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The thing this discussion has taught me is that many of the advocates for older D&D/OSR would not welcome me at their tables. The strong, angsty objections to things like glasses or other true-to-the times technologies means that me, an eyeglasses wearer can't play a fantasy version of myself...

Customs: Do you have anything to declare? Me, hiding my hexcards: No

I'm thinking about things like the Hexploration Deck, a deck of cards and tiles to inspire world creation. I backed at $100 plus shipping. I guess that would be $300 now with a mere fraction going to the creators. I can't do that and I'm blessed with a decent job.

A D&D wizards has many more options in a given round, imo

I think Daggerheart is better at social conflict, but D&D is better at tactical combat especially events those that feature a wide variety of magic.

Almost every bit of lore hits multiple tropes

But this hasn't happened. We don't know the path of the lore, because no one here has read the books yet. Some people are assuming incompetence, others are taking a wait and see option.

LOVE THIS

That also doesn't equal the definition of retcon. They have not change that lore in any way. Retcon is another one of those entertainment words that seems to be flung out as a pejorative so frequently it is now meaningless. It's used like "That's AI" for real art people don't like. People are...

Is it a retcon to say "in the past 100 years this [thing] happened?" Or is that moving a timeline forward. To no one's knowledge has WotC changed what occurred in previously covered timelines.

The franchise model was declared as a way to get singular leadership guiding official rpg, licensing, gaming, tv/movies, merch. Previously those unites weren't working together on projects

I removed that line, thank you.

This May Target is going to carry a companion workbook about how to create a character within the 2024 rules. Early marketing clearly calls out that it is paired with the 2024 PHB. This almost certainly means that the PHB is about to be in Target again. Target is still selling the Essentials...

No, the oddity is that 2014 (i'm assuming you meant 2024, but it's hard to tell) is outselling Daggerheart.

Well, this is odd. There's now a section under Books-->Sci-fi & Fantasy-->Games--> D&D on Amazon Best Sellers. The 2014 PHB is still there, below a few third party books at #6. Daggerheart is at #15 900 bought 2014 PHB in the last month. There's no data on Amazon for 2024...

Tales of the Valiant Starter Set at $15 plus shipping and handling (was nearly 15 in US for me) https://steamforged.com/products/tales-of-the-valiant-starter-set

While my world doesn't do this with dragons, it does do it with 'normal' beasts which can include drakes and other non-intelligent dragonkind. Everyone in the party has an animal (or a Feat boosting their power).

They were at GenCon doing a press tour. He's press now. That's not a favor. That's what people do.

Drakewardens exist! A small update for 2024 is all that's needed (and not really needed at all)

Because different games are better at different types of stories. If that wasn't true we'd never have seen new games at all.