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    ICv2's Latest Quarterly Chart: D&D Top, But PF2 Is Strong

    It could be - considering this is survey data - that the respondents themselves are the ones lumping Pathfinder brands together. So either we’ve got Paizo fanboys jumping ship, game store owners separating product into WotC / the rest shelves...or perhaps opinion-based-sales ‘data’ is just a...
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    Starfinder Starfinder Meets Alexa: A Review

    Lots of jargon - so what is it? I’m getting that I sit down in front on a tablet I angle towards my face and navigate a choose your own adventure story that’s narrated. Do I attack, have hit points, what? What do I need to possess to do this or is it just way better if I roam the internet...
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    WotC Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance Video Game Announcement Trailer

    At best this is a misinterpretation of what the “new crowd” wants. It reads a lot like the “they’re all laughing AT you” meme...
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    D&D General $299 D&D Anniversary Sapphire Dice

    I might buy it. Checks. Yup, is not celeb, just guy who doesn’t worry about $. what’ll stop me is actually using these. Putting out thicker mat to roll on because the napkins on table are thin white cotton... worrying about getting a dent / son dropping. Yeah probably not for me either...
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    Starfinder Starfinder Downtime Activities

    While playing scum and villainy for the first time I was ultimately impressed with how integral the downtime events were to the story structure. Basically there’s no way to get new jobs or advance the plot without it. Is that everyone’s experience? Our GM has a multipart story with a mcguffin...
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    D&D General Comparing Giant Sizes

    Remember kids, if it’s over 12’ tall—run! Oh, and that fireball just burned all the clothes off your body, plus that map you were drawing. Have fun out there!
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    Podcast #72 Dungeons & Dragons and the Satanic Panic

    I’ll admit—you got me with that comic. Wasn’t until near the end that I realized it wasn’t a parody, but a tract. Welp!
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    Child abuse in regards to Dungeons and Dragons IRL, how should such things be handled.

    I think you missed your opportunity to get anything positive out of this when you knew a 12yr old snuck out of the house and felt that was beneficial. Now it’s just an argument and you need to let it go.
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    RPG Evolution: RPGs Have a Health Problem

    I wonder how pastors feel. Or the small business owner. Or anyone else self-employed. Heck, even those folks on corners. I know my grandpa stressed a lot at the end of his life that his pension earned by working for twenty plus years at a low-wage factory job would last. That was after stints...
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    TSR When Random House Sued TSR For $9.5M

    If ya’ll could find some way to get together around a gaming table and record/film it, I’d watch—amazed.
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    TSR The Beginning: 1968 and Meeting Gary Gygax and the Gygax Family

    How did you pronounce Jutland? :) I’m always curious about when and why pronunciations are Anglicized. Corpse, most likely you’re a kid—with a lot of book learnin’. Deinonychus was that word for me...
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    D&D 5E New Eberron Minis: Skycoach, Lord of Blades, Dinos

    I stopped buying minis about the same time as they started to be sold using renders.
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    D&D General Making The Realms Come Alive

    I like details—and living places that change over time are the objective. It’s hard to picture The Realms, or Star Wars as good means to that end. If you step into a point in their history you’re surrounded by the baggage of “what’s canonical”. Either you’re living in the shadow of main...
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    D&D General Worlds of Design: Chaotic Neutral is the Worst

    There’s a lot of stuff to get past before you can actually get down to reading this. Whoah with the useless “been doing this since the ‘80’s” thing. And then holla if you love “hood” used repeatedly and in poor context. Then “TERRORISTS”? Really? We just accept that? I dunno. How this...
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    D&D 5E Out of the Abyss - Alice in Wonderland? Or Reign of Fire

    Hadn't heard of EX1 so I'll check that out. Sticking with OoTA for a few reasons, not unlike most who've run an out of the box (OoTB?) adventure--great art, feels official, everything's in one place. So to clarify the motivations about why I'll be making changes away from what's written. Yup...
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    D&D 5E Deep Dive into Descent Into Avernus

    If you’re not into soil coins—I.E. “others suffer for me to achieve my goals”, there’s always the quintessential heroic backstop—“I suffer to achieve my goals”. Meaning the character using/constructing it gets corrupted. Or be a Jedi and realize that you could be more powerful if you gave...
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    D&D 5E Out of the Abyss - Alice in Wonderland? Or Reign of Fire

    Having taken players in our group through the reveal of [spoilers follow] Demogorgon (or from their perspective a barely glimpsed monster associated with brief bouts of madness they experienced), I'm left to wonder how much actual Alice in Wonderland is in here. Chris Perkins' actual reference...
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    D&D 5E New Cover for Eberron: Rising from the Last War

    I really like this cover for Dark Sun - had no idea they were going to do it before Eberron. Amazing how fan input really does change things!
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    Worlds of Design: Gun vs. Sword

    Not sold. It’s a great topic. Why gun games aren’t sword games. These “laws” suggest that a fighter has to be able to act on all the other participants—range is a good criteria. As said, arrows and magic have range. It seems pretty clear that what we’re doing is giving everyone a turn. Not...
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    D&D General Gamer Stats From White Dwarf in the 80s

    How can we get more cool and normal people in this hobby—of any gender? I’ll play with dudes or chicks, but not self-absorbed jerks or obsessive wackos. Even the grinding axes in here, don’t know that we’d like being at each others houses. Hunh. And we think we’re all here for the same thing??
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