Bob The World Faggot confesses the obvious.
NOT ONE WAS WORTH SHIT!
No, Hololive playing Faggotheart isn't going to change anything.
There is D&D and there is Nothing, so far as the commercial side goes and mostly true on the hobby side.
Just Play D&D.
Pundit talks WOTC and Mouse Wars.
Is he correct? Yes.
Will it matter? No.
This will do fine, despite itself, and satisfy WOTC and Disney's expectations. There's more than enough people who will get it, use it (some straight, some after modification), and be satisfied with it that condemnation will do nothing.
And once people realize that they can mix in WOW stuff with D&D and Mouse Wars, that's when It Gets Worse.
Me reading the plots of various actors in the Tower campaign, dramatized.
Yes, Mr. Stancil, it do be like that.
Jeffro made this observation about a Clubhouse article I posted on Monday.
Given what bullshitters like Grifting Beast, SuperPedoMike, and other of that sort are known to do I am not at all surprised that (a) using a real game and (b) letting the tools do the work makes all of their busking bullshit irrelevant.
You can see the workflows in the rules. They do create what Gygax promised when used as directed.
Been following the WOW Forever beta. The Roach King has been doing more practical testing than anyone else.
Asmongold is on record stating that he thinks Blizzard, at best, tolerates him.
They do need him, as they need all the streamers, but him more than everyone else due to his massive personal Network Effect. If he plays any MMO or similar game, that game sees sales and user engagement rocket off into the stratosphere.
For multiplayer in particular you need someone who can bring a massive network of users with him to stress the servers. Asmongold can and has done this, and he's doing this again now. Every day during this beta he's got 70K+ members in the various Olympus guilds (including Hoelympus, run by his girlfriend Kaise), and they stress the hell out of the servers all day every day.
In Tabletop, we all know of the Mercer Effect being one of the drivers driving the adoption of Current Edition. He is a streamer. Critical Role, and others like is, are all streamer shows. That they do this as a stunt event at cons shows the value of streamers for all entertainment now. STOP BEING DUMB ABOUT THIS!
This is what is required in pushing the needle. You ignore this at your peril.
Okay, an admin post.
Around the end of November, I'll have a Christmas Gift Guide post with store links and all that jazz. Should be live on Black Friday.
I'll have links to BROZER, UMBROS, Winning Secrets, How To Win and so on as you ought to expect out of me by now. If there's any others I ought to put in there, drop me a line privately with a store page link between now and Thanksgiving's Day (US version, so November).
Grim's not wrong here.
But, as I am certain he is aware, the workers HAVE NO LEVERAGE.
They can be, and will be, replaced as fast as possible regardless of what comes of this unionization effort. They have proven themselves to be a threat and a liability; they do nothing that cannot be done just as well, if not better, by others or by Super Intelligence. Therefore they WILL be replaced.
This is the same stupidity as we see in Anglophone voice acting circles, where unions are there to be Globohomo Death Cult fronts aimed at operators to keep the latter in line; it is no surprise that, like VAs being replaced by bots doing Machine Translation, these chucklefucks will get the boot and be replaced by something like this.
House Style Guide in Markdown text, coupled to a World Bible (ditto), can let WOTC churn out Endless Product for the cost of compute and only need human eyes to do QC checks before it goes to print. Get good enough at the validation loops and even that won't be needed.
That's what WOTC is going to see; don't be surprised to find C-Suite (which, now, is also Hasbro's C-Suite) quietly pivoting to adopting this now behind the scenes as they get ready to cut these boat anchors loose.
Get fucked, faggots. You deserve what's coming for you.
