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  1. GameDaddy

    WotC [Updated!] Hasbro Laying Off 1,100 Employees

    Ummmm from Steam it looks like Hasbro had about 52 Million in sales with them. I got that figure by multiplying the all-time peak players number (about 875,000) times the price of the steam boxed set. Is there a subscription service to continue playing BG 3?
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    Worlds of Design: Medieval Travel & Scale

    These roads existed before the Roman Republic was even founded! They were just documented in the time of the Holy Roman Empire, because until then, ....literacy wasn't a thing in Germany. Derp. There are other older roads of course that predate the Romans all over Europe. I'm going to highlight...
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    Worlds of Design: Medieval Travel & Scale

    The Old Roads in Eastern Europe Unknown to the Romans, but known to the Britons, Germans, Celts, and Gauls were the old Neolithic roads from the time right after the Ice age. It was these roads that allowed the German tribes to move enmasse and invade other countries, There were a number of...
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    Worlds of Design: Medieval Travel & Scale

    Fifty Years of Road Building. In the newly conquered territories, Augustus Caesar built roads. Attached in this post you’ll find the Roman Road map for 9 AD, right at the time that Varus lost his three legions along with his life in the battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. This was just forty...
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    Worlds of Design: Medieval Travel & Scale

    Unimproved Roads and trails in Ancient Gaul I'm going to weigh in here with some historical references campaigns along ancient roads and speak about travel times in Roman Europe. Now there were ancient roads and trails that existed in Neolithic times and were in place from about 18,000 BC or so...
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    TSR The Dueling Essays of Arneson & Gygax

    Because part of the original settlement agreement included a nondisclosure agreement where both parties were prohibited from discussing details of the trial and the final settlement agreement. That gag order was put into the original settlement by, you guessed it. TSR. Dave told me though anyway...
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    TSR The Dueling Essays of Arneson & Gygax

    He Did. Dave Arneson told me directly that he had done so, He sent his additional design notes for D&D that were not included in the first printing before the publication of D&D, and that Gary moved up the publication of 0D&D and did not inform Dave in a timely manner. Dave told me that, looking...
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    D&D General Companies Cut Ties With Judges Guild After Owner's Racist Posts

    Yes that would be me, and Bob Sr. would not have approved... at all. He would have likely taken the boys out back to the woodshed in a back for an old fashioned switching. Before playing RPGs, Bob Sr. was of course, a historian, and avid wargamer, and he loved history. He went with his long time...
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    Naming Cities and towns in your homebrew settings

    Here are two hundred randomly generated names along with the gender that they refer to that you can use. Several years ago, I built a number of different generators for Inspiration Pad Pro. These are all phonetically correct, so if you pronounce them out loud, you are actually speaking ancient...
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    How big's the RPG market?

    I'm not angry. just disappointed. I see you opted not to man up. congratulations.
  15. GameDaddy

    How big's the RPG market?

    Umm. sorry no. Box office revenues for movies in 2016 was somewhere in the neighborhood of 71-91 Billion Dollars U.S. let's see.... Global Games Market 2016 (This is everything included and especially video games)...
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    How big's the RPG market?

    Uhhhmm. no, not the boss of you, just displeased that you would not do proper research before estimating the size of the RPG Industry. Already provided. D&B Says WOTC earned somewhere in the neighborhood of $295 Million in 2016. That's D&D, Magic, Everything else. Magic is still #1 of course...
  17. GameDaddy

    How big's the RPG market?

    This is the most BS thing I have ever seen you post here. Please stop, unless you care to do real research, ICv 2 is full of you know what... Just to start, the last time I tracked revenues for WOTC RPGs which was in the early 2000s. D&D 3e alone was netting more than $35M annually for WOTC in...
  18. GameDaddy

    Origins Reclaims #3 Biggest Tabletop Gaming Convention Spot

    Garycon 2016 - approximately 1,100 GaryCon 2017 - just over 1,500
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    How many different RPGs have you played so far this year (2017)?

    0D&D 5e D&D Traveller Gamma World Castles & Crusades Star Wars Saga Edition
  20. GameDaddy

    Your top 10 TV shows of 2016

    mmmm... hands down it would have to be Netflix. Although History Channel with the Vikings series is a very close #2. 1) Stranger Things 2) Marco Polo 3) The Last Kingdom 4) Gotham 5) From Dusk Till Dawn 6) Salem 7) Supernatural 8) Robin Hood 9) Ice Fantasy 10) Z-Nation 11) Revolution 12)...
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