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    Planescape 5 New D&D Books Coming in 2023 -- Including Planescape!

    Yeah, Planescape really needed the level of attention that Theros, Ravenloft, Strixhaven, Ravnica, etc got, and just... didn't. For no reason, they gave us this incredibly divergent setting that begs for unique systems and just didn't give us those systems. Ghosts of Saltmarsh is a more robust...
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    The Last Blockbuster is a pretty good documentary. I don't want to throw shade at Jon Peterson or Ben Riggs, but I think more people have streamed Last Blockbuster than will ever read Game Wizards and Slaying the Dragon combined.
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    I won't repost it since it's already in the thread. See darjr's photo of the title page.
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    1. He's holding Magic cards. 2. He looks like Adkison. 3. He doesn't look like Gary.
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    I'm only on page 34. So far, I have to agree about the prose. There are a few spots where he's clearly trying to be clever, and other spots where it looks like he just took bullet points from his outline, converted them into sentences, and called it a paragraph. The paragraph beginning "Then...
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    Glad to see i'm not the only one who takes the dust jacket off to read a hardcover.
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    Even Game Wizards seemed to dispel the idea that Williams was the bad guy. Williams comes on board having heard only Gary's side of the story. After hearing everyone else's side of the story and seeing the company from the inside, she decides they're all blank-holes and figures she may as well...
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    I took a chance and ordered the hard cover. I hope it's half as good as Game Wizards.
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    Well, i'd consider it a plus that he doesn't retread Game Wizards' ground.
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    If the idea is to tell the STORY of late phase TSR, do we really need these numbers to understand that narrative? Game Wizards did a great job of telling us the story of early TSR and the entire book had less "data" presented then even one of these stat dumps on facebook. I'm hoping these...
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    To put myself in his shoes, someone is trying to release a tell-all expose about D&D in a world where we already have Game Wizards, claiming to have inside scoops from people who know stuff, and one of the few people kicking around who was there, and knows stuff, seems to have not been...
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    Yes, the original post is public. It was shared to the BECMI group by a third person, not Benjamin Riggs, and that share violated group rules, so the comment thread on the share was locked aside from Bruce's rebuttal. As the group is currently Public and Visible, i think it's fair for me to...
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    Slaying the Dragon: The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons Review

    Bruce Heard had a pretty harsh review of the numbers this guy was posting. Someone shared them out to the BECMI group on facebook in violation of the group's posting guidelines. The post was locked, but contained a pretty strong rebuttal from Bruce Heard as its only comment.
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    Jamison Stone & Satine Phoenix's Apotheosis Studio To Wind Down [UPDATED]

    It says that freelancers who invoiced correctly were paid. The problem with some of the complaints was that pay was late, and they were not allowed to invoice until well after their work was delivered. It also qualifies that only the freelancers who invoiced correctly were paid, so anyone...
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    Jamison Stone & Satine Phoenix's Apotheosis Studio To Wind Down [UPDATED]

    What does that mean? If I say "he abused me at GenCon", but he in fact abused me at GaryCon, does that make my accusation factually inaccurate? If they really meant to say "Stone didn't do it", then "factually inaccurate" is a really weak way of phrasing it. Looking at the Jamison Stone that...
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    Tithi Luadthong’s Famous Stock Cover & Its Five RPGs

    I think companies that sell stock art should list which projects already licensed said art, so that purchasers can know up front if the piece already has context.
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    Jamison Stone & Satine Phoenix's Apotheosis Studio To Wind Down [UPDATED]

    "If you accused him of murdering 12 children and a dog, he would produce a living dog and call you a liar."
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    D&D Celebrity Satine Phoenix & Husband Jamison Stone Accused Of Abuse Towards Freelancers

    Probably shut down the discord after/because the leak of the message about Jamison doing everything possible to make sure none of this harms Satine. Apparently he can't trust many of the people who were on that server, and he's better off without it. Stone's a terrible person, but clearly not...
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