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    MCDM Joins Million Dollar Crowdfunder Club... For The 5th Time!

    Very interesting take. I won't fault him for his perspective, but I bet other publishers do well by recognizing that some sales through the distribution chain eventually lead to more sales online. I'm a "whale" as gaming goes, meaning I spend an unhealthy amount of money on books, and often the...
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    Pathfinder Announces Two New Rulebooks

    This is now making me imagine that seafaring combat rules in PF2E will be 100% compatible with starfaring combat rules in SF2E, leading to intriguing naval ship vs. starship combat situations. It will be like the Battleship movie, except with more kholo, ysoki and skittermanders.....!
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    MCDM Joins Million Dollar Crowdfunder Club... For The 5th Time!

    This is making me realize that there is a big component to this hobby that I have no real comprehension of. MCDM and their output is a mystery to me, and I wonder why I have never seen any of their products on game shelves....are they online only? I guess I should investigate instead of just...
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    Pathfinder Announces Two New Rulebooks

    Looking forward to both of these books! PF2E Remaster appears to be the system my group has settled on for the foreseeable future.
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    Leon Barillaro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    That's all I know to be excited for what they may bring to the 5E space!
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    D&D's Lack of 2026 Announcements Actually Follows Precedent

    I'm a lot more interested in sales figures. I would be curious how WotC did for the holidays, and D&D in particular. The reason is that locally none of the FLGSs seemed able to move the new D&D books....like, at all. One had a ton of the new Forgotten Realms books and ended up putting them on...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Yes, you totally could, and we actually did. The great thing about AD&D 2E in fact was that it provided an entire line of historical resource books which you could use to run reasonably authentic adventures in different time periods (Greek, Roman, Viking, Renaissance) and add/subtract magic and...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Those books were so amazing. I got a lot of mileage out of A Mighty Fortress.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    But in prior editions you could in fact construct more realistic or low fantasy settings by simply choosing from the best resources and limiting players to appropriate choices, and not feel like you were excising 80% of the game in the process; even if the base assumptions of D&D weren't...
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    Triangle Agency Review

    I haven't been able to find a copy that wasn't shrink wrapped so I can only see the cover art... :cautious: That said, not a deal breaker at all. I may grab a copy at the FLGS today as this review has sold me on it.
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    Triangle Agency Review

    Glad to see this reviewed! Been interested to read about this one....I am put off by the art style (just not a fan of cartoonish art like this, obviously YMMV) but the actual premise sounds intriguing.
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    AD&D 2E Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play AD&D 2E? How Was/Is It?

    I do miss the old days of the PCs figuring out, "Oh crap, this dude has a -2 AC!!!"
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    D&D General Weapons should break left and right

    While Conan is a great example of a weapon breaking for dramatic and story effect, the highlighted bit above immediately got me thinking about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, in which weapons do, indeed, break, often a couple times per fight. The result is a video game mentality where...
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    Pathfinder 2E What is needed in a non-Golarion setting?

    This might sound less helpful than I intend, but I have never run Pathfinder 2E in Golarion and always use my homebrews. If the players see something that is "Golarion focused" in the mechanics that they want, I ask them to help justify its existence in the campaign we are playing in and then...
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