The Gaming Den

Hasbro learned their lesson. That's why they under-print disgustingly popular pop-art cards like Marvel. It's a lot better and easier to print fewer cards, sell out, then tell your investors that you're an efficient and intelligent company, which makes good decisions with its brands. Such as whoring...

Blades in the Dark, I think? I haven't played it in a few years but I recall the PC group having similar tracking mechanics. But like you said, since it was outside of combat it was mostly a gimmick in order to improve your gang. You could have probably replaced it with... normal bonuses.

So, what do people think about D&D 5.5? Not gone through it all yet, but of note if the weapon mastery rules. That Critical Role game coming out is going to eat 5.5e's lunch. Wizards of the Coast will have to confront the fact that most of the reasons 5e succeeded had nothing to do with the gam...

erik wrote: ↑

Sat May 18, 2024 10:06 pm

The production values. The voice talent. Passive viewing enjoyment. Seeing how other people do it. New experiences.

I have REAL movies I can watch! I hit up The Seven Samurai two weeks ago, why the fuck would I waste my time on WOTC's latest misbegotten cash grab?

Why would I watch a movie about someone else's shitty D&D party and lame story when I could be experiencing my own shitty D&D party and lame story? This is what I don't understand about people who consume D&D podcasts.

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Edit - And it's been true for a long time that MERCHANDISING is more valuable than the product itself. Selling T-Shirts at $35 each is always going to make you more money in the long-run than a 1-time movie ticket sell of $15 or a physical book for $50. The goal from the corporate perspective is to...

D&D, as a brand, has moved beyond outdated concepts like "having game designers" and "releasing content". By outsourcing the brand to other mediums as much as possible, WotC can actually try to make money off people who spend more than $100 every 5 years on their material. Th...

Wonder where everyone drifted away to. Not Twitter, I hope.

Oh, thank god. I got a new computer and had a bitch of a time getting logged in again. Talk about wonky.

Hah, I finally got around to making a website for this. I took all the stuff I wrote on Google Docs and slapped it onto a domain with mild amounts of HTML to make things legible. It's been quite fun to review everything and semi-tidy it for public use, and I hope that going public will push me to wo...

Ok, been looking through 5e and while there is a lot that just looks bad. In particular, they way attack spells either do or do not affect things other than creatures, seemingly depending on whether or not the writer remembered to put rules in for that. When it does affect things (eg "A flamma...

West is (unfortunately) running for the People's Party in the general, not for the democratic party primary. So you still have uhhhhh Marianne Williamson? as the best democratic primary candidate, and then while West might be the best third party candidate in the general, his party actually kind of...

Yes, thank you for elaborating on that, Kaelik. You're totally right. Biden was a senator back in 1973 and somehow failed his way to the top of the party despite his increasing inability to speak basic sentences, and the weirdest part to me is how they refuse to even entertain another candidate simp...

Can I be ageist and talk about how fucking old these crones are? Biden will be 82 by 2024. Trump will be 78. Jesus fucking christ, man. Pelosi is 83. Dianne Feinstein is what, 89 years old? What the hell could she POSSIBLY be doing at her "job"? For god's sake, get these people some milk, ...

Even the chatbot knows 5e should've come out with Bo9S 2!

Notice how no one talks about the strength of the flesh! Curious.

I would hope that someone isn't making an account here just to ask questions in the wrong thread...

I... uh... thanks, AI robot? I'd rather get sold dick pills, I think. The encouragement is very weird.

This is literally how 99% of Yugioh games play out. "My monster can't be targeted by your effects" "Well, my effect isn't targeting you!" "But I'm also immune to monster effects!" "Well my monster effect is actually replicating your spell card's effect so this is A...

This got my group to start talking about trying out Pathfinder 2nd edition (ew? maybe?) but I wonder if it'll actually provoke enough tables to stop playing D&D. Or at least to stop paying for 5e stuff. Does Wizards even make money off of legacy content anymore, or do they just pretend it doesn'...

I love the pixelization. I hope it does that in real life, too.

Not to be that asshole, but did 3e have stuff like Critical Role and Stranger Things boosting its publicity?

I cannot tell you anything about the actual game mechanics or general community response.
But I can post these Roll20 statistics:

I am hoping we can get some High-Level TGD-style analysis on this subject ,as well that Discord didn't eat up all the potential discussion we could've had. I learned of this news a couple days ago, and I don't really get why they shot themselves in the foot for what is usually lost in rounding erro...