And the Union was consulted and agrees with Paizo’s ORC initiative

Well, the employees unionized and Paizo recognized the union without fuss. So yes, a little!

While I’m happy to see Paizo taking a lead here, since they’ve long been the second biggest company in the space, they were in the news not that long ago for being horrible to their employees.  Has that improved?

Just to add to this, the other big thing they avoid talking about is Open Gaming Content.

Important to note they still intend to deauthorize the OGL 1.0a, based on this.

I will say I honestly do believe the ‘license back’ was intentioned the way they say since that’s pretty boilerplate by non-creatives trying to write contracts for creatives. That said no matter the intention it was the most egregious part of the new OGL, someone should have stopped it before it went live, and I’m…

“Our plan was always to solicit the input of our community”
Bullshit! They were planning on a surprise attack, and somebody leaked it to save the people they were going to attack!

“You’re going to hear people say that they won... They won - and so did we.”
LMAO. This isn’t a zero sum game. This wasn’t about winning. It…

If there’s a season 2 it better start with Graydon saying ‘nah, I’m good’. It feels like a disservice to his character to have him become the new Crone willingly - plus just repetitive.

Yes, he’s susceptible to darkness but he’s also been freed from it - two times over already let alone having to do it all over again.…

I liked it. I did not, however, love it. A lot of people are embracing the quirky humour as though it was consistent with the 1988 movie, but it’s not at all. Its tone is anachronistic and jarring every time, which the movie never was. I find that distracting.

I’ve a feeling they’re circling the wagons IP-wise cos they’re doing multimedia franchises now.  They have to unilaterally declare that they now can use any homebrew they want like it’s their IP, otherwise any production they make is suddenly going to be the defendant in umpteen-thousand lawsuits from homebrewers who…

Too scared of putting it on PC on release because fans might fix it via mods 

After over 20 years of buying every mainline FF on release, FFXV was the final nail in the coffin for me. I’m not paying top dollar to be a f$@king beta tester.

After the unfinished, half assed, pile that was FF15 I don’t hold out great hope for this.

It is Square Enix, who are happily still trying to push NFT’s as game features and just cancelled like 4 of their new “live service” games in a row. They don’t have a shred of self awareness about how they’re treating FF7, an anti-capitalist eco-terrorism game where their spinoffs are gleefully using “Shinra Bucks!”…

Corporate arrogance is not surprising, and even Yoshida is not immune to this. I get Elon Musk vibes from this guy, tbh.

Don’t you all have phones?

Willow is a really good dnd show. Watch it and pretend the players are talking and the DM has instituted the “if you say it, your character says it” rule.

I believe it was in his second memoir (HIGHLY recommend both, especially the audio versions which he performs) that Alan Cumming talked about this from his experiences on X2.

The first X-Men movie was a shock to Hollywood.  It had a way bigger impact than it gets credit for.