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$786.05 (I track expenses on a spreadsheet) Deck of Many Things, the new 2024 books (hardcover, DnDBeyond and Roll20), some small kickstarters, a couple of humble bundles and bundles of holding. Some isn't strictly D&D, like ShadowDark, but I lump it in as tabletop RPG

This book replaces everything in the old book. If we didn't cover it, use the old stuff but check our notes. Sounds like a new (compatible) edition to me.

Did anyone go to the seminar at Gen Con by Ben Riggs, The Battle for the Soul of D&D? I had a conflict and missed it.

Thanks all, looks good. Yes, the hobbits, ents and balrog weren't yanked until the 6th printing (OCE). I already preordered it, happy it's an early printing.

It looks like the delivery date is September 2024. Does that mean that the writing is basically complete?

Sorry if this has been answered, but which printing of OD&D is this? Same with Greyhawk, Blackmoor and Eldritch Wizardry. When WotC did the reprints a few years back they used something like the 7th printing, which wasn't very interesting.

Left at 4th edition. I tried to like it. I bought the books, got into campaigns, played one shots. Switched to PF1, which was just a cleaned up version of 3.5. Came back at 5th edition.

We play 5e with A5e monsters and luck from ToV. One choice doesn't describe it adequately.

Pre-COVID, playing in person, rarely. Something (almost) always happened. Post-COVID, playing with VTT, 100%. Even though the players are across three time zones.

According to Ben Riggs: "Sources inside Wizards of the Coast tell me that CEO Chris Cocks himself was behind the drive to end the OGL." Facebook

There is also the Hawk & Moor series, 1-5 by Kent David Kelly. He has a standalone called HAWK & MOOR - The Steam Tunnel Incident: The Tragedy of James Dallas Egbert III, which is as good as I have read about that event. The entire run has plenty of footnotes documenting his sources.

1E (AD&D hardback) had examples of play in the DMG, starting at page 97. OD&D, the woodgrain and white box sets, had nothing. I think this is why people say it was passed along from people who had played.

Rules don't really make a game, DMs do. I voted yes.

Mine arrived on Monday. No issues, the cards are all identical in size.

I'm in 2 different games, both weekly. But I haven't played in person since COVID started, and I'm not sure that aspect is coming back. I have a ton of Dwarven Forge, but stopped accumulating once I realized how little in-person gaming I was doing.