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    Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store

    That's wild, ENpublishing books are actually pretty well stocked at my FLGS.
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    Exploring Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

    Those classic video games do tie into the Drizz't novels, as they are deep background prequels.
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    Exploring Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

    These books are Tondro's second project as a D&D designer, and rhe first had even more curious layout decisions (Deck of Many Things). Though looking at other Setting books from 5E: Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica: Krenko's Way, the low level intro Adventure, is at the end of Chapter 4, after...
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2000) was a passion project turned cinematic disaster

    For sure, she doesn't seem motivated to even really do any interviews, though I think Ben Riggs at least would give her a fair shake these days.
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2000) was a passion project turned cinematic disaster

    I would pay good money for Williams own detailed account of TSR events.
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    What Do You Need From Publishers?

    What I need from publishers is help reducing the amount of elbow grease I need to use. I am 40 years old: I have a day job and five kids aged two to ten. Maps, encounters, NPCs, plot hooks, local Settings, player handouts...if it would take work and time for to make then, I would like them.
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock Video Game Announced by Invoke Studios

    They haven't put out any internally developed video games yet, they have built a good half dozen studios that have been working for half a decade now on their projects. We won't see any of those until 2027 now, and we will see how those go. They seem to have stopped working with outside studios...
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock Video Game Announced by Invoke Studios

    Well, selective or permissive strategies aside, their current strategy is altogether different: instead of licensing to third party video game publishers, they have just built their own internal video game studios. It's a bold bet, but probably the most viable approach longterm. It's what...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Amazon US book sales rank.

    That is interesting. It is really weird now looking at the best selling Dungeons & Dragons books section now thst all the new D&D books are not "books" in distribution terms any more. Poking around, I found more reason to be skeptical of modern Amazon's categories, feels like some AI...
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    [WIR] The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

    Wouldn't say it is "better," both performances are their own distinct pieces of art. But Serkis does really deliver each character with a distinct performance. His Bombadil is disconcerting and amazing.
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    [WIR] The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

    The Serkis audio books are quite good, too, Tolkien's prose and poetry really lends itself to being performed.
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    D&D 5E (2024) So, what does the Artificer "replace"?

    Thing is, it felt more organic when the old school wargamers were designing it based off of historical parallels of mixed arms, less so with the more game-oriented design.
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