While we're on the topic, the movie looks great so far, and I for one am excited to watch it. The CGI looks incredible and the setting is awesome. My only worry is that the writing might end up being crap. The movie has the potential to be either really, really good, or to be a repeat of the 2000 movie.
Yep, I'll also try to see it - on a ticket for a different movie.
While we're on the topic, the movie looks great so far, and I for one am excited to watch it. The CGI looks incredible and the setting is awesome. My only worry is that the writing might end up being crap. The movie has the potential to be either really, really good, or to be a repeat of the 2000 movie.
It doesn't look great to me. For one thing, Chris Pine is in it.
I learned PF2e in 20 minutes yesterday. Amazingly some of the rules differences actually work better with my table rules. Foundry and Roll20 and Startplaying.games are teaming up to give away PF2 core rules to any GM who runs a "Learn to Play" session between now and the end of February. Everyone is talking about PF2 and other systems. How about Mork Borg, that's really cool too.
Of course, I still have my AD&D books on the shelf right behind me, and I will be taking them to Gary Con to play old school D&D in March.
D&D will never die, but WotC can, whatever. Hope and Light!
While we're on the topic, the movie looks great so far, and I for one am excited to watch it. The CGI looks incredible and the setting is awesome. My only worry is that the writing might end up being crap. The movie has the potential to be either really, really good, or to be a repeat of the 2000 movie.
Yep, I'll also try to see it - on a ticket for a different movie.
Isn't that illegal?
As the title tells us, there can be "Honour Among Thieves". =D Maybe I just won't see it but, otherwise, I'd like to keep up support for my local cinema.
<Looks at the wall of D&D books behind me going back to AD&D, the multi-year 5E campaign I've been running, the fact that I bought 98% of the digital content on D&DBeyond >
While we're on the topic, the movie looks great so far, and I for one am excited to watch it. The CGI looks incredible and the setting is awesome. My only worry is that the writing might end up being crap. The movie has the potential to be either really, really good, or to be a repeat of the 2000 movie.
It doesn't look great to me. For one thing, Chris Pine is in it.
Never heard of him. Is he a bad actor?
He was Capt. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot. And Steve Rogers in Wonder Woman.
<Looks at the wall of D&D books behind me going back to AD&D, the multi-year 5E campaign I've been running, the fact that I bought 98% of the digital content on D&DBeyond >
<Looks at what WOTC/Hasbro has done>
Yeah, I feel good about this.
IMO, PF2e is an alternative to 5e. But it is not a good alternative for everyone. And don't get me wrong, I've been playing PF for years and I like it. And its second edition greatly debugs a system that already worked well. But the gaming experience is different from what 5e proposes.
I also think that for many people discovering PF will be a find, since I see people (in this forum for example) asking for things for 5e that are in PF. But for a large mass of 5e players, PF will be excessively crunchy.
I think that an awakened company could take a big leap if it designs a system in the spirit of 5e, and whose adaptation from 5e is almost automatic. I imagine that right now there are many thinking minds with that goal. It is the ideal moment to do it.
<Looks at the wall of D&D books behind me going back to AD&D, the multi-year 5E campaign I've been running, the fact that I bought 98% of the digital content on D&DBeyond >
<Looks at what WOTC/Hasbro has done>
Yeah, I feel good about this.
IMO, PF2e is an alternative to 5e. But it is not a good alternative for everyone. And don't get me wrong, I've been playing PF for years and I like it. And its second edition greatly debugs a system that already worked well. But the gaming experience is different from what 5e proposes.
I also think that for many people discovering PF will be a find, since I see people (in this forum for example) asking for things for 5e that are in PF. But for a large mass of 5e players, PF will be excessively crunchy.
I think that an awakened company could take a big leap if it designs a system in the spirit of 5e, and whose adaptation from 5e is almost automatic. I imagine that right now there are many thinking minds with that goal. It is the ideal moment to do it.
Yeah, I've tried out PF1e before the whole OGL thing, and it seems needlessly detailed and numbers-y. It gets to the point that you're not even really playing a roleplaying game, as much a glorified wargame.
Pathfinder is definitely fun, but not the same kind as D&D.
While we're on the topic, the movie looks great so far, and I for one am excited to watch it. The CGI looks incredible and the setting is awesome. My only worry is that the writing might end up being crap. The movie has the potential to be either really, really good, or to be a repeat of the 2000 movie.
It doesn't look great to me. For one thing, Chris Pine is in it.
Never heard of him. Is he a bad actor?
He was Capt. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot. And Steve Rogers in Wonder Woman.
Still have no idea who this guy is lol, I'll just google it
<Looks at the wall of D&D books behind me going back to AD&D, the multi-year 5E campaign I've been running, the fact that I bought 98% of the digital content on D&DBeyond >
<Looks at what WOTC/Hasbro has done>
Yeah, I feel good about this.
I watched a video on that box set.. So much goodness packed in there!
Art for every NPC! Colored coded dice that match the colors in the guide book!
Did you see the full color character sheets? And the sweet laminated dry erase fold out map?
Compare that to the the disappointing new starter set that WotC has foisted on us with 2 thin little books and 5 black and white pregen sheets (Great for photocopying on the old Xerox at Dad's work?) I was given the newest of the 5e Starter Sets for Christmas. My wife asked if I had seen it, and I said "Oh I will probably have to pick that up some time," so she thoughtfully got it for me behind my back and gave it to me for Christmas. I haven't opened it yet. I am thinking of returning it for credit to get that beginner's box.
Kinda sad about all of this, the grief is starting to set in. I went shopping today, and stopped into Barnes and Noble, and a games store near the mall, but all the D&D branded stuff made me sad. The B&N only had a few odd Pathfinder books left, none of the main books or adventures. The game store didn't have any Paizo books that I could see, so I asked, and I think they are going to start carrying them though according to the chatter I overheard because I wasn't the only one, there were other people asking too and saying stuff about looking for alternatives. I bought the 4 boxes of Pathfinder minis.
But it was sad to see all the cool D&D stuff that I can no longer bring myself to purchase. <tear rolling down my cheek>
The new OGL 2.0 is designed to turn WoTC into a sort of Marvel comics company. I hear it's a popular corporate model, and it's all about legal ownership. Where they own an IP and they can create products that sell because of the brand. Toys, minis, and especially digital content, video games, DNDB, VTTs, and AND no one else. Period. Now, they have to make the brand popular enough one needs to sell, well, like Marvel does. Hey, good luck on betting the popularity of the new D&D movie and tv show might produce all that IP cash. And thus investors invest and make the company rich, yay! Oh but the core rules and adventures exist only to maintain the IP.
I'm 100% sure there have been board meetings with D&D but the & is replaced with a $.
Ouch! Probably! I'd like to see that "faked slide."
Speaking of presentations, I still wonder about those "fake" slides. I was always suspicious of the statement made at that time by a community manager of Dndbeyond, who never posts, but suddenly came out with this very careful statement: "The content of this slide did not come from Wizards of the Coast and doesn’t reflect any current plan. "
Note, it was not called out as fake, or a hoax. Just that it did not come from WotC. I believe it was in fact a real slide from a presentation in Rhode Island, Hasbro's headquarters. Hmmmm... presentation that community manager plausibly didn't know about, and since it wasn't at WotC and it wasn't a plan WotC people knew about (YET.) That is how you build plausible deniability. I think that those leaked D&DBeyond slides from August were in fact the plan being rolled out in front of Hasbro investors or execs and are totally legit. And I'd really like to see the ones which replaced the & with the $ because you gotta know someone woulda thunk that was a funny.
You seem to have a very narrow focus. Most of my friends who play D&D don't pay attention to the larger community. They play using the base rules as a starting point and create their own campaigns in their own worlds. Some of them have even created entirely new mechanics, to the point that they're more accurately playing a D20 game than D&D. D&D will survive, even if it is just the most famous form of the larger d20 tabletop gaming genre.
So based on that slide does it mean that they won't sell the digital stuff anymore, just a subscription that gives all the content? Or that you have to have a subscription to access any purchased content you already own?
It looks like that slide has been out since august, and was supposedly debunked a while ago. I'm suspicious of Hasbro, but I know the WotC employees (Not C-Level) are dedicated to making a great game.
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Isn't that illegal?
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Never heard of him. Is he a bad actor?
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Really? Dang I gotta get to my Roll20 account.
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As the title tells us, there can be "Honour Among Thieves". =D
Maybe I just won't see it but, otherwise, I'd like to keep up support for my local cinema.
Just ordered my Pathfinder beginners box.
<Looks at the wall of D&D books behind me going back to AD&D, the multi-year 5E campaign I've been running, the fact that I bought 98% of the digital content on D&DBeyond >
<Looks at what WOTC/Hasbro has done>
Yeah, I feel good about this.
He was Capt. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot. And Steve Rogers in Wonder Woman.
IMO, PF2e is an alternative to 5e. But it is not a good alternative for everyone. And don't get me wrong, I've been playing PF for years and I like it. And its second edition greatly debugs a system that already worked well. But the gaming experience is different from what 5e proposes.
I also think that for many people discovering PF will be a find, since I see people (in this forum for example) asking for things for 5e that are in PF. But for a large mass of 5e players, PF will be excessively crunchy.
I think that an awakened company could take a big leap if it designs a system in the spirit of 5e, and whose adaptation from 5e is almost automatic. I imagine that right now there are many thinking minds with that goal. It is the ideal moment to do it.
Yeah, I've tried out PF1e before the whole OGL thing, and it seems needlessly detailed and numbers-y. It gets to the point that you're not even really playing a roleplaying game, as much a glorified wargame.
Pathfinder is definitely fun, but not the same kind as D&D.
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Still have no idea who this guy is lol, I'll just google it
Edit: still doesn't ring any bells
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PF2E would solve most of the problems that people complain about in the Rules forum - especially regarding lots of well-defined terms.
Art for every NPC!
Colored coded dice that match the colors in the guide book!
Did you see the full color character sheets?
And the sweet laminated dry erase fold out map?
Compare that to the the disappointing new starter set that WotC has foisted on us with 2 thin little books and 5 black and white pregen sheets (Great for photocopying on the old Xerox at Dad's work?) I was given the newest of the 5e Starter Sets for Christmas. My wife asked if I had seen it, and I said "Oh I will probably have to pick that up some time," so she thoughtfully got it for me behind my back and gave it to me for Christmas. I haven't opened it yet. I am thinking of returning it for credit to get that beginner's box.
Kinda sad about all of this, the grief is starting to set in. I went shopping today, and stopped into Barnes and Noble, and a games store near the mall, but all the D&D branded stuff made me sad.
The B&N only had a few odd Pathfinder books left, none of the main books or adventures. The game store didn't have any Paizo books that I could see, so I asked, and I think they are going to start carrying them though according to the chatter I overheard because I wasn't the only one, there were other people asking too and saying stuff about looking for alternatives. I bought the 4 boxes of Pathfinder minis.
But it was sad to see all the cool D&D stuff that I can no longer bring myself to purchase. <tear rolling down my cheek>
Ouch! Probably! I'd like to see that "faked slide."
Speaking of presentations, I still wonder about those "fake" slides.
I was always suspicious of the statement made at that time by a community manager of Dndbeyond, who never posts, but suddenly came out with this very careful statement:
"The content of this slide did not come from Wizards of the Coast and doesn’t reflect any current plan. "
Note, it was not called out as fake, or a hoax. Just that it did not come from WotC. I believe it was in fact a real slide from a presentation in Rhode Island, Hasbro's headquarters.
Hmmmm... presentation that community manager plausibly didn't know about, and since it wasn't at WotC and it wasn't a plan WotC people knew about (YET.) That is how you build plausible deniability.
I think that those leaked D&DBeyond slides from August were in fact the plan being rolled out in front of Hasbro investors or execs and are totally legit.
And I'd really like to see the ones which replaced the & with the $ because you gotta know someone woulda thunk that was a funny.
Source:
https://www.geeknative.com/145599/dd-beyond-deny-price-rise-and-leaked-slides/
Hope and light to you all!
<cackle>
You seem to have a very narrow focus. Most of my friends who play D&D don't pay attention to the larger community. They play using the base rules as a starting point and create their own campaigns in their own worlds. Some of them have even created entirely new mechanics, to the point that they're more accurately playing a D20 game than D&D. D&D will survive, even if it is just the most famous form of the larger d20 tabletop gaming genre.
So based on that slide does it mean that they won't sell the digital stuff anymore, just a subscription that gives all the content? Or that you have to have a subscription to access any purchased content you already own?
It looks like that slide has been out since august, and was supposedly debunked a while ago. I'm suspicious of Hasbro, but I know the WotC employees (Not C-Level) are dedicated to making a great game.