I think almost everyone was on the train at the beginning. But soon you could see that there was something very wrong. I bought very few comics between 1995-2000. I think maybe when Bane broke Bruce’s back was one of the last things I was into. G.I.Joe was cancelled. Just not much excited me until the millennium.
Dont' forget those gatefoil hologram covers!
You are talking about it. We don’t want to talk about it. I‘m asking you not to bring that up again, please.
Did you go to Vegas and have a hypnotist wipe all memory of everthing WotC?
As an RPG 4e wasn't good but I think it could have done a fine job as a campaign-style miniature skirmish or board game.
Same here. I would buy G.I. Joe at the convenience store down the street. Like you, I probably would never discovered them in the first place had they been a comic book store exclusive.
Why? The OGL is what did 4e in. It allowed a competitor to keep publishing an older edition, thus allowing the fanbase to keep with their old games.
Folk keep on saying that, but 5e and Pathfinder are still mining it for ideas today, along with some fairly well-regarded indies like 13th Age and Lancer. Given how focus grouped early 5e in particular was, I think WotC in particular wouldn't have hesitated to drop any mechanics it inherited from 4e if they weren't being accepted, like the more dynamic version of the Fighter.
wtf is ESPN?
I liked it too, but that doesn’t change the fact that they put it opposite NYPD Blue, and it’s ratings sucked.
Oh sports, that explains why I was oblivious. Googling it, I see it's actually Dutch. Oh well, Disney can have it.
DM sent.
Folk who wanted the 3.x style of play had Pathfinder. There were fewer folk who wanted to stick with the 4e style, but they had 13th Age as well as putting out their own games. Folk who wanted to write for 5e also had an accessible entry path through DM's Guild.
That’s because 4e fundamentally changed from D&D, becoming unrecognisable as a variant to so many. Given the choice of “No Longer Published by WotC D&D” and “Not D&D”, they made the natural choice and Paizo ruled the roost until 5e.
Hey now, I know you’re not shitting on Francis. He’s a minion! Francis is awesome.
Well, that is a central tenet of some world religions, indeed...and of some kinds of GMs, too, accidentally
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I know, I was just adding “emphasis”.
Two reasons from what I can tell. First, they claimed to 'retract' the OGL (Which they legally can't, but never underestimate people's gullibility and unwillingness to actual check facts, even in a cursory manner), and second they marketed it on going 'back to it's roots' but modernizing them.
It's not. But the average person doesn't know this.
