Recent content by mamba

Survive in a market that is no longer yours, the way, say a Green Ronin does today, possibly, but you are not going to be a major player in it, just one of many small companies eking out a living… The long tail does not look like you are in a position to keep the employees you needed to create...

Not my favorite, but definitely grimdark imo The Black Company. When reading it I was wondering why people in that world do not just simply commit suicide to get it over with.

I like it, the Telekinetic eye causes doors slamming, furniture moving etc, the Fear one causes nightmares and people seeing things in the shadows that turn out to not be there, the Charm eye compels people to do something ‘random’ and they remember that they should be doing it but have no idea...

they would be, but there are plenty tables that do not play published adventures I am not sure whether setting and splat sell worse than adventures. What got TSR is selling a lot of stuff below cost and producing a lot more units than they managed to sell. For a while they managed to be paid...

yes, the 7 year pipe is probably accurate (if anything it feels too long). Framing it as a problem that needed solving for TSR to survive is where things go wrong. It is not a problem that needed fixing, nor did it get fixed. nope, they refreshed because sales dropped after a year or two (the...

if you already have degrees of success, how do you use fear and hope on rolls with advantage differently? Also, did anyone ever comment on the anomaly it creates that you can succeed with hope, succeed regularly, or fail with fear but not fail regularly? That makes failures while you have...

I very much doubt that 5e has more than a 7 year average retention, so I don’t think he managed to identify the actual problem, let alone proposed the right solution (make sure you have customers for life instead). Sure, having them for life would be great but that is neither realistic nor...

yes, it no longer even is a separate axis, it is an extension of the same axis that only gets used when you roll with advantage. You then can 1) succeed with hope, 2) succeeed regularly, 3) fail with fear. The last one interestingly makes failure worse than if you failed the same check without...

so you only ever get hope on a success and fear on a failure, rather than being able to get it in either case like in DH

no, the video is not being proposed to you by the YT algorithm, you need to actively search for his videos to learn that it exists. That is true whether you are a subscriber to the channel or not It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, the algorithm has learned that these types of videos get fewer...

replaced an eye of their own with the beholder eye, so they can use it themselves

it’s not that far off either though, unless it changed drastically since the pitch, haven’t been keeping track

and they took forever to figure out one class, having no adequate time for most of the others. So either start early with figuring out your direction (too late for that in the Next case, but One seems to not have learned from that either), drastically extend your timeline so you can figure out...

it might be typical, but it was too little. They cut their UAs short. The OGL dumpster fire they started distracted them to the point that their UA schedule slipped and they barely got through the PHB, if that