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You didn't specify 5e in this, you tagged it as general, so I will note that this scenario could work very differently in other editions. In 3e, for example, creature abilities were explicitly labeled as "Extraordinary", "Supernatural" or "Spell-like", the latter two would be suppressed in an...

Well, they could always run a game set circa 1372 DR when that book is set. Just because the official metaplot has been advanced 110+ years doesn't mean they have to follow it or use that time period. WotC has been pretty sparse with stuff after the Second Sundering, just a sort of vague...

I am coming to think every metaplot eventually reaches the point where a consensus of the devoted fans go "nope, I'm going to just ignore that and act like that never happened." My World of Darkness-playing friends pretty much ignore The Reckoning, for example (unless the plot of the game is...

The 3e Realms book has been out of print for almost 20 years. For many people, a hardcopy text is preferable to a .pdf. Most of the used prices for the book on Amazon are pretty high (a couple of low, reasonable offers, but they're well below the typical market value). Presumably they also...

I remember reading that one big problem that Williams-era TSR had was that Lorraine Williams seriously did not understand what she was making. She saw TSR as a publishing company first and foremost, they published books first and foremost, with games as a minor part of their business. She...

I remember when I very first got onto the internet. . .August 1996. I wanted to find out more information about D&D. I typed D&D into a search engine. I remember the AD&D Net Book of Sex was one of the top results. I remember that file quite well, and it sounds like what you're describing...

Was that actual case law or statute at the time? A trademark has to be defended, if it's being used in trade by someone else. . .a copyright doesn't. Also, to lose a trademark it generally has to be used either generically and they don't take efforts to fight the genericization, or it has to...

The great: Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, 3rd Edition. The best single-book campaign setting work ever done for D&D. Even almost 20 years later it's THE seminal work on the Realms. It's the standard I hold every other setting book to in terms of introducing and explaining a setting...

Well, that's not good. There's a definite "how are they getting out of THIS one" vibe to this cliffhanger.

They tried a prequel set during the First Cylon War, the Blood and Chrome movie that was a failed pilot for a prequel series based around a young William Adama just starting his career. Probably never caught on because it was released to the web without a whole lot of fanfare. They had the...

Well, hopefully that plot arc ends with that entire series of events being stricken from the timeline. It's just hard to accept that after they established there is literally a Temporal Cold War in the future about fighting for things like preserving the Federation, and that by the 29th century...

So, nothing saying Gandalf was inspired by Celtic Bards, which was Ashyrm's claim. We have Tolkien saying that he was inspired by a painting of a figure known as Der Berggeist the (translated) Mountain Spirit, by a 19th century German painter, of an old man with a large cloak and big hat in a...

Why would I bother to keep them separate? That implies I care anything about the new Disney stuff or pay attention to it in any way. I don't care. I actively avoid the new Disney stuff. If I've been playing, running, and learning the Star Wars setting for ~25 years, why would I change...

There are definitely similar real-world examples of a group of people with religious or martial significance going from being respected public figures to being practically kill-on-sight in the same country (due to a new totalitarian government) within 19 years time. I'm not sure if naming the...

It's not in "limbo", they rebooted it in 2014 and created a complete separate canon for the new Disney materials. You've got the original pre-2014 canon of Star Wars, that LFL now brands as "Legends", and the post-2014 canon they brand as "Canon" that includes the controversial sequels. It's...

For the record, it's my understanding that, at least briefly in the late 1990's, Vampire was outselling D&D. This was both as TSR's collapse was imminent and they were mismanaging D&D, and World of Darkness stuff was extremely trendy and popular.

Star Wars has previously been a top-tier RPG. In the late 90's, it was definitely doing VERY well before West End Games went bankrupt. WEG collapsed not because of their games not selling, but because the owner was diverting operating funds from WEG to cover expenses at another business he...

On the other hand, we have the actual AD&D Player's Handbook 2nd Edition saying that inspirations for the Bard specifically included some of Robin Hood's merry men, which would certainly explain why they specifically had an element of fighting and roguishness to them and is more likely to be a...

The single best book for Forgotten Realms is the 3rd edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.

Yes, but I was wanting a physical book, not a PDF. I was talking about for a cost-effective introduction involving an actual, physical book, not a PDF.