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My main takeaway is that almost 400 different rpgs have sessions at GenCon. And close to 90 have a number of events in the double or triple digits.

I thought this was just some trolling, not a full NuTSR situation. It’s full NuTSR.

You just got them in NZ?

2014 books were widely available, usually within a few months of US release. The infinite staircase one for example was here, maybe the last one to generally available here. But I have also noticed D&D stuff in general being less prominent. ( though I could find movie tie in stuff). Waiting...

So, several months later.... Roll20 is better with 2024. But not 100%. 2014 ease of use was (or I guess is) still greater. But the gap is smaller, and for those that want it you can mix between the two. But the books are no where to be seen in the not North America location I am in. I...

They will be lucky to live through what may be multiple combat encounters (and maybe being betrayed by someone they brought from town) and encounter a few empty rooms--which are that way for a reason. There are plenty of TSR modules--in 2e it was entire boxed sets--with surprisingly little in...

I would certainly include Tomb, FT of Tharizdun, and Tsojcanth, maybe Barrier Peaks. Probably at the expense of the non EGG ones. As for your top one, it always seemed like it would be a challenge to run, but I assume you have done so?

So themes of sex AND violence. Plus some techno-alienation-sc fi-dystopia. Back in the day. Way back in the day, my few copies of heavy metal magazine were treasured items. Not like my D&D stuff, but up there.

There is so much stuff out there. But there has been. The hypothesis is that now people are really starting to play it.

The origins stuff was good. It meandered a bit, just a bit, but very good overall. Mearls continues to proclaim we are the very verge of some great indie RPG revival. I guess we will see.

There was certainly malice, at least by some. See the "Castle Greyhawk" parody adventure.

The story as I know it is that the Blume brothers almost bankrupted the company—at its peak—and Gygax came back to Lake Geneva to save it, releasing Unearthed Arcana and other products with his name on them. This and firing a bunch of people, some of whom would found other game companies. The...

Some I interesting speculation up thread. As for the results. If releasing 3 big deluxe corebooks for the most popular edition in the game’s history did not lead to a spike in revenue it would be a disaster. So they have avoided disaster.

Hence the reason we were wondering. I would still take the 5e approach over, say, 3e.

In play we actually had the “wait, how does the grappler end the grapple?” come up. The grappler wanted to throw a pc off a ravine, which might still be an edge case, but at least it’s confirmed that the grappler can just end the grapple. So at least that is fixed.