Recent content by SteveC

I know people say "you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover," but I know I have many times. I've judged a bottle of wine by the bottle. If I saw that cover in a FLGS, I would say "cool!" and think it was for an entirely different game. I'm sure it will be a one-time thing, but if copies of that...

I think this is a great cover, but nothing about it says D&D to me. For another game, this might be a home run but for me I think it's disconnected from what playing the game is actually like.

I think it comes down to mechanics and design and then what you do in actual play. Old-school design kind of isn't design. You have disconnected sub-systems that are designed to be compartmentalized. An attack roll is entirely different from a check to do something athletic or social. A skill...

Romeo and Juliet is a really interesting take and sort of a comedy of errors. You need to remember that it takes place in Italy, a Catholic country, and England was a Protestant one. Shakespeare knew how to make friends in high places. They really are idiots.

I think you know this, but we are 100% on the same side on that issue. Maybe there are some folks I already have on Ignore who are talking about it. If that's the case, I'll definitely do a mea culpa.

I don't think anyone is making that argument. The gaming community has always been the most inclusive community I've ever seen. I think there's only good things that come from getting more people into gaming. What I have seen is that a lot of the socially awkward (and what we now know are...

One of my favorite things is to see my older Millenial friends having this experience. I show them that clip from the show and say "just wait, Gen Z will be doing this as time goes by."

I think this point needs to be echoed and generally shouted to the rooftops. When I was growing up, gaming, and being a nerd in general was something you were laughed at about. A friend of mine was literally hung up in his locker at school. That wasn't a gag on TV, it actually happened. I had to...

I don't want to derail this thread by continuing the psionics discussion too much, but I find it really amusing to say "it was always there." I was there playing the game at the time, and psionics was a great example of "be careful of what you wish for." Once a player started talking about...

I think this is very important to remember. The "historical" Greyhawk is very much a pulp history-inspired game. That's baked into the cake. And I expect that it would be largely (or entirely) excised in a 2024 edition. And yes, the history of the 70s is also based on what we knew at the time. I...

Yes, but you are not WotC. I didn't say anything about home games or even smaller publishers.

We're seeing the problems with Greyhawk right here. It makes me think "Be careful what you wish for," to all the people who've been clamoring for Greyhawk. I think the way to make people happy is to just open it up in the DM's Guild. Greyhawk was created in the 70s, and a lot of material for it...

I snipped part of what you wrote because I also like Mystara, but it has some campaign secrets (what powers magic) and different cosmologies (the Immortals) that don't fit with what is expected as part of D&D. Not that they couldn't make it work, but I think they'd retcon enough so that you'd...

I find this really interesting and I know that the nostalgia factor is driving this. That makes sense (50 years!) At the same time, the reason the Forgotten Realms has this high-magic, high-powered reputation is because it developed that way over time. It was the world that got more detail, and...

I thought this was the way to do the OGL thing without making people mad. I don't know who originally said this to give them credit, but if your idea for the new edition is to integrate it tightly with D&D Beyond and the VTT, then you create this "walled garden" right here. If you get all of...