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Generally yes, but not enough, that's why we create new jobs. Did the Doordash delivery person exist in 2010? Did the YouTuber exist before 2000? These things might be the most known inconsequential jobs, but there are so many others less known, but way more important. People also act as if...

The whole quote: "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." It's not for nothing that there's a 150+ year old term for it, a "Birmingham screwdriver". More info: Law of the instrument - Wikipedia Just because people (should) know better...

That's because most pnp rpg companies are local companies, be that in the US or in Europe. But WotC/Hasbro isn't, it's a multinational, and while it might be American, they are active all over the world. This is weird and the political situation shouldn't be an issue either, as they have...

That's not true. An app is as good as the code/developer is, and many, many desktop application developers make horribly inefficient applications that are a pain to run. On the other hand, there are web apps that are more performant then equivalent desktop apps. Of course you can say that if you...

I can already see kobold lampshades, goblin overcoats, and lizardfolk boots showing up. For dinner some Orc meatballs and on the trail some gnoll jerky. Hi, my name is Hannibal Lector the adventurer! ;)

It was also mentioned in Black Adder: It's mentioned in Dr. Who, and I'm pretty sure I've seen it used/mentioned in other tv-series and books.

You're conveniently forgetting the adventures that are very setting specific. And whether or not you count the FR iconic character titled books...

What I'm saying is that WotC did something new, and imho it wasn't the runaway success everyone expected. Two editions later it's just a core book and a future class expansion book. Compare to all the FR books that have been released, the old rehashed stuff that's most certainly not new. And D&D...

How well was Ebberon received? Sure it got a book in 5e, but so did certain podcasts... The next Ebberon book was pushed back to be released sometime after the new FR books... I own most if not all 3e/4e Ebberon RPG books, and I was never really inspired to run anything in there. The idea is...

During the AD&D2e age we didn't do very high levels, don't know exactly, but I doubt we went beyond level 12 before starting a new party. During the 3(.5e) age we did get to very high levels, 18th level if I remember correctly. But besides having a huge challenge with creating encounters, it...

While I still prefer the 2e/3e Forgotten Realms over what 5e brings, WotC was able to succinctly explain each region beyond the Swordcoast of Faerun. This makes it easier for new players and DMs to grasp the different regions of the Realms and how to play in each one. I think that's a huge...

Asmodee bought/merged with FFG on November 17th 2014. The RPG forums were still up and being posted to in 2020. Or do you mean FFG stopping with RPGs and Asmodee moving the RPGs over to Edge Studios? That's 2020, at least 5 years after the merger with Asmodee. And about two years after FFG...

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From Asia we have things like Romance of the Three Kingdoms (written somewhere between 1300-1400), but that also has written predecessors. I also wonder if something similar to inns and taverns shows up in other old Asian tales. Someone mentioned the Bible, but what about other old religious...

I'm a tablet fanboy! Before that it was PDAs and those where not good with PDFs. But one of the folks in my group just prefers physical books, so they buy them themselves. I just buy the Foundry VTT (digital) version that we all can use (we currently mostly play online as one is on the other...

It's theme: one is based on magic, the other on science. That's why we call one fantasy and the other science fiction.

I wouldn't call Spelljammer or pocket realms with mechanical societies sci-fi, I call that space fantasy and steampunk... Something like Dragonstar or Starfinder have sci-fi elements with tons of space fantasy. Especially Spelljammer is the more fantastical version of nautical adventures.

While I find $40 for a dice set also quite steep, these are resin liquid core dice and these types of dice are expensive. I'm seeing that they normally start at $30 for a set of 7, add in a $10 dice tray and I can see that price being 'reasonable' for what you're getting. Especially because it's...

Honestly, I'm hesitant to advise to buy a 5th edition, I would say wait for it at least (unless you want to play a game now or soon), and wait for the reviews to come out. And if you play in FVTT to see how the VTT version is implemented. And then decide if you want to go WFRP4e or WFRP5e. I've...

The Dragon can do the same Circle Casting with a bunch of Kobold Scale Sorcerers... People need to realize that this requires spellcasting, be that in a class, a subclass or in a monster/NPC statblock... So what the PCs can do, the monsters/NPCs can do as well... The question becomes, is...