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    Dragon Reflections #78

    This was definitely one of my favorite covers. I liked the bright colors and style. It was also one of my favorite imaginings of a faerie dragon. I started gaming with 1e and we used psionics from the start. The 1e rules gave a low percentage chance that any player would have psionics, so it...
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    In-Depth Review of Quests from the Infinite Staircase

    I agree. I think it was the best illustration in the adventure. And, more importantly, it was also perfectly accurate in depicting exactly what the scene looked like. There were some other very good illustrations in the module (such as the doors on p.27), but that's what you would expect from...
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    D&D General Dark Horse Comics Signs Deal with Wizards of the Coast

    I agree. The late 1980's through early 1990's DC D&D comics (AD&D, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Spelljammer lines) had by far the best stories (including writing by Jeff Grubb) and artists (such as Rags Morales, Dave Simons, and Jan Duursema). I very much prefer their more...
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    D&D General Dark Horse Comics Signs Deal with Wizards of the Coast

    At the very end of the announcement, it refers to IDW as the "previously licensed" publisher of D&D comics. I wonder if that means the IDW license will terminate when Dark Horse takes over or if both companies will be publishing D&D comics at the same time (which would be fine with me).
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D 5E’s Top-Selling Adventures and What It Means for the Hobby from Teos Abadia aka Alphastream.

    I agree! I almost wrote in my post that I also believe "Dragon" is in the title probably helped sales of this book and Horde of the Dragon Queen: Tyranny of Dragons.
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D 5E’s Top-Selling Adventures and What It Means for the Hobby from Teos Abadia aka Alphastream.

    I'm not at all surprised that "Dragon Heist" is near the top of the list. The article says that Amazon sales are included (except when Amazon refuses to disclose their figures) and "Dragon Heist" has been one of the cheapest D&D books (if not the cheapest) available on Amazon for long stretches...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 PHB, DMG, MM, DM Screen, Character sheets now listed on Amazon

    There are some interesting new illustrations on the listings: https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Players-Handbook-Rulebook/dp/0786969512/ https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Dungeon-Masters-Rulebook/dp/0786969520/...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Dungeon Master's Guide's Greyhawk Map

    It's nice to see the Great Kingdom and Rauxes restored. There's nothing I like better than a decayed (but still frighteningly powerful) empire that's ruled by a mad emperor.
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    Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead'

    Art & Arcana is a wonderful book with a lot of great old photos, many times better than Lore & Legends. I don't dislike Lore & legends, but it is a bit annoying that the book puts forward the idea that D&D had run its course and was dying of old age until 5e came along and breathed new life...
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    D&D Movie/TV Paramount+ Will Not Proceed with Dungeons & Dragons Live-Action TV Show

    I'm not interested in seeing adaptations of the millions of Drizzt novels, so I hope that's not the route they're going. It would be much more interesting to see new, original stories with a different set of characters (although cameos are always welcome).
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    Dragon Reflections #75

    The Hell articles and Seapoint were great. In the days before "Dungeon" magazine, having a module appear in an issue of Dragon was always the highlight of the issue for me. Seapoint was a good adventure, but even the bad adventures could be modified and used.
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    WotC Hasbro CFO Sharpens Focus on Cost Savings As Toy Shoppers Pull Back

    Seems strange that Hasbro says in the piece that they are "expanding" the division that makes MTG (without saying Wizards of the Coast by name) given that the December layoffs included WotC people as well as the rest of the company. Maybe they are going to do an about-face and expand the D&D...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Reveals The Confirmed Release Dates of 2024's D&D Slate

    Wow, I had no idea Goodman's WotC license for TSR reprints/conversions had ended. I'm glad I got the first six OAR volumes before they were discontinued. I guess that explains why OAR7 is "Dark Tower" (Judges Guild reprint/conversion) and OAR8 is Grimtooth's Traps instead of more of the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Reveals The Confirmed Release Dates of 2024's D&D Slate

    I also STRONGLY prefer physical books for various reasons that I won't elaborate on here. But it's also nice to have a pdf copy of the book for portability and for searching. If you want to find all references of a specific term, I've found that the pdf search function is generally (but not...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Reveals The Confirmed Release Dates of 2024's D&D Slate

    One room per session!!! Yikes --- It'd probably take them a couple of hundred years to explore Undermountain. I remember the old description of Tenser's Floating Disk said that Tenser developed it because he was so greedy he couldn't stand to leave behind a single copper piece (I miss the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Reveals The Confirmed Release Dates of 2024's D&D Slate

    I think I get where you're coming from. As for myself, I don't mind the occasional crossover between DnD worlds, but I prefer it to be a very rare thing. In a way, it sort of cheapens the specific flavor of each individual cosmology when you continually pop from Krynn to Oerth to Toril to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Reveals The Confirmed Release Dates of 2024's D&D Slate

    Not sure what "OG" novel deal is. I assume maybe it's a misprint and you mean EG deal for Ed Greenwood perhaps. Anyway, big world-changing events are something that shouldn't happen all the time, obviously. Ed Greenwood once said that you can do that one time in a campaign world, and that's...
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    D&D General The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 Coming In June

    Ma Maybe when the stores were in the process of switching distributors that particular item somehow slipped through the cracks.
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    D&D General The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 Coming In June

    That's good to hear. I hadn't been able to find The Deck of Many Things at either bookstores' website in the past, but now I see that it is finally listed at Books-A-Million (although shown as currently not in stock), but I still haven't been able to find a listing for the Deck on Barnes &...
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    D&D General The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 Coming In June

    I've never even seen a book with four ribbon bookmarks before. And all that foil to boot. This doesn't sound like something that's going to be available at most FSGS and it looks like WotC isn't distributing their product to Books-A-Million or Barnes & Noble anymore, so it's going to be...
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