One of the OSR Oldfags confess that their Temu D&D can't be done as a boxed set anymore.
Boxed sets are stupid.
Shut up and stick to books. Maps and so on can be published digitally and made available for home printing or as Print On Demand.
FUCK OFF-SET PRINTING! You're a joke pretending to be a business; you do not have the capacity to absorb that cost. POD exists; use it exclusively for print products.
Or, maybe, you can stop pretending at all and just do this as a self-funded hobby and not worry about all this crap.
Blizzard is Big Corpo. They answer to their parents, who in turn answer to Private Equity and PE gets assmad over anything at all resembling a Brand Risk.
Having seen several of the names people come up with, oversensitivity to Brand Risk must have had a fainting spell or 42 over the last few days. Slurs, pro-Commie faggotry, and more go on without issue; it's only those left of Mao or otherwise disliked by the mods. (Someone go for "Izzat Juggaad" and see what happens.)
Hell, I still remember when I got forcibly logged out just because some faggot didn't like that I named my Hunter's pet Gorilla "Harambe" (it was a white Gorilla too).
Therefore, shitposting via names must be done with subtlty and a bit of class. This is not the game of Tiggole Bitties anymore, and it hasn't been for many years.
The shill channels are cutting videos on the new WOW tie-in book for Official Edition.
Told you that this was a defacto merger strat. Now you're seeing it in action.
You can expect more of this when the Mouse Wars book hits.
The Networks are merging.
The end goal is that THERE IS ONE ENTERTAINMENT MONOCULTURE where all IP engagement is corpo-controlled across ALL media.
People refuse to look past their own noses, so I won't be surprised to see people being unable to comprehend this being the objective, but it is.
WOW Forever pioneeers official controller support for the MMO. That can be done with a Steam Deck, which means it's a half-step away from being playable on mobile.
Tabletop, via Official Edition, is also moving to being playable on mobile.
The mobile app for Official Edition is a few years away. The merging of the two games into a single property briding over multiple media is even further away, but it is now clearly on the table; Fortnite paved the way, and this is the next step in that same business model.
I underestimated how bad the commercial side of the cataclysm that came upon the Cargo Cult is, and how devastating this damage shall shake out to be.
The legend returns. This man couldn't be bothered to stay with Retail all this time, and he wasn't around much for the Classic releases, but here he is now for this.
Yes, the memes flowed.
But if someone who, now middle-aged, is willing to come back into the public sphere then there's sufficient enthusiasm to carry the launch forward into the long-tail business model that Blizzard promised.
Reports out of the Beta confirm that this edition of the game is sufficiently changed to make this no-FOMO, no-GOGOGO play paradigm practical and achievable. Explicit shutdowns of whines by Retail Andys about things in the Classic vein, coupled with implementation of systems that guarantee economic stability via strong gold sinks (Black Market Auction House) and solid price ceilings (vendors selling rare materials at a fixed gold cost, making it impossible to corner the market on them to jack up the price- no more Devilsaur Mafia bullshit).
I am impressed with what's there so far. I even think Air Elves are going to be fine, especially if they do tie them into the Thunderfury story somehow.
I'll put up a longer thinkpiece on this video at another time, but for now know that the woman who exposed Lester Del Ray as the man who made "Fantasy" a thing has a new (and very good) video- especially if you have children or grand-children under your care.
I may narrow this down into something for gaming in particular, since there is so much remedial work that needs to be done.
Do note that other language cultures have works of similar seminal status; if you're in or of that world, adjust the plan proffered above accordingly.
Your annual reminder that Kawamori somehow pulled off this "inspiration".
And no, this is not one of the times that the "cover" is better than the original. Cuteness only goes so far, and damn did Minori turn up the cute for this.
