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  1. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    It's much weirder than that: the player characwe knew in-game was actually the interloper personality, the charretuened to his previous personality after coming back again. Jaffe gave Mercer a big blank check by giving a character concept of a guy whose first memory was clawing out of a grave...
  2. Parmandur

    D&D General Exploring new locations for an Appendix N

    Appendix N was really neat in the context of the 70s, when book recommendations could be hard to come by (still true in the 90s when I was a kod!), but now it might bot be worth the trouble for WotC to do one, unfortunately.
  3. Parmandur

    D&D's The Book of Dragons Comes Out in August

    Honestly, kind of seems to me that the lack of Saridor art over the years may be part of why Saridor is dead in the First World mythos they have gone with.
  4. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Right,but Liam kind of was excited for that to be the end of his arc for Vax right then and there. He felt that he was robbed of a cool and mea ingful end, which tied into Mercer working to give that to him...again...later.
  5. Parmandur

    Wheel of Time S3

    Even though I bounced off the show, I don't resent it mostly because of thia: it brought the books back into the cultural conversation and breathed some fresh life into the fandom. Heck, it kicked off another re-read for me starting with Pike's audiobook of Eye of the World.
  6. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Clearly, preservation and recreating classic gaming and literary material are. Aserious passion for Goodman: if he was just interested in money, he would be doing something more lucrative with his time. However, his passion for reprinting old material appears to be greater than his desire to...
  7. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Right, and Liam offered Vax's life in exchange for hwrs...and didn't like that Mercer didn't let him follow through on that exchange.
  8. Parmandur

    Murderbot on Apple TV

    Really, I found them quite humorous, if perhaps deadpan...? Show looks good, but alas I don't have Apple TV.
  9. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    In the SunkenTomb, Liam was actually excited about having thst be the tragic end of his character and was miffed that Mercer ruined the cool death by taking it back. They spoke about it on air, and Liam's reacseems to have formed how they approach lethal situations moving forwards.
  10. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Concious, sure. My point was thst it arose organically in play, rather than being premeditated.
  11. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Two main issues there, they were a bit low level to have access to resurrection resources, and Jaffe seemed ready to move on to another character...Liam got really annoyed that he was resurrected by Mercer without his permission, actually, it was a bit of A Thing at the time that they worked out.
  12. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Both, actually: bold when caution was needed, then retreated when standing her ground may have turned the tide. But, she was playing her character, and not necessarily dissecting the tactics super carefully.
  13. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Yes, one presumes...but no, he ran the dice where they lay. He didn't realize that meant Molly would be dead until after he declared hia action. He clearly thoight about doing a takesey-backsie for half a second...but that would go against how he runs his games, and player expectations. Point...
  14. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    They set up the final arc with Vecna at the end of the latest Season: next Season is likely the last. To be fair, they didn’t kill him so much as the dice did: Mercer and the players were quite surprised.
  15. Parmandur

    What Game Publishers Are Saying About The Tariffs

    Update from Brotherwise Games about the Cosmere RPG: One month ago, we shared our update on how Brotherwise would handle tariffs, and we were truly moved by this community's response. In spite of bearing such bad news, it was our most-Liked update ever. Backers responded with an outpouring of...
  16. Parmandur

    Wheel of Time S3

    Knife of Dreams is a banger, and Sanderson pullsit off. Enjoy!
  17. Parmandur

    Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED]

    That's what makes this feel like Greek Tragedy almost: I don't think Goodman shares Bledsaw's horrifying opinions, not for a second, but his desire for preservation is overpowering some other aspect of prudence here.
  18. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Haven't gone for it, since I have the B/X and Rules cyclopedia PDFs. Feels redundant.
  19. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Important historical context is that the "funnel" idea came in the wake of late atage 3.5 and Pathfinder becoming dominant after 4E fizzled, to offer a completely different take on making a characto complex builds. To be honest...the Basic/Expert vox sets are on the DMsGuild for cheap, and they...
  20. Parmandur

    D&D's The Book of Dragons Comes Out in August

    Yeah, I mean, this is just a license to print money. People love dragon art.
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