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    Take A Look At The Gen Con 50 Museum: First Draft of D&D, First Traveller, & More!

    Not sure if this is misunderstanding or just a related comment, but please note that one of you is talking about GaryCon and one of you is talking about Gen Con. This is the part of Gen Con 50 that I am most sad to have missed seeing. I hope someday there can be a permanent display of this kind...
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    [UPDATED] What's Next For D&D? Live From Origins - Tomb of Annihilation

    If anyone knows where I can get a set, please let me know. :-)
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    [Updated] Who's Playing What On Fantasy Grounds? Final Stats For 2016!

    The cost is only infinite if you are immortal and roll20 stays in business for all eternity.
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    The New D&D Adventure Is - Tomb of Annihilation!

    Ehhh... I don't think anyone who has played Out of the Abyss would agree with you. (I've DM'ed all the adventures you mention as well as Out of the Abyss.) Yes, the start is similar to A4, but the Maze Engine and the Demonweb are nothing alike. Saying that the adventures are alike because they...
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    [UPDATED] Here's Mike Mearls' New D&D 5E Initiative System

    I run a couple of larger groups (5-6 players), and rolling for initiative every round would slow combat down significantly. I'm okay with the current system.
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    The Dilemma of the Simple RPG

    No, I think they adjust their release schedule to capitalize on the products that are selling well, like any sensible business would. I checked a Pathfinder wiki that lists all their module releases, and back in 2007 and 2008 they were releasing 10 modules a year. They actually released 20...
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    Starfinder Here's the cover of INCIDENT AT ABSALOM STATION, the first adventure in Starfinder's DEAD SUNS AP!

    I'm not a graphic designer, but the word "Starfinder" looks too small to me. It looks like it's just begging to expand into all that dead space around it.
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    WotC's Irwin, Tanji, and Crawford on Tales from the Yawning Portal's Art Direction

    I'm super happy to have this book, but I'm extremely frustrated with WotC's stance that a readable map is not an essential part of an adventure. (Okay, they've never actually said that, but they are certainly practicing it.) Take a look at the map of the Doomvault (p.111) in Yawning Portal. I...
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    Check Out The First 3 Pages Of TALES FROM THE YAWNING PORTAL

    Also, check out the diagram on p. 17 of Storm King's Thunder, where cloud giants are referred to as "coud giants" and the word "Storm" appears as "STorm." Ouch. I like Volo's a lot, but after giving some of the entries a closer reading over the past couple of weeks, I think a lot of the writing...
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    Got TOME OF BEASTS For 5E? You'll Want These Minis, Too!

    Oh man, just the other day I was thinking that I'd love to have minis of some of the creatures in ToB. But I'm not interested in metal minis. I've been spoiled by the prepainted plastic ones.
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    Sean's Picks of the Week (1024-1028) - Rifts, Dungeons, Shaintar, D&D, and Halloween

    I love a good map, so I followed the link and looked at the preview of "177 Dungeons for the Master." Man, what a disappointment. It looks like someone cranked these things out as fast as possible (or even just randomly generated them). The maps are as plain as possible. No details, no...
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    Which Is Your Favourite Storyline - Tyranny, Princes, Abyss, or Strahd?

    It's kind of weird to me that you have four products that were published by Wizards of the Coast in your graphic, but you don't use their logo anywhere. :-)
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    Everything Old Is New Again: Bringing Older Games Back Into The Public Eye

    Having similar rules across various RPGs can help players learn new games quickly, but I'd like to see some new approaches. The surprising thing to me about RPGs is that so many of them are so much alike. Designers and players have a lot of preconceived notions about what an RPG is supposed to...
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    The Three Games Inside D&D

    Do we actually know it was a "cool" fall afternoon? Could it have actually been unseasonably warm?
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    Queer As A Three-Sided Die: Round Table From GaymerX3

    NB: Article is correct, but headline says "dice" when it should be "die."
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    Here Comes The STRAHD DM SCREEN

    I like having the maps on the screen since they are on a poster in the book, making them a bit of a challenge to access every time you need to look at a map.
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    Pathfinder News From GAMA

    A couple of thoughts in response to various posters: 1) I have no evidence other than my own buying habits, but I suspect that Paizo is seeing decreasing sales of their hardcover rulebooks. I know that after buying the first 20 or so, I have stopped, since a) I'm no longer running a Pathfinder...
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    Can Wizards Avoid Another OGL Glut?

    Did you read "The Wreckage Left Behind" in the article? A glut is not always a minor issue.
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    Want To See The Castle Ravenloft Poster Map In CURSE OF STRAHD?

    I picked up the adventure on Friday, and it looks nice. I was very surprised to see that they had re-used the old maps, but I guess that's okay. It also appears (after a quick look through the adventure) that all of the Ravenloft-specific magic items/artifacts from previous adventures (I6 and...
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    Check Out CURSE OF STRAHD'S Table of Contents!

    Handouts are great, and players love them. I hope WotC makes them available as a downloadable PDF so I don't have to scan in the pages from the physical book.
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