Hi, I am new around these parts. I hope entering here and posting sth  w/o a big introduction is okay. Rowan Rook and Decard entered a new low and call to violence in their newest "output". Violence against "Nazis" w/o defining what and who that is - openly advising people to do violence against former friends or even next of kin. The game is called "Eat the Reich" and is supposed to be a fun romp about hunting Wehrmacht bigwigs in Paris in the 40ies, but alas, after a few pages, this disclaimer comes:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fragmentskies/182637077

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/azazelslibrary/skies-of-ralabourne-dandd-5e-source-book-and-adventure

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Because you demanded it! You can now get a form-fillable character sheet for Baptism of Fire, on DTRPG!
#osr #dnd #ttrpg


https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/479603/baptism-of-fire-character-sheet

Quote from: Crazy_Blue_Haired_Chick on May 06, 2024, 01:32:13 PMI checked Drive Thru RPG, and it's still featured on the front page.

I know that there is a lot of trash that won't sell more than 10 copies on that site but it's still an accomplishment either way.

It's a pretty huge accomplishment. It's been rushing through bestseller tiers much faster than any of my previous books. Next stop, Gold!

Quote from: WERDNA on May 06, 2024, 01:09:10 AMPundit, unless you've fixed it there is an issue of remaining L&D text in the magical items:

"51-52 Hermit's Robes: Albion has a long
tradition of many saintly monks and holy
men and women who retired to live the lives
of hermits. These holy men's vestments
(usually plain wool or sack-cloth)..."

Anons on 4ch also pointed out capitalization is inconsistent in the demonic powers section.

Purtoks seem to missing their alignment.

Yikes. Obviously, some of the items that were equally applicable to both settings were cut/paste, and I thought I'd caught most setting references, but obviously some have slipped through. It doesn't help that apparently DTPRG published an earlier edit of the game rather than the later one that was submitted afterward.

Purtoks are obviously Chaotic.

Quote from: hedgehobbit on May 06, 2024, 08:41:16 PM

Quote from: jhkim on May 06, 2024, 03:34:07 PMIn general, I think originality is overrated and execution underrated. In classic Hollywood, there were 44 Charlie Chan movies and 36 Abbot & Costello movies. Roy Rogers starred in over a hundred singing cowboy movies. Going back further, Shakespeare was far from original - most of his works were remakes of prior plots.

These were the days before television and DVDs so movie series took that roll. However, even those extreme examples prove a point. Charlie Chan was in 44 movies during a period of 20 years (1929-1949). Abbott & Costello were in movies for 16 years (1940-1956). But today we have franchises making new content that are 40 or 50 years old, or even longer with Star Trek being 58.

So 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 agree that they are milking IP for more decades now, but that's not a measure of originality of the studios. Obviously in the 1940s, feature film franchises couldn't have been going for 40 or 50 years, because feature films hadn't been around for that long. Also, the length of copyright has been extended, which has enabled keeping IP for longer.

In the classic era, there were still 40+ year franchises, they just weren't purely in film by necessity. The Wizard of Oz was published in 1900 - and had over a dozen stage and film adaptations before the 1939 MGM musical film. Similarly, Peter Pan was published in 1904 and again frequented stage and radio long before the 1953 Disney animated film. Fu Manchu was published first in 1913 with popular adapations in the 1930s through 1960s. Sherlock Holmes started in 1887 and has had hundreds of adaptations continuously into the 21st century.

Movie studios have had their ups and downs and different phases, but there's always been tons of exploitation and formulaic productions. Even in films that weren't technically a series could be highly formulaic. I love Fred Astaire musicals and Errol Flynn swashbuckling, say, but most of them don't get any points for originality. The current spate of superhero movies since 2008 is annoying, but it's quite parallel to the dominance of westerns for many decades. Looking back, people tend to only watch the most lauded films of each era - but every decade also had lots of forgettable and formulaic drek.

Quote from: Brigman on May 06, 2024, 12:20:59 PMEDIT: Refreshed the page and I did see it as an add in the "Hottest Small Publishers" banner strip, with a little green "own" flag across the top left corner (because I already bought it).

That's not an ad, just a ranking list. It's on there because people are buying it, not because money was spent for an ad. Which makes you wonder what the money spent on the ad actually bought.

Quote 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.

Quote from: jhkim on May 06, 2024, 03:34:07 PMIn general, I think originality is overrated and execution underrated. In classic Hollywood, there were 44 Charlie Chan movies and 36 Abbot & Costello movies. Roy Rogers starred in over a hundred singing cowboy movies. Going back further, Shakespeare was far from original - most of his works were remakes of prior plots.

These were the days before television and DVDs so movie series took that role. However, even those extreme examples prove a point. Charlie Chan was in 44 movies during a period of 20 years (1929-1949). Abbott & Costello were in movies for 16 years (1940-1956). But today we have franchises making new content that are 40 or 50 years old, or even longer with Star Trek being 58.

So even compared to the extremes of the past, we have entered an entirely new era of exploiting IP far beyond anything that came before.