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Pipe of Punditry

Simple, well-worn, unadorned pipe. Can be used normally. When the command word is spoken, fills with a random pipe weed of varying quality. While in use, the smoker can write, and even transcribe spells,  at an accelerated pace. Usable up to 4 hours a day. Once per week they may also create a spell scroll of any spell known without using components in it's creation. But with each use, there is a 1 in 20 cumulative chance that the user will feel compelled to go to the nearest town square, tavern or other meeting place and spout off about local politics and the current ruling class or specific individuals. They may talk about what ever they want but it will always be what they truly believe, for good or for ill. Stories claim more than one major conflict as been linked to this pipe.

Someone, for the love of God, do better.

The main side effects of the pipe is a compulsion to relate what you are smoking and drinking and the pipe draws any animal companions into your work area where they tend to cause delays in the research.

Excellent!

Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Can you post a link to what Tom Kask said. I would be interested in reading/seeing it.

Quote from: Theory of Games on October 16, 2021, 08:34:18 PM
Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Advantage wasn't all me. I didn't come up with the concept. But at one point they weren't sure if they should even keep it, or if they should just use it in a very limited way, or only for advantage and not disadvantage, and mix it with a bunch of regular bonuses and penalties. I was the one who made clear that it was the defining rule of that edition, and they should use advantage and disadvantage for everything.

Quote from: Theory of Games on October 16, 2021, 08:34:18 PM
Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Because people of low ability despise people of greater ability.  And have a pathological need to prove that they aren't inferior, even when everything they produce simply proves what they are railing against even more strongly.  See "Jeremy Crawford" for an example...

Quote from: Theory of Games on October 16, 2021, 08:34:18 PM
Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Worth noting that there were 6 consultants besides Zak and Pundit. Jeff Grubb, Kenneth Hite, Kevin Kulp, Robin Laws, S. John Ross, and Vincent Venturella.

Quote from: Mind Crime on October 16, 2021, 02:12:25 PM
Pipe of Punditry

Post of Sycophancy

Quote from: Abraxus on October 16, 2021, 09:08:05 PM
Can you post a link to what Tom Kask said. I would be interested in reading/seeing it.

If it's this video, then I think it starts at around 1:50 or a bit later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXfloHKx0ag

Quote from: Tubesock Army on October 17, 2021, 02:39:14 PM

Quote from: Theory of Games on October 16, 2021, 08:34:18 PM
Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Worth noting that there were 6 consultants besides Zak and Pundit. Jeff Grubb, Kenneth Hite, Kevin Kulp, Robin Laws, S. John Ross, and Vincent Venturella.

As far as I know, of all 8 people on that list, I was the only one who exchanged about 400 emails over many months of work directly with Mike Mearls on various meticulous steps about how to make the new edition.

Quote from: RPGPundit on October 18, 2021, 03:54:43 PM

Quote from: Tubesock Army on October 17, 2021, 02:39:14 PM

Quote from: Theory of Games on October 16, 2021, 08:34:18 PM
Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Worth noting that there were 6 consultants besides Zak and Pundit. Jeff Grubb, Kenneth Hite, Kevin Kulp, Robin Laws, S. John Ross, and Vincent Venturella.

As far as I know, of all 8 people on that list, I was the only one who exchanged about 400 emails over many months of work directly with Mike Mearls on various meticulous steps about how to make the new edition.

"As far as [you] know" indeed. DId Mearls include you in his correspondences with the others, or are you just WAGing here?

Quote from: Godfather Punk on October 17, 2021, 02:59:23 PM
If it's this video, then I think it starts at around 1:50 or a bit later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXfloHKx0ag

Because it is unclear in the video - this is Kask's statement:

https://www.facebook.com/tim.kask.9/posts/4197049260404312

Quote from: Tim Kask throwing down like a Boss=topic=44069.msg1193392#msg1193392 date=1634430858
So, a new Ed. is coming in 2024. Good for them; I hope it sells jillions of copies.
D&D lives on, evolving. I am delighted.
I won't be buying or playing/running it. Let me explain myself....
I was a midwife to OD&D as well as 1st Ed. AD&D. That is what I still play as I have felt no need to "update", ever. I like what I have and am doing.
Look what the baby has grown into, look at how many people are playing.
Others have felt differently and WotC has fed the demand, not always well.
But it is still that baby I helped birth.
Now we are being accused of ridiculous charges: "______ race represents________ in a demeaning fashion."  "______is really_____" and so on.
None of this is true.
I hated Literature classes that nit-picked books for "symbolism". How can we know that a certain author was hiding stuff in his writing that were "really____"?
Now the baying pack is attributing stuff,  in the light of 50 years of societal changes, that distorts the truth. We simply mirrored the zeitgeist of the current fantasy market and past fantasy literature archives.
I make no apologies as I don't feel that my contributions to the creation of AD&D had any such hidden meanings that are now attributed to us by the woke crowd.**

**It has been pointed out that I have used a term now considered a pejorative. So, from now on instead of referring to folks as "w**e" I will simply refer to them as the "New Interpretationists" (NI's) or "Hidden Symbolism Where None Exists Mob". (HSWNEM's)

His comment section has some comedy gold as well... I swear some of these SJWs must routinely review comments from the old guard to see if they can find anything to cancel them over.

Kask seems like someone would be a great guest on inappropriate characters.

Quote from: RPGPundit on October 18, 2021, 03:54:43 PM

Quote from: Tubesock Army on October 17, 2021, 02:39:14 PM

Quote from: Theory of Games on October 16, 2021, 08:34:18 PM
Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Worth noting that there were 6 consultants besides Zak and Pundit. Jeff Grubb, Kenneth Hite, Kevin Kulp, Robin Laws, S. John Ross, and Vincent Venturella.

As far as I know, of all 8 people on that list, I was the only one who exchanged about 400 emails over many months of work directly with Mike Mearls on various meticulous steps about how to make the new edition.

Yeah, I'm sure the others just took the money and said, "Deuces", while you singlehandedly and heroically saved D&D from the storygaming swine. And then everyone stood up and clapped. Totally plausible story.

Quote from: HappyDaze on October 18, 2021, 04:16:46 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on October 18, 2021, 03:54:43 PM

Quote from: Tubesock Army on October 17, 2021, 02:39:14 PM

Quote from: Theory of Games on October 16, 2021, 08:34:18 PM
Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Worth noting that there were 6 consultants besides Zak and Pundit. Jeff Grubb, Kenneth Hite, Kevin Kulp, Robin Laws, S. John Ross, and Vincent Venturella.

As far as I know, of all 8 people on that list, I was the only one who exchanged about 400 emails over many months of work directly with Mike Mearls on various meticulous steps about how to make the new edition.

"As far as [you] know" indeed. DId Mearls include you in his correspondences with the others, or are you just WAGing here?

Given the length of our work together and how much influence it had on the product, it would stand to reason that if anyone else was making similar contributions Mike would have told me about what they were suggesting; he did on occasion mention someone else's ideas (not necessarily just other "consultants") so if one or more of them was doing the level of work on it I was that person would have to have been namedropped constantly.
The fact that this did not happen means that either Mike was not working with those other guys at the same level as me, unless he was just taking credit for their ideas I guess, though I don't think that's likely either.

Quote from: RPGPundit on October 20, 2021, 07:29:04 PM

Quote from: HappyDaze on October 18, 2021, 04:16:46 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on October 18, 2021, 03:54:43 PM

Quote from: Tubesock Army on October 17, 2021, 02:39:14 PM

Quote from: Theory of Games on October 16, 2021, 08:34:18 PM
Tim Kask, 2nd employee of TSR and editor of the original Dragon Magazine, gave WoTC two strong fingers this week. And I agree.

WotC seems so determined to destroy the TSR era ... it's become adversarial. Kask and a few others were there writing for TSR & Dragon & the WotC stafff seems to be going out of their way to vilify the original creators of D&D.

It's ugly. Like a FKD-UP divorce. The OSR went their own way and in reaction, WoTC attacked the OSR with the Twitterati. According to Twitter, the OSR is the vicious Bigfoot ripping helpless campers to pieces.

But 5e D&D is finally dwindling.

Now what WotC? You had Pundit and Zak help you with this last edition (wasn't Advantage ALL Pundit? Wasn't the more narrative background elements ALL Zach?)

What if WoTC had to create their own edition? Like ..... 4th?

Worth noting that there were 6 consultants besides Zak and Pundit. Jeff Grubb, Kenneth Hite, Kevin Kulp, Robin Laws, S. John Ross, and Vincent Venturella.

As far as I know, of all 8 people on that list, I was the only one who exchanged about 400 emails over many months of work directly with Mike Mearls on various meticulous steps about how to make the new edition.

"As far as [you] know" indeed. DId Mearls include you in his correspondences with the others, or are you just WAGing here?

Given the length of our work together and how much influence it had on the product, it would stand to reason that if anyone else was making similar contributions Mike would have told me about what they were suggesting; he did on occasion mention someone else's ideas (not necessarily just other "consultants") so if one or more of them was doing the level of work on it I was that person would have to have been namedropped constantly.
The fact that this did not happen means that either Mike was not working with those other guys at the same level as me, unless he was just taking credit for their ideas I guess, though I don't think that's likely either.

I suppose we could reach out to the other consultants and ask them how much Mike mentioned working with you to them. It could be that Mike just kept his channels separate so that he could consider multiple points of view without them muddying one another. If that's the case, then only Mike could say for sure.