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    Spelljammer Spelljammer's Astral Dreadnought & Adult Solar Dragon

    And yet it seems folks are buying it! At one of my LGSes, I noted recently that they replaced a ton of boardgame shelf space since Christmas with more WizKids minis—they’ve got almost a full aisle of it now. The gargantuan minis and the terrain pieces and box sets seem to be proliferating, plus...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Best and Worst of 5e - every book rated

    It’s definitely hard to tell what to make of these rankings. Wildemount is at the top, which I feel is buoyed by Critical Role fans. Nothing is below 3 stars, which should intuitively mean “average”—HotDQ deserves to be below it, for example. And I don’t know what the margin of error is on these...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Best and Worst of 5e - every book rated

    Disagreed Agreed I’m with ya
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D and who it's aimed at

    I’ve mulled this “Disney-fied” critique, and I’m mixed on it. It’s hard for me to separate what I see as the shift in 5E compared to the shift in my own interests within the hobby. (I think both are shifting.) I do feel like 5E is shifting toward a lighter, less mechanically complete vision of...
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    RPG Inspiration: Animated Streaming

    Adventure Time
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    D&D General An Iconic D&D Villain Features In Stranger Things’ New Seasom

    I saw that bit too. But the company is American, and the 1990s are probably one of the low points in D&D’s popularity. My suspicion is these guys knew exactly who Vecna is, assumed he would be an obscure figure, and chose the name anyway. I have no proof of this though, it’s just a hunch.
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    EN World's TTRPG News In All Its Formats!

    I’m not much of a podcast guy, but I have loved the articles here since… man, how far back does it go? My first account here was back in the Eric Noah days, reading the previews of 3E. Been coming here for RPG news ever since. Nobody else has a better community than this place.
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    D&D General An Iconic D&D Villain Features In Stranger Things’ New Seasom

    Wikipedia tells me that they formed in 1998, meaning they had plenty of time to think of a different name. Wikipedia also tells me they have a charitable arm called “Vecna Cares” which made me laugh out loud. EDIT: “Charitable arm”, lol. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vecna_Technologies
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    D&D General An Iconic D&D Villain Features In Stranger Things’ New Seasom

    Vecna is the John Munch of D&D. Put him in every single D&D-adjacent franchise. He’s the linchpin that holds them all together
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    Mutant Future and Labyrinth Lord—Are they still around?

    I wonder too. Maybe the company ownership is gone?
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    Mutant Future and Labyrinth Lord—Are they still around?

    That’s good to hear. Got any good Gamma World-type recommendations?
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    Mutant Future and Labyrinth Lord—Are they still around?

    Good to know! Glad I backed their recent KS then. How compatible is anything from Labyrinth Lord with OSE?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

    Ahh this explains why it was a Target USA exclusive at first, which I’m suddenly recalling.
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    Mutant Future and Labyrinth Lord—Are they still around?

    I always thought Mutant Future looked like an awesome game, and I’m finally looking into running it. However, it hasn’t been updated in a decade, and the forums for Labyrinth Lord and Goblinoid Games as a whole looks kinda… dead. Any news about Mutant Future? Where did all the Labyrinth Lord...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

    I’ve both run and played both boxes too, and we’re going to have to agree to disagree here, friend. I found that DoIP has a very loose, bland plot made of a series of boring mini-dungeons. The Essentials Kit seems like it’s meant as a stand-alone product (though others here have indicated it was...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

    I wasn’t aware of that, but it makes sense. Thanks you you and others for pointing it out.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

    Agreed. Probably the best use of Dragons of Icespire Peak tbh. My biggest disappointment with that adventure was how much detail about the town of Phandalin got removed compared to the amount of info in Lost Mine of Phandelver.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

    Just to clarify, the adventure in the first 5E Starter Set was Lost Mine of Phandelver, and it was excellent. The adventure in Essentials Kit was called “Dragon of Icespire Peak” and it was quite a bit worse. Lost Mine is a damn classic now, but Dragon of Icespire Peak was kind of a stinker...
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    Gate Pass Gazette Gate Pass Gazette #2 Is Here & Level Up: A5E Shipments Arriving!

    I’m stoked! But it seems my books remain on a pallet, in a container, on boat, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean for now. So I must be patient…
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    D&D 5E (2014) Paizo's 'The Abomination Vaults' Pathinder AP Coming to 5E

    FWIW, Pathfinder 2E is a lot less “gamey” feeling than 4E, while still incorporating some of the major innovations of that edition.
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