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    D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!?

    ...warforged are not robots; they're more akin to mechanically-sophisticated golems...
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    Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc.

    (FYI - robots and crashed alien ships were not only integral to blackmoor as the seminal campaign setting from which D+D developed, they also featured as prominent plot points in the first published D+D adventure; greyhawk came along later with gary's sword+sorcery weird-fantasy pastiche, but...
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    D&D General Adventurers in Faerun-The Book of Low and Mid Level Adventures?

    ...i believe lord of the rings roleplaying (free league's 5e system) only runs through tenth level...
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms Books Tables of Contents

    ...well they don't identify the solstices + equinoxes but they way they've color-coded the seasons implies either traditional calendar designations or a return to previous meteorological cycles...
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms Books Tables of Contents

    ...when do the solstices + equinoxes fall?..the sword coast adventurer's guide implemented a pretty substantial shift...
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    ...oh that's not the hill; i moved on long ago, it's just that dragonlance's untapped potential offers such appeal that i'd consider looking back...
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    ...at this point any competent executive producer can point to vox machina as exhibit A that there's a legitimate market for respectfully-produced mature animated fantasy; that's the greatest change since joe's dragonlance initiative last sputtered out... ...in whatever case, a sustained...
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    D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 4: Novels

    (berenstein) ...for what it's worth, TSR's original 1981 dragon dice were implicitly marketed as D+D accessories, replete with contemporaneous trade dress despite no dungeons + dragons branding, and the subsequent 1995 game was an extension of that same trademark...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set: Heroes on the Borderlands Review

    ...you also should include the 2019 essentials kit, which (including the linked DDB material) i posit remains the best starter set published to date, both in terms of content and value-for-money...
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    RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – One-Shot Wonders 2, Feybound, WOIN, and more

    ...man, i really want to get my hands on that special edition of the first one-shot wonders...
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    D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 1: Editions

    ...that balkanisation of third-party support for fifth-edition D+D in the wake of the OGL fiasco correlates with a measurable drop in recorded products certainly comports with my sense of the market; still, one thousand products per year remains formidable support by any other metric, and a...
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    D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 1: Editions

    ...i was going to say that i don't think dollar tree existed in 1992, but i looked it up and they debuted two years later, in 1994: TIL that liquidated D+D cards apparently founded a twenty-first century retail giant...
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    The Cosmere Game Review

    ...the cosmere crowdfunding campaign represented that it integrated both mistborn and the stormlight archives into a single game system, so i'm quite surprised to read this: is that simply an artifact of early fulfillment for the stormlight material, or is the mistborn material deferred until a...
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    D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 1: Editions

    ...i pulled all my comics from their longboxes, bags, + boards about ten years ago and threw them into magazine caddies on my library shelves, no regrets: i collect things to be read + used, not to be preserved for future estates... ...besides, all that well-earned shelfwear testifies...
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