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    D&D General I spent how much? How much did you spend in 2024.

    $786.05 (I track expenses on a spreadsheet) Deck of Many Things, the new 2024 books (hardcover, DnDBeyond and Roll20), some small kickstarters, a couple of humble bundles and bundles of holding. Some isn't strictly D&D, like ShadowDark, but I lump it in as tabletop RPG
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    D&D (2024) So IS it a new edition?

    This book replaces everything in the old book. If we didn't cover it, use the old stuff but check our notes. Sounds like a new (compatible) edition to me.
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    WotC D&D Historian Ben Riggs says the OGL fiasco was Chris Cocks idea.

    Did anyone go to the seminar at Gen Con by Ben Riggs, The Battle for the Soul of D&D? I had a conflict and missed it.
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    A Preview of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977

    Thanks all, looks good. Yes, the hobbits, ents and balrog weren't yanked until the 6th printing (OCE). I already preordered it, happy it's an early printing.
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    D&D General 4 more days left to back Devabhumi, my Ancient India campaign setting!

    It looks like the delivery date is September 2024. Does that mean that the writing is basically complete?
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    A Preview of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977

    Sorry if this has been answered, but which printing of OD&D is this? Same with Greyhawk, Blackmoor and Eldritch Wizardry. When WotC did the reprints a few years back they used something like the 7th printing, which wasn't very interesting.
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    D&D General When did you leave D&D? Why? For what game? And what brought you back?

    Left at 4th edition. I tried to like it. I bought the books, got into campaigns, played one shots. Switched to PF1, which was just a cleaned up version of 3.5. Came back at 5th edition.
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    D&D General 5E, A5E, or ToV?

    We play 5e with A5e monsters and luck from ToV. One choice doesn't describe it adequately.
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    D&D General How often do you complete a campaign as a player?

    Pre-COVID, playing in person, rarely. Something (almost) always happened. Post-COVID, playing with VTT, 100%. Even though the players are across three time zones.
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    D&D 5E Who tried to end the OGL?

    According to Ben Riggs: "Sources inside Wizards of the Coast tell me that CEO Chris Cocks himself was behind the drive to end the OGL." Facebook
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    D&D General Finished reading my 4th "History of D&D" book. Thoughts.

    There is also the Hawk & Moor series, 1-5 by Kent David Kelly. He has a standalone called HAWK & MOOR - The Steam Tunnel Incident: The Tragedy of James Dallas Egbert III, which is as good as I have read about that event. The entire run has plenty of footnotes documenting his sources.
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    D&D (2024) Deborah Ann Woll and Matt Mercer consulted on the 2024 DMG.

    1E (AD&D hardback) had examples of play in the DMG, starting at page 97. OD&D, the woodgrain and white box sets, had nothing. I think this is why people say it was passed along from people who had played.
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    D&D 5E Players, would you play in a multi-year campaign that used only the 5.1 SRD?

    Rules don't really make a game, DMs do. I voted yes.
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    D&D General Deck of Many Things rerelease fixed (or not?)

    Mine arrived on Monday. No issues, the cards are all identical in size.
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    D&D General Jasper's Annual I spend how much in 2023

    I'm in 2 different games, both weekly. But I haven't played in person since COVID started, and I'm not sure that aspect is coming back. I have a ton of Dwarven Forge, but stopped accumulating once I realized how little in-person gaming I was doing.
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    D&D General Jasper's Annual I spend how much in 2023

    $751.39. That includes BG3, but not Origins (which was mostly not D&D for me). It does include anything related that I bought at Origins. A big chunk was Bundles of Holding and Humble Bundles, plus any WotC releases.
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    D&D General Finished reading my 4th "History of D&D" book. Thoughts.

    My recommendation (I have read at least 10 books on this) is Game Wizards and Slaying the Dragon. Jon Peterson covers the early history until the departure of Gygax in Game Wizards with a crisp historian view. Slaying the Dragon by Ben Riggs spends the bulk of time covering the Williams era and...
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    D&D 5E Major Price Cuts on D&D books on Amazon.

    D&D Campaign Case: Creatures (Dungeons & Dragons Accessories) is $19.99. Works great for portability and conventions.
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    D&D General Baldur's Gate -ifying magic items

    I think my favorite item in BG3 is the Risky Ring, advantage on all attacks, disadvantage on all saving throws. I would throw it into a D&D game.
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    D&D General BG3 Massive Spoiler Thread

    Same, I subdued him, then he
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