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You can't shake hands with the devil and come away clean. I don't think Goodman is a bigot, but he clearly has no problem working with bigots. That's a "never buy or use another product from them ever again" level problem for me.

That's fair. But in my experience all RPGs involve lots of tedious planning, which is why I love flashbacks. You could also go the other way and make planning a mini game. A skill challenge, basically. Give the PCs so many "rounds" to plan and make rolls to build up resources etc before...

Daggerheart is now sold out on Amazon. At least sold out from Amazon itself. And the sharks are already swimming with $70 core sets and $50 sets with $20 shipping.

That's a great post by the way. Yours and the one you linked to. How would you do flashbacks in Daggerheart? I'm not sure just using only stress would work well. Maybe a combo of hope and stress. Maybe 0 stress, 1 stress, and 2 stress or 1 hope? You gain a hope on about 54% of rolls and...

They are somehow looking worse and worse with each passing day.

Yeah, never underestimate the coping skills, justification skills, laziness, stupidity, and lack of empathy of humans.

Exactly. His expressed views are solidly inclusion and acceptance. He’s betraying those stated values by working with Bledsaw. He’s alienating his fans who believe in those values by working with Bledsaw. But, by working with Bledsaw he’s gaining new fans…who despise inclusion and acceptance...

Try any of the CR Daggerheart actual plays. The first episode of Age of Umbra is now on YouTube.

Good question. Only Joseph Goodman or one of his inner circle can answer that. But it clearly has nothing to do with preservation or bringing back a classic for a new generation. Neither of which he's actually doing with this project.

Whoever controls the Goodman Games YouTube account.

Spot on. This whole idea of somehow "preserving art" is also completely beside the point in regards to this project as it will not actually contain a reprint of the original. It's an entirely new, derivative work based on IP owned by a Holocaust-denying bigot. It's the equivalent to arguing that...

That's the worst. "I had to put up with all that unfairness and I turned out all right!" If you want others to suffer because you suffered, you absolutely did not turn out all right.

Right. It's a daily struggle. The worst is having to obey all the stupid rules that keep things unfair. Don’t make stupid, unfair rules and I wouldn’t have a hard time following them.

That has got to be the weakest sauce I've seen surrounding any of this. "Things change"? You get how that doesn't make any of this any better in any way, right? Something convinced Goodman to go back on his promise to never work with a Holocaust-denying bigot. So something was convincing...

AD&D initiative according to the PHB was simple 1d6 side-based initiative. It only became a nightmare if you tried to follow every subsequent book and magazine article that fiddled with the system and added mountains of caveats. Like, for example, the ridiculous ADDICT PDF already posted. It's...

Justice sensitivity in neurodivergent people is real. Just saying.

I do. At the very least Bledsaw's Holocaust denial and bigotry weren't enough to stop Goodman. That in an of itself makes Goodman a bad person. What makes it worse and cements the whole thing is that at some point Goodman lied his ass off about all of it. Depending on the timeline of events...

Class-specific lore, yes. D&D in general, no. As far back as AD&D you have the Hammer of Thunderbolts which was very much a mjolnir knockoff.

Yeah, that's fair. It's not an extra stat block in the 5E sense so it doesn't get to do anything "extra" outside the bounds of the PC-failure or Fear-spend economy. New game and new modes of thinking and all that. I still haven't gotten it to the table yet. Hopefully will soon. Absolutely. I'm...