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The original printing of the 5e PHB had some rather unflattering descriptions of half-orcs, and under the heading "The Mark of Gruumsh" said, among other things: "Half-orcs are not evil by nature, but evil does lurk within them, whether they embrace it or rebel against it." There was also this...

Not with that attitude you can't!

I expect Tigris is talking about RPG progress clocks as popularized by Blades in the Dark and described at this link, not mechanical clocks.

I think a lot of people enjoy crafting aspects of various video games and try to translate those things into RPGs. But they work very differently on a fundamental level. Primarily, video game crafting is often about finding crafting materials. In many cases, this is something done semi-passively...

One should not need protective gear to step outside one's domicile.

I'm sure it is. Selling lottery tickets is usually a good way of making money, moreso when you can outsource the payouts to the customers themselves.

I'm pretty sure I've posted it here before, but Matt Colville has a pretty good video on the topic: Basically, the secret sauce seems to be: Create a community. This can either be done from scratch or by being part of a larger community and budding off from that one. Cultivate the community...

See, that's the kind of thing I dislike. I mean, I'm happy you got a honeymoon off a Black Lotus, but to me speculative trading is inherently a bad thing and particularly so with things that are supposed to be for fun. I would love if Wizards switched over to an LCG model with Magic instead –...

In a reasonable system, the value you get from the cards you buy is in the enjoyment you get from playing with them. That's how toys work. Any secondary market value is beside the point, and in the ideal world it would be 0 and Wizards would keep reprinting cards to reach that level.

As I recall, the Binder was also one of the first places where we started seeing encounter abilities. They weren't called that, but some of the vestiges had abilities that recharged after 5 rounds, which basically made them 1/encounter. PF1 also had an official binder-like class in Occult...

Wizards of the Coast has had various reprint policies in the past, aimed at providing some protection for secondary market value. Originally, I don't believe they had any such policy, but in the mid-90s after the release of 4th edition and Chronicles, they got a lot of feedback from customers...

I'm not really into Magic, but I do follow some MtG-related things online. As I understand it, there are three main issues with the Spider-Man set: Quite a few people are feeling a lot of Universes Beyond fatigue, with Universes Beyond sets matching or even exceeding regular Magic sets in...

That's like the easiest no-prize ever. Since genetic augmentation is illegal, the people who do it are going to be shady and quality control is going to suffer. If the feds had embraced it, they could probably have worked out the kinks.