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The reason Vietnam just got slapped with a 46% rate is because companies moved there to avoid tariffs on China. Edit: my point being I don’t think there will be an easy workaround for companies in the tabletop/TTRPG space. I think we need to get ready for a new reality that challenges the...

Yeah, having used it for some time now, I concur with the OP - the shift to more manual-like, keyword driven language does not make the game easier and makes the prose uglier. It feels like a concession to the more game-ist philosophy, and I don’t like it. I prefer my TTRPGs to err on the side...

They do. There is lots of 3PP material, including classes, available on DDB.

Pulp and paper are the least of the issues facing companies like Hasbro - if Hasbro is reduced to relying on printing books, it is already bankrupt. It's still primarily a toy company. If these tariffs become the new normal, American toy companies, and gaming companies, are in big, big trouble...

Another aspect to consider are potential, or actual boycotts. Canadians right now are flat out boycotting a lot of American products, as are Danes, and that is filtering throughout Europe. So basically, things are a mess and our hobby is probably going to be changed along with everything else.

Yeah, that was to get around the previous China tariffs, so they are potentially boned. Hasbro relies on plastic a LOT more than they rely on paper.

Where does Games workshop manufacture their miniatures? Where does Hasbro manufacture its toys? I believe for GW it's mostly British, which will raise prices in their crucial US market, as things stand, but should be survivable. Hasbro, on the other hand, will be dealing with a 54% tariff on...

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/board-game-publishers-lament-the-devastating-impact-of-new-us-tariffs-on-the-tabletop-industry-there-is-no-silver-lining-it-is-a-lose-lose-lose-situation-for-everyone-involved/

So the dice are selling out, repeatedly, because irony? Weird. Fun, though. I'm sure Arby's ain't complaining. If they start selling miniatures, I might go there.

I highly recommend the new MM, for the most part*** - the creatures are a lot tougher for their CR rating, and it's no bother to use one or the other or both. ***Exception: creatures that should have an extensive spell list (e.g. lich), for which I use the older versions.

Sometimes I like it - if it's a description of a particularly evocative establishing shot, or a crucial bit of dialogue. For the most part, if I use it I'm adapting it, or getting at the gist of it. It's good to have for novice DMs, though.

I don't think this is an apt analogy at all, unless you actually were stealing the power and they decided to give you a pass. Edit: in your analogy, you always had a right to the electricity, and there was a billing discrepancy - presumably a problem from the power company. When they turned the...

Weird. I don't get the appeal. Maybe it's an American thing, kinda like Canadians and Tim Hortons (though I don't really get that one, either). I think there used to be a few Arby's around in malls or something, but I've never eaten in one. I don't think there's any fast food brand I would like...

Interesting list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?unlocked_article_code=1.804.eZRT.mmvha5qJL7dp&smid=url-share

Is this incident one such case? If you own an IP, and someone uses it against your rules, which are very public, wouldn't you want to hit pause long enough to check it out? That's all WotC or their surrogates did in this case, and they did it very quickly before giving their blessing. At what...

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Basically all of it, aside from (ironically) the temp hit points to druids (as an aside, I'm tempted to just ban temp HP altogether, they are a PITA) and, in one campaign, weapon masteries. But in general, I think the 2024 update, minor as most of it is, is an improvement to 5e.

No, it means that it should land on a 10 exactly as often as it lands on an 11. Thus, the mean average being 10.5 - right in the middle. Also, physics.

At school I try to use RAW as much as possible, so that students aren't confused when they (hopefully) move onto other campaigns. At home I've used many, such as: Druids use the 2014 rules for shapeshifting. If your character goes to 0 HP, they roll on a critical hit table. No weapon...

To be clear, I was not responding to a claim that “we used formations with magic users in the back” (because obviously), I was responding to this specific description of gameplay. That does not sound like any AD&D I ever played, saw, or read described in Dragon magazine, TSR modules, etc. it...