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  1. M.L. Martin

    Any Christian rpgs?

    And I.C.E. was planning a full-fledged RPG, but it turned out the license they were using for both was an illegitimate sublicense, which got them into trouble with the Lewis estate.
  2. M.L. Martin

    From Bespoke to Universal: Let's Talk About TTRPG Systems and Themes

    Advanced Player's Guide II includes design notes and two Social Combat Systems, covering 18 pages.
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    Pendragon 6E Gets An April Release Date!

    Very true. Forward worked on He-Man and She-Ra as well, and wrote what is generally considered the best episode of the former, "The Problem with Power."
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    D&D General One thing I hate about the Sorcerer

    There are numerous references in core Dragonlance material that Raistlin was "born with the gift" and that he and others are "strong in the magic." Older D&D kept the magic-user broader and less defined; it had some definite quirks (learning, memorization, dependence on Intelligence), but it...
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    D&D General If faith in yourself is enough to get power, do we need Wizards and Warlocks etc?

    I don't think the poly/henotheism shows up until Supplement IV. And don't forget the Templars in the original mix. :)
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    D&D General If faith in yourself is enough to get power, do we need Wizards and Warlocks etc?

    I tell you, Krynn makes a lot more sense once you realize that most of the 'gods' are ancient, lie-breathing, soul-devouring dragons ... ;)
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    D&D General One thing I hate about the Sorcerer

    I would note that the sharp divide between the two is a 3E innovation; while wizards/mages/magic-users in earlier editions need training of some sort, it's entirely up to players and DMs whether the capacity for magic itself is learned, inborn, or granted. I admit that part of me was grouchy...
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    D&D General One thing I hate about the Sorcerer

    Straight from Richard Baker himself, only a couple of weeks ago: https://richardbakerauthor.com/2024/03/10/50-years-of-dd-the-sorcerer/
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    D&D General One thing I hate about the Sorcerer

    The 3E sorcerer exists in large part to justify spending all that PHB space on the massive wizard spell list, so I'm afraid that was a non-starter from the beginning.
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    What Non-D&D TSR RPGs Needs to be Revived?

    Sadly true, and I've known it for years. But sometimes I still miss the SAGA Rules System, although I believe Tab Creations has done retroclones of it for some games and is working on a standalone revision.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Deborah Ann Woll and Matt Mercer consulted on the 2024 DMG.

    But if you read Gygax's articles on the AD&D project from the early Dragons, he considered it a bug, not a feature.
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    D&D General Why is D&D becoming increasingly gay and left-wing?

    The ownership (by which I mean WotC), the pressure of online agitators, and the general bent of the designers and online fanbase.
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    D&D General What devil would most want to make trouble in the Radiant Citadel?

    Raphael is one of the three angels canonically named in Scripture and venerated by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. (He's in the book of Tobit, which many other Christians and Jews reject as non-canonical. Said book is also where you find Asmodeus.)
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    D&D General What devil would most want to make trouble in the Radiant Citadel?

    Wait ... they actually named a devil Raphael? That's rather tone-deaf and mildly offensive, but I suppose I'm not too surprised, especially since it appears to have come out of Baldur's Gate III.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Somehow Vecna returned....

    There have been multiple interpretations of Skeletor across the years, some (the original minicomics, the live-action movie, the 2002 relaunch) considerably more competent and imposing than the Filmation version. (And at least one--the 1990 New Adventures cartoon--who is arguably less so.) I...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Somehow Vecna returned....

    If Vecna were Skeletor, it would have gone the other way around--Skeletor's using Orcus' wand with the head replaced with Orcus' own. :D
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    D&D General Ravenloft: Monsters vs Darklords

    I think 'souls are trapped in Ravenloft' is a bit of fanon like the original 'people are created by the Dark Powers'--the official material never states anything, but it becomes common as fans overthink things. :) I did a careful read-through of the Black Box about a decade ago, and while it...
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    D&D General Ravenloft: Monsters vs Darklords

    Has anyone asked Tracy Hickman about this? The 'soulless/trapped souls' elements came in with Curse of Strahd, which he consulted on, and it resembles some of his ideas from Dragonlance's War of Souls.
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    Dragonlance Dragons Of Eternity By Margaret Weis And Tracy Hickman Coming August 6, 2024

    I'm one of the small handful that actually likes the original Fifth Age, but the War of Souls retcons and post-WoS era don't work for me on the whole.
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    Dragonlance Dragons Of Eternity By Margaret Weis And Tracy Hickman Coming August 6, 2024

    Yes, that's what I had in mind with the 'limited in what it could control and effect' clause. Unfortunately, not all authors picked up on that nuance even before the changeover, so we get a 5A sorcerer using a sleep spell in the "Raid on the Academy of Sorcery" short story. :(
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