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Desdichado replied to the thread D&D General Best D&D product of any edition (non-core book).While I don't exactly use it a lot, my favorite one to read is Fiendish Codex 1: Hordes of the Abyss from late in the 3e cycle. It's... -
Desdichado reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town? with
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No, no chance at all. People like tearing D&D down, but those two did not make it and it will do just fine without them. They might... -
Desdichado replied to the thread D&D General Todd Kenreck Let Go from WotC.What does that mean that he did, though? I'm trying to understand what this means for the brand and for the game.
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Desdichado replied to the thread D&D General Todd Kenreck Let Go from WotC.Not to be that guy, but does anyone know what exactly Todd Kenrick did other than that interview series of YouTube videos? What exactly...
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Desdichado replied to the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?.I kinda feel like this too. I have a great copy of a POD B/X that I made from the PDFs I bought years ago from Lulu. I also have a POD...
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Desdichado reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
Eye of the beholder. IMO ACKS is one the best games out there that does what it does.
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Desdichado replied to the thread Do You Care About Cosmology?.As a player? No, not at all. As a homebrewer? Not very much. As a reader? Sometimes, if it matters to a book I'm reading. Mostly not...
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Desdichado replied to the thread OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?.It might just be semantics, but my recollection was that there wasn't really a movement until the retroclones. Sure, AD&D still had its...
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Desdichado replied to the thread OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?.Well, that's fair. The whole reason the retroclones came into being requires some context, after all; people who weren't happy with 3e...
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Desdichado replied to the thread OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?.Same. That said, the letters in the OSR shouldn't be taken too literally. It's not just a revival of anything old school; it's a...
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Desdichado replied to the thread OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?.It's a couple years old now (or more) but this is the best exegesis I've ever seen on what the OSR is...
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Desdichado replied to the thread OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D?.I don't know why I'm very ornery about an overly expansive and incoherent usage of the word OSR, because I don't even identify with the...
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Desdichado replied to the thread The price of streaming vs out right owning.I despise the new(ish) business model of subscriptions for software, and refuse to pay any of them. For most, there's an open freeware...
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Desdichado replied to the thread What are must read short stories?.Curiously, just in the last few weeks I've read a number of short story collections: Horror in the Museum (the collection by Del Rey...
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Desdichado replied to the thread How Long Do You Wait Before You Houserule a New TTRPG?.As soon as a see a rule that I don't like, or the lack of a rule that I think I need. Eventus stultorum magister est. I know what I want...