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I didn't realise until I just looked, but Asmodee have all sorts of subsidiaries, including Edge Studio. Maybe Mike Mearls will be getting the Star Wars RPG under way again.

I like it when bigots come out clearly and show you when they're bigots. Makes things a lot easier.

You don't build bridges with nazis.

The Halls of Tizun Thane is one of my all-time favourites. I've lost count of the number of times I've run it. Albie Fiore was way ahead of his time.

You have my sword

After UK Games Expo I wrote a blog entry on the subject which contains my thoughts. https://gmessentials.blogspot.com/2024/06/running-games-at-conventions.html

Well we are of course all allowed our opinions.

The PHB, DMG and MM will soon be obsolete is what I'm getting at.

Rather cynical, but is this a way of getting rid of old stock?

I tend to be hostile towards marketing materials posing as documentaries.

Also...Gary Con? With 3,000 people attending? More than 10 times that number attend GenCon.

Be aware before you watch this that it is told from a very specific point of view. Firstly, it focusses on actors playing D&D for some reason, and secondly it gives a lot of air time to Luke Gygax, who is by any measure nothing more than a peripheral figure in the modern scene. I have to say I...

When it doesn't go well...that's the best part of the game. Someone gets it! Now please tell my players...

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight in particular attempts to avoid combat at every turn. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of players employing alternative solutions to problems over combat, but that adventure goes out of its way to avoid jeopardy. I'm in my mid-fifties and I've been playing since...

I wonder how long it will be before WotC remove all jeopardy and violence from D&D and it turns into My Little Pony the role playing game.

Looks all right. But they're not getting any of my money.

Let's hope so

"Make believe happen" - what?

OK someone bit! Because the kind of game I want to play is gritty and dark, does not rely on being a Catford or a Turtlefolk or a Hedgehogfolk or whatever is the latest thing, and because they have removed all jeopardy from the game and replaced it with a kind of My Little Pony version. I don't...

They might at least have tuned it