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  1. mamba

    2024 D&D Core Rulebooks Off to "Strongest-Ever" Start for D&D Books

    those are ProfDM numbers, aren’t they? He is off quite a bit for at least 5e, 1e, 2e and 3e we have a pretty good idea (and he lumped 3e and 3.5 together there…) because we have the actual TSR numbers and pretty good WotC number. The 5e number is Bookscan though and way too low, the actual...
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    D&D General 'Project Sigil' 3D Virtual Tabletop Finally Laid To Rest

    Didn’t they reduce it from 30+ to 3 developers months ago? Development effectively ended then (yeah, they released a few minis and maybe fixed some issues in the meantime, but for all intents and purposes it was dead then), this just makes it official
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    D&D Beyond Releases Free Forgotten Realms Adventure

    take a look, it’s only 2 pages anyway… I see nothing innovative here, a mine map with two encounters and little else. Nothing clever, nothing unexpected, nothing interesting. Confirms everything I already didn’t like about the adventure stubs in the DMG. Was not interested in those, certainly...
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    yeah, you do not spend $250M on a license and $465M on the first season and then expect a show that is an ‘also ran’ that looses 60% of its viewers during season one (that is one metric Amazon cannot be happy with, whether they admit it or not). You could accomplish that for a lot less money…...
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    I am not calling them dishonest, I say they have their reasons for not telling everyone what their metrics are and whether they were met, and some of those reasons are about saving face Not telling me something does not make you dishonest, telling me something that you know isn’t true does
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    I disagree, and by that logic we would never know that anything failed or succeeded. There are metrics to go by, we do not need to speculate about what someone in charge may or may not consider acceptable. If you spend 3 times as much as a comparable show that gets 50% more audience (numbers...
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    sure it failed, bad reviews, drastically reduced viewer numbers. It hasn’t been cancelled but that is not the same as not failing
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    to me it wasn’t so much that they ended up where they did, as you wrote it has been foreshadowed for a while, but how abrupt it was. If they had given it two seasons rather than one rushed half-season things might have been different. It also didn’t help that in the last two seasons the...
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    2024 D&D Core Rulebooks Off to "Strongest-Ever" Start for D&D Books

    maybe in the first month of release, in total sales it pretty much was the opposite until 5e came along
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    that was the gods saving the true believers from the by then unavoidable Cataclysm due to all the other people having abandoned the gods. I agree they are all jerks, lines up pretty well with stories about gods in plenty of (formerly) existing faiths though
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    D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e

    it jumps your probability to succeed / fail dramatically, not the rolled result, as that is still bounded by 1-20. Looking at the crit chance is misleading, look at your probability of success
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    2024 D&D Core Rulebooks Off to "Strongest-Ever" Start for D&D Books

    it is almost the entire growth of Hasbro Gaming... MtG grew by 347, Gaming without it grew by 24...
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    GoT did that with 5 books though, so a lot more per book, which probably translates into more readers as well
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    viewership dropping is not loud, but it grabs attention
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    ouch, if you have the guts to replace most of the original, one would hope you would replace it with something better. Given the result I doubt they achieved that.... In books that might work, I have read some books like that I enjoyed regardless, based purely on the language used. I am not...
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    depends on the changes I guess, LotR made changes, I was ok to happy with all but one minor one, and that does not ruin the overall good impression for me
  17. mamba

    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    WoT TV series was boring and meandering, I have no idea how the books are, but I am not surprised the TV show got dropped. Going by the DL novels vs the WoT TV show, I definitely prefer DL.. Of course there is no accounting for taste, so me liking it and you not liking it mean very little, and...
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    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition Is Coming in 2026

    Old World is its own RPG system, not a book for WFRPG 4e, so in that scenario no time at all…
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    not sure Wheel of Time failed due to its budget. Rings of Power certainly didn’t. There is more that determines success than the budget
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    D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e

    that stacks too high, I like the SotDL where each advantage adds 1d6 to the roll, but you only take the highest d6, not the total, keeps things from getting out of hand (apart from a roll being able to exceed 20, which might be an issue for 5e math)
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