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    D&D General Garys House Tour

    I think this is a different house than the DHSM. This is where Gygax lived while D&D was taking form, while the DHSM was an office/shop TSR opened later in the 70s.
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    Draw Steel News

    This is pretty funny though:
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    Today I learned +

    Classic Pym!
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    Today I learned +

    For those trying to get super powers, note that the Winsome Wasp did not become empowered by being stung by a radioactive wasp. That was genetic/biochemical engineering and Pym particles.
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    Draw Steel News

    A lot of stuff has been going on in the 1½ years since they ran the crowdfunder, both in gaming and in the rest of the world. Plus they've not been very good at hyping it lately. Personally, I've started a Savage Worlds East Texas University campaign since then, and that's probably going to take...
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    What are your thoughts on roll-under/roll-high mechanics?

    You engage with it the same way you do with a check in D&D, which is to say generally not unless there's some external mechanic that lets you do it (e.g. in D&D you have things like Bardic Inspiration that lets you retroactively mess with a roll). Some games that use Blackjack rolls do have ways...
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    Maps Feature on D&D Beyond Becomes Free to Use

    The talk about D&D being undermonetized is a few years old, and I think Sigil was a reaction to it – "Hey, let's make a really shiny VTT that looks like a AAA computer game and where we can sell virtual minis and terrain and make AAAAALL the money." Turns out that doing that costs a lot of money...
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    Spoilers Fantastic Four (Spoilers)

    Being clean-shaven doesn't do Pedro Pascal any favors:
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    What are your thoughts on roll-under/roll-high mechanics?

    It's not a decision-making mechanic. It's a simple way of dealing with opposed rolls and quality-of-success. If you start with a linear roll-under system, it's easy to at first assume that the lower your roll, the better you did. Succeeding by 10 is better than succeeding by 2. If we're...
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    What are your thoughts on roll-under/roll-high mechanics?

    Blackjack mechanics, when using a single die (d100 counts as single in this case) to create a uniform distribution, is basically just a simplification of using margins of success where you don't need to do any subtraction. For example, let's say you're using a d20-based roll-under system where...
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    Draw Steel News

    And backers have received their PDFs.
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    D&D General Discworld alignments

    I think the Death-focused stories, to some degree, are about Death's personality changing from LN to something closer to NG, but still bound by the nature of the role to act LN. This is particularly seen in two scenes in Hogfather. Toward the end, there is the Grand Explanation of the role of...
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    Maps Feature on D&D Beyond Becomes Free to Use

    The one thing about the Magic format panels though is that they are primarily metagame-oriented. They deal with things like card bans and deck construction rules/parameters. AFAIK, they have little to no influence on the actual releases – they might be consulted on certain things within their...
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    Maps Feature on D&D Beyond Becomes Free to Use

    Wizards have had the Pauper format panel since early 2022. According to the announcement, they were formed because the format was fairly popular, but not popular enough for Wizards to dedicate enough internal resources to it so they figured it was better to have prominent community folks provide...
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    Maps Feature on D&D Beyond Becomes Free to Use

    I think you're focusing too much on the creator spotlight part. The interesting part is the advisory group. It sounds a lot like the Commander Format Panel, which Wizards formed from the old Commander Rules Council and Commander Advisory Group when they took over managing the format. It's a way...
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