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    D&D General I spent how much? How much did you spend in 2024.

    $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
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    D&D (2024) So IS it a new edition?

    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.
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    WotC D&D Historian Ben Riggs says the OGL fiasco was Chris Cocks idea.

    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.
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    A Preview of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977

    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.
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    D&D General 4 more days left to back Devabhumi, my Ancient India campaign setting!

    It looks like the delivery date is September 2024. Does that mean that the writing is basically complete?
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    A Preview of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977

    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.
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    D&D General When did you leave D&D? Why? For what game? And what brought you back?

    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.
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    D&D General 5E, A5E, or ToV?

    We play 5e with A5e monsters and luck from ToV. One choice doesn't describe it adequately.
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    D&D General How often do you complete a campaign as a player?

    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.
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    D&D 5E Who tried to end the OGL?

    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
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    D&D General Finished reading my 4th "History of D&D" book. Thoughts.

    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.
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    D&D (2024) Deborah Ann Woll and Matt Mercer consulted on the 2024 DMG.

    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.
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    D&D 5E Players, would you play in a multi-year campaign that used only the 5.1 SRD?

    Rules don't really make a game, DMs do. I voted yes.
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    D&D General Deck of Many Things rerelease fixed (or not?)

    Mine arrived on Monday. No issues, the cards are all identical in size.
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    D&D General Jasper's Annual I spend how much in 2023

    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.
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