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Was at a family gathering last night and the Jim Carrey Grinch was on. I really dislike that film, whereas I love the original animated...

I tend to agree yeah - 192 pages is crazy, especially when 64 are adventure and 64 are bestiary, so everything about the setting (that...

I think most fans of something old will wind up fans of something new. It's just that there will always be a vocal subset who will...

The Hadozee stuff was 100% Chris Perkins individually, because he thought it would be fun to have a Planet of the Apes reference but...

Thank you. I'm not trying to point this out to be mean or w/e, but I think it's pretty important to separate out what the actual D&D...

The community is also built off of decades of normal people being the DM and providing fair and fun play. Ultimately what we are...

Still at Barnes & Noble, and at least my FLGS will take requests

An Adversarial game of D&D is a very specific thing, and if everyone is on board with it it’s a perfectly fine way to play. A...

I've seen plenty of (countless?) instances of that in WoD games, as a direct result of the power paradigm that I called out. Including...

There were people giving that advice, at least by the early 1980s. It was TSR that was still driving adversarial gaming - as mentioned...

Imagine how 1e clerics felt; they went 20 levels without any mechanics to differentiate them from clerics of other deities!

Yeah, it doesn’t make me less likely to use what I have, which are complete rules anyways...but I won't give Goodman Games another dime.

They absolutely lost me as a (longtime) customer over that.

Darn straight.

I think we can conclusively answer the title of this thread: "yes, @Parmandur cares!"