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  1. Gradine

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

    So the biggest problem I have with "holding bigots in the industry accountable is just like the Satanic Panic!" is that actually it's the bigots who would be aligned with the people behind the Satanic Panic, since both are essentially railing against those on the margins of society (and...
  2. Gradine

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

    "But if we're mean to people being racists they'll go away instead of trying to improve!"
  3. Gradine

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

    That's pretty much what folks are talking about in this thread?
  4. Gradine

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

    Khoravar are what half-elves in the setting largely call themselves. That said, this at least looks exciting!
  5. Gradine

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

    I mean, it's a "have your cake and eat it too" type of situation. Goodman I think is still trying to pitch this to his core audience (y'know, us "woke moralists") and is hoping that said audience will forgive/understand working with JG because he's doing this old beloved classic the "right" way...
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    D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Does MotM follow the 2024 rules? I skipped out on it because I have all of the relevant earlier books.
  7. Gradine

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

    This is what I'm talking about: Which is a promising sign that such that assertions are actually unfair. That said, sample size is still a thing. There is a difference between a tanked KS, a minor or moderate success, or an overwhelming success. If this becomes another million dollar KS story...
  8. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I'm exactly two months from 40 myself, which is making me feel ancient (working on a college campus probably isn't helping), but I also know that makes me basically a baby in this community :p
  9. Gradine

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

    I got excited about there being five species for a moment (what's number five? goblin? gnoll?) but then I remembered there was going to be a Khoravar species which is also cool, but I'd wish they'd be more adventurous with the "monstrous" species in Eberron. It's the perfect setting for it but...
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    Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED]

    I mean... we've got here a pretty solid litmus test for whether that reputation is fair or not.
  11. Gradine

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    The puzzle progression in Blue Prince is so wild... Blue Prince: Here's a basic logic puzzle to solve. Me: Oh neat, I love these BP: We also have basic arithmetic puzzles but we use color instead of function symbols. Me: Cool... hope you've got a good colorblind accessibility setting for...
  12. Gradine

    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    I can't say that I've spent a lot of time looking at Shadowdark, but I got a notification about this Bundle of Holding of Shadowdark adventures and I didn't see it mentioned here, hope you enjoy!
  13. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    So I was watching a YouTube video that was something like "The scene that changed modern horror" or some clickbaity title, basically they were showing that scene from the first Final Destination: Anyway, I was like thirty seconds into this video, they had just played the scene, and then I...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    Just wrapped another day in Blue Prince. Figured out some clues and got some deeper computer access, and now I need to put the game down for a bit, because I am completely emotionally devastated. Holy crap this game
  15. Gradine

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    Civ VII also came out this year. Not to mention two quality modern ports of a pair of classic PSX RPGs each in Suikoden & Lunar. Clair Obscura: Expedition 33 is apparently doing extraordinarily well also. And my GOTY is already out, of course.
  16. Gradine

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    I got pretty fortunate; on day 18 I got a Shrine boon that added 8 Courtyards to my deck (which I had upgraded to provide 2 gems); the following day I placed the Root Cellar (which increases the number of digging spots). I ended up with a full house, like 11 minor keys and 20 gems leftover, and...
  17. Gradine

    Mass Layoffs At Polygon, Major Gaming News Outlet

    All joking aside, some of my fondest memories from my darkest times were from Polygon's video content. Even when they dialed that back I still followed the works of some of the folks from that time (Chris Plante, Brian David Gilbert, Ashley Oh, the McElroys). Even Charlie Hall, who ended up...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I just wanna know what they have against Barry Miles.
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