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The industry and hobby is probably holding its breath to some extent, waiting to see how the 2024 edition and DDB's new features play out.

Understandable, and I'm roughly in the same place. I'm running the UA playtest fighter right now, and although the changes are improvements in my opinion, they are marginal, house-rule-able/hand-wave-able, and maybe a day late and dollar short - meaning other 5E games and supplements have...

Oozing, fey, man-faced wolf decimated.

re a sci-fi alternative: I have a vivid memory of being both enthralled and overwhelmed by all the chits and bits in...a sci-fi wargame whose name I can't recall...but it was the mid '70s. My oldest brother had it, and he would have been in his late teens at that point. And then I remember...

Very timely topic for me, since I have been sifting through my gaming pdfs today and organizing them by style, simplicity, etc. I lean toward wanting rues that are simple but that incentivize drama. I don't mind a bit of crunch if it helps the drama happen - for instance I'm trying track down...

Aesthetics is essential to me. You could have the perfect game for me, design-wise, but if it hurts my eyes I'm gonna move on. There have been rare exception, where I heard about something that was right up my alley and I forced my way past the visuals, but the visuals are such a big part for me...

I went with The Enterprise-B, because I LOVE the lines of that design. But obviously the TOS or the TMP refit is the right answer: TOS is the simple, clean, groundbreaking design that started it all, and the TMP redesign is sleek as all get-out and by many accounts the best scale model ship...

I DON"T want to GM because I sweat the details and wind up being very stressed out the whole time. It's like a somewhat low-grade panic attack that just keeps going. I don't know how to break out of that. If I prep a lot then I wind up missing the forest for the trees. If I take a low- or...

Agreed. For those who didn't see the show or clips of this: for the Best and Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards, they had 5 previous winners of the award come out on stage to announce each of the five new nominees and describe their work in the role they were nominated for, speaking...

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I'm glad you mentioned this because I quit on KotFM about half-way in, in part because she had all but disappeared from the movie by then. Early on the movie gives the impression that she's a main character, but from what i gather it's mostlt a Leo and DeNiro movie. Anyway, I found it too full...

It's goiong to be really interesting to see what effect this movie wants to have on the MCU,a nd what effect it actually winds up having. Does anyone have a reading on that, because I really don't - I'm staying away from spoilers for this movie, and the cause-and-effect in MCU projects of the...

I rolled nothing but 20s.

A photographer should definitely get better at lighting. A painter should definitely get better at painting. Unless they...don't want to get better? "Creating" is the key, I think. Is the artist doing the creative work? An artists working with an Apple Pen in Photoshop on an iPad is doing the...

There was a Kickstarter project recently that piqued my interest, in part because the art looked amazing. And then I looked at the art a little closer and it seemed almost too good. Everything looked right, technically, but having looked at a lot of art that I know was AI generated I think my...

People with eyes+brain that have been trained to scrutinize and analyze art (and imagery in general) will be better at spotting these things than those whose eyes+brain are not trained that way. I mean, there are people who can't tell the difference between a tv with the motion-smoothing turned...

I GMed SW:EotE for a while. I found the design and use of the proprietary dice to be awkward, and I never got comfortable with it. I think most of my players got used to it, though. Regarding the rest of the system, I'm surprised they didn't use the dice system throughout. Weapons could add...

I feel your pain, @Retreater ! I, too, can't stand when the useful bits are buried in text. With any luck, you can rely on a publisher's previous books to suggest what a new book by them will be like. Together, these are the reasons I backed Shadowdark at the hardback _ pdf level. I had...

Yeah, I canceled my Master-tier subscription for money- and OGL fiasco-related reasons, and now just have the free version. I only use that to make a character when the current DM seems to really want it there. Regardless, I'm using paper at the table now, and I prefer it. If I'm running a...

I picked "soft reset" because my group loves them some D&D Beyond, and I imagine DDB will be pushing the new stuff, so we'll probably segue in whatever way DDB demands. I'm not crazy about this, but whatevs.