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  1. timbannock

    D&D (2024) How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?

    I would if I played it.
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    D&D (2024) How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?

    So much this! If they spent that space on dungeon, wilderness, and settlement generators in the vein of Shadowdark and other books that do it concisely, and actually threw the weight of their design team (and the cash they have for art, diagrams, etc.) into it, that would be something.
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    RPG Crowdfunding News - Pericle: Labyrinth, HârnWorld, HEROIC, and more

    Whoa, my name is in the news! I'm obviously biased, but I just want to say that I'm really excited for what Bear and his team are doing with Heroic. All of the stuff I dreamed of for Astonishing but didn't have the time and resources to do, they are doing, and in many cases, a bunch of other...
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    D&D (2024) How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?

    Obviously "it's bad" is subjective, but I think you miss why people think "it's good": Greyhawk is a setting where most of the nations are locked in a cold war, and several are locked in a hot one. Armies are constantly clashing, domains are constantly up for grabs. Evil with a capital "E" is...
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    No More Massive Tomes of Rules

    Since Mike Shea loves Shadowdark so much, I wonder if we'll ever see a "Forge of Foes but Shadowdark" from him? He's already built online tools for FoF accessible via his Patreon, so it seems like it'd be a somewhat easy (maybe somewhat tedious, too, though) exercise to reapply it to Shadowdark.
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    OSR How much does your party use Retainers, Henchmen and Strongholds?

    I'm a GM running Shadowdark and coming off of some OSE...plus (unfortunately large amount of) D&D 5E. IME, retainers get ignored because players don't want to split their loot (even though they can theoretically get astronomically more with the extra hands), and domain play never gets off the...
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    No More Massive Tomes of Rules

    Short and concise. Looking back on 35+ years of gaming, I can say that while my players (in many groups) and I did a decent job of remembering rules, the fact is that "more rules" was never better for our playstyles. While some of the stricter systems did give some players the fun mini-game of...
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    D&D (2024) How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?

    Gygax was frankly just bad with names all around. I feel like the anagrams were often his more inspired ones :LOL:
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    D&D (2024) How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?

    I wonder how much of that is "ease of use" (you don't have to "know all the lore") versus it being a reaction to how the timeline jump in FR for 4E was so poorly received? The Realms reset + ten year jump in 5E has been so haphazard and internally inconsistent that it's really hard to grasp how...
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    D&D (2024) How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?

    I love Greyhawk and I absolutely have no need for it being updated by WOTC because I can jettison the bad parts on my own with ease. Plus DMsGuild has the 32 page folio and City of Greyhawk as print on demand for cheap, and they are good quality. I do slightly prefer the 1e box set for its depth...
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    OSR The Monster Overhaul

    Oh yes I have, and a I love it for exactly that reason!
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    D&D General Dungeons & Dragons Monster Joining Dead by Daylight

    DO NOT PLAY THIS IF YOU HAVE VERTIGO
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    OSR The Monster Overhaul

    I would love to see his take on a megadungeon. It would be absolutely bananas.
  14. timbannock

    RPG Print News – Free League, Ghostfire Games, Legendary Games, and More

    Haha, sorry to ruin that for you ;-P You can see much bigger images at their site; just scroll down. G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game Standee Pack #1
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    RPG Print News – Free League, Ghostfire Games, Legendary Games, and More

    I really wanted to like these, but the art is so small for the profile of these, and some of the shapes are a little silly. Destro is basically printed on a Mickey head. I was hoping for something a little more "art forward" like Pathfinder Pawns.
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    D&D General Goodman Games To Reincarnate Jennell Jaquays' Caverns of Thracia

    Great question. To the best of my knowledge, neither Dark Tower nor Old School Traps were up on Amazon pre-crowdfunding, and I was at least vaguely aware enough to be looking. Both are up there now, with Old School Traps as pre-order for end of May. I've never seen any other crowdfunded books...
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    D&D General Goodman Games To Reincarnate Jennell Jaquays' Caverns of Thracia

    But if it's releasing in Oct, production is already paid for, and the turn around will be so small that if anyone were to catch errors or anything, it'd be about 4 months too late to do anything about it. Why crowdfund when you're already doing pre-orders? Is this normally how late in the...
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    D&D General Goodman Games To Reincarnate Jennell Jaquays' Caverns of Thracia

    Starts around 28 min in that video. Confirmed for crowdfunding sometime in the summer. Which makes those Amazon and B&N links even weirder. What are they crowdfunding if there's already an ISBN and mass market pre-order setup available?
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    D&D General Goodman Games To Reincarnate Jennell Jaquays' Caverns of Thracia

    That would be my guess, though it's weird that these pages have been live for a little while now (at least several weeks) and there's been no chatter on any of Goodman's channels, Reddit, or anywhere else that I regularly tune for this stuff. Really flying under the radar for news!
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