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  1. Alzrius

    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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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I just finished reading C. Knutson's 2003 work A Short History of a Delicate Subject: Condoms through the Centuries. This eleven-page pamphlet (which only has nine pages of writing) is, naturally, an exceptionally short product; reading it took me about ten minutes, and that was at a relatively...
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    How Do You View The Forums?

    Same.
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    For the next ten days, you can get Cyclopean Publishing Company's entire catalogue of products (not including bundles) for 50% off! Hurry and check them out before the sale ends! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    To celebrate Jane Austen's birthday, Malcolm Harbrow has made their LARP adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma" 30% off for the next three days! Check it out before the price goes back up! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    What Are You Listening To? - Reprise

    My friends and I started pulling up various song mashups on Youtube when we were hanging out the other day, and I've had this one stuck in my head since:
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2000) was a passion project turned cinematic disaster

    I think you quoted the wrong post, there.
  20. Alzrius

    Dungeons & Dragons (2000) was a passion project turned cinematic disaster

    I wonder if that's in the novelization of the movie, which I have but haven't read. I tried once, and the writing is as atrocious to read as the film is to watch. I'm still not sure if that's an indication that the author, Neal Barrett Jr., is incredibly talented or a complete hack.
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