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    D&D General Satine Phoenix is trying to make a comeback

    Satine is a strange and toxic personality, to be sure. But we've already gone off the rails in this thread criticizing her for things she has not done . . . and with plenty of things she actually has done to talk about! Her quotes from the charm-and-AI video are certainly odd, but have...
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    Things the Report button is NOT for

    As a middle-school teacher . . . it's the same thing, arrgghhh! If I ask you to stop doing something you shouldn't be doing . . . and you stop doing it . . . WE'RE GOOD! Get all defensive and try to fight me on it . . . off to the principal's office with you! I suppose some folks truly do...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    That's a close reading of the 2024 warlock, too close IMO. And far from making the warlock a "non-entity". The DM is "not allowed"? That concept does not exist in D&D of any edition. The 2024 warlock design is imperfect IMO also, for the reasons you mention. But it's hardly game-breaking. I'm...
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    Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model

    I would assume not much at all . . . other than the price for the digital versions of the new, larger adventure paths would also be higher. I don't think Paizo has released pricing on digital-only versions yet. If you subscribe to the physical releases through Paizo's store, you will still get...
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    Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model

    It's still less expensive for the adventure path. You certainly do lose the ability to purchase one "chapter" instead of the entire thing, sure . . . but how many folks were doing that? Only Paizo knows, but I suspect it's a small minority. This new format is certainly a change that will...
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    Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model

    For you it doesn't cost less? That's not how money works . . . I mean, if you have a budgeting and impulse control problem . . . I'm entirely sympathetic, me too. But the quarterly hardcover adventure paths DO cost less than the monthly softcovers. It's math, man!
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    Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model

    Well, we are talking the Adventure Paths, not stand-alone modules. You could, of course, just go with #4 out of a 6-part series . . . but I doubt many Pathfinder fans were doing that. Plus, these were mostly sold by subscription, although they were available in FLGS brick-and-mortars.
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    Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model

    $80 for a 256 page, full-color, quality RPG book is not ridiculous. It's an increase, to be sure. But it is a reasonable price. IMO, of course. Are you suggesting that Paizo might as well release 500 page hardcovers for $150? Probably a reasonable price for a book that huge, but books of that...
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    Your parents failed you. Just kidding, of course! But this was IMPORTANT to me and my friends back in the 80s! No knock-off transforming robots for us! Even if Gobots where technically released first . . .
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    Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model

    It might be the standard, but big, beautiful, full-color RPG books are underpriced at $50-60. For RPG companies to make a more sustainable profit, they should be charging more. They often don't, because they know they will get this exact reaction. Prices are going up on everything for a variety...
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    What?!?! Gobots are what your parents bought you for Xmas or your birthday when they didn't understand what Transformers are! Mom! I wanted REAL Transformers!!!
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    Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players

    If RPG money can purchase a small Caribbean island . . . that's pretty awesome! We've come a long way baby! :) Instead of "D&D in a Castle" . . . Mulligan is going to build a Caribbean RPG resort! Take my money!
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    D&D General Crochet, Coloring, & Journals: Upcoming D&D Books from Ten Speed Press

    Holy crap! I generally don't buy journals . . . and you shouldn't purchase a book just because of the cover . . . But wow, that Hydro74 Venger piece is amazing!
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    Wizards of the Coast Releases Exodus TTRPG

    I'm happy with the price vs page count too, but . . . shipping is $15 for the Encyclopedia. It's basically the full shipping cost, which we're not used to seeing these days . . .
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    Wizards of the Coast Releases Exodus TTRPG

    I'm hoping they add Exodus to D&D Beyond, but we'll see . . .
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    D&D's The Book of Dragons Comes Out in August

    What I'd really love is to update ALL of the many dragon species introduced starting way back in the 2E days and through today. But that would be a BIG book of dragons . . .
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    D&D's The Book of Dragons Comes Out in August

    I agree with some of the other posts here . . . there's only so much room in the book, but it would have been cooler to see some different dragon "species" rather than the transmogrified dragons and constructs. That stuff is cool too, but new dragon species even cooler!
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    D&D General The Purple Dragon Knights are tied to an Amethyst Dragon (confirmed)

    There's been a lot of cool developments in the Realms since the 1360s . . . I'd simply reboot, reinvent, or reimagine the Realms and start fresh. Kinda like what they actually did with 5E, although that was all within the timeline. I'd simply say, here is the NEW Forgotten Realms . . . The...
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    D&D General The Purple Dragon Knights are tied to an Amethyst Dragon (confirmed)

    That video annoyed the heck out of me, although I wonder if Greenwood's comments were taken out of context. Is Greenwood really irritated over these "mistakes", or was he just being nerdy and pointing out the inconsistencies? Nothing in the video complained about rose to the level of "lazy...
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