No but atleast hire someone competent. And why is D&D turning into a slice of life where everyone are nice and cutsie? No wonder they are losing money and fast.
D&D is founded on flexibility and adaptability, so it's odd when people insist it can only be one thing.
I'm sure when Dark Sun came out, there were people who complained it wasn't true to the spirit of D&D and wondered why everything was psionics nowadays, no wonder they were losing money
feels like d&d is so scared of offense it became offensive. your level 10 party has killed hundreds of sentient beings but sure let's pretend it's a saturday morning cartoon. technically detailed but emotionally flat as airport art. representation shouldn't look like a focus group result
I was speaking holistically. One cute picture is lovely, but I think u merely missed the nuance of my whinging and distilled it to this single instance of incongruous marketing
A player in my table started complaining about the "gay Beholder" and I told him there is basically a gay beholder in Out of the Abyss (or at least I roleplayed it that way) and I proceeded to have the queerest vampire session I could. He also commented that someone made WH40k space marine shoot
Dying game sadly. Corporate Greed is driving your best people away and what do you have left… interns and yes people who just want money. Gary hates all you’ve become
Gary tried to chat his co-creator out of royalties and shut down Imagine Magazne because the writers wouldn't shill for poor quality T$R products. He'd have loved this corporate shit, because it was all over it when he was alive. He'd have promoted AI GMs.
LMAO - were you there? How about his ex who ended up running it all?
Guess you love corporate greed as well to support Hasbro.
Yes. I met Gary a few times over the years and had some discussions. He wasn’t about the money then.
Was I there when he closed down Imagine? Yes. Have I read the court documents between him and Arneson? Yes. Everything I've put is verifiable fact, regardless of whether he was nice to a sycophant or not. Fuck Hasbro and fuck Gary. Both greedy corporate scum.
I mean Gary Gygax was kind of a fuck. I think DnD losing people is actually great, it’ll never die completely but if it isn’t the juggernaut of the medium it’ll allow a much healthier industry.
Think of the 80s and the 90s. TSR completely shit the bed after new management allowing shit like White Wolf, Cyberpunk, and Palladium to broaden the ideas of ttrpgs.
You may want to look who was running TSR then. It wasn’t Gary, as he lost most (if not all) to his ex wife. Im sure you had some good discussions with him in his later years as well. We met a number of times at cons and dinners. Very different for sure than earlier days.