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(pretending I haven't read this) Jesus F Christ man how deep are your shelves? The exact same one placed further back looks tiny!

Flesh tone on him looks great

Exactly what I do with most of my models too. All of my non-named character LotR models were painted like this. Occasionally I will use a non-black wash on something and occasionally I will put edge/line highlighting on some key features, but the basic 'light colour black wash' on its own makes...

'I would know about that because of my time at the academy studying evocations' and 'I wouldn't know anything about elf-magic' vs. 'Oh I guess I don't know as much about my masters subject as I thought, wtf' and '"Hurr, I guess I must have overheard some wizards talking about evocations at the...

why do you think it's called rare?

Pineapple can work Clotted cream and jam also goes well, but only in the correct order

I just cook it and eat it, I don't put anything on it

The vast majority of D&D sales are driven by successful marketing of various stripes. The idea that 5e's success at bringing in new people was due to a favourable analysis of the revised game rules is laughable.

Traveller - Megatraveller - Traveller the New Era MERP/Rolemaster 2 - RMSS HeroQuest - HeroQuest 2 (arguably)

That's not my experience with indie games. Most had reasonable to good art, just very sparsely placed in the text. Personally I spent a bunch of money commissioning good art (hi Storn Cook) because I wanted to and because it was fun.

I think to a large extent OD&D to AD&D 2.0 are different variations of the same game. I think after that each full edition change is pretty much a new game, with 4e being a natural but significant evolution of some aspects of how 3.X worked, and 5e being to some extent a synthesis of big...

Regarding the notion of being excluded or drowned out by bigger, noisier new things: This is supposed to be a thread about story, plot, and playing to find out.

Well, nothing about 5e is creative. It's entirely a warm mush retread of previous design work filtered through a lens of 'you can do anything you want with it because we haven't taken any firm positions'.

So your position is that 3e and 5e aren't proper D&D?

I had squashed eggs once - I sat down on a hard chair too quickly.