Quote from: yosemitemike on May 06, 2024, 05:37:09 AMI have discovered that there are two D&D-related tabletop rpgs called Baptism of Fire available on DTRPG and that the two games are not at all similar to each other. Anyway, the Polish one has already sold more copies than a large majority of products on DTRPG will sell in their entire lifespans. I am also reminded of the dismal fact that something like 70% of all products on DTRPG will not reach 51 copies sold and only 201 out of over 100,000 products have sold 501 copies or more.
Quote from: RPGPundit on May 07, 2024, 09:21:04 PMI don't know how "depressing" it is, it's just par for the course with publishing. Look at Amazon, see how many books they have, and then realize just how many books barely sold anything. In almost every category.
Quote from: cavalier973 on May 09, 2024, 08:22:37 AMAlso, why are we not getting a miniature of the adventurers on the front of the Moldvay and Cook/Marsh boxes?
Quote from: hedgehobbit on Today at 10:32:55 AMQuote from: HappyDaze on May 06, 2024, 09:08:10 PMQuote from: hedgehobbit on May 06, 2024, 08:41:16 PMSo even compared to the extremes of the past, we have entered an entirely new era of exploiting IP far beyond anything that came before.
I don't think "exploiting" is necessarily the right term.
Maybe I should use the term that Bob Iger used in his recent earning call and talk about "an entirely new era of mining IP"
I do find it odd that the people who defend these mega corporations care more about the IP being mined for content than the people actually running the corporations. My motto has recently become "If they don't care about it, I don't care about it."
https://nypost.com/2024/05/07/entertainment/bob-iger-mining-comment-reveals-all-you-need-to-know-about-sorry-state-of-disney/
Quote from: jhkim on Today at 02:20:07 AMIn the spirit of arguing on the internet, that's a totally different outfit. There are way more differences than similarities.Quote from: rytrasmi on May 09, 2024, 03:30:17 PMIt's obviously a man. No self-respecting woman would wear that outfit.
I think it's the stance more than the outfit that makes the figure look unfeminine. The stance is what I judged most for why I interpreted the original image as a man. I think posed differently, even in the same armor/clothing, no one would have commented. Here's a similarly-dressed mini:
https://ironwindmetals.com/index.php/categories/cat-battletech/cat-bt-rgm/product/fantasy-player-character-03-056/category_pathway-2
There have been lots of minis in women fighters in armor. Especially since there's little detail in the face possible, the two main ways to signal being a woman are (1) a prominent bust, and (2) the pose/stance.
Quote from: jeff37923 on Today at 10:54:59 AMI just have to wonder if they think that any of this woke retconning is going to help sales at all.