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One reason to read 'non game material' would be to source ideas from material unlikely to be on your player's reading/viewing lists. If players are familiar with your source material, they may be able to short cut the plot lines or more easily solve the mystery. Even with the vast amount of...

Holy free advertising for a D&D movie, Batman! Assuming everything is properly licensed, could be why Hasbro went along.

While not a RPG, Star Fleet Battles sure impacted how I deal with complex rules sets and reading and understanding them. After several hours long rules lawyer arguments, our group developed a system to deal with rule interpretation issues. If we couldn't resolve the issue after a few minutes...

Hope they clean up the rules before publishing. How many creatures and of what size(s) can fit into the cargo hold? Do the weight of creatures riding on the outside count against cargo capacity? Is the Attack Maneuver in addition to the Basic Maneuver? BM of vehicle speed + up to two 90 degree...

The moment the characters realize that the critters they are killing become edible feasts with a little clerical love, food ceases to be an issue. Create Water + Purify Food and Water pretty much gets a party by. Higher level brings in Create Food and Water further solving the problem. For...

Hard to have a good opinion on the movie when there is no announced cast, the script was ditched and rewritten and still secret, the one time director isn't anymore, the studio changed, etc. About the only thing that has stayed constant is it is supposed to be a D&D themed movie.

IMO, Tolkien gets too much source credit for critters in D&D. Elves, Trolls, Dwarves, Pixes, etc all existed prior to The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Of course, Hobbits are pretty much his creation which explains the recasting of Hobbits in D&D into Halflings after lawyers got involved. I...

Baring some pre-campaign limitations from a DM, the race of a character should be up to the player. In the OP's case, if they want a 1/2 elf, its a 1/2 elf. Just assume the elven genes were dominant. If the player wants a human, then assume the elven genes were recessive. Didn't see any...

Real life terminology doesn't always equate to the same meaning in RPG terminology. This could be a case study for not adopting a plain text descriptor for critters. Without data descriptors folks could be left guessing what something means. My first thought was the dwarf had some Otyugh...

"Example: Borf is a chaotic neutral, non-binary shield dwarf berserker with darkvision out to a range of 60 feet." Maybe it is too early in the morning and not enough tea but WTF is a 'non-binary shield dwarf'? Did a 2 get into a Boolean logic discussion? While the new format seems easier...

Momo, Tide Pods, Jackass movie stunts, Mentos-Diet Coke, chain emails, chain letters, etc. Long line of stuff encouraging/threatening folks to do stupid stuff. And I don't see how Momo is any more scary then the Tasmanian Devil that Bugs Bunny had to deal with. The Tasmanian Devil was watched...

Suggest the following modifications: Under Constructed Nature, add 'Requires light to operate. Can survive limited darkness but long term darkness can prove fatal.' Add an Ability: Hibernation: when faced with unsuitable conditions, can hibernate for long periods and resume operations when...

Kind of scary that something this good was created that fast. Takes me several days to paint a flat wall one color as that one coat covers all paint rarely does.

A quick security test for your non-email accounts - if they require the use of email address as your account name, they aren't taking security serious. Fairly easy process for bad folk to take the list of 4 million accounts stolen from Roll20 and run the email addresses against other sites that...

Accused <> guilty. I seems to me that the person writing the 2nd list linked to has their own agenda and their own politeness issues. Something rather ironic about accusing someone of using the Internet to harass someone by using the Internet to harass someone by compiling a list of...

So the millions that Hugh Hefner and others made by providing books with pictures for 'big boys' didn't happen? And let's not overlook that whole fantasy sports industry thing. And a fair number of folks still drive big wheels. They just have 4 tires and sit 3 feet off the ground. I long...

One of the comments says a lot about how much the hobby has grown: ". . . I felt that MDG did an outstanding job in the face of multiple adversities and deserves full credit for holding Origins together under the weight of so many attendees..." The comment is talking about a total attendance...

One concern not mentioned yet is the energy cost of some of these blockchain 'currencies'. Some of them are showing up as whole number percentages on lists of major world energy users. Pretty sure I don't want D&D and other RPGs getting dragged into the energy use/climate change debate over...

Once magic becomes tech, it becomes fairly easy to introduce unintended consequences. Similar to the modern smart phone being a personalized tracking device monitoring where you go, what you eat and who you are with. Maybe that magic wand can be monitored by the MSA - Magic Security Agency...

Seems the #1 goal of lawyers is to produce product that requires more lawyers. And having members of a group that enjoy the parliamentary process more then actually getting things done is far too common. Been part of such a group. Seems a common trait among gamer types. 14 years is a good...