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    Critical Role Hires Former Hallmark Channel Executive Alyssa Zeisler to Run Beacon Platform

    Yep, it's already been around for quite a while and is already pretty much the central destination of all things Critical Role. So far they have promised a wide range of gaming-related streaming series, and they have followed through offering a wide range of gaming-related streaming series. I...
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    Critical Role Hires Former Hallmark Channel Executive Alyssa Zeisler to Run Beacon Platform

    Where do you get the impression that Beacon is a lot of unrealized promises like Gleemax??? I'm pretty sure they have delivered every thing they have said they would and has been run absolutely nothing like Gleemax. Why are you so invested in making this weird Gleemax comparison that makes no...
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    Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments

    Looking at the novels and movies, etc., I guess they are sorta novel-shaped collections of words that are being sold as novels, but it's a stretch to call them novels, and certainly not GOOD ones! :ROFLMAO: And as for the line of reasoning that "well, that's the level of quality right now...
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    Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments

    Dang! I hadn't seen that before (I don't follow much board game news), but as thankful as I am for him championing the OGL into reality, between MBA-brain thinking (pejoratively) that nothing matters in game development but marketing to actually publicly posting that "females of the West" are...
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    D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin

    Yes, between Ray & Chris & the end product, there does seem to be very much a feel of "person in charge had an idea, but when someone else took over, they just ran with their own idea instead." Whether that was lack of documentation, deliberate choice, or simply "I was thinking of going in this...
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    D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin

    I think I remember hearing he also included green flames somewhere in every book, too, because he just loves the visual.
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    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    The author uses 'them' as their pronouns. This is an author including a character they identify with. Not sure how that is "too forced" when it is literally them referencing their own personal experience. Just because you, by your own admission, aren't following along with the younger...
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    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    Here ya go! I'd go with the PDF. There is a web page version but it's on a painful 90's-style tiling background like we loved to use back then. :ROFLMAO: (I really should try to track down who owns Planewalker.com and see if we could restart it. It's still maintained as a great archive, but it...
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    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    Exactly! Plus they sure seem more "super excited to do this after starting to play AD&D as a teen" than "welp, gotta pay the bills." https://www.patreon.com/posts/hey-do-you-want-147580209 It's weird to think people still have hang ups about tie-in fiction that they immediately think it's only...
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    Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players

    Yep. Watching the earliest episodes, it's pretty clear they weren't bringing in endorsement money! It's definitely come a long way from Matt's hand drawn maps on large sheets of paper with too thin of a sharpie to show up well on an internet stream. I haven't watch any CR for a couple years or...
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    D&D General More Details Revealed for Forgotten Realms Digital Expansions

    They have said DLC add-ons will be available for purchase separately. The only thing that appears to be a pre-order exclusive is the Dallabad Oasis Animated Map. Oh, and they are thankfully updating the product info page, because I was confused about that as well...
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    D&D General More Details Revealed for Forgotten Realms Digital Expansions

    Yes, and looking at the "$76 savings" claim along with individual prices for the books & dice, at least, it looks like all three DLCs together are valued around $50ish. Whether that's 20/20/10 or 20/15/15 or some other combination (including any value they are including from the map pack?), we...
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    D&D General More Details Revealed for Forgotten Realms Digital Expansions

    Yeah, I think the Digital Bundle product info is just wrong. They must have decided to post it with incorrect/incomplete info for whatever reason, and it will include the DLCs for about $62-ish.
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    D&D General More Details Revealed for Forgotten Realms Digital Expansions

    (Deleted. Never mind. The Digital Bundle product page has got to be wrong/incomplete. It doesn't make any sense otherwise.)
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    They can answer for themselves, but at a guess since they only said so far that August and September won't be at Amazon it's a matter of too fast of a turn around to get the August books to Amazon directly, but hopefully should be resolved soon after???
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