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  1. MatthewJHanson

    On Kickstarter There Are More Successful Projects But Creators Earning 30% Less

    Another data point to throw out there. The central premise of the article seems to be that the amount individual projects is raising is lower than before. I know that I as a publisher am running campaigns for smaller books than I used to with smaller goals. With things like Zine Quest I'm not...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 20 Talking Treasures - New Sentient Magic Items

    We've put up another preview. This time for Velket's blade, a sword that tempts PCs power to conquer and rule. We've also reached our second stretch goal, for a micro book collecting four additional sentient items from our previous publications.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 20 Talking Treasures - New Sentient Magic Items

    We just released the first of our weekly previews for 20 Talking Treasures. This one features Lionheart, a glory seeking shield. In our week since launched, we've unlocked our first stretch goal for new interior art, and we're less than $100 away from our second stretch goal for a bonus...
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    Should a tier 4 party in organized play be rewarded for great playing by ending early?

    Second this. I'd probably also want play the full time at allotted. I also don't think that concept of "punishing" your players is something that should ever be part of running D&D. If there's behavior that you don't want to see at your table you should talk to them. In your case I don't...
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    Suspension of disbelief and education

    Yeah, this is what gets me too. I remember back in the day reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and wondering how any sane person was okay with what was going on. First the fact that there even was a tournament, which was notorious for killing young children. Maybe it's more gentle now...
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    D&D General Personality and class

    So if you want to a class recommendation, I'd go with wizard because of things like "plan everything in advance" and "reads a lot." Though I'd add that while classes sometimes fall into certain stereotypes, there is nothing that requires certain classes to have certain personalities. You could...
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    Ed Greenwood retweets homophobic Indiegogo campaign, is also Senior Editor on project

    Also feel the need to mention that the Indiegogo is a "flexible funding," goal, which is always super sketch and among the reasons that I don't support things on Indiegogo anymore.
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    Ravensburger Releasing Disney RPG Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls

    Yeah, I could see even see an expansion purely focused on Frozen with Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, and Olaf as characters. While we're over-analyzing character choices, I feel Marion is a surprising choice. Belle and Moana are both protagonists, and Violet has super powers. Marion is mostly there to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 20 Talking Treasures - New Sentient Magic Items

    We've reached our funding goal in under 24 hours! Now we've got a tone of time to smash through those stretch goals!
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    Mandalorian & Grogu movie announced

    Given how Star Wars movies have fared recently, I also hope that it actually gets released.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 20 Talking Treasures - New Sentient Magic Items

    Sneak Attack Press has just launched our Kickstarter campaign for 20 Talking Treasures. The powerful ring that wants to return to its master. The chaos blade that forces its wielder into a murderous rage. Magic items with a mind of their own are a staple of fantasy fiction. In fantasy...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How much should it cost to use a permanent teleportation circle?

    I think it depends on the setting. The more common magic is, the cheaper it will be. In my campaign only a handful of NPCs can cast 5th level spells, and nobody is making new permanent ones (there are a few old ones lying around), so it would probably be a lot of money, probably in the...
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    Worlds of Design: A Worthy End?

    This is not my experience. I've found that players frequently use other options when they're available. I think often D&D presents combat as the only or best way to solve a problem.
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    D&D General Your best pets

    In one campaign they came to the site of a magical catastrophe that created a number of living magical spells. Most tried to eat the PCs, but they they also discovered a living Tenser's floating disk that the adopted as a pet. They named it Bob.
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    How can we sleep while our game is burning? Or, how many problems?

    So this is a complete opposite mindset of what I have. First of all our group is pretty much always game to run whatever the GM wants to run, because we like our group more than we care about the system. Second, we rotate GMs, I for one, and I think other GMs switch games not because we say...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What's in that Closet?

    Sneak Attack Press is excited to announce our latest release: 20 Curious Closets for D&D 5e. You can get them individually or save 15% as part of the 20 Useful Things bundle. Furniture is everywhere. Closets, cabinets, and wardrobes are so common that adventurers only see them as a place to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Do You Want from High-Level 3rd Party Product?

    Good thoughts all. Speaking of high-level tactics, my players came up with the idea of planeshifting to an alternate plane so they could use gate to pull through the adventure's big bad. I let it work once, and then all the other bad guys heard about it and came up with countermeasures. Yeah...
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    D&D General US Postal Service Releases D&D Stamps

    This was true at one point, but the forever stamps proved so popular that now all US first class envelop stamps are forever stamps.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Do You Want from High-Level 3rd Party Product?

    I think 1 to 20 adventures are great, though at the moment it's a little more than I want to take on at the moment. This is generally my thought as well. Do you think you'd be interested in purchasing a high-level "adventure toolkit" like this? Some ideas I have are stopping an invasion force...
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    D&D General Worldbuilding Assumptions: On the Origin of Species

    For most races I leave it ambiguous, mostly because the characters don't know. There are a few exceptions though, like the dragonborn were created by dragons.
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