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  1. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Concious, sure. My point was thst it arose organically in play, rather than being premeditated.
  2. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Two main issues there, they were a bit low level to have access to resurrection resources, and Jaffe seemed ready to move on to another character...Liam got really annoyed that he was resurrected by Mercer without his permission, actually, it was a bit of A Thing at the time that they worked out.
  3. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Both, actually: bold when caution was needed, then retreated when standing her ground may have turned the tide. But, she was playing her character, and not necessarily dissecting the tactics super carefully.
  4. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    Yes, one presumes...but no, he ran the dice where they lay. He didn't realize that meant Molly would be dead until after he declared hia action. He clearly thoight about doing a takesey-backsie for half a second...but that would go against how he runs his games, and player expectations. Point...
  5. Parmandur

    The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

    They set up the final arc with Vecna at the end of the latest Season: next Season is likely the last. To be fair, they didn’t kill him so much as the dice did: Mercer and the players were quite surprised.
  6. Parmandur

    What Game Publishers Are Saying About The Tariffs

    Update from Brotherwise Games about the Cosmere RPG: One month ago, we shared our update on how Brotherwise would handle tariffs, and we were truly moved by this community's response. In spite of bearing such bad news, it was our most-Liked update ever. Backers responded with an outpouring of...
  7. Parmandur

    Wheel of Time S3

    Knife of Dreams is a banger, and Sanderson pullsit off. Enjoy!
  8. Parmandur

    Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED]

    That's what makes this feel like Greek Tragedy almost: I don't think Goodman shares Bledsaw's horrifying opinions, not for a second, but his desire for preservation is overpowering some other aspect of prudence here.
  9. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Haven't gone for it, since I have the B/X and Rules cyclopedia PDFs. Feels redundant.
  10. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Important historical context is that the "funnel" idea came in the wake of late atage 3.5 and Pathfinder becoming dominant after 4E fizzled, to offer a completely different take on making a characto complex builds. To be honest...the Basic/Expert vox sets are on the DMsGuild for cheap, and they...
  11. Parmandur

    D&D's The Book of Dragons Comes Out in August

    Yeah, I mean, this is just a license to print money. People love dragon art.
  12. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Speaking to DCC more than Shadowdark...the rules actually state that they expect most people will just make characters like with other RPGs (the rules are easy, not really build based), with the funnel being sort of an exception to the norm Ansd the characters are entirely rolled up on a table...
  13. Parmandur

    D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    OK, so, that was probably Final Fantasy 3...but that means it was really Final Fantasy 6.
  14. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    The interesting thing about DCC was always that it is not a retroclone: it really is a 3E variant that is really answering the question of "OK, supposedly this game is supposed to generate narratives that look like classic low fantasy Swords & Sorcery fiction...how do we actually incentivize...
  15. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Not the poster, but I can confirm that Bledsaw did say that about Eisenhower "being a Jew" as part of some elaborate conspiracy to explain why Eisenhower was such a Communist or something...which was an actual John Birch Spciety talking point in the 1960s, these things do have their...
  16. Parmandur

    Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED]

    Strictly speaking, sure Judges Guild could easily be lying here. However, Goodman Games are the ones who put themselves in this position.
  17. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Oh, man, "I assume you are a fellow traveller" rants are horrifying. Particularly t work with a customer that I am supposed to be polite with......
  18. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    It is a stupid cross to bear, but cannot say this is wrong from my point of view.
  19. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    I won't fully engage in Bledsaw's bizarre take on "keeping politics out of gaming"... But as a member myself of the gender, racial and religous grouping he is claiming to be oppressed and being pushed out of the hobby...total horse hockey. Making gaming a diverse and safe place is not kicking...
  20. Parmandur

    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    Technically,Judges Guild shenanigans go back further, so I'd say it's more that NuTSR is Full Bledesaw... What a massive disappointment...
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