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    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Can't say I disagree with any of this, but the point still stands that there must be a reason for JG to agree to the project, as they hold the license, as I understand it. I try really hard not to judge the character of a person I have never met, but I have a hard time imagining an altruistic...
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    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Sure, there are exceptions. But I do not think GG is a non-profit, and I doubt the main focus is education or healing. Maybe the TTRPG industry is not the best way to make money, but it is a way to do so for some. I guess my point is, I think neither GG nor JG started this project out of their...
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    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    You do not have to pivot to the complete opposite market. It may be enough to shift a little bit, lose some of the old customers, and gain some new ones. Maybe you do not even need to gain new customers, if you do not have a current alternative that makes you the equivalent amount of money...
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    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    As I see it, GG is a business. The goal of a business is to make money. If appealing to certain ideals makes money, a business will want to do that. If there is more money in ignoring these ideals later, they will be ignored. It takes some thick moral backbone to stand firm and let the money...
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    Goodman Games Offers Assurances About Judges Guild Royalties

    Very well put, I think this sums up my stance very well.
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    Kelsey Dionne and Mike Mearls on Ben Riggs show Reading D&D aloud.

    Finally found the time to watch it, was really interesting and entertaining to watch. The insight into how they got started, while anecdotal, was especially good.
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    Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    Absolutely. At the arcane library, you can download the quickstart rules or something like that for free. They will get you to 3rd lvl, if memory serves.
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    Goodman Games Offers Assurances About Judges Guild Royalties

    Well, if the backers get the refunds from JG if they ask, and now they get the refunds from GG if they ask, my initial question still stands. How is that not money saved by JG? If backers don't get refunds from JG, its all clear. But what I read from comments in the other thread, they do. But I...
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    Goodman Games Offers Assurances About Judges Guild Royalties

    Thanks for the replies! But wasn't it stated in the other thread that you could ask JG for a refund and you would get it? Because it reads to me like GG has no info about the backers from the old KS, so you have to contact them. So I guess I am still a little confused.
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    Goodman Games Offers Assurances About Judges Guild Royalties

    What I don't get: If JG had to pay reimbursements, and now GG is paying the reimbursements (at least in parts), how does JG not profit from that? It's less money they have to pay. Maybe I am a little slow right now, can somebody explain it in easy terms? Hopefully, the net winners will be the...
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    D&D General An interesting talk with AI (creating an EXP table)

    I don't want to be rude or anything, but that seems like a lot of work for a result you already know you wanted before you started.
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    D&D 5E I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    On the grand scheme of things, hard to say. But for me, absolutely right. the game went in a direction I have no interest in, which is totally fine. I think, though, if they went further than the little step, at least something interesting would have come from it. As it stands, to me it's...
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    OSR Knock! Issue 5 Kickstarter is live!

    Well, guess I am a Merry Mycologist now.
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    D&D (2024) Specifying 5e

    5e and the other, newer 5e. Don't worry about it, I tell you what to roll in any case. Yes, that is a 20 sided die. Did you add your profency bonus? Yes, now the six sided die. The normal one, yes that one! Now add your strength mod...
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    OSR Knock! Issue 5 Kickstarter is live!

    I checked the older issues, they are a piece of art. Probably need to sleep on it.
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