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  1. Juomari Veren

    Paizo Inc. Names Industry Veteran Christian Moore as First Chief Growth Officer

    I'm about to start playing in my first 3.5 game in more than a decade and was pondering quietly to myself what, if any, merit there would be to something like this (Including a number crunch like Payn also wanted to fit within the realms of bounded accuracy) but honestly, I just don't think it's...
  2. Juomari Veren

    Worlds of Design: Only Human

    Chris Perkins sums up my feelings on humans in fantasy extremely well; Once, when asked by a fan what his favorite type of creature to use as villains in a D&D campaign was, he simply answered, "Humans." And they're a necessary evil; They're the devil you know, because fact of the matter is...
  3. Juomari Veren

    SHIFT Roleplaying System from Hit Point Press

    If I may make one recommendation, even if this is a one-off instance of transcribing; Put this in a spoiler so that way it doesn't make one post that's several paragraphs long?
  4. Juomari Veren

    Maps Feature on D&D Beyond Becomes Free to Use

    They don't have one for the game as a whole, but the Commander group went through a whole bunch of drama and ultimately got absorbed into Wizards when before it was an independently run committee. And with all due respect, Commander is their most popular format, they've admitted as such, so it's...
  5. Juomari Veren

    Maps Feature on D&D Beyond Becomes Free to Use

    I find it interesting that both of WoTC's major products (Magic and D&D) now have their own individual community advisory groups for the game now. I wonder if that was part of the onus that lead to them making this decision?
  6. Juomari Veren

    SHIFT Roleplaying System from Hit Point Press

    I'm having one of those moments where I'm cross-referencing a PDF of homebrew I made for myself and wondering if I'm being watched 😆 I think what this says most of all is that whatever I'm making has a good foundational base if a larger group of TTRPG designers thought some of these concepts...
  7. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    Yeah, everyone commenting on the art as art here are a little wild. These covers are better than some covers we've had in the past (frankly, I like these covers more than the normal cover to Dragon Delves, but I admit that's personal preference above all else). I'm glad that they reached across...
  8. Juomari Veren

    D&D's October Product Revealed to Be Stranger Things Tie-In

    I just disagree with the notion that the tie-in wasn't meaningful. Yeah they could've done more tie in products but that's splitting hairs, they can do more of everything first- and third-party (lest it be forgotten, they don't own the rights to the characters from the movie that weren't...
  9. Juomari Veren

    D&D's October Product Revealed to Be Stranger Things Tie-In

    They did do tie ins for Honor Among Thieves, but they were free. Free promotional material is still promotional material.
  10. Juomari Veren

    D&D's October Product Revealed to Be Stranger Things Tie-In

    What really caught my eye was the maps underneath everything; The product description and press release describe the setting as a fantasy take on the actual setting of Stranger Things (Small town Indiana), but whether it's that with fantasy stuff mixed in or just a fantastical recreation of it...
  11. Juomari Veren

    D&D's October Product Revealed to Be Stranger Things Tie-In

    Man, I was gonna be like "cool, a product I can actually skip this year", but the production values of it based on the press release are goddamn nice I don't even know that that's true 😭
  12. Juomari Veren

    Eberron: Forge of the Artificer Delayed Until December

    That's fine, this goes from a midsummer impulse buy to a perfectly timed Christmas present for fellow D&D players. Shame it went from predating the starter set (which is not that hotly in demand as a splatbook, especially since this one is cheaper than a normal product AND the starter set is...
  13. Juomari Veren

    Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set Price Point Revealed

    The adventure is one of the earliest adventures ever made for D&D and it's done well enough when they've brought it back for less successful systems. Also, on the topic of enfranchised players investing in this; I am buying it not just for the updated nostalgia bait but also because I like...
  14. Juomari Veren

    D&D General Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford Join Darrington Press

    I'm suddenly way less worried about the future of WOTC (in a good, hopeful way) and way more interested in Darrington Press (in an "I love Jeremy and Chris" way).
  15. Juomari Veren

    Wizards of the Coast Is Sunsetting Sigil's Active Development

    What almost certainly doomed Sigil from the outset was that their initial vision for it positioned it as both its own product and something that's meant to seamlessly integrate DDB into it but is also entirely separate from the DDB ecosystem, when the only way it would've had a chance of...
  16. Juomari Veren

    Pathfinder Gets A New CRPG...Sort Of

    As far as I'm aware, the Solasta team did approach WoTC about getting actual approval to use the system as a backbone for their game, whether it was before or after they got the ball rolling on development I don't know though. That said, the older wording of the OGL and SRD have given way to...
  17. Juomari Veren

    Full Cover Treatments for Dragon Delves Revealed

    Hey, wait a second...That UPC says it retails for $49.99, I thought the price was going up to 59.99 for everything except the 2024 core. Did they walk that change back? Obviously not mad to be paying what's been a standard price for some time instead of paying more, but I didn't hear anything...
  18. Juomari Veren

    WizKids to Release Baldur's Gate 3 Miniatures

    Okay but, to be fair, they could've put the information about the set they have a digital render for above the information for the set and it would've flown more naturally. Nice that they thought ahead of everyone who's gonna say something about how their favorite character/companion didn't make...
  19. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player’s Handbook is ‘Fastest Selling D&D Book Ever’

    Absolutely beaming because I predicted this exact situation two years ago. Though I suppose I shouldn't pat myself on the back too hard, it was a pretty easy guess given how it ballooned in popularity over the last 7 years.
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