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  1. TheAlkaizer

    MCDM officially announces their RPG

    I'm unsure if sarcasm... 🤔
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    I didn't say all daily powers; I said many. But I should have said too many. Anyway, I was about to say that I remembered it varying heavily from class to class and was about to give the fighter as an example. But I had completely forgotten about the reliable keyword. I looked it up and indeed...
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    D&D General How to reboot the Forgotten Realms (+)

    Knowing very little about the Forgotten Realms, would it be in bad taste to be a curious and ask what The Wall of the Faithless is?
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    D&D General M. T. Black made his own 5e clone. Iskandar Players Handbook.

    It's not a bad idea... imagine having a core system. And you can go on a website and either through a questionnaire or a wizard check certain options to include modules depending on the type of experience you want, and you get a PDF with the mechanics and systems you chose at the end. It's no...
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    D&D General M. T. Black made his own 5e clone. Iskandar Players Handbook.

    The actual perfect RPG is when you put all these heartbreakers together as modules to make one RPG to bring them all.
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    D&D 5E (2014) WotC: Why Dark Sun Hasn't Been Revived

    I'll hijack the thread for a moment. I've been thinking of buying something Dark Sun related for a while. I know there's some 2E stuff, 3E stuff from 3rd parties and some 4E stuff. Which Dark Sun material would you recommend?
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    Are the Million-dollar Kickstarters slowing down?

    Maybe the situation with the OGL also pushed some creators to make some changes to their product, licensing or schedules?
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    There's a lot of small things I would fix. Balancing fell off a bit at higher levels, the maths were off. Many Daily Powers were very powerful and were either you do something awesome or you miss completely, I would add degrees of success (which many other powers had). I would incorporate some...
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    D&D General PETITION: Acknowledge Hasbro's hurtful content (Black orcs, Asian yellow orcs, Native American red orcs)—through an Amendatory Bundle [+ thread]

    I'm not gonna sign it. I agree with some of the points, notably making sure Hasbro doesn't profit from distributing a troublesome product like that. However, for reasons others have already mentioned I think it is important to keep the product available and in its current form. It's part of...
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    Cognitive dissonance in YOUR favorite RPG [+]

    Does the promise/premise of a game and its content (rules) not fulfilling it can count as cognitive dissonance? I bought the Symbaroum books a while ago and read them from cover to cover. For anyone that knows Symbaroum, the premise is a massive forest called Davokar in which you mount...
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    New Level-less RPG

    Burning Wheel is leveless.
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    Games that you haven't run but want to [+]

    Oh man, I'm not sure I want to type this list. The pandemic was a tough time for me. When it comes to RPGs, I fell in a bit of a buying frenzy to feel better, and because reading them was my replacement for playing them. My list is mostly games I already owned and can't wait to get to...
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    D&D General Why Unbalanced Combat Encounters Can Enhance Your Dungeons & Dragons Experience

    It's not something I've really experienced before. Most of my experience is with 3e, 4e and 5e which aimed at balanced encounters. I like that approach, to aim for a challenging fight that the players know they can succeed at. But I also see the merit in the unbalanced approach, I've been...
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    Good Games For One Shots? [+]

    One Shot in the Dark - Tale of the Manticore | DriveThruRPG.com
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    Kyle Brink (D&D Exec Producer) On OGL Controversy & One D&D (Summary)

    I believe that many individuals at WotC probably warned others that this was a bad idea. I'm sure many felt the same way we did. I even believe that some individuals may now have realized how they were on a bad path and might have changed their minds. In the interview, Kyle seemed mostly...
  16. TheAlkaizer

    It is time to forgive WOTC and get back onboard.

    No, they had intentions of releasing an absurdly restrictive license that we even saw drafts of it. Their 180 is 100% due to their customer base before mad. You can't really argue that they had the intentions from the start to be the good guys and release the SRD under CC, it just wasn't the...
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    It is time to forgive WOTC and get back onboard.

    And WotC profited from that ecosystem at least as much as the ecosystem did their product. It's mutualism. Sorry but no. They did not try to reel back some of their rights, the draft that was leaked had some absolutely outrageous clauses by almost any measure. I mentioned it in another thread -...
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    It is time to forgive WOTC and get back onboard.

    They never had the intention to do so. They did so after threatening a whole ecosystem and hobby leading into tens of thousands of people yelling at them. If people hadn't yelled, things would be very different. The leadership of twenty years is not the leadership of now. Same branding...
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    Twitter thread AP of MCDMs RPG in progress, Inevitable.

    Matt has shown that he appreciates the qualities of 4E. Hard to say how much MCDM's game will pull from it, but color me interested.
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    What are you reading in 2023?

    There's a few of us apparently. I just dived back in my Conan anthology a few days ago. I'm reading the short stories in one of the many proposed chronological order.
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