When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, I asserted that it would cause the demise of many brick and mortar game shops. Locally, we've had two close down that I'm aware of. Armchair Adventure Games, which is south east of Cleveland is going out of business. It was out of the way for me so I …
Category: game business
Gary and Dave Didn’t Change Gaming by Working at Milton Bradley
If you want better games, you will have to make them.
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 are the tenant in a digital sharecropping scheme. By publishing on their platform with it's attendant licensing agreement, you are living on their land. You pay for that tenancy with your creative work. You make content and can only sell it on their platform if it uses …
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 couple of past games have gone down the road, a bit. Earthdawn had some gnarly monsters …
Grumpy Wizard 
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