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I’m interested, at this point, but I’ll wait and see. I’m a big ol’ FR lore tragic from way back, and one of the options I’m mulling for the next campaign I run is FR in the Shaar/Great Rift/Estagund/Mulhorand region, so I’m interested in the DM book, especially if the atlas turns out broadly...

Yeah, ‘Hordelands’ is pretty easily interpreted as a term used for the steppe by outsiders. Presumably the Tuigan and other nomads have their own name for it, although it’s probably been 35 years since I read those novels so I don’t remember what that might be. (Damn they did Yamun Khahan dirty...

Maybe, or maybe it's just reflective of the fact that the Dales have been exhaustively covered in lore and other setting products (the 3e FRCS for example) in the past, so are more filled out than further-flung lands. Very happy to see the Shaar back, it was a travesty what happened to that...

Gah. We're charging for a playtest pdf now? Do they want people to playtest the thing or not?

Of course, the same lore body that establishes Drizzt is NOT a serial killer also establishes that the Purple Dragons already have a dragon in their history (a black so old it’s scales had turned purple, as extensively documented by Troy Denning in the Cormyr: a Novel/Death of the Dragon books...

To be fair, when he said this he was basically snapping at an annoying (American, I think) reporter who’d been dogging his heels for a painful length of time asking and asking some variant of ‘why?’ I don’t think it was a considered or anccurate answer, it was more a short-tempered and...

Even Marvel has worked out by now, after years of desperate flailing and pouring vast amounts of money down the drain, that multiverse bulldust is 99% of the time utterly toxic to good worldbuilding AND compelling storytelling. Sadly, I’m not surprised to see WotC mulishly clubbing away at this...

I'm agnostic on that, but convincing people that CR is still CR without Mercer behind the screen in the 'main' campaign will be a pretty big adjustment that some might struggle with. If people aren't there for the game system, then they're there for the people and the story. You change the DM...

Latest I heard was delivery in September, though whether that's 'arriving in your letterbox in September' or 'the slow freighter leaves China in September and even once it arrives you still have to wait for customs, fulfillment centres, and postage' I'm less sure about.

I’m hitting that wall in my current campaign. There’s basically zero incorporeal undead monsters in the MM of over CR5. If you want to run one once the PCs are even slightly levelled up, you need to delve into 3pp monsters or customise.

The swear words are all a bit meh in my opinion, but from memory Scanlon’s very first appearance in the cartoon is a sex scene, which I would not be showing to my 9yo nephew. But I just bounced off Scanlon hard as a character in general. I never watched many of the actual play sessions, but the...

My impression is that many fairly established publishers (Onyx Path for instance) use crowdfunding because it means that you no longer have to go quite so deep into a financial hole during the development/printing of a new product, with any future payoff many months away once it can be sold. It...

Tangentially related, it appears that Girl Genius is also running a gofundme to keep the lights on, quoting the Diamond bankruptcy as one reason (not necessarily the most significant- they talk about unrelated legal issues and flood damage to stock as major issues). They don’t seem to have...

Sorry, but just to satisfy my curiosity, where is that number coming from? I was under the impression that GR were a private company and didn’t publish financials.

I’d argue that the removal (without replacement) of the Independent power modifier was a big deal, plus the really messy lack of clarity and guidelines around how to use Affliction, especially with Limited. Also, Weakness should have its save dc separated from the levels of weakness it applies...

If we assume the Valiant Adventures rules is a bit of a dry run (like DC Adventures was for m&m 3e back in the day) the big change seems to be a sort of quasi-advantage/disadvantage mechanic, which sits on top of m&ms usual system of modifiers. Can’t say I was a huge fan, it felt a bit awkward...

I’m interested, because I lurves me some M&M, but wary, because it’s most likely based on the Valiant Adventures rules changes and I think they’re not really what the game needed. Seemed to be more aimed at making the system familiar to 5e players rather than fixing some of the long-term pain...

That book has been in production for years now - even since pre-covid, I think. I haven’t been following all the latest updates or anything so it’s possible I’m not up to date, but it’s bordering on vapourware at this point. And they might be holding it back even further to make it compatible...

Personally though, I confess I have no idea who’s buying GR stuff these days. I’m a big M&M fan and own the majority of products for that line over two editions, but the pace of new releases is glacial and even the core book is perennially out of print; the game is clearly on life support at...

As far as I know, all gofundme campaigns work that way, the target automatically scaling up every time the current target gets reached. Of course, the starter of the campaign has the option to end it at any time if they’ve raised enough, or to refund the remainder after the fact if they don’t...