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    Kickstarter Grim Sun at 6th of Mars and Brom as cover artist

    Ok, so it is just the obvious being referred to.
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    Kickstarter Grim Sun at 6th of Mars and Brom as cover artist

    Ok, can you help me out here, because it seems like I'm missing something really obvious? Is it that its "totally not-Dark Sun" or is it something else?
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    Pumpkin Spice Joins the Million Dollar Crowdfunder Club

    The fact that I had to google what cosy fantasy and magic girls actually meant from a genre perspective shows how out of touch I am! 😂
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    Pumpkin Spice Joins the Million Dollar Crowdfunder Club

    I'm clearly not the taget demographic for this as I haven't even seen a single ad for it. I'm stoked more games are getting $1m+ crowdfunding campaigns, but I'm surprised that a genre like this is getting a bigger backing than, say, Monte Cook's Numenera re-release that's also crowdfunding...
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    D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin

    I remember encountering obelisks in Tomb of Annihilation. That would have been really cool to discover they were foreshadowed from an earlier campaign.
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    The Diana Jones award is a fairly prestigious RPG award. It’s actually not named after a person, but rather the Indiana Jones RPG (best to read the story about it, as I’ll likely get bits wrong).
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    Yeah, seems like my lack of awareness is the problem, especially for the Diana Jones award winner.
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    Would you say there’s more now than there was during the D20 boom? It doesn’t feel like it to me, but that could be because I’m not across it as much now and a lot of it exists only in the digital realm.
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    Kickstarter yes, just mainly for non-RPG stuff these days as I realised I already own a tonne of RPGs I’m not currently playing. I don’t look that much into the indie side of things due, once again, to already owning cool games I don’t play,
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    And I have nothing against that. I hope they all do great things. I’ve just never heard of them at all, likely because I’m out of touch with new writers and designers in the 5E space, at least compared to how across the 3.xE space I was. So it’s probably more of a reflection of me than...
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    I think a decade or so ago I generally was well enough informed that I’d at least heard of the people WotC or Paizo hired. I might have known about them from a Dragon or Dungeon article, or work they’d done from a 3rd party company or another RPG, but at the very least it would be a name I’d...
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    Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

    Ok, I think I’ve officially lost touch with the current D&D and RPG publishing space. This is the 4th appointment in a row that I’ve had to Google the person as I’d never heard from them before. I hope they do well, and hiring people much better than the usual firing we see at this time of the...
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    Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized

    Damn, that gets worse the more I read. ☹️
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    Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized

    Ok, I’m not across this one either. What did Raggi do?
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    Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized

    Good guys don’t associate (and continue to associate) with people like Bledsaw. You are ultimately the company you keep.
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