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    AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

    I absolutely support this tech. That there are crappy people out there that screw people over is not a new thing introduced by this tech. Are some people going to lose their job over this tech? Absolutely! That matters greatly to those individuals that lose their jobs, as it does every...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Sell me on 5th…

    I'm not going to sell you on 5E, looking at your preferences, I think you would be less happy with the amount of options IF you stick to the official, physical books (compared to 3E/3.5E). Back in the day of 3(.5)E we had official WotC D&D stuff, we had D20 stuff, we had OGL stuff and we had fan...
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    D&D General Would you buy an AI-generated Castle Greyhawk "by" Gary Gygax?" Should you?

    I'm pretty sure you could get a LLM to produce better adventures the 90% of the garbage that's on DTRPG. But what people seem to forget is that it also depends heavily on the one providing the prompts. Just like with googling, the quality of the search results depends heavily on the google-fu...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5E economics -The Peasants are revolting!

    I don't know if you've read it, but Expeditious Retreat Press published 20 years ago "A Magical Medieval Society" (Western Europe): https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2018/a-magical-medieval-society-western-europe There's even a third edition of it with more material in it...
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    Spoilers Rebel Moon-my spoiler review

    Until you realize that the Evil(tm) Han Solo is actually a pretty good bounty hunter (helper?) and finds these kinds of people for a living. He just gave her a list where he expected to just join up with such a hopeless cause, he was right. Except for the unknown farmer that killed him... He...
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    D&D General Does D&D (and RPGs in general) Need Edition Resets?

    Please don't take this the wrong way, but in how far are you now repeating WotCs marketing department? In other words is this what we know or what they say? I tend to look at actions rather then words, unless I know I can depend on someones Word. In the case of big companies, you can't really...
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    D&D General Does D&D (and RPGs in general) Need Edition Resets?

    I was actually wondering something in a similar vain, when does an RPG need a new edition and when is it a mechanism to sell you the same thing over and over again. A bit of context: I've been playing RPGs since ~1987, started with the Dutch version of The Dark Eye (Oog des Meesters), moved to...
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    Spoilers Rebel Moon-my spoiler review

    A lot of folks are missing all the stuff that was 'inspired' by 40k (as in Warhammer 40,000), which in turn had 'borrowed' a lot from other sources, just like most of the IPs this movie was 'inspired' by... Which I kinda find ironic. ;) Is it a great movie? No! But it was interesting, like the...
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    Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory Video Game Released on Steam

    Cyanide/Nacon has often very cool IPs, but very sucky implementations. If their actions are no deterrent, you should just look at their old catalogue and see how well those were received and how well they were supported long term...
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    Reaper Minis debuts its own OGL-based RPG system: Dungeon Delvers

    @teitan If it's a superior material depends on your perspective. I agree the first bones were not great. They don't use SIOcast on the large models due to the limitations of the SIOcast machine and process (mold material vs. pressure). My main issue is that they are not very clear on the...
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    Reaper Minis debuts its own OGL-based RPG system: Dungeon Delvers

    Shipping + VAT If you look a the previous "Base" KS Reaper did, some people were paying $32 for shipping+VAT on a $30 order... Also keep in mind that currently each of those three books is only 128 pages softcover. I just picked up the D&D 5E gift box with PHB/DMG/MM/Screen all hardcover for...
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    Reaper Minis debuts its own OGL-based RPG system: Dungeon Delvers

    This feels like they are re-inventing the wheel, but worse... 4 classes, 4 'folk', sounds like basic D&D basic. It also seems like they are reusing the miniatures design art as the illustrations (which are imho great). 384+ pages of pretty much rehashed OGL content in PDF for $49... Yeah, no...
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    Monte Cook Games & Free League Lead The TTRPG Crowdfunding Charts!

    TMNT isn't a Palladium IP, so that's out. I don't know if I would play or even read that 5e (D&D) version, but it would hit Kevin right in the gonads. He's been historically very resistant against (fan) conversion of his games. Many a C&D has been sent in that cause and quite a few suing...
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    Monte Cook Games & Free League Lead The TTRPG Crowdfunding Charts!

    puts up hand But... But... The pretty miniatures! ;) Not buying anymore Sandy Petersen games. Their one RPG supplement I bought looked horrible. Cthulhu Wars is great, but after they deliver what they owe, I'll have enough to last a lifetime! Palladium... Robotech... I don't wish for many...
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    Slow page load speeds (esp. for included images and fonts)

    I noticed yesterday and today (around the same time) that the FP is loading fast. I need to check later in the day, it might be a load issue. I forgot to do that yesterday.
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    Slow page load speeds (esp. for included images and fonts)

    I'm seeing issues on W10 in both Chrome and Firefox. The issue is both large (500kb) and insanely large images (10.2MB). The frontpage has ~20MB worth of images and they are loading insanely slow. This on a 1000/1000 fiber connection. 500Kb for an image is large, way to large, expecially when...
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    The overflowing bookcases...

    Maybe this sounds familiar? You've been in RPGs/Wargaming for a LONG time (~35 years in my case) and your collection has been growing over the years, you've moved to a larger place, more space for your hobby, etc. But eventually that abundant space fills up again... You start stacking books in...
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    Release [Chaosium] Create. Explore. Play. BRP’s Universal Game Engine is available royalty-free for personal and commercial use under the ORC license.

    Then they shouldn't try to grab the attention and release their news early. Also that license is only in a draft state.
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    Open RPG Creative (ORC) License Draft Published

    This is not future proof! What about when we venture out into space, can the ORC license not follow? :eek: I initially thought of this as a joke, until I read that the license can't be changed later, which is a problem when you don't future proof your language... 🚀
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    Release [Chaosium] Create. Explore. Play. BRP’s Universal Game Engine is available royalty-free for personal and commercial use under the ORC license.

    I find this completely misleading! :eek: It links to: If it's not ready yet, don't release it as if it were!
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