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Unless they raised their prices the inflation rate isn't a big deal. They sold more books at the same price point they had before the pandemic. I know the 5E books didn't go up. I don't know about Magic prices though.

Interesting bit about in-person importance. I'd guess the pandemic increased the value people place on in-person interaction.

I watched a review of it at Questing Beast and, yes, it looks amazing. It's a setting and rulebook combination. It's getting my money and I don't really go for setting related books (I have my own). The game system is pretty much OSE / B/X with new races, and monsters.

Well, I have decided I have little interest in CR's games... but I am jealous of anyone who's going to be at Gencon! There is that :D

That constant tension and fear is actually what made those games fun. When you survived and gained experience (and maybe levelled up) there was a real sense of accomplishment. Players always needed to be on their game and involved.

I teach the U.S. end of it every year as part of the survey of U.S. History (History B-17B). I review the origins of the war as part of it. My fathers experience was what led me into history. And yes, Versailles wasn't enforced and Britain and France missed an opportunity to head the whole thing...

Germany and Italy supported Nationalist / Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Italy was far more involved than Germany btw. Britain and France failed to support Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement was violated and Germany occupied the rest of that country. The Czechs had...

Thanks as always. I mainly remember this one for the cover :) My brother used the weather chart for his campaign (and still does). I had my own, simpler system already. As I flip back through it, it's a solid issue, but not, to me, that memorable. And yeah, I'd pay $10 for a monthly magaize like...

Name an RPG that doesn't have resource limitations / attrition / recharging? Just curious as to what you mean by that.

At what point in a typical dungeon, moving or not, are you not in danger of being eaten by a giant monster? That's kind of part of the definition of adventuring :D Seriously though, an hour short rest a couple times a day makes perfect sense. After a battle (or just a long tense time moving...

I thought pretty much the same thing :D

Sounds like somebody needs to compare / contrast the various flavors of 5E. WotC, A5E, Tales of the Valiant, etc. Might be nice to know what each offers and how compatible they are. Without buying all of them :D

Not just that (although that is a factor). The large amounts of criticism didn't help. Many critics saw other games as superior to D&D / AD&D. I would say they were different myself. EGG thought they were all building off his / TSRs success and believed he deserved more credit (skipping the...

This is one of only 2 Dragon Magazines print editions I don't own a physical copy of. I was "off subscription" at the time and had just moved away for graduate school (yes I'm that old). By the time I located a hobby shop it was sold out. I read a friend's later and I picked up the Dragon CD-Rom...

Agreed. I think the whole point of staggering the release dates is to have enough supply to meet (projected) demand. Releasing everything at once with insufficient supply would be a problem. The other option would be to print over time, warehouse them, and release later, but that has it's own...

Loved this game. The expansions and later sequels were not as good. Best AI I ever played against. Those clone / troops were pretty canny. A part of the atmosphere in FEAR is you are isolated with limited communications with anyone. Harder to do with a game centered on a party / group. Alien /...

Yes, I know (on both counts). I have CT, MT, TNE, T4, T20, and both versions of T-5, the original and the slip case versions. On the whole I prefer the relative simplicity of the original Traveller paired with the task system to give an easy to apply, consistent, method of skill resolution.

When we first got Traveller in '77 the first thing I did was raid the family boardgames for dice. Yahtzee with its multiple sets of D6 was great for that :D

There was considerably more rolling of 2D6 + Modifier vs. Difficulty after DGPs Task Resolution System was published for CT. No "buckets of dice", but more frequent rolls for a lot of skills than before. I loved CT (and MT) with the Task System. With the standard targets for different...

Yep... brings back the good old days when people hated Paizo's evil management... for it's anti union stance as I recall. I guess WotC can look forward to someone else taking over as the target of internet outrage in a couple of years :D