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    Unearthed Arcana Kiss of Mephistopheles: Unbalancing?

    I don't know if it's subpar, but I'm pretty sure it's not unbalanced in a too powerful way.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Githzerai Psion? Thri-kreen Psion? Where's My Psion?

    It's a pity they gave up on the Mystic. Because while it certainly wasn't perfect, I thought the general concept had a lot going for it. Packaging psionic powers into larger disciplines makes sense to me as a way to make sure that the caster was more thematic and giving psionics a different...
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    D&D General What would your "fourth core rulebook" be?

    Tbh, a lot of the suggestions I've seen look best within the DMG, so my suggestion is to move the the magic items into their own book and use all that space within the DMG for optional rules, campaign and adventure building.
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    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Is Almost Upon Us! Discuss What You Want

    Sadly they've finished filming, so I can only hope to get to be a background extra in S4
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    D&D 5E (2024) Dungeons & Dragons 2025 Monster Manuals show up in the wild.

    What's the early FLGS release date?
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's Your 2026 WotC D&D Wishlist?

    Heh, happy I don't have to wait until 2026 for Eberron support.
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    D&D Adds Two New Books to 2025 Slate, Including New Eberron Book

    The Maverick is an attempt to simulate the 3.5 Artificer's "Spell Storing Infusion", ie, one of the major strengths of a 3.5 Artificer was the ability to recreate almost any spell in the game. The subclass can prepare bonus spells from other class lists and gains an additional cantrip, as well...
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    D&D Adds Two New Books to 2025 Slate, Including New Eberron Book

    I wonder if the 5th subclass is a new take on the Maverick subclass from Exploring Eberron? I tried it out and ... thought it was a little underpowered, but I couldn't tell how much of that was the base class or subclass, I've thought Artificers lack oomph
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    D&D 5E (2014) Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Super stoked for this. Eberron remains my fav setting, and I wasn't expecting support until they got their FR stuff out of the way.
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's Your 2026 WotC D&D Wishlist?

    Specifically on MTG settings, the big one I'd like to see is Bloomburrow. Anthro animal setting that even makes all visitors to the plane into animals is cool and different from other DnD settings. I'm also intrigued by the space opera setting that is coming out this year. If it's more sci-fi...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's Your 2026 WotC D&D Wishlist?

    Just some random wants, not packaged into actual books: Eberron support. Species updated for 2024, Dragonmarks, Artificer, also adventures set in Eberron Psionics. A full proper Psion class In general, new material, not just reworking older content. Sorcerer unique spells Adventure material for...
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    WotC Reveal Exodus, a New Video Game from the Decelopers of Mass Effect and Neverwinter Nights

    Huh. What's funny is how Exodus seems to be cribbing most from Mass Effect Andromeda. Which ... I liked Andromeda, sure it was badly in need of another writing pass or three, but I liked Ryder, driving around in the Nomad (which given my hatred of the MAKO is quite the thing), and the gameplay...
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    What’s your perfect Star Trek crew?

    Added personal constraint, no series can be used more than once. Characters from multiple series are only considered from their starting series (So Seven of Nine is from Voyager, despite her appearances in Picard). Captain - Chris Rios (Star Trek Picard) First Officer - Saru (Star Trek...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    I dunno, this seems like an overly simulationist take, all monsters of X size must deal Y damage on a hit. That seems overly reductive.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    Hard to say until we see the spellcasting and weakening breath. This looks like more of a controller (to use 4e parlance), less damage, but more ways to inhibit enemies. The video on dragons says that the Gold Dragon has Banishment on its spell list, blinking out a Fighter before laying down...
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    Christmas Battle Royale: Battle of the Scrooges

    I feel Sir Patrick Stewart ought to be getting more respect, but I can't say I've seen his version. And I can't not vote for Michael Caine. Muppet Christmas Carol is the intersection of great adaptation with great(est?) Muppet movie.
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    D&D General A Quick Peek At Tiamat In Amazon's 'Secret Level' Anthology TV Show

    I quite liked the dnd episode. I don't know Warhammer lore, so I was underwhelmed until the demon at the end, that was cool.
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    Arcane Season 2 Starts on Saturday, 9 Nov 24 on Netflix

    I still haven't forgiven Netflix for canceling Marco Polo or Sens8. So it is hard to get too deep into shows that have an uncertain lifespan. That said, I have loved Arcane. Animation is beautiful and expressive, I like these messy characters. I know little of the lore, as I tried the game once...
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    So this is apparently the year for me reading books about people waking up on spaceships with no memory. In that I've now read two (any suggestions for a third?). The first was Project Hail Mary, which I loved and brought up earlier, but I just finished The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer...
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