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I've got all of the currently available This-and-That booklets . . . super useful! Tent-and-Bedroll . . . BACKED!

Well that sounds . . . actually pretty smart. We're doomed.

Perhaps. I am not neurodivergent myself (well, probably), but . . . often forget to take my phone out of DnD or airplane mode and then wonder why I'm not getting any messages or can't access the internet . . . but the fix is easy, once I realize I've still got that mode turned on. How exactly...

You're overthinking things, I think. Most folks (IME) don't use do-not-disturb mode on their phones and the pings and beeps as messages come in can be distracting for all at the table. It does take a bit of willpower to consciously use that DnD mode. Of course, even with DnD mode on, it's...

Too much stuff . . . Mutants & Masterminds, Dark Matter, Fizzwip's, Gate Pass . . . BACKED! I've owned every edition of M&M, never played it once, excited for the 4th Edition. Something's wrong with me . . .

Well, glad you took the advice to heart. Politics, amirite? Wait, we're talking opinions on games . . . .

Not anymore, Hasbro shifted towards being a brand management company. They are outsourcing toys, board games, and all sorts of stuff to other partners. But, I'm okay with that, because Renegade Games is doing amazing things with various Hasbro properties including GI Joe, Transformers, and Axis...

Companies offering toys, dice, pins, cards, etc in blind bags/boxes allows them to deliver a wider variety of individual items in a set. More toys, dice, cards, etc. But yeah, I'm pretty tired of blind packaging also. And we've definitely seen a significant uptake in the hobby space. And yet ...

Yeah, it's weird for a game with "dungeons" in the name. ;)

Yup. Capitalism. Server farms could be cooled with closed loop recycled waste water . . . but instead we pull water from the local watershed, because it's cheaper and easier.

I'm fine with digital-only D&D products . . . depending on the format. Small, secondary releases, sure! Major releases, no thanks. So far, I've been pretty happy with WotC's choices on digital-only. The most recent digital-only offerings, I wouldn't have purchased print copies if they were...

Time travel. Duh.

Sucks for you, but not for me and my group. The DM has a laptop (we rotate the DM seat, and the DM always has a laptop running), the players each use a tablet. We are considering investing in a cheap projector to throw battle maps on the table. We often also bring some books (we're old), but...

Yes. You don't need this map product to enjoy the new 2024 rules. It's an add-on, an accessory. It's awesome it's available for those who want it and can afford it.

Yup. With the "oh no, expectations" logic . . . we'd never get adaptations of anything. Cranky fans complained about the movie, "Honor Among Thieves". Cranky fans are going to complain about the Forgotten Realms tv show in the works (the one not based on BG3). And cranky fans are going to...

Yeah . . . that's an attitude I don't understand. That placing the tv story after the story of the game is somehow problematic. Sure, folks are making that complaint here and elsewhere on the intertubes, but . . . well, I just don't get it. If Gale shows up in the tv show, but he died in SOME...

Some studios are learning . . . but yeah, sometimes the loud, cranky minority has an outsized impact and can change or kill projects.

Nope. Not even close. TSR, then later WotC, published hundreds of D&D novels over decades. Some were crap, some were amazing, most were okay. The endeavor altogether was hardly a mistake, the novels did better than the games at various points. And the novels never really stopped, although the...

There will always be toxic, angry fans who are angry without any real reason to be angry. They are not a majority of fans, but they are loud. Ignore them. The show might be great, it might suck, it might not even make it out of the development process. We don't know enough right now to judge...

I'm confused about how some of you are confused. This is not the first time a game has been adapted to a different ruleset. It's not the first time for Traveller. You might like the new version, you might not. It will be successful and find an audience, or it won't. It will be different from...