tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34834473.post746103910699806078..comments2023-08-28T08:23:06.845-04:00Comments on Scrolls of the PlatinumWarlock: In Which The Warlock Becomes a Doomsayer...A.P. Kloskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719352533858966154noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34834473.post-91525166086902043512010-11-18T15:29:16.244-05:002010-11-18T15:29:16.244-05:00Good points, all around, guys. I appreciate the f...Good points, all around, guys. I appreciate the feedback.<br /><br />I would like to clarify--I'm not necessarily saying that WotC or D&D will fail. Certainly, I don't want it to--D&D's been my drug of choice for years now, and I'd like to to be for years to come.<br /><br />However, if the worst were to happen, the continual failures in the Digital Initiative seem to be the biggest contributor at this stage. I'm still massively dissatisfied with the online-only CB, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.<br /><br />I will, however, continue playing D&D. I like the books, and will use them. I like the downloadable CB, and am still using it even as I'm writing this. <br /><br />Believe it or not, I am somewhat happy that the OGL was cancelled. The vast majority of OGL properties were really garbage, and for each Spycraft or Ravenloft that were printed, you got 5 or 10 books that were imbalanced, poorly edited, and uncreative. While it limits the number of gamers writing, the overall quality of products across the industry has gone up since the OGL was revoked.<br /><br />Right now, I'm just wishing that WotC would have simply kept on the same horse--using the offline builder--or at least put forward tools on a regular basis that fulfilled their original design intent (and their promises).<br /><br />Cheers, guys! Thanks again!A.P. Kloskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09719352533858966154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34834473.post-47026662196678871742010-11-18T02:09:16.069-05:002010-11-18T02:09:16.069-05:00Thunderforge, if it makes you feel any better, one...Thunderforge, if it makes you feel any better, one of these days someone will be right. :P I'm still unhappy that Wizards dropped the OGL, and I'm not convinced it helped them or the industry as much as keeping it would have.<br /><br />At the very least, this type of message gives WotC feedback. I feel your pain, PlatinumWarlock. I'm still a subscriber, but I haven't been able to build a character all evening. :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34834473.post-40601844609864554172010-11-18T00:21:13.946-05:002010-11-18T00:21:13.946-05:00If I had a nickel for every time I've heard so...If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone say that D&d (or the role-playing game industry at large) was going to pot...<br /><br />No offense man, but there will always be good things and bad things that happen. D&D already fell apart once with TSR and I find it hard to believe that it's going to completely fall apart again with Wizards of the Coast (or if it does, some other company will pick up the slack again). Life goes on, the game evolves. And although Wizards has indeed made some dubious decisions over the years, I think they wound up strengthening the industry as a whole because other companies take up the slack.<br /><br />Consider Wizards abandoning the OGL a few years back. Many said that it was a poor decision and it killed virtually all third party D&D support and many d20 games. However, that allowed other systems to grab some marketshare, which therefore introduced more people to the hobby. For instance, Savage Worlds (my good ol' system) had been around for years, but had only started gaining popularity at about the time that Wizards cut the plug on third party vendors.<br /><br />At the end of the day, doomsaying just feeds the trolls. Shrug your shoulders and move on. Besides, you still can make completely functional (and quite playable) characters with just the Players Handbook 1 (no errata needed). And there's programs like HeroLab for automated character building if you still need that.Thunderforgenoreply@blogger.com