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Thomas Shey replied to the thread WoD renaming, White Wolf returns.Not only that, but just hearing about "the second game" is harder, and its already got market penetration that makes it more likely new... -
100% right on, @MGibster William Goldman said it of movies, with orders of magnitude more audience and money: “Nobody knows anything”...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread WoD renaming, White Wolf returns.I'm just saying that once one game in a genre comes out and is reasonably successful, any successor has a hill to climb.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread WoD renaming, White Wolf returns.Again, the setting that's leading up toward Armageddon? And has all the roots around it before then? Mages are theoretically secret...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread WoD renaming, White Wolf returns.The setting that includes incursions from outsiders that existed before the universe and Atlantis? And even more things that show up in...
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You probably don't. Arkham Horror and (I guess) Candela Obscura are for people who like the Cthulhu Mythos concepts, but not the Call of...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread WoD renaming, White Wolf returns.Uhm. As someone who ran one and actually did editorial work on the other--not really. There are differences but they're not as...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread WoD renaming, White Wolf returns.Well, of course, because you have problems with Mage and think WitchCraft is better. But selling that can be non-trivial.
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Thomas Shey reacted to kronovan's post in the thread OSR Does "Old School" in OSR only apply to D&D? with
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As someone who actively homebrews with CE, I personally don't consider it OSR. The freebie CE SRD is based upon Mongoose Traveler 1e... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread Do you buy new versions of TTRPG games when you haven't had time to play the older version sitting on your shelf?.A lot of games do provide conversion documents. That said, sometimes you find that some system or approach fundamentally doesn't work...
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Someone should do a post-mortem analysis of the CortexPrime phenomena - a system that's incredible for framing setting concepts*, yet...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Do you buy new versions of TTRPG games when you haven't had time to play the older version sitting on your shelf?.I'd go as far as to suggest in many cases a new edition three years down simply shows the creators are paying attention; in practice...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Do you buy new versions of TTRPG games when you haven't had time to play the older version sitting on your shelf? with Like.
< always has been jpeg > I mean but seriously, it's nothing new, it's nothing we've recently accepted. It's something that's been...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Hussar's post in the thread Captain America: Brave New World - Official Trailer (2025) with Like.
.... finishes reading the thread. Yeah, that's about what I expected. Reminds me a lot of Solo. People carping about how it was a...
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Thomas Shey reacted to trappedslider's post in the thread Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers) with Like.
I think at this point, we should just realize that the blip time will be a noodle incident and never really explored to the satisfaction...