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Category: game business
Rough Waters and Rougher Still to Come
Every few days we are getting bad news about different companies that produce products or or services in the table top gaming business. This will continue, indefinitely. Game stores in most states are now shut down. Ostensibly, those closings are temporary but many of them, sorry to say, will be permanent. Here in Ohio, our …
A Quick Update On “D&D is its own hobby.”
I posted this not so long ago and suggested that the bulk of ttrpg players/campaigns are D&D and then a tiny percentage of the hobby is "everything else." The notion being that the vast majority of people who have ever played a ttrpg have only ever played D&D. There is the hobby of playing D&D …
Dungeons and Dragons Is Its Own Hobby
D&D is a hobby all its own.
The DM’s Guild is Sharecropping
If you publish using DM's Guild you are sharecropping. By publishing on their platform with it's attendant licensing agreement, you are living on their land and growing crops. You paying for that tenancy with your creative work. There isn't anything wrong with that. In fact, it can be very positive for you if you are …
And This Is Why We Can’t Have Awful Things
I find it interesting how reluctant RPG companies and designers are to go into the depths of how human beings can be horrible to one another. There are a few like Lamentations of The Flame Princess that go there. A few in the past have gone down the road, a bit. Earthdawn had some gnarly monsters which existed …
Creative Cowardice
Eric Weinstein does math for a living. He's very good at it. He started a podcast recently and has had three fascinating conversations. I recommend it heartily. In this particular episode, he speaks with Werner Herzog. Werner, if you've never heard of him, makes films. He makes insanely good films. His version of Dracula is …
