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MerricB reacted to Savage Wombat's post in the thread D&D (2024) Fireball is a C Tier Spell with
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If your party is not regularly fighting groups of 3-5 monsters, the DM isn't challenging your party. In my opinion, anyway. -
MerricB reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D (2024) The Ray Winninger Era of D&D 5e with Like.
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MerricB reacted to Zaukrie's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Is Sunsetting Sigil's Active Development with Like.
How does other people who live far apart getting to play hurt you? What is your hope, that others can't play?
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MerricB reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Is Sunsetting Sigil's Active Development with Like.
If you don't try to do new things, and possibly have them fail, new things never happen.
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MerricB reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off with Like.
So, while it feels good to knock big companies, and WotC in particular, let us look at this for a moment... WotC, the company, tried...
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MerricB reacted to TheSword's post in the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off with Like.
Most of that list is demagoguery. Interested where you got the $1bn loss on VTT from? Is that definitely a thing? The genuine mistakes…...
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MerricB reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread Has Wizards of the Coast Given Up on Sigil? with Like.
I really doubt the promotional gold dragon digital miniature was what pushed anybody over the line into purchasing the bundle. I...
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MerricB replied to the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts.I think there are PLENTY of reasons of why you'd want a lighter or heavier system than 5E. Pathfinder is a thing, after all.
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MerricB reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
Well, as a couple people in the middle of it have noted, "OSR" has fragmented so much that any statement made can easily be contradicted...
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MerricB reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
Yeah, this is the part of the OSR who consider some of the most tedious parts of the early D&D experience a virtue.
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MerricB reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
Methinks the poster doth protest too much. My point is every time something is asserted about the OS movement that "fixes" the...
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.Indeed. Steam numbers for Talespire are peaking at 1000 each week - at launch it reached a peak of 1400 players. Those are not great...
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.I even know they're Finnish! ;) Cheers!
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.Was this really a big Unreal Engine product? Split Fiction had a team of 80 people. (Unreal Engine 5). Most likely it'll be nominated...
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.250 people sounds crazy big for this project. Honestly: I don't believe it.