I'm going to wait for GnomeStew's votes to settle from the new voting activity--it's been contentious in the past and I got tired of adding and removing it every couple days. Last time it resolved as "not in the ticker."
@Metool Won't matter soon. I'll post the question as soon as Basic drops, which is hopefully in a few hours. I've edited it to address suggestions, btw. It'll stay that way unless there's more elaboration required.
If anyone thinks I should remove the D&D feed, just let me know and we'll put it up for a star-based poll. Four stars and it's gone until it can calm down.
My interest in 5e extends little further than the hope that their organised play will be reinvigorated and bring some new people into the hobby :) The rules themselves, from an admittedly shallow examination of what has been published so far, sound like a refinement of what we already have with nothing really groundbreaking. (Feel free to correct me on that!).
Since the core rules are being released for free, I'll probably check them out, but I'm more interested in Exalted 3 and playing some more DramaSystem.
I think they used Silverlight because the desktop version was already written using Windows APIs so it was the easiest way to port the existing code to the web.
@GMNoob if things go as planned tonight, i should have some time to work up an article (probably advantage/disadvantage). I'll post it as a draft and let you look at it and decide when/if to publish
I'm working on a new police series featuring a former cheese master who retired when his family died in a cheese vat explosion. He vowed to never work with cheese again, but years later he's tipped off that maybe his family's death wasn't an accident. He joins the police as a freelance investigator who uses his cheese skills for lure all kinds of criminals into traps and makes Swiss cheese out of the mob guys who try to stop him. It's called "The Emmentalist".
Highball is the name for a family of mixed drinks that are composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non-alcoholic mixer.
Etymology
The Online Etymology Dictionary suggests that the name originated around 1898 and probably derives from ball meaning a "drink of whiskey" and high because it is served in a tall glass. The name may refer to the practice of serving drinks in the dining cars of trains powered by steam locomotives, when the engine would get up to speed and the ball that showed boiler pressure was at its high level, known as "highballing". Or the name m...
depending on my mood, my favorite drink is a real oddball. Spirit of Ecuador. it's a syrupy sweet fruity liquor. Good straight, but I keep it on the shelf so I drink it over ice
For those interested: I ran the numbers and if you bring the Basic D&D PDF to a print shop (the price sheet I used was from staples) you should be able to print a bound copy for $20-25.
@waxeagle hehe, I've reached the point where I have enough members that I can afford to run the guild indefinitely with my own extra income. Basically, I am now spending as much to keep it open as I was just doing my hobby without the physical location.
@waxeagle and @JoshuaAslanSmith Put your links on this page. If you can't tell me. http://www.dungeonsampdragons.com/bounded-advantage/around-the-table/
Props from olde timey paper and wax seals to skulls and bottles and weapons and armor, Tools from books to maps to dungeon tiles in 2D ans 3D and 2.5D, to thousands of minis, so on.
Indeed. Couldn't do something like that here (London), property is just too expensive. My group meets in the function room of a pub which we only get at an affordable price because we meet on an off-night and bring them people who buy meals and drinks.
@GMNoob It takes a lot fewer people than you think. The average price people are paying (it is pay-what-you-can) is ~$30 a month. My monthly overhead is ~$1000 a month, so that's 34 members to break even.
@GMNoob I'm open to doing this, but I need to be profitable enough to be able to hire at least 3 people: Someone with an MBA, a lawyer who does franchise setup stuff, and a great salesman to sell the idea to prospective business owners.
There is a new coffee/snack place near me which charges $1 for all food items in the store. Most places charge $5 for most things. They are making their money by selling franchises which basically require you to have $100,000 in the bank, and to pay them $50,000 for the equipment and setup.
That said. I've been writing up a bunch of stuff about how I've done what I've done so far and will eventually release that so others can emulate me. I don't believe in trade secrets, anyone should be able to setup more places like this. If you want to use the brand (logos, name, listing on the site, so on) I can probably start the process with a single interested party.
I bet if you just told people you were doing a franchise for $10,000 + the cost of "All The Things", you could then have enough to hire pepole to do it for real :)