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    Where’s The Beastmaster Roleplaying Game? Part 1

    I prefer the original version, the science fiction book "Beastmaster" by Andre Norton, which is what they used as the source for the movie. Hosteen Storm, a Navajo Commando who's retired from the Terran Military (because Earth is a radioactive wasteland) where he was the leader of a Beastmaster...
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    How Will The New Tariffs Affect TTRPG Prices?

    Honestly, I doubt China will sit back and pay for us, it'll go to the consumer as usual.
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    It's Time To Vote For 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs!

    Nothing screws things up like stupid politicians...
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    Level Up (A5E) Planestrider's Journal: A New Cosmology for 5E & A5E!

    Lol, it can't be a worse SJ alternative than the recent one WotC made, it didn't even have the Spelljammer mentioned in it, the namesake for the entire setting!!! Also yes, I do look forward to this book and won't mistake it for Spelljammer ;)
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    D&D General D&D Beyond Launches 2023's Official D&D Advent Calendar

    Today is the 7th, and so far, it's all been disappointing for me. Ranging from 10% off to $10 off and even 20% off of various things, and the only "free" item is a theme pack for Idle Champions, that free idle clicker "game". To say I've been underwhelmed is beyond understating it. When they...
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    Does Dual-Wielding = Double Damage?

    Nope. In real life it gives you a better chance to take advantage of openings, so sometimes you can get an extra blow. However, you have the same strength and reflexes you have to split between two weapons. Being ambidextrous doesn't help with this, it just means you don't technically have an...
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    TSR TSR3 Throws In Towel, Rebrands Wonderfilled

    My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I thought I saw a post from Jim that he's working (worked?) with some people there, but he doesn't know why they're claiming he's a creator of D&D itself. (Back early in this mess) But TSR3/Wonderfilled seems to talk a lot of smack they can't back up...
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    Essence20: The New RPG System Which Powers Hasbro Licensed Games

    True, but game mechanics are not copyrightable, even if the documents they are in can be. (The adding a skill die to standard die isn't a new thing, it's been used in several games, though some aren't d20 based.) Hasbro probably has a whole department of lawyers that's larger than Renegade...
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    Essence20: The New RPG System Which Powers Hasbro Licensed Games

    I watch the Japanese versions subtitled. I don't get into the sub/dub argument, both have advantages, and neither is actually more accurate as it depends on who's translating. But the fansubbers don't usually have the time and resources to do dubs anyway. (No idea of fansubbers voice acting...
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    Essence20: The New RPG System Which Powers Hasbro Licensed Games

    Well, when you take a kids show from Japan, and dumb it down and even further reduce anything "negative" for the American "OMG YOU CAN'T SHOW THIS TO KIDS" crowd, you end up with something where nobody really dies. Even when it's obvious they've died, they say various euphemisms as a weak way...
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    D&D 5E Ability Score Increases (I've changed my mind.)

    Nobody was right or wrong, it's a matter of opinion and choices. You've changed your opinion on which you prefer, that doesn't mean you were wrong or they were right.
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    TSR TSR3 Throws In Towel, Rebrands Wonderfilled

    [sigh] Waiting for the next chapter in this comedy of errors and WTFs.
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    TSR TSR3 Blames Widespread Pushback On WotC

    I haven't heard a whisper of WotC or WotC employees saying anything against them or in any way encouraging anyone else to. Let's face it, it's the 2020s on the internet. If you so much as sneeze wrong somebody might freak out. Still haven't seen the original post, or a complete copy (heck...
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    D&D 5E Two more Classic Settings to go

    As to the bahamat/paladine & tiamat/different tiamat/takhisis people are forgetting a couple of key facts. One, this is the 5th edition, and anything that came before may no longer be true. Two, even within the same edition they've screwed up continuity of things so many times I'm surprised...
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    D&D General Is this a fair trap?

    The first person to get close enough to see the bottom of the pit would be attacked by the Gelatinous Cube as they aren't smart enough to wait in ambush either. Would the pieces of a dead gelatinous cube actually paralyze you? Maybe it has to be surface membrane that does that. Even so...
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