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I'm in Australia, I buy a bit of stuff at Gameology or Good Games (they're kinda the big dogs on the block, in terms of physical game stores and online sales respectively), but there's quite a number of smaller game stores too - milsims, gumnut, etc. None of the ones in my city, that I'm aware...

I'd be living it up on a private yacht AND posting on nerd game message forums, myself. #livethedream

That was my assumption, but I was wondering if there was any possible slick maneuvering possible there too. For instance, having TSR buy its own shares back from Gary. This would have had the effect of taking those shares out of circulation and boosting the value of Williams’s shares (and the...

I’d have to go back and relisten to the relevant bit of the podcast, my jaw was kinda on the floor at that point. My recollection is that the offer was for all of Gary’s 800 shares at a way-above market value of $3000 each, plus the trademarks to D&D, plus a lump sum payout and a sum of...

Yeah, I suspected as much. The podcast kinda skates over any of the friends and new associates that Gary made in the days of TSRs success (with the exception of Dille himself), i think because it’s really trying to emphasise the ‘tragedy of the American dream’ narrative of ‘success made him lose...

Finished it today. It was an interesting listen. I've read a few of the books about that period - Slaying the Dragon, Game Wizards etc, but there was still a lot here that was new. Rose Estes added a lot to the story I think, and Mary Jo. Those were perspectives I don't think I'd heard...

Ah, I somehow missed seeing that despite looking several times, thanks for the pointer. I haven't read anything of hers. Heavy emphasis on YA fiction, plus a significant stint doing Star Wars tie-ins (and you don't get repeat deals with for companies like Disney unless you can write to...

Strahd as an antagonist seems distinctly ... unimaginative, I have to say. No author attached seems odd. April is only 7 months away, the thing must be pretty much complete by now given my (very imperfect...) understanding of the printing/editing lead times of such things.

Counterpoint - "Bargle" is a terrible name and would only provoke gales of laughter from a group these days, unless they were loooong marinated in Gygax-era D&D lore.

I <3 mutants and masterminds, but these days it carries just a little too much outdated d20 mechanical baggage for me to be entirely happy with it any more. Even moving from measuring distances in 5ft battlemap squares to range bands like FFG Star Wars or the Alien RPG would be a nice...

There’s probably other old FR critters that could make an appearance. Gibberlings don’t have an official 5e incarnation yet do they? Tren. Lythari. Fey’Ri. You wouldn’t want all the monsters in the book to be high-level stuff like phaerimm and maulagryms. I’m sure they’ll make up some new...

I'm pretty sure that it was the stained glass golem that had a prismatic spray attack, which was a very cool idea that i definitely want to use one day. Possibly it was an old 2e Ravenloft monster, from memory?

That seems more than a bit of a stretch. Assassin is still there, as you point out. So is the vengeance paladin, the fiend and great old one warlocks, and they even added the aberrant sorcerer. The only ‘evil-adjacent’ subclass removed between the 2014 PHB and the new one is necromancer, and...

The true test is whether it lets you make Nobby.

This looks a lot to me like the sort of job ad you post when company policy says that all positions must be publicly advertised but you already have a specific favoured candidate in mind (or possibly even the position was created when that candidate became available) and you've had a quiet word...

Metis are soon launching a kickstarter based on Venice, the latest in their 5e Historica Arcanum line. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metismediarpg/historica-arcanum-echoes-of-renaissance-5e?ref=be6z2f I own a couple of their products. I don’t always agree with their game mechanical or...

And with making Strength matter for anyone who isn’t a Strength-primary warrior.

Methinks you've made this thread before @Snarf Zagyg ! https://www.enworld.org/threads/lorraine-williams-is-it-time-for-a-reevaluation.683454/ But I think you're perhaps bending over a little too far backwards to be fair to her here. Let's be clear, Williams certainly saved TSR from being...

First of all, D&D is, for me, a game about telling stories. Killing monsters is inevitably a part of the stories that D&D generally tells, but it's not the be all and end all. There's LOTS of stuff we'd be hacking out of the game if we decided that killing monsters was all there was. Social...

Did poor old Color Spray get any love?