Quote from: HappyDaze;1122456What I am saying is that the people that say there is too much violence in RPGs for their tastes are likely basing that off of the most typical play expectations of the most prevalent games today (D&D 5e and Pathfinder) rather than the non-game inspirations which have become quite dated and different at this point from the games they inspired.

Since when has RAW in any game stopped or prevented any GM from doing *what they want* with a game? When is it time for Billy to pull up his big-boy pants and run the game the way he wants to run it? And after an "appropriate" amount of time, when does Billy decide to make the game he wants to play?

As for making a business out of it... yeah Billy better find out if there is a market for his mousetrap. And if he doesn't have the juice to sell it and create that market... well I guess he's always got the internet to complain on. Welcome to reality, Billy.

Quote from: tenbones;1123090Since when has RAW in any game stopped or prevented any GM from doing *what they want* with a game? When is it time for Billy to pull up his big-boy pants and run the game the way he wants to run it? And after an "appropriate" amount of time, when does Billy decide to make the game he wants to play?

As for making a business out of it... yeah Billy better find out if there is a market for his mousetrap. And if he doesn't have the juice to sell it and create that market... well I guess he's always got the internet to complain on. Welcome to reality, Billy.

I'm not sure why you quoted me for that. I referred to commonly shared play expectations, not RAW. The expectations of D&D are not dependent upon the RAW, but rather the RAW will often be judged on how well it helps people play to those expectations.

Then you go on a tangent about Billy, and Billy is welcome run his game however he wants, but Billy is deluded if he thinks that carries any weight beyond his own table of players regardless of what pants he's wearing or if he's going balls-out.

Quote from: HappyDaze;1123095I'm not sure why you quoted me for that. I referred to commonly shared play expectations, not RAW. The expectations of D&D are not dependent upon the RAW, but rather the RAW will often be judged on how well it helps people play to those expectations.

Then you go on a tangent about Billy, and Billy is welcome run his game however he wants, but Billy is deluded if he thinks that carries any weight beyond his own table of players regardless of what pants he's wearing or if he's going balls-out.

I'm not criticizing you. I think it stuck out to me based on Brad's own posts.

I'm saying that HIS (Brad and those wanting non-violence in their games) desires for what he wants from a personal and marketing perspective are intertwined with the one thing under his control: the design. That's 100% under his control. You don't get to control what others do with your product. Likewise, I mention the RAW-thing because there is nothing explicit about most RPG's that force you to engage in in-game violence if you don't want to. And so it goes...

I put my rubbers on and read his posts on TBP - and yeah, he's whinging about the violence levels implicit in his own games... when I'm scratching my head, and wondering wtf was he thinking when designing his own product if its going to make him feel like this? Who is he trying to placate? The Murderhobos of the industry? "Please come play my non-violence-intended RPG... here I'll put scads of weapons in there to make you happy. Buy my game!"

I dunno it sounds like he's being disingenuous to himself - either he's now feeling this way for unclaimed reasons, or he's always felt this way, but burned himself out chasing too many marketing rabbits.

The reality is this IS a hobby-industry if you're not WotC. Find your demographic - and ATTAAAAACK. If you want to pretend your demo is far larger than it is - by all means commit economic suicide. Welcome to the jungle, I hope you learned your lesson, now get back in the saddle of reality (or don't). If you think you're going to chase disparate demographics and design against your *own* personal interests, and desires - you're setting yourself up.

As for Zweihander - from what I hear, Fox's non-stop marketing assault has worked *despite* his personality, and scumbag tactics. Personally I was very interested in Zweihander, but Fox himself turned me off from giving him my money. I don't think he cares much, since he seems to be doing just fine. Take from that what you will.

Gotta love how TBP influences here: they treat it like a funeral, then the dude chimes in to group-hug his mourners.

So, you can die AND eat the cake left on your grave.

"OH! He worked on blahblahblah so we need to pay homage to our beloved SJW because making money in the tabletop rpg industry is far too punitive!"

The fact that he even matters shows how TBP members have infiltrated this site.

F*** ALL of you.

How is posting this an example of TBP infiltrating this site?

It's a forum and chances are someone thought it was an interesting topic. Many times topics from here appear on that site and vice versa.  If because the same topic appears over at TBP is your proof that we are infiltrated by posters from there your fucked in the head and really don't have a clue do you.

While your at it you can go fuck you own mother TOG.

Quote from: sureshot;1123177While your at it you can go fuck you own mother TOG.

That's offensive. TOG will be offended that you're misusing your.

Quote from: sureshot;1123177While your at it you can go fuck you own mother TOG.

Leave his mom alone!

Use his uncle instead!

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Lol  been a long time since I heard or watch the movie.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1123074RPGPundit, do you feel Twitter or YouTube has done more for your sales? Can you track sales from either platform?

And now that G+ has been dead awhile, how is the MeWe OSR community doing?

I can't track sales, and I doubt my publishers can, in the sense of being able to say "purchase x comes from twitter" or something like that.

However, I very strongly think that it's Youtube that makes the most difference.  Some of my publishers have told me that each time I post a new video, there's a jump in sales.