Recent content by Scars Unseen

It varies, but I'm generally willing to pay if it's something I really want. I just paid $90 including shipping for a hardcopy of Worlds Without Number, but it is a well put together book, with stitched binding.

Definitely plenty of examples of that concept to be sure. Half the gods in Fate/Grand Order are aliens. I think the Assassin's Creed franchise works on this premise (as much as I enjoy the general gameplay of them, I've never actually managed to finish any of the games). Stargate definitely...

Simply put, I don't care what is being banned (in the context of the idea of censorship in general). I care who is doing the banning, and what their place in our daily lives is. In this case, I don't believe payment processors should be able to make this call at all. Their place in our lives...

Yeah, I'd say the Adventures in Faerun cover looks better with the full picture than the Heroes cover for sure, but they still both get worse in one pretty major aspect: there is something behind them going on that they should definitely be paying attention to instead of posing for the camera.

I can definitely agree with this take. It's one of the reasons I love the cover of Worlds Without Number so much. It's evocative of fantastic locations to fill a world with, which is far preferable to me than a simple group portrait. On the other hand, this is pretty fantastic in its own...

My interest in fantasy and D&D both happened at around the same time for related reasons but through different means. My parents got divorced in the summer between my 3rd and 4th grade school years, and rather than live with either of them, I was shipped off to live with my aunt on the other...

Annnd here I'm going to have to protest calling people who aren't satisfied with a corporate produced product as "toxic." Like I said in another post, labeling people you don't like with negative, dehumanizing terms like that is way more negative than people saying they aren't enthusiatic about...

Oh for sure, things were much simpler before the Internet. I was also much younger and didn't have as specific wants in my gaming back when I had a blast playing Heroes Unlimited and Palladium Robotech. I'd hesitate to call what you're seeing an echo chamber though. For sure, any online...

I don't know, I've seen pretty positive things in the RPG community for individual games and creators. It's mostly the big corporate products that get the negativity, and it's mostly product lines with several distinct versions that get comparison and contrast. D&D just happens to fall under...

I would often agree with that sentiment for discussion in general (despite being overall negative on the current edition myself), but this is a thread about a) an official product release and b) WotC's attempt at marketing to get people excited for said release. Official products invite...

On the one hand, sure, there's that. On the other hand, production values can be the thing that pushes a product one way or another if I'm on the fence. I recently commented about getting the World Without Number printed copy over this. I already have the digital version. It wasn't a high...

Not really doing anything for me, but I've mostly jumped ship from D&D Current Edition Current Revision since Tasha's. I'm more likely to hunt down more used 2E source books than buy these. Then again, I did buy the alternate cover Planescape book purely because of the cover art, so it's not...

Novels aren't really a great source of data for a mechanics-focused argument one way or the other due to novel characters not needing to adhere to game mechanics in the first place. Personally, I don't see this as an argument that can be resolved. Some see the mechanical representation of...

It's not unprecedented in D&D. Setting aside the obvious race-as-class from Basic D&D, 3.5E had the Savage Species book, which allowed you to play monstrous characters and level them up as their race. There was also the Unearthed Arcana book, which gave little 3 level racial paragon classes...

If I ever switched to the 2024 rules (unlikely) and a player wanted to play a half-elf, a half-orc or, honestly, any other race that fit in with my campaign but wasn't represented in an official source, I'd make something up most likely. Just using the rules from two not-editions directly is...