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A spreadsheet is probably the most simple one. You can do it in Excel, but people would need Excel, you can also use LibreOffice Calc, an open source spreadsheet program everyone can download for free on many platforms. Or use Google Sheets (also free, but proprietary), you can easily share it...

My point was that pre OGL release the TTRPG market was pretty bare (more companies left then new ones showed up), and post OGL release quite a bit of D20/OGL publishers showed up, which imho wouldn't have happened with something none-D20/OGL if the OGL was never released. At the time they were...

It sounds more like: They now suddenly have standards... Why would you license a TTRPG to a company that hasn't made any RPG products except for novelties like leather covers, printing maps, etc. No experience developing a RPG product (OGL/D20), and then you let them develop a whole RPG system...

No I understand, I ran a webstore from 2000-2007. My primary focus was D&D, quite a bit of D20 I could get and to a lesser extend other RPGs (in the Netherlands, Europe). Even before the OGL was published in October 2000, things were pretty dire in the TTRPG landscape. TSR went bankrupt, bought...

But isn't this exactly the general US mentality? WotC and Ryan Dancey both being from the US? And they aren't unique either. France was very similar for the longest time, not able to speak any other language and if they did they often refused to in their own country... Heck, even Germany dubs...

That was never going to happen, no matter how you calculate it. Yes, a common engine with enough support will remove a lot of demand from the consumer base for specific engine solutions. It can be beneficial for both the consumer AND the publisher. Most people hate MS and it's Windows monopoly...

Have been into Games Workshop/Citadel (Miniatures) for 35+ years, current generation GW minis I wouldn't really use for most TTRPGs (outside of the warhammer fantasy/40k RPGs). Got quite a bit of Grenadier, Ral Partha, HeartBreaker, RAFM, Rackham, etc. I liked the old WotC prepainted...

That really depends on who you ask and why. The next level down to D&D is most likely Pathfinder 2e Core, after that people will probably throw up more stuff they like... Why do you ask? Because there's a LOT of D&D being sold to folks that would never look on the Internet for a character...

Imagine how much the 'nailgun' does for wooden house building and renovation, if you give that same tool to the average person, they will probably nail themselves to their car with it... Just because you don't know how to use a tool or know how to choose the right tool, doesn't mean the tool is...

Wouldn't that be in the core rulebook? @jerryrice4949 As you can't pledge for that separately (only the core rulebook), better wait until it's out and people have it in their hands.

Doubter! *spins up generative AI, samples Dancey's voice from an Interview, generates audio track * ;)

It kind of depends, these Ai (LLM) products tend to be bought for the entire company/corporation and then it suddenly is quite a bit of money. A $20/month subscription for a multinational can quickly turn into $50 million per year for a single multinational... How many of those actually use that...

That was obviously written by AI (LLM)... :ROFLMAO: But they would be so right! ;) It's an IT tradition to dive in, head first, make permanent changes and then find out that things don't work as you thought they would. Quite often due to sales/marketing convincing a manager higher up in the...

Yeah, but we already know D&D 5e, hence using it as a basis for other systems when we want...

He didn't say that, he said that AI (LLM) could do things as good as certain designers. And I think he's right. But a game idea and/or initial design generally doesn't stop there, it goes through quite a few processes before it's released and many never go past those stages to release. Heck...

Dragonlance: https://dragonlance.fandom.com/wiki/Drow Orc (Ok, half-orc) https://dragonlance.fandom.com/wiki/Daergar_Dwarf I specifically didn't mention Dark Sun. Different in Eberron, maybe, but they're there. For Mystera, you're right about Drow and Daegar. I thought of some similar things...

I did not buy the physical version of the 5e Monster Manual 2024, I bought the digital version for Foundry VTT, so some of the things mentioned I have not experienced. Overall: Simplifying the monsters overall, but specifically the abilities and writing them down more efficiently is imho the...

Honestly, I can see the appeal, in certain cases. People can argue all they want, but the Traveller rules are a hurdle for folks that are primarily used to D&D, that's not even mentioning a particular Traveller setting. And compared to something like Mothership, Traveller is super crunchy. Our...

But does that role need to be with the DM specifically? In our group that's something someone else is better at, so they've got that job for the last 35 years... A lot of us feel spent after a morning/day/night of DMing. One of our group once explained it with extroverts get energy from being...

For me, the short of it, I enjoy DMing when I want to, I do not enjoy DMing when I feel I have to. And when I talk about DMing, it's not just the actual session, that is imho the easiest part, but all the prep work is imho the hardest part. Not everything is a pleasure, but satisfaction is also...