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  1. billd91

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

    Depends on how close you are to the issue. I definitely side-eye friends and family who know I have queer kids and still eat Chick-fil-A. If I were Jewish and a friend in my gaming group patronized anything JG, including a licensed product, I’d definitely be reassessing membership in that group...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    You survived. So far…
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Still digging in on that disproven statement? Time to put the block on that stupidity.
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    Stars Campaign Fork - Do you use canon characters in your RPGs?

    Yes, not the main stars of the movies, but not particularly obscure ones either. Bail Organa, Crix Madine, a few others. They're generally mission givers or other background for the adventures in play.
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    D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly

    And I think that split is one of the sources of fan enmity of Gygax. Pro-Arneson partisanship was definitely a thing.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    True, that's been hanging out there since S1E1.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    I doubt it. I think we're not done with her just yet. My guess is her fate is tied up with Dedra Meero's. If not, I'm pretty sure her fate is still to come in the next three episodes. I don't think they'd leave us Bix as a loose end.
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    D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly

    Oh, they're definitely out there. They were out there when Gygax was alive at least as far back as the 1980s. They were just a lot less numerous and visible than the idolizing fans.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The Macintosh Portable didn't do so hot either when it came out. They did fairly well among fire departments, I'm told. They could be set up and accessed in the fire engines while on call.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    I'm not sure I'd say it's for less reason. Rather, the reasons start out as personal instead of political. And that means he also starts out a killer on a much smaller scale than Luthen. A killer for personal reasons does things in ones and twos, almost never more. But a political killer's range...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Quark's Bar, where everybody knows your name. And they may not be always glad you came... but they are glad you brought cash.
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    D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly

    It's kind of surprising just how much she defended Gygax in the podcast with all that in mind. But then I think there's probably some compartmentalism going on. Gygax could say some anti-Semitic and/or sexist crap in front of a Jewish woman, run the company like a twit, and yet it seems she...
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    Uh-huh, yeah. And these are all pretty much things you get to do when you closely own a company. With the Blumes AND Gygax bought out, Lorraine was in full control. She had the ability to push whatever products she wanted, including Buck Rogers and that's fine. It's her company. Same...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Sage Advice Compendium Updated To 2024

    On the subject of Sage Advice's rulings, I'm not too keen on this one: Relentless Endurance comes with an important caveat to make sure it differs from the effect of death ward - a 4th level spell: I dunno about the person running the Sage, but I would have thought being turned to gray dust...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Drawbacks to Increasing Monster AC Across the Board?

    I agree that giving up 3e iterative math while retaining multiple attacks was a good move for 5e. I can recognize that the 3e iterative BAB bonus structure was intended to adapt the half-attack increases that AD&D gave fighter-type characters and, from the standpoint of the math, it did so very...
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    Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

    And you gotta figure there’s at least one par 5 on that course so he is not only mothereffing accurate, he’s got a heck of a mothereffing drive.
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    D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly

    Kinda weird that failure to hate on Lorraine Williams is an extreme bias in her favor. I'd say that very much emphasizes the typical toxic narrative laid by Gygax's telling of the story and the Gygax loyalists. And, honestly, that's all Snarf has ever asked that we reassess in these posts of his.
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    Today I learned +

    That's... that's not a euphemism for crab poop?
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    D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly

    You might hope so. But, man, that hubris can be hard to cut through.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    That was a heck of a lot of typing to rebut one dumb post.
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