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We've already seen Xena's 1999 reincarnation.

I thought this was a deckbuilding game?

More about adventure/encounter design. D&D in its various iterations is fundamentally built around a model of attrition. 3e made it explicit that the typical adventuring day would have ~4 encounters which would each sap the party of about 20-25% of its resources (primarily hp and spells) in...

To be honest: no. If your players won't engage with the system, pretty much no system is going to be satisfactory. Or at least no system with a depth beyond that of Lasers & Feelings.

There's something weird happening here. Valeros, the Fighter archetype, should be taking out one or two goblins per round. He has Fighting d8 and is dual-wielding for +1(page 140, Two Weapons). He can also use Martial Flexibility to get Two Weapon Fighting (or some other feat, but that one seems...

It's more like being in a place of business (e.g. restaurant or store) they own and run. It's a step removed from the intimacy of being in someone's home, but it's still theirs, and if one misbehaves it's very possible they might toss you out.

I have a vague recollection that much of the populations in the indigenous-controlled areas of North America consist of "immigrants", i.e. people without any blood ties to various tribes but who either moved there or already lived there when things got shifted around and didn't want to move.

Exalted 3e tried something like this. Not necessarily the interplay between combat and not-combat, but trying to make them have equal weight. In previous editions, a very disproportionate amount of Charms (magic-powered special abilities) were focused around combat – I'd estimate something like...

We're both old enough to remember back in the 00s when they were able to provide a steady stream of written content on the D&D website. Lore for both Forgotten Realms and Eberron (and maybe some Greyhawk too), previews and web enhancements for published books, DMing advice, poking at problem...

As I recall, even before Rowling became super-toxic (or at least before the public was aware of her toxicity) she was very protective of her world, and wouldn't let others expand on it. I have a vague memory of Hasbro licensing Harry Potter back in the 00s and mentioning "role playing" in the...

Tolkien was very much not a Nazi. When his German publisher asked him to certify that he was "Aryan" in order to be able to publish the Hobbit in German, he basically told them to bleep off, but in slightly more polite terms.

I think it's the same all over the EU. There was a case a few years back where, IIRC, the Wikimedia Foundation had to pay some architects' collection society a bunch of licensing money for publishing pictures of covered buildings. Presumably, this would apply using the same terms as any other...

I unfortunately couldn't find a non-karaoke video version of this one: In the sphere where I was born, Lived the oldest gnome I've seen, And he told us of his life In the Gnomish Space Marines. So we jammed up to the sun In our fine well-built machine, And we joined the stately ranks Of the...

It sort of is, though. Or rather, it assembles the image from bits and pieces of those already existing images – to the point where you can occasionally see artist's signatures on the resulting image.