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What a brilliant idea for a campaign setting. I wish Vortex Verlag the most success with this project! "Midway in a dark wood..." indeed. I suppose when one is role-playing in Dante's world, one could begin, "Midway in a dark would..."

This distinction of "nerds" and "normies" from some people is cracking me up. My experience has shown me that people who role-play and are deeply invested in pop culture are exceedingly normal. Extraordinary people are more off the radar and unlikely -- as recounted above in Ruin Explorer's post...

Very well said, ReshilRE! I agree entirely.

Hi Grey Lord. I read this kind of thing a lot, but it does not accord with my observations. I do not think there has been a film as "true to the storylines or characters established by Lucas" as Rogue One. At the same time, there has been no group of Star Wars films that has wildly diverted from...

Whoa there, friend. I do not at all get the impression that Snarf is playing "word games." Rather, I think Snarf is bringing some much needed perspective and nuance to this discussion that at times can appear embattled.

Very well said, Snarf. I agree. (y)

I would be interested in an article with information about this. It makes no sense to me. Streaming services are struggling to even be profitable. Lucasfilm has been an immensely profitable division for Disney. Further, not everything is always about money. Star Wars has been an immensely...

This book is all about the aesthetic dimension of role-playing games and it isolates key aesthetic elements that rpgs not only do better than other art forms but that rpgs have contributed to other media. The Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art

Ahh, thank you…I did not see that. 👍

Hi Minigiant. I am very interested in this. Where did you get this impression? Thanks! As to the question, the approach that Wizards of the Coast has been taking for the last decade: publishing the new class when it is ready, seems like a great one to me. Of course, I would have loved to have...

Very well said!

This may be an unpopular opinion. But I have regarded Wizards as a company that has made what most companies (and, indeed TSR did this) would make as its intellectual property openly available to others for decades. It is difficult to find analogies among other copyright holders. Maybe Bob Dylan...

Hear, hear!

I think one narrative possibility, suggested by Crawford in the video, is that the entity very well would not be cool with that: hence a tantazlizing and long-term narrative thread that is the result of the character's own choice.

Presumably the campaign sourcebooks and some of the sourcebooks (Fizban's and Bigby's) would also be compatible in this way. It sounds to me like it is the 3 core rule books and Tasha's and Xanathar's that are going to find new homes within new spines. Honestly, the beauty of role-playing...

I very much appreciate the approach that Wizards is taking with regard to the 2024 books: specifically, intending to make changes that will not require changes to existing adventures and campaign sourcebooks. Although we all know that TSR mandated that 2nd edition be backward compatible with 1st...

Very true. It has been the reality with regard to AD&D since I began playing in ~1980-1983. Gary Gygax addressed it many times, perhaps most explicitly in the foreword to 1985's Unearthed Arcana. The 2014 PHB's inclusion of deities from a selection of cultures and D&D worlds underscores this, as...

I agree with this.

I hear this often. It's strange because I was surprised at how well Rise of Skywalker integrated and used Last Jedi. Ahh well, to each their own. I watch Rise of Skywalker every once in a while and always enjoy it. I just finished a rewatch of the sequel trilogy and thought they all work quite...

I agree. I actually really enjoyed Rise of Skywalker, to tell you the truth. The map on the dagger makes little-to-no sense, and there were some missed opportunities (e.g. to have the First Order under the direction of Ben Skywalker take on Palatine's fleet would have mirrored the Republic...