Recent content by BovineofWar

I'm not saying it won't happen, but it sounded like Cocks recruited Ohlen out of retirement for Archetype, which has an explicit goal of creating new IP for Wizards/Hasbro. So it would be odd to put Archetype to work on BG4, especially when the CEO that set them up is still in power. All the...

I honestly wonder how much the TTRPG is a employee-led effort vs a major media push from Hazbro/Wizards? I don't know about US, but Canada show they are totally out of stock right now...

I think the primary source, Jason Schreier's Bloomberg article is a bit clearer: I'm inclined to just take this at face value. Establishing a new studio from scratch is hard work, look at how many Google and Amazon ventures have floundered. I'm not saying Ohlen isn't a creative type, but he has...

Chains of Asmodeus was probably his most notable TTRPG work before Exodus.

I'm in total agreement with you. Curse of Strahd was such a great example of Ravenloft, and left room for VRgtR to be a lore book instead of trying to be an adventure/splat book/monster manual all at once. Ditto with Spelljammer and Planescape. If they had been either lore books or adventures...

I wonder if this has to do with everybody's favourite demon lord/god... Squints at subtitles, oh it does.

There's definitely some gems in this list, along with more than a fewer stinkers. I recently reread the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy, it's still fun. Ditto the first few Drizzt trilogies. I enjoyed the Dark Sun Prism Pentad series, even if I can understand the frustration since I wouldn't...

It's not posted anywhere, but the implication is the month of Darkness is coming through Renegade's US Store (instead of EU or UK). They only ship to US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, and those are the only countries with shipping rates in the bundle.

Huh, in related news Starbreeze has cancelled development of their D&D project: https://www.eurogamer.net/payday-developer-starbreeze-cancels-dungeons-and-dragons-project-to-focus-on-its-flagship-franchise-two-years-after-it-was-announced So there's no net change in number of D&D video games in...

That's actually one of the complaints about Mongoose Traveller. The lack of lethality during character generation makes it more beneficial to serve endless terms before entering the game. I.e. Starting the game as a 8 term general or scientist emeritus with huge skills and collected wealth. A...

Bundle of Holding also has deal on Shadow of the Weird Wizard: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/WeirdWizard

That's a really loaded question, since it depends on your constraints. I'll take the 1994 Planescape Campaign Setting box set, since I'm obsessed with old strange settings. MSRP is $30 USD, with inflation that's about $65 (still cheaper than Adventures in the Multiverse I guess?). Ebay has that...

The savings grace for the modern collector is the ability to go digital. The majority of these titles are available in PDF for a reasonable price with the occasional sales. I'd probably be reckless enough to shell out $600-700 today for a complete set of Planescape or Darksun, but it would...

I made the mistake of collecting all the 5e books and all of the 5.5e to date. This article has reminded me that I would be out of house and home if I had collected all the previous editions...

There are definetly fan expansions and hacks of Blades in the Dark that would require the core book. Otherwise the Forged in the Dark license is extremely open so all the major products officially called Forged in the Dark I've seen are complete games unto themselves.