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Haha, sorry to ruin that for you ;-P You can see much bigger images at their site; just scroll down. G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game Standee Pack #1

I really wanted to like these, but the art is so small for the profile of these, and some of the shapes are a little silly. Destro is basically printed on a Mickey head. I was hoping for something a little more "art forward" like Pathfinder Pawns.

Great question. To the best of my knowledge, neither Dark Tower nor Old School Traps were up on Amazon pre-crowdfunding, and I was at least vaguely aware enough to be looking. Both are up there now, with Old School Traps as pre-order for end of May. I've never seen any other crowdfunded books...

But if it's releasing in Oct, production is already paid for, and the turn around will be so small that if anyone were to catch errors or anything, it'd be about 4 months too late to do anything about it. Why crowdfund when you're already doing pre-orders? Is this normally how late in the...

Starts around 28 min in that video. Confirmed for crowdfunding sometime in the summer. Which makes those Amazon and B&N links even weirder. What are they crowdfunding if there's already an ISBN and mass market pre-order setup available?

That would be my guess, though it's weird that these pages have been live for a little while now (at least several weeks) and there's been no chatter on any of Goodman's channels, Reddit, or anywhere else that I regularly tune for this stuff. Really flying under the radar for news!

Gladly! I believe we are scheduled to run close to the end of this month.

Looks like Thracia is coming at the end of Oct according to Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Great points, all! I agree that I framed this quite a bit too far on the side of "5E heroes on a quest" and need to lean more into what makes Shadowdark strong. I think the simple change of reframing the hook and making the spreading curse more of a background element that might come out later...

TL;DR: I hope this isn't a threadjack -- or if it is, it's a fruitful one that adds to the conversation, as well -- but I was wondering what would you folks put on your wish list of things to update, revise, or add to B3 in order to strengthen its themes and story? Background: I'm planning to...

I love monster books because of the inspiration mainly, then the lore, and lastly the stats. I used to think (for an embarrassingly long time) that I liked them for the stats more, but only all-too-recently have I discovered that I don't like my games as mechanically complex as I thought I did...

I'd start with Shadowdark or Knave, and build from there. Before SD dropped, I was using Knave as the basis of some hacks and it was incredibly powerful and streamlined, making it really easy to do so. The compatibility with B/X-era D&D means you open up so much content for direct use that it's...

This is a very important point. I've used ChatGPT for some game prep and it cannot consistently follow the rules of games it has access to, even with further definition from me over many prompts and exercises. By trying to pull from so many different sources -- many of which are pretty good...

Too bad even the critical darling Planescape: Torment didn't nearly the business of the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights games. I don't think WOTC has much interest in non-Realms stuff in general, but even less so when their entire business has been in a (comparative) slump. They seem to be...

There will always be creators happy to pick up this sort of torch. Development times being what they are for a game as expansive as any sequel would necessarily have to be, even if it's only half of what Larian Studios did, means it will be a very long time before we see or hear anything, though.

What "spaces" do you mean? Here on ENWorld maybe it's still a fairly older-skewing "I love brand name D&D" crowd, on the average? While I think a lot of people are big into the OSR/NSR/etc., I still think nostalgia wins out in polls and requests like these more often than not. In part, it's...

To add: Look at Beyond the Borderlands and Planar Compass zines as really good examples of pushing forward while looking back. Beyond is effectively a restatement of Keep on the Borderlands, but in a very video-gamey, highly stylized way that I think is both immediately accessible and also...

Totally agree, but I think about 98% of my classmates fell into that category, and it kinda ruined my experience. But the other piece of that was my own inability to speak up about my experience at the time, and the fact that I'm an old geezer now and was entering publishing during a period of...

I don't know how relevant this is, but... I suspect in as early as 5-10 years the numbers of folks recommending B1 and B2 and stuff from that era is going to fall off of a cliff. Mostly for bad reasons, but also for good reasons: I think releases like Tomb of the Serpent Kings (and a lot of...