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    Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set Price Point Revealed

    I do wonder if they will sell the character facing cards separately for the full range of classes. It would be neat, but I doubt it will happen.
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    Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set Price Point Revealed

    I do wonder how many hours the individual quests take. Would they be suitable for a rolling series of one-shots?
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    D&D General Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford Join Darrington Press

    Where did you get the info that Crawford was 'let go'? I doesn't seem to reflect the public statements I've seen.
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    Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set Price Point Revealed

    Exactly. Experienced players will create a character on the spot (probably using dnd beyond). New players can find the existing pregens overwhelming and not always the the sorts of characters they want. Having to figure out what spells to use are an example of this since you need to find them in...
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    Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set Price Point Revealed

    I'm keen on seeing how quickly characters can be created using this set as alternative to pregens. There is a limit to the price I would pay for that.
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    D&D General D&D Beyond's Users Online Over Last Year

    The way I think about this data is that may be a combination of three groups of activity: Brand engagement - Engaging with the WoTC promotional activities, announcements, UA, surveys and forums, etc. You would expect this to peak in the lead up to a product being released, after a significant...
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    D&D General D&D Beyond's Users Online Over Last Year

    I checked using the app and it doesn't seem to update the last active time. I'm not sure what the chart means by Weekly Average Users. Maybe it is a rolling average? It seems too fine grained for averaging a week at a time.
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    Tomb Raider RPG Cancelled For Creative Differences

    Yes, it is a complete game and It has a lot of published settings. You could publish more, but I don't feel like anyone has to.
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    Tomb Raider RPG Cancelled For Creative Differences

    They announced they are going to do a Masters of Umdaar Kickstarter. But that has been the first one in a while.
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    Tomb Raider RPG Cancelled For Creative Differences

    Just a note on the underlying system Evil Hat were using. It doesn't seem to be using FATE. The character archetypes don't look like how you would wright one for FATE and refer to 'moves' which is not a FATE thing. Evil Hat have been doing a lot of Powered by the Apocalypse and Blades in the...
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    Show your game prep notes

    Normally I use a Sly Flourish's 8 steps, but I currently running the free content from the 100 one-shot wonders at the game store. The only notes I'm making are the monster CRs on the adventure. This is the best format for one-shot adventures I've seen. I've run a few AL adventures, and I need...
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    What makes a successful horror game?

    I'm not sure why I am interested in the subject, since I don't actually like horror (although I don't mind 'performative' horror like Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Maybe it is because I like FATE which went from saying 'you can't do horror with FATE' to 'here is our horror toolkit'. I thought I...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    I think that the idea that FATE features competent characters gets overplayed. In FATE you can be a competent common person. It has a fiction first philosophy. In the last FATE game I played, we were baby raccoons in a high tech warehouse.
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