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Tabletop roleplaying game storylines, whether in classic heroic fantasy system like Dungeons & Dragons or horror RPGs like Vampire: The Masquerade, can cover a wide variety of topics - some light-hearted, others touching on mature themes like violence, sex, gore, abuse, war-time casualties, or...

Ah, another acolyte of all press is good press... This post reads like a pick-up artist manifesto from the 2000s. The Shame and Plead. This Kickstarter is all over the place. You have an EPIC Mini-adventure (a little oxymoronic), a video, music, screensaver battle maps, and a printable miniature...

The sculpts for the framework miniatures are beautiful. I can see the beholder being out of stock very quickly, but the orcs are nothing special. I imagine there will be many packs that will occupy shelves in FLGS for years at this price point. They will look lovely next to the Warlock terrain...

This is interesting. Premier League sponsorship would be lost in the noise of huge ad campaigns. Leyton Orient is followed by locals and would be easier to spot an upward trend in local game purchasing and involvement. I am curious how many football fans are itching to hit the local games club...

Two weeks back I stopped in a shop in Lake Placid that had GI Joe No1 in mint condition for sale. I loved that series. I loved the cartoon in all it's campy glory for different reasons. I am very much looking forward to E20 GI Joe. Now I need a Thundarr the Barbarian RPG and my nostalgic self...

Hi Elisa! The system sounds interesting. Cascading dice, as opposed to exploding dice, is a cool system. I am more interested in the GI Joe and Transformers RPGs than Power Rangers, but I am excited to see an outside design group expanding what 5E can do. Plus, I like Kids on Bikes, so I have...

I think you could argue that there are two Ur-classes: Fighting-Man and Magic-User. Fighting-Man gives d10 HD, Bonus attack at 5th, access to fighting style Magic-User gives d6 HD, half caster progression, ritual casting The next level down would introduce classes. A player makes a...

Monks need work. Mainly around the ribbon abilities at later levels and the imbalance of ki spenders. Flurry of Blows and Patient Defense are not equal. Oddly other than Way of the Elements, the PHB subclasses are good to go. I could argue that Way of the Shadow is a ninja for 1 round per short...

Huts & Hags 2022 Calendar for all your Dark Fairy Dreams and Nightmares Also, why aren't there male versions of hags? I get the misogyny and historical and cultural prejudice/ageism. There are enough current Apocrypha of creepers and old weird men. Why do fairy tales and myths call them wizards...

Three more hags in the Wild Beyond the Witchlight adventure, Bavlorna Brightshaw, Endelyn Moongrave, and Skabatha Nightshade. I just love the names. Plus, where don't hags make a good threat? Source

I would imagine the delay is Del Rey/ Penguin not giving a firm release date to the first novel. Amazon had a placeholder of Jul 29th, 2021. Shipping is fouled up the world over so even a little hiccup would cascade. Until there is a firm release date from Penguin we won't know. I have seen no...

On topic response: Redcaps are fae spiritual embodiments of indiscriminate murder. They aren't used as a symbol of racist propaganda or sniggering prejudice in the real world so labeling them as evil is perfectly suitable. Off-topic philosophizing and navel-gazing: This is where we get into...

It will all come down to pricing. Although now that I have a SLA printer, I haven't bought a physical mini in some time.

I am interested in what this means for the remaining 'classic' settings releases next year. Dark Sun and Dragonlance are the odds on favorites for a rebirth. I wonder if the foofaraw of the new Dragonlance Trilogy from Weiss and Hickman is resolved by the 'different media, different canon' and...

But Slut Street was critical to the feel of Waterdeep... /s The view of canon has internally existed at D&D for a while. It certainly adds more information to the editing of Graeme Barber's adventure in Candlekeep Mysteries. Maybe that incident and the changes to Ravenloft prompted the design...

I am only reading what people are saying in this thread. Nonsense or not it is a feeling among the pro-canon people.

Living Greyhawk was a beautiful disaster. It was some of the best D&D experiences of my life. It was uneven, overpopulated with Oerth Shaking Events and too many fragile egos, but had some of the most awesome inclusive community world-building and detailed background of a shared world. It...

The benefit of canon to a lot of people seems to be the concept of a shared world between tables, a sense of a larger community. The fact, regardless of where or with whom you play, there is a shared connection by virtue of using the baseline canon of the same setting. You could talk to someone...

So many different conversations going around in this thread. The Curative vs Transformative lore topic: awesome! Thank you, guys, gals, and NB pals. The intersection of Lore and Canon: another great topic with great points. Ultimately, we have a Spartan statement from Crawford, praising novels...