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    D&D General How Was Your Last Session?

    I almost TPK’d 4 5th level 5e characters with a single CR6 monster. (1st round of combat, annis hag wins init and proceeds to crit the barbarian with her strong attack - 108 points of damage - 2 points away from instantly killing him as his max is 55 HP)
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    OSR Any Actual Plays with PoC for OSR Games?

    What you posted was a guy who sounds pretty smart and reasonable. Which means he's deliberately lying about the content of the recent interviews. Still not cool.
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    Not a Conspiracy Theory: Moving Toward Better Criticism in RPGs

    All good criticism should quote Tom Cruise in Cocktail.
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    OSR Any Actual Plays with PoC for OSR Games?

    I like it when I guess right. It makes me feel like a detective! (it's also fortunate I'm not a detective, because that isn't how investigation should work)
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    OSR Any Actual Plays with PoC for OSR Games?

    I'm guessing it's one of the spate of videos that deliberately misinterprets Brink's comments about the leadership positions at WotC. Messaging intended to convince people there is widespread anti-White bias in 5e. Did you watch it? How'd I do?
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    OSR Any Actual Plays with PoC for OSR Games?

    You're about to find out this isn't a great place for monetizing white resent.
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    D&D General Magitech and Science Fantasy are Fundamental to D&D

    Put it this way, one of my favorite series that I read as I was getting into D&D back in high school was Julian May's Saga of the Pliocene Exile. Which led to one of my setting design maxims: "It should always be possible for a character to dig up or be gifted an ancient laser". My current...
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    Gizmodo: Dungeons & Dragons Has Burned Up All the Goodwill

    Oh definitely. I've seen a lot of coverage in the mainstream media. I was just relating my recent experience. Frankly, I was a little surprised that it didn't come up.
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    Gizmodo: Dungeons & Dragons Has Burned Up All the Goodwill

    I think that's true for a lot of the Very (Mostly?) Online segment of the D&D community. But over the weekend I played with 14 people in 2 groups and the OGL fiasco came up zero times in conversation. Both campaigns are 5e. One uses a paid Beyond sub for book-sharing, the other Roll20.
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    Matt Colville weighs in.

    Is Colville usually this melodramatic?
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    City slickers save rural village. (this is the new campaign I’m playing in - as a dapper gnomish Eurotrash wizard)
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2E Gurus teach me! +

    Pathfinder 2e sounds interesting, but also significantly more complex than 5e while at the same time not 3.75e, either. How much time did it take 3.5/5e DMs to get up to speed running Pathfinder 2e? From what I've been reading lately, 2e sounds like it belongs squarely in the "I'd like to play...
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    WotC: We Are Not Making AI Dungeon Masters

    While what you wrote is inarguably true, I'm go to argue with it (a little) because we're online. I like to think these kind of YouTubers as the human version of used-car lot advertising. They're both loud and attention-getting inherently commercial speech which is not, strictly-speaking, true...
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    WotC: We Are Not Making AI Dungeon Masters

    Honestly I don’t begrudge them that. They’re businesses trying to make money in a highly competitive space.
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    WotC: We Are Not Making AI Dungeon Masters

    In general, it’s a good idea to believe a company when they say they’re not doing something they can’t. Like if SpaceX puts out a statement swearing they’re not building a warp core.
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    D&D 5E (2024) New leak looks real bad

    That's a good point, and all the streaming video services have recently raised their subscription prices. But $30 for a new service still strikes me as a bad price point, even for the highest tier. The kind of number that a lot of people will react emotionally towards, rather than rationally.
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    History of the World, Part 2- It's Real, and It's Spectacular

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to cancel Hulu. Please tell me we’ll see Jews In Space. They’re so topical now, what with their lasers and all. Omitting them would be a crime against comedy.
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    Willow - Official Teaser Trailer

    I got that feeling watching them!
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    D&D 5E (2024) New leak looks real bad

    Let’s grant the $30 highest-tier price is accurate. It’s still clickbait. The real questions are: is there a free tier and if so, how robust is it? What’s the standard tier subscription cost? Will there still be library sharing? Can a single group member share all their purchased content...
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    The OGL -- Just What's Going On?

    Right. Lose 3d6 SAN.
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