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    What was your 2nd RPG?

    AD&D was my 2nd rpg. The first (technically) was Twilight 2000, simply because I had no money in my early teens and found a copy for ten bucks at a clearance sale, and my only geek friend was just as much of a military nerd as I was. We spent dozens and dozens of hours with that book, making...
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    Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun - First Impressions

    I have my doubts they'll be in a huge hurry to go back over some of the older 5e legacy settings, at least immediately. It looks to me like they're still experimenting a bit trying to work out the ideal way to package and present a campaign setting. The 'adventure with a bit of setting tacked...
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    D&D's Forgotten Realms Books Hit With Delays in Europe and Asia

    Yeah, this is the real issue in all seriousness. I could order a copy on eBay or whatever now (Amazon AU still has it listed as out of stock with no expected date, but I can easily order from international) and have the books in my hands next week, but if you try to support the FLGS you'll be...
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    D&D's Forgotten Realms Books Hit With Delays in Europe and Asia

    Oh entirely! :LOL: Still sick of it though.
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    D&D's Forgotten Realms Books Hit With Delays in Europe and Asia

    I'm getting pretty damn tired of being a second class citizen when it comes to this stuff. Pretty much every WotC book in the last two years has been months late where i live.
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    Yeah I know, but it was Elmore and co who were actually doing the art, and they were clearly VERY influenced by 80s fashion. (And similarly, no doubt in 40 years time future gamers will cringe about the '2020s fashion' look so prevalent in 5e products...)
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    Given the heavy 80s fashion influence on the classic Elmore Dragonlance art, with its big hair and its quasi-leotard leggings, honestly, Weis should perhaps be a little careful about what she wishes for. A Dragonlance aesthetic with similar period influences on its female fashion may have left...
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    Rise of the Witches

    Ah, I hadn't twigged that it hadn't actually been released yet! I thought it was just a Saudi-only thing that had never been translated to English or had an international release. Some sort of political or censorship machination seems depressingly possible, not that I'm particularly expert on...
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    Heroforge introduces microtransaction model with Daggerheart collaboration

    Fair response from Heroforge on this. Probably the only possible one, given the firestorm didn't seem likely to die down any time soon, but kudos to them for making the call in the end. And probably also kudos to Darrington for (reading between the lines) being willing to rewrite the contract...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Solasta 2 Announced!!!

    Solasta was a nice engine for getting the hang of 5e combat, or trying out new race/class combinations. Pity about the bunch of click-through-able cutscenes regrettably tacked on. I did play through the Lost Valley DLC which wasn't much better, story-wise. And I got part through a...
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    Heroforge introduces microtransaction model with Daggerheart collaboration

    Yeah, if they’d locked the Daggerheart content behind the existing subscription paywall there’d have probably been less backlash. If they’d even bumped the subscription price a bit (in line with inflation) people wouldn’t have liked it, but there’d have been grumbling rather than outright...
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    Heroforge introduces microtransaction model with Daggerheart collaboration

    To the best of my knowledge, no. A subscription gets you everything, except the new Daggerheart stuff. Yeah, the legacy frog and monkey faces are still there, though the new stuff expands a lot in them. HF has been updating their older assets a lot in the past year or so, more detail, higher...
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    Heroforge introduces microtransaction model with Daggerheart collaboration

    https://x.com/HeroForgeMinis/status/1985400981304328238 Online miniature customiser Heroforge has been operating for a long time on a subscription model plus charging to download stls of your files or to have them printed and shipped, plus occasional crowdfunding campaigns for major new...
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    D&D General The thunder blessing - 2 generations later

    I liked that plot thread too, and it's a shame it was never followed up at the time. Short stubby people never seemed to get as much love in the game line or metaplot as slender hot elves or tieflings, or gothically angsty shades or drow... Some stuff to think about: Why is it called the...
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