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  1. Alzrius

    RPG Sales of 2025

    For the next week, you can get Azukail Games' system-agnostic supplement, 100 Problems for a Friendly Neighbourhood Superhero, for just $1.12! Click on the link to apply the discount. Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    I'll admit that I buried the lede a bit in my last post, but I figured that even if it was in the third paragraph, making the product name into a link (and putting it in italics) would draw the eye to it fairly quickly. Of course, I view these boards with their "dark" theme (where the background...
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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    Nope! That's my most recent TTRPG purchase, and so I'm posting about it here. If you look back through the thread, you'll see a lot of other posts by me where I go on at length about the product in question.
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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    As a game of not-inconsiderable mechanical complexity, it’s perhaps no surprise that there are certain areas of PF1 where things don’t quite work as well as they should. Areas where an error slipped in, or something was overlooked, or some aspect of the game engine wasn’t tweaked enough. Being...
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    Anticipatory Grief

    I'm so sorry for your loss.
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    D&D 4E WotC, DDI, 4E, and Hasbro: Some History

    Not everything. My understanding is that WotC only owned the winning setting (i.e. Eberron) and the two runners-up. The semi-finalist settings, and others which didn't make it that far, didn't become WotC property. That's how a setting like Dawnforge (affiliate link) can tout its status as a...
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    Necrotic Gnome's Old-School Essentials Adventure Anthology 2 is DriveThruRPG's Deal of the Day! For the next twenty-three hours, you can grab this for 50% off, so hurry before the price goes back up! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    This is, I believe, an example of Hitchens's razor in action.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Wow, someone's certainly in a petulant mood! :oops:
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    Can anyone identify the RPG books in this commercial?

    That one is, but if you look very closely at the book next to it, you can see that it has the header "Adventures in Sigil" at the top of the page, while at the bottom is a metal skull (i.e. a mimir). That's from page 58 of the "Sigil and the Outlands" book from 5E's Planescape: Adventures in...
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2000) was a passion project turned cinematic disaster

    Bear in mind that the intellectual property rights to Buck Rogers were returned to the Nowlan Family Trust (representing the estate of Philip Francis Nowlan, creator of Buck Rogers) as of 2019, so Lorraine and Flint probably aren't trying to make anything for that particular bit of media anymore.
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    Here's the next group of free products from Ennead Games, courtesy of their EGAdvent 2025 celebration! Make sure to download these before January, when they'll cease to be free! December 16th: SciFi Academy Class Names: Extended Edition December 17th: Quick Generator: Creature Concept December...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Completely agree. The idea that "D&D doesn't do generic fantasy very well" has always struck me as one of those instances where the speaker is saying more about themselves than about D&D. In more than three decades of playing multiple editions of the game, I've found that it, in fact, does do...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    On the contrary, the distinction connotes a huge difference. Likewise, pointing out that your opinion isn't a statement of fact is in no way an insult, which makes it a shame that you seem to think it is.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Notice how your choice of language here is absolutist, rather than being an opinion statement. Well I don't know what "people" you mean, but as far as the discussion you and I are having, it's not a "conversation ender" so much as it is a repudiation of what you seem to be saying with regard to...
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    What are you watching in (late 2025 and) 2026?

    I just finished watching The Immortal Ascension, a live-action TV adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel, A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality. Although I'm a big fan of xianxia stories, I stumbled onto this quite by accident. A search via my Amazon Firestick assured me that I could...
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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    I just picked up Rising Phoenix Games' Phoenixes—A Field Guide (affiliate link), and liked it quite a bit! One minor caveat to mention here is that the listed number of pages on its product information is slightly misleading. While the book does have forty-six pages as indicated, this is...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    You seem to be asking if there's nothing which can be objectively defined as "bad." Given that the context for that question is with regards to personal enjoyment in recreational games of imagination, where the only metric is à chacun son goût, the answer should be obvious.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    That's not a critical word, it's a weasel word, since what constitutes "good" is going to vary—sometimes wildly—from one person to the next. Whether something creates "much" flavor, or creativity, or if what they create "wouldn't" be part of experiencing the world, are all open to...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    That's how I always looked at it, that restrictions helped to create favor, because when every setting puts every choice on the table, then those settings become that much more interchangeable. It was the same principle behind prerequisites for various classes, races, etc., because when you...
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