone has been suggested that anyone thinks that.

Yeah, I guess you're right!

I think you're right, but that's not what he meant by "successful marketing". The overall marketing worked out, like you say, but it was full of unintended SNAFUs. Not really any terrible ones compared to their track record, though! The worst was probably the late Eberron book, and they did...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I like announcements as much as (if not more than) the next guy, but it's a practice that is bad for business. We need the product to physically drop while people are still excited about it and still talking about it. That properly works out to two or...

But as you of course well know, that itself was not the usual practice before 2021.

I get where you're coming from - ducking and covering is ducking and covering - but I kind of DO feel like it's more inappropriate feeling for bullets than it is for spells (lightning included). It's not particularly less logical, but the feeling is different.

Late to the conversation, but I feel like a DEX Save against firearms feels like you are dodging bullets.

Yeah, it's not like anyone is offended by the slipcase, other than perhaps worrying how much it adds to the price and whether each individual feels that it's worth it. It might have also necessitated a certain, possibly reduced page count, at least to offset its expense. At any rate, It's nice...

Merry Christmas, gang! I will do my best to get us up and running in the new year. Thanks for being patient with me!

The overall format (slipcase, organization) seemed like a fine idea, but it didn't work out in practice. Superficially, the FR books are along the same lines (minus the Slipcase) but for some reason I vastly prefer them.

It seems the only (but much-needed) change they made to Planescape was to allow it more pages.

I think you nailed it on both subjects. If a project is going to please fans (and here I mean people who love the earlier works), it has to celebrate what was good about the thing. I can agree that sometimes it can feel like they spend too much effort showing how they are subverting its...