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    D&D 5E (2014) The Illrigger: Why I hate this class and love what it could have been.

    Mod Note: It is unclear why you thought making less than complimentary personal comments was going to be a good thing to do. It is certainly off-topic for the thread, and likely to cause an argument. And if an argument breaks out, we'd look into it, and see you started it by making this...
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    Could an American write Doctor Who? - Babylon 5 creator throws hat in the ring

    It would be interesting to see how many hours of scripted media content per capita each country produces. We could imagine that on broad average, some fairly flat percentage of humans can be decent actors, so, to produce X number of hours of content, you need a population of size Y. If the...
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    Free Lovecraftian inspirations - You can use them in Your own game?scenario for free

    Mod note: @Adeptus7 - please note that our Private Messaging system is not to be used as a marketing tool. If we receive complaints that establish that you make a habit of spamming our users, you will receive the same treatment as other spammers.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Oh, there's tons of malapropisms out there. Imagine an advertisement for a restaurant: "Each bite is better than the next..."
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    Mod Note: "If you don't agree with me, you are lying" is a problematic, red-text-earning position to take. Your critique should stand alone, without having to cast aspersions on the honesty of those who don't agree with you. "People who believe it is a great system are lying, which is not to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    Intentionally so, as I didn't want to sound hyperbolic.
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    Could an American write Doctor Who? - Babylon 5 creator throws hat in the ring

    The original was a nice frame for conventional forces dealing with unconventional threats. Modern UNIT is itself kind of super-powered, such that it loses its ability to broaden out the kinds of stories they can tell.
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    Dark Horse Reveals First Dungeons & Dragons Comic

    Mod note: Folks, to be blunt, this reads like fat-shaming. Please stop.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    Agreed. And it isn't just the companies we should be considering, but the games themselves. In order to be a D&D killer, it has to be a game that tens or hundreds of thousands of people will play over and over and over, for years. When most of the folks we know are making it their game of...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    This was Trek. If anything, it was not offhand appropriation, but offhand commentary on the 90s fad of appropriating cultural iconography in tattoos...
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    Could an American write Doctor Who? - Babylon 5 creator throws hat in the ring

    He has a sense of humor. But he's also been trying to get another similar project off the ground since before the pandemic, and is unlikely to lightly use anything that might tie rights up in weird ways.
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    Could an American write Doctor Who? - Babylon 5 creator throws hat in the ring

    And is apparently coming back to Spider-Man with a mini-series later this year. We don't see a lot of output him from him recently largely because he became the executor of Harlan Ellison's estate, and spent a great deal of time making arrangements for its perpetuity.
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    Could an American write Doctor Who? - Babylon 5 creator throws hat in the ring

    He could... but most certainly would not.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    Not to turn this thread into a discussion of history, but while nobody could predict the day, the collapse of the Soviet Union was a cascade of events over the course of years. It was not a surprise to those who were watching.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    You wanna know if a game that releases one month ago has a "realistic shot" at taking down a game that's been top dog for 50 years? How about you come back in a couple of years, and let's see if Daggerheart is a going concern, before we have that other discussion, hm?
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    Ivan Van Norman Leaves Darrington Press

    Quite possible. He got Daggerheart as a major project completed and under his belt. That's an awesome milestone, marking a good point for a change in direction.
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    XKCD What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

    Randall generally plucks the low-hanging fruit. You gotta try a little harder to not repeat his jokes.
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    XKCD What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

    Unobtainium, to save the planet!
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    D&D General Todd Kenreck Let Go from WotC

    Then go ahead and make one. See how it goes. Generative AI has issues with maintaining context for more than about a paragraph. So, you will have to do the work of guiding it into a cohesive whole... So, you personally have to ride herd on it through that whole process. And you and a editor...
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    D&D General Todd Kenreck Let Go from WotC

    Now, ask it to write an entire book for you.
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