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I saw the blog post prior to this article. Consensus here and elsewhere seems to be that this is a net positive, and I can't really argue with that, but I've been looking for a reason to end my subscription, so I might jump off here. I'll miss getting that little blast of official content for...

Consider me corrected!

Yeah, it's easy for us to heckle, but there's totally an audience for this. This will be big with the Etsy/crafty side of the hobby.

Here's one: Shatterzone, West End Games's answer to losing the Star Wars license. Really intense, gritty, of-its-time sci-fi setting that used the MasterBook system. Precis Intermedia has the rights and have reprinted most of the old supplements. Ripe for an update.

Thanks for the supplement and clarification. I looked it up after I posted and things do appear pretty quiet on their publishing front, though there is a dust-gathering claim about a fourth edition and one new book up on DTRPG (the one I was trying to think of when I posted). Horrors of the...

As someone else noted, it's complicated, but the nutshell, off-the-top-of-my-head-without-googling explanation is that the most recent edition's licensee, a company run by Matt McFarland and his wife, were humming along with a modest line of supplements for their own edition when some credible...

I live elsewhere in Wisconsin, 1-2 hours away, and I can't believe someone would pay that much for that dumpy little house, even factoring in historical value and "nice resort town" property values.

Just for my own reference and accessing dusty memories, that's Arilyn Moonblade, right?

Minis already up for pre-order at WizKids.

Really? I thought those were the best the covers and graphic design have ever looked (and I'm not even that into 3e). They were a neat unifying design element and you could read them in public without normies going "What the hell is that?"

Looks good to me, too. Looks like they skipped over the idea of doing a mini for this one in favor of retro cardboard standees, which is probably for the best considering the gumball-machine quality of the old Stranger Things set's demogorgon.

WizKids will almost certainly not miss an opportunity to produce another dragon mini to sell. We'll see an adult version.

Here's a link to the press release from Dark Horse's own site, with some more on what it's about, some thoughts from the creators, and the alternate cover art (looks like four--count 'em, four--variants besides the regular cover). RETURN TO THE FORGOTTEN REALMS IN "DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: THE...

No credited artist here or in the ICv2 article. Anyone know?

If you've seen Eye of the Beholder, they talk about this and how they only recovered so much original art from the dumpsters through dumb luck. I can't fathom the level of thinking that led to such a thing. (But we're thoroughly off topic now...)