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    Rumours: WotC Announcement Today; Insider Email Reveals Plans

    The amazing part about this whole thing is the failure of Hasbro/WotC to understand their own business. But then again, that's basically the story of modern American corporate management: Short term gains over long-term gains, make as much money now as possible. The advantage of a corporation...
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    RPG Evolution: Older Than You Look

    In the 5e setting I pay in, Aasimar are nigh-immortal descendants of the archangels who overthrew the creator deity, and as a note, children of mixed parentage take on the traits of their mother. My character was the child of a human man and Aasimar woman, and her mother left when she was a...
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    All Aboard the Invisible Railroad!

    I am not going to weigh in on anything specific on the OP or the responses directly, but offer a third opinion on "railroading" from Brennan Lee Mulligan (from Critical Role's GM roundtable):
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    Religion in Gaming—Types of “Priest”

    Teacher is another important function of a priestly character, especially if the religion values education in some fashion. Whether it is educating the faithful in tenets of the faith (which has overlap with the "Speaker" function) or providing instruction in things like reading, writing...
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    RPG Crowdfunding News – Blade Runner, Creatures: Netherworld, Eye of Everywhere, and more

    I'd like to draw people's attention to Spellpunk, a new D&D setting from Daylight (Supers & Sorcery, Comets & Cockpits) that is a world recovering from environmental disaster. They're trying to fund on IndieGoGo due to Kickstarter's announced intentions to integrate blockchain tech, and not...
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    TTRPGS, Blockchains, and NFTs

    This video from Folding Ideas does a pretty in-depth explanation of the problems with blockchain technologies and why they will never be what the evangelists claim.
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    Carrying Dice (With Help)

    I have a custom scale mail dice bag which can hold a few sets, and a very large bag with several smaller bags inside all homemade either through crochet (the original outer bag) or patched together from cloth scraps (the current outer bag and my sub-bags). The sub-bags are sorted into either die...
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    Dragonlance There's A New Dragonlance Novel Coming

    I think this all but confirms that tomorrow's setting announcement is 5e Dragonlance.
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    D&D 5E It's Time To Rethink What An Adventure Path Can Be On Roll20

    This is so great! Any chance you guys will bring something like the Masterclass Codex to R20?
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    There's a TERMINATOR RPG Coming!

    The way I did quasi-homebrew was based off the premise of Sarah Conner Chronicles: Players are time-shifted resistance agents in the present, trying to find ways to sabotage the creation of Skynet and protect future resistance members and each other from time-traveling Terminators. I ran...
  11. diceexmachina

    There's a TERMINATOR RPG Coming!

    Interesting! I ran a Terminator RPG using the Chronicles of Darkness (nWoD) rules back around the time Sarah Conner Chronicles was on. I'd built the Terminators using rules from Promethean and making the players use the base rules. Was interesting and fun.
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    RPG Crowdfunding News – Heckna!, Creatures, Skullkickers, and more

    Egg, there's an interesting crowdfunding project you might want to take a look at called The Wagadu Chronicles which is a combination MMORPG and 5e RPG, based on African fantasy.
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    A BATMAN RPG Has Just Been Announced

    So, it appears to be based on a French-language derivative of 3.5 d20 called "Chroniques oubliées Contemporain" (roughly "Contemporary Forgotten Chronicles".
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