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And, to spread the genre around a bit, Modiphius makes Star Trek Adventures: Captain's Log, a solo adventure game. Available in hardcopy or pdf.

I think it is simpler than that. I think WotC wants folks who care about diversity and representation to know that WotC welcomes them as customers, even if some players don't.

That twitter image isn't in the game. That twitter image was about selling merchandise for charity, to fund hotlines to help people in crisis. Thinking players might want to help out others... is weird and niche? 'Cuz otherwise, you have dodged the question - what about the game is weird and...

What, exactly, do you think makes it weird?

You're going to need some evidence behind that if you want folks to accept it as correct.

Goodness, no, it is not. Much the opposite, Gary's original vision is very much a thing of its time, and times have changed. D&D is like going toa modern club dressed in your best 70s Disco togs. Nothing wrong with that. There has been no edition of the game that folks didn't houserule up...

Please note that while Mr. Kuntz is keeping his language indirect, he is writing in support of a trans-phobic post that itself would have been in violation of our inclusivity policy had it been posted here. Be thoughtful of how you engage.

It depends on the game - specifically, a game is "complete" for me when it has covered something like it's basic set of features. For some games, that's just the core rules. Other games need one or more supplements to get to that point. I usually like to see at least one adventure the way the...

Hey, a tricked out pickup is a far less risky mid-life crisis object than a mistress.

They look like old Volvos...

You know, that's just what Other Ryujin said...

Hey, @darjr? Can you put some discussion of what the thing is about, why it is important or interesting, and so on in the OP? Morrus is trying to reduce the number of posts that just link to outside media, but don't actually give context or stuff to talk about themselves. Thanks.

The guess, as I understand it, is that it hasn't "pinballed" - the interactions it has had probably haven't made very large corrections to its path. So, less pinball, more swapping lanes on a highway. You can still guess it came from further back on the highway. Mostly, yeah. The details will...

I was referring mostly to the setting nostalgia products.

There's a point here - in actual, practical play, we are generally going to select games and groups that match our own needs. If someone offered you a game that you know doesn't work for you, you just say, "No, but thanks," and move on. As a GM, if I know you're not into the kind of games I...

But, that wasn't the idea of the era. Those were not "examples" or "seeds" or 10-page treatments. And, while some of the current works have been rehashes, maybe you missed some of the point to some of them. Ghosts of Saltmarsh isn't just a rehash of three old modules - it is also a source of...

Hr. Tough. I usually have a very hard time ranking things as "favorite", and this is no different. I have one GM in whose game I experienced the best story ever. And it was not "story" in the "GM had a specific story and railroaded us" sense. Best in the sense that he found things central...

Sure. But the big wave of players from the 80s are only in their 50s now. The population of gamers in retirement homes is apt to rise notably in 20 years... ...if our devotion to Cheetos and Mountain Dew doesn't take us out early.

It seems obvious to me. Remember that the flood of creative settings from TSR back in the day were part of a business model that failed. Having the flagship company produce and solidly support multiple setting lines didn't work. So, WotC isn't going to repeat that pattern. But they still...

Sure - like, I showed my godkid a bog standard dungeon expereince with Phandelver. What they went on to do was magic-school stuff, and not by buying anyone's magic-school supplements (this was years before Strixhaven was published), they just did it. Rather like we did in our day. There seems...