Recent content by Professor Murder

I mean, is anyone really looking back at 2025 as a good year overall for Wizards when it comes to DnD marketing and it's reception?

I will say that I have been training myself to not pursue crowdfunding projects that have too many separately produced stretch goals. An extra side book? A screen? OK. Dice? A challenge Coin? Minis? Unless its more of what the project is already making, avoid it.

So I have a specific question: What's the page count. I'm debating between soft and hard cover. If its a slim book, say less than 150, then I'm locked in on softcover. If it's over 250, locked in on hardcover. In-between, well then its an internal debate but leaning towards hardcover the closer...

I may if I can reliably expect it to be available post Kickstarter.

So I am down and will back, but I have to be honest.... Kinda wish SJG were able to just release things and not need the kickstarter. I want to pay money and get products and not have to wait a year+.

Adapting Torment would get my money.

Either Masks of Nyarlathotep or Horror on the Orient Express would be fun to see realized. Given their scopes, they could each easily run multiple seasons.

It's a crap shoot as to Victoriana shipping to backers before years end, though PDFs are now available. It's ambitious to hope Shadowrun: Anarchy 2e will ship next year.

So I am keen to pick this up, but the deluxe is just outside my budget. Conversely, if the production quality is as good as the core book and given the size they are suggesting, $40 is a pretty good deal at this point. What I am aching for is for them to release the screen as a separate product.

So what I need is crunch but given the lack of it in Spelljammer and Planescape, I am very warry.

So the timeline is wonky and a sequel is only so beholden to keeping the timing accurate. The second film was released only a couple years after the first but is set some 7ish years later. And yes, I would expect that bringing Rachel Weis is a fine excuse to ignore the 3rd film.

I mean, I am down, but I don't expect anything until shooting is concluded at this point. Most likely, stories like this get put out there to generate buzz and create pressure to get a film produced. Frasier has some juice right now and would love to see a return of the 1st and 2nd film's...

So my current campaign is probably my most "Dungeons Plus Dragons" campaigns I have run in some time. It takes place in a rediscovered underground necropolis and one of the main NPCs and patron to the party is an ancient Deep Dragon.

Part of the issue is that people don't actually know how to engage in criticism typically. They just have opinions. It's not the same.

Have yet to watch this vid, but yeah. It is also what you let yourself stew in. Besides trying my best to not bother with unneeded negative critique, I am trying to consume less media that engages in such.