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Only if the client's didn't desire that.

I think the better measure is being a successful professional GM, as in, you successfully get clients who pay you with some regularity. That that is about more than learning to be a GM.

So some more on this. My misgivings are mostly as an educator. Obviously this isnt actually a Uni course with proper rigor or depth. It's only 4 days long. It's a seminar. Now, I'm not claiming you can't learn thing at a seminar. I just don't think it is much more than another DnD vacation...

I mean, I would be sorely tempted.

deeply mixed feelings on this.

It's a good example of how any game analysis is goin to be through the lens of one's own preferences. There can't ever be an objectively best adventure. For me, Lot Mines is likely the best starter experience I have seen for DnD period. But that is because it has features and elements I think a...

I will admit that because of my long held love of Keep on the Borderlands I was thinking of getting this update, but for this price point, I would have to wait for a deep discount to fell it was worth it.

So I am curious as to how often a table of completely inexperienced people get into TTRPG. It's a larger topic than for here. But what I mean is, how common is it for a given table of say 5 complete gaming virgins to decide to buy an intro product or perhaps receive one as a gift and start...

I am not disputing that what is in the box is worth $50. What I am arguing is that it should be a loss leader. Or to point out another simple fact, why would I recommend this product when the PHB is the same price?

Time will tell, but yeah, intro products that have reduced appeal to already enfranchised consumers should be underpriced. It's basic drug dealer 101 people.

Well the Half Elf returning is the surprise for me there.

Do we have any confirmation on which Species are included, besides Warforged?

I'm looking for an example of a ttrpg that is properly bleak in the text as written. I will try to explain what I mean below. I don't mean a game that can be played bleak or hopeless. I mean one which is rules as written designed for the players to expect to fail, ideally without even the...

Short term, get a copy and see what I can tear out and use elsewhere. Longer Term? Who knows. Hopefully run a game with it someday.

PCs have "classes" that progress through "levels."

At some point, some behind closed doors info may come out, but it may not. I will say this. Any licensed game has a lifespan. How long the publishing company can maintain the license. If EH was just not able to come to terms quickly enough for what game they wanted to release, it honestly makes...

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Short answer: No, best not.

While It did fulfil after some delay, Call of Cthulhu 7th ed KS was such a mess it nearly sunk Chaosium as I understand it. It took outside intervention which I am grateful for. As far as I can tell, the company is thriving now and the 7e version is probably my favorite.

So for me, I would use the idea of bein "exceptional" in that I want the odds of succeeding on a given task to be more likely than not. Not everything, but at the very least at things which I narratively and mechanically sculpt them to be good at. What's more key is that I want stories about...