Cult Of Games XLBS: The Big Bad Dungeon Master; Has The D&D Bubble Properly Popped?
January 15, 2023 by warzan
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Happy Sunday!
WotC is an absolute train-wreck. It managed to turn content creators and the community against it in a heartbeat. They are now saying what they released was a potential draft and no-one believes them. Even if it was only a draft, the damage is done and they have publicly said they want to monetise the community like they were video gamers. That’s GW talk. No-one expected it to come from WotC.
I can see ‘D&D Next’ falling flat, even if it is great just because of this very public mistake. I was already finding some of the ‘woke’ garbage they wanted to add totally unnecessary. Paizo/Pathfinder must be loving this. Personally I hope it leads to Cubicle7 getting more of the recognition it deserves (especially with Warhammer RPG). On Henry Cavill etc, the Witcher will die without him. The problem with the next Superman is that fans are over re-boots because directors don’t like what the previous one did. The Batman was good, but was a massive drop on revenue on… Read more »
It’s the XLBS Show……………..Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
As far as the WotC D&D implosion, I’ve been warning people not to build on the 5e system! Especially if you already have your own system. If you have your own system then no one can pull the rug out from under you. Only you can fubar yourself! Too many creative folks “went and got lazy” and tried to ride the Critical Role, Penny Arcade, ect, ect gravy train follower lemmings march. There are so many great systems out there. There is no need to blindly follow someone else’s choice just because some stars seem to be going that way.… Read more »
The WotC FUBAR has made me dig out my own homebrew RPG. It’s gone through countless iterations over the last 30 years (first version was very crunchy in early 1990’s) and the current version will be rules lite.
I had a look at the Modiphius ‘worlds’ stuff, but skimming the docs it’s apparent I would need to do so much editing to fit it to my setting that I might as well write my own rules.
Will I ever finish it? Who knows!
Will I play it for more that a couple of rules test? Dunno!
Will I publish it? Probably not!
I hope you continue to work on it. I’d look forward to reading through them if you published or just want another set of eyes looking them over. I’d even sign an NDA, (I’ve sign a few of those over the years). While I have always created my own adventure modules, (a complete world for low and high fantasy plus a Scifi Universe, which are all still moving along), I’ve never really set down and tried to create my own rules system. My adventure universes are really rules agnostic. The story has always been more important to me than the… Read more »
I write my own adventures because… 1) 1f I write it… I know the entire plot… 2) I don’t have to memorise stuff written by others… 3) I can pronouce the NPC’s and place names used… I do plunder pre-written adventures for maps etc… but the internet is a good source for that too. And there was something I read in Knights of the Dinner Table years ago that stuck in my mind… Two GM’s were talking and one asked “Where do you get all the plots for wild west games when there is so little for the system?” The… Read more »
Remember OGL? Well, after Hasbro bought WotC, Hasbro was thinking of dropping D&D because it wasn’t making money by Hasbro standards. What WotC found out was that the core books were selling — so they stopped putting out supplementary material, releasing the OGL license instead. OGL had plenty of chaff, but also wheat and stuff better than what WotC put out. However, WotC also shortened the edition cycle of D&D, meaning that they expected their audience would buy core books again and again. I haven’t been following D&D since 4e, so dunno about the “living edition” D&D. But I’d say… Read more »
The Amazon 40K series has the potential to damage GW and Cavil if it’s not done right. Amazon will pass it off as a series that didn’t work and move on to the next big thing. It’s a big risk for Cavil because if it turns out to be a big pile hot steaming dog mess he’ll be blamed for it. As for GW, hobbyists will just go oh well what did we expect after the Space Marine movie, the general public won’t be convinced to look at Games Workshop other than a geeky kids toyshop.
Itssss the XLBS nutters show.
Are you adding the podcast download?
Are you adding the podcast?
The warhammer + numbers is what the BBC would be like if they didn’t have the t.v.licence Gestapo officer’s because of the shite shows out now.
Look at the quality of the ?hellsreach? Fan film with time an the massive improvement of graphics.
Orks an gun/Whaaagh love ? ?
Helsreach.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nKMdHfOC7VQ
I feel like Loki after his dance with Hulk in avenger’s HQ most mornings.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=31ZjnrHR8EA
Warhammer 40K always seemed very Victorian/hungergames with most of the unwashed masses grinding away to survive.
As long as they tasted good Warren.
It’s a Punkasaurs @warzan
CONTROVERSIAL.
Future cars will be full size TCR with a button to change lanes.
No No you have to go back every 10/20 year’s to manage an thin the forest @warzan so they can grow properly.
On the subject of hardballing you haven’t been talking about GW harassment of a long time now. @warzan @Lloyd ? Or do they just let the wookie win.?
Release the gimp as Spartacus ? Lol.
Greed is the killer.
A fantastic informative show guy’s.
Sunday it is. 00:00 Double-whammy! 04:00 If you have coin @warzan has warez 04:30 Seen that on facepage… tried to forget it XD 05:40 Candy cane? That’s a bolt pistol 06:35 “finishing off” *Sigh* 08:00 Wallec and Grommit! 08:30 Games W’ankh-shop 12:45 This weeks XLBS is now known as XLSX 14:45 good point there @lloyd We should compare patreon subscribers or “YouTube Members” (or what ever that’s called) 16:35 “every one White Dwarf but only up to volume X” Pretty sure I remember being said that you can’t read older WD 19:45 “That project” – call it what it is… Read more »
Happy Sunday.
It nice to see both the brothers back, and everyone getting stuck in with the conversation.
What’s this games Workshop people keep talking about? Is it the place where people go and make games?
I think even if they go back on the changes for the open license this has given many companies which rely on this a rude awakening. There’s going to be some series thinking on ways forward not to tie their property’s in the thralls to another large company.
Lol, like Teddy Bear Workshop ?
I do enjoy seeing Warren getting stuck into the business side of the industry. Almost as much as I like seeing Gerry get stuck into a new t shirt ?
Gerry mentioned that there is a thing called GURPS but that does have drawbacks. Piggybacking on Warren’s analogy of software, GURPS is like LINUX. You need to know how the backbone works in order to make the thing you want as a player using that game engine. Without getting bogged down in details it is great for creative minds that custom craft a character to the Nth degree. It’s not a system you can pluck a pc off the shelf for a campaign if you found a random one to play in. The forays into things like VtM back in… Read more »
The revolution has already happened and the customers have driven the backlash!
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/13/hasbro-delays-new-dungeons-dragons-licensing-rules.html
It reads well enough for a non-gamer audience of normies. Its almost February and The Event has waned enough to allow people to meet in-person. Its time to revive Snag-a- Normie. Gear up, move out, take the uninitiated by storm!
Press release today: ——————— Free League Develops Two New Open Game Licenses Free League Publishing today announced the development of two new Open Game Licenses (OGL). One is a rework of the Year Zero Engine OGL, the other a new license specifically designed for third-party modules for the upcoming Dragonbane fantasy RPG. The work on these new licenses was initiated last year, but was intensified after the news regarding the update of Wizards of the Coasts’ OGL v1.0, on which the Year Zero Engine (YZE) license was based. “It’s clear that it is high time for Free League to have… Read more »