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  1. timbannock

    D&D 5E (2024) I am so torn [UPDATE: I bought it]

    Given that, I think my initial response still stands because until the OGL-->CC thing is complete and finished, the stuff I cry out about basically extends to this in the way of, "Until you see them actually release the thing you want, assume you may not get it, because shareholder priorities...
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    D&D 5E (2024) I am so torn [UPDATE: I bought it]

    WOTC are a bad company headed by bad people who will absolutely destroy the good creatives on the D&D team in a heartbeat in order to make D&D even more bland and profit-driven. On top of that, the good creatives on the team still are unable to put out useful tools and advice, and materials that...
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    AD&D 2E Jakandor

    Interestingly, the Charonti and the added materials for the Goodman Games OAR version of Isle of Dread are both great depictions of cultures that put a lot of emphasis on death, undeath, and ancestor-worship that steers it far away from the typical boring "necromancy is evil" stuff. That was...
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    AD&D 2E Jakandor

    I picked up the 3 books and worked it into my sort of "grand unified setting" experiment. Faerun/FR -- specifically the Sword Coast through the Hordelands -- was the western portion of a super continent. The Hordelands was geographically the same, but was basically the Sundered Empire (3E-era...
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    Lightweight, Simple VTTs?

    Shmeppy is your answer!
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    Aging and Gaming

    Dumb and Dumber, and this story makes me sad. 😅
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    Aging and Gaming

    My experience is that it was a thousand times easier to schedule games in my teens and twenties. Only as an adult have I had regular flaking, to the point that in a group of 6 players there was more than once that only a single player showed, and of the 5 that didn't show, only 1 or 2 gave me...
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    Aging and Gaming

    The thing I know is age-related is my gravitation to lighter games, mostly due to time. Time to read, truly learn, and prep stuff is very low, so I have to be able to do it quickly. Complex interconnectivity of rules has become a no-no. But almost as important as that is that my experience has...
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark or Worlds w/o numbers?

    There's less "saving throws" in SD overall, but they aren't completely gone, so about modifiers do matter for a bunch of spells and occasionally magic item effects. They also matter when improvising actions, which is very, very common IME.
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    Trailer Superman Teaser Trailer

    Oh wow, I forgot about that! Two people who I would trust with so many things, none of which include Superman :LOL:
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    Trailer Superman Teaser Trailer

    Aronofsky had a version of Batman he was working on that was a complete shakeup. Despite his pedigree, nothing about it sounded even vaguely exciting.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark or Worlds w/o numbers?

    Also late, also voting Shadowdark if for no other reason than because converting classic adventures is a breeze. And indeed, you don't have to stick with torch-timers. I use classic turns with the event die from Knave and/or Errant and it works just fine. Only "tweak" you need to consider...
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    Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

    Ouch! I was wondering if that was out; I wasn't interested, but the big names made me think it would happen. Surprised to see it's in this state currently. Same as you. I almost pledged but then thought "I'll just pick it up at retail." And then he went on to do Lifted Vol 1 for Cortex Prime...
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    Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

    Are they still fulfilling orders from their store? I vaguely recall for a time this didn't appear to be happening.
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    Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

    Hunter's Mark: Long Live the Hunt is especially egregious as the creator did not one but TWO Kickstarter campaigns for the same project (the second was vaguely framed as a retailer's package, I believe), and then ghosted everyone. They opened a Patreon for print and play paper minis a while...
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    Your Most Useful and Most Used RPG Products

    I want these so bad but I just don't have the room. Is it bad that my goal of "buy a house" is really "...to hold all my gaming stuff"?
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    Your Most Useful and Most Used RPG Products

    Knave 2nd Edition and Errant for old-school procedures, processes, and generators. Role 4 Initiative's dungeon tiles. Forged Dice Co Arena dice rolling tray. Savage Worlds Customizable GM Screen, though once mine falls apart, I'll probably go for the DriveThruRPG landscape GM screen because...
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    OSR What OSR System for Barrowmaze?

    Shadowdark. If you're doing a lot of dungeoncrawling, it's the best. Plus the Modes allow you to dial up and down lethality and spellcasting however much (or little) you want. To change things up, just replace the real-time torches with an Event Die from Knave 2nd Edition or Errant. This way...
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    gritty industrial/sci-fi horror RPG recommendation?

    My take on the ones I'm familiar with: Alien is great for being Alien. While it's got supplements that expand the field of play considerably, I really think it shines best as a one-shot where you and the players really buy into selling the Panic table results and pretty much working towards a...
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    Hasbro Stock Price Surges After Elon Musk Makes Comments About Purchasing Company

    I suspect because these articles get clicks and comments. Lots of them. Which is kinda VERY IRONIC given the topic. But yet...here you and I are, as well.
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