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My friends call any TTRPG "D&D" and it drives me insane.
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I did my part. I got that box by voting 6 as recommended. I also voted for more Dark Sun and SpellJammer. They also mention non DND rpgs like Pathfinder under 3rd party suppliments.
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Oct 31, 2019 05:37
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Team_q posted:I did my part. I got that box by voting 6 as recommended. Huh I never got a section on third-party supplements. E: also the person looking up Lich history should check out Len Lakofka’s “Blueprint for a Lich” in Dragon magazine as well.
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Oct 31, 2019 06:50
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Arivia posted:Huh I never got a section on third-party supplements. One (two?) of the "what D&D products did you buy? (check all that apply)" had third-party supplements and mentioned Pathfinder.
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Oct 31, 2019 06:52
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King of Solomon posted:One (two?) of the "what D&D products did you buy? (check all that apply)" had third-party supplements and mentioned Pathfinder. Mine didn’t. But I think it thought I was a returning player, it really liked me being someone who started playing 2e in 1998.
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Oct 31, 2019 06:53
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I didn't get fancy poo poo in that dumb survey, despite having played Every Version, including starting in 1E. I spoke honestly about their BS and endorsed More Dark Sun. I also said my favorite D&D supplement was the Complete Book of Necromancers. Maybe that'll lead to more zombie-based feats in the future.
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Oct 31, 2019 07:27
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I told them I wanted more Dragonlance, since that's been out of print for 12 years and will likely soon be OOP permanently given Weis has the rights tied up and is a 71 year old cancer survivor.
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Arivia posted:E: also the person looking up Lich history should check out Len Lakofka’s “Blueprint for a Lich” in Dragon magazine as well. Hm. I just checked the article, and "Blueprint for a Lich" never uses the word "phylactery", but it does describe an item that holds the lich's life force; it just doesn't call it a phylactery—it calls it a "jar" (as in the magic jar spell, not as in necessarily a glass cylinder). The description of the phylactery's working in Lords of Darkness closely follows the description of how the "jar" works in "Blueprint for a Lich", though, so yeah, this seems to be where it originally comes from—unless someone can turn up an even earlier source. ("Blueprint for a Lich" is in Dragon #26 and predates Lords of Darkness by about ten years.) It turns out there's another possible source that came about halfway between "Blueprint for a Lich" and Lords of Darkness, and that may have been the first source to explicitly equate the "phylactery" briefly mentioned in the lich's Monster Manual description with the "jar" that holds the lich's soul in Lakofka's article: an Endless Quest book called Lair of the Lich. This, though, I'm afraid I can't check and verify; my collection of old D&D books is pretty extensive, but it doesn't include the "Endless Quest" books. (For those not familiar with them, the "Endless Quest" books were basically just D&D-branded "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. I had a few of them as a child, but I don't think I had Lair of the Lich, and even the ones that I did have I have no idea where they are now... quite possibly they're in a box in my parents' attic somewhere.) Anyway, I hadn't noticed earlier that there's at least one significant difference between how the phylactery/"jar" works in 1E (in "Blueprint for a Lich" and Lords of Darkness) and how it works from 2E on (starting with the Monstrous Compendium Volume One). In the 1E sources, the lich has to consciously decide to return its life force to its phylactery/"jar". It'll do that if it feels itself in danger of being defeated, but if you take the lich out quickly enough before it has a chance to retreat to its phylactery/"jar", it's destroyed for good, and you don't need to worry about hunting down the phylactery. In more recent editions, of course, the lich's life force is just stored in its phylactery, and the lich can re-form automatically as long as its phylactery is intact, so you always have to destroy the phylactery to permanently kill the lich. Of course, it's not surprising that the details have changed over the decades since first edition...
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Arivia posted:Mine didn’t. But I think it thought I was a returning player, it really liked me being someone who started playing 2e in 1998. 
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Oct 31, 2019 10:02
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https://twitter.com/ELHmk1/status/1189572874522247168?s=20
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Oct 31, 2019 11:08
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From that first tweet I honestly thought this was going to be someone who doesn't understand licensing or trademark laws being mad that Modiphius was trying to make them take down their free Star Trek Adventures products from DTRPG. The reality is much more disappointing.
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Oct 31, 2019 11:40
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That seems like half of what happened though, with the other half being Modiphius blanket-banning fan content based on some chuds making GBS threads the pool.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:21
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In the reddit threads the responses from Modphius seem completely reasonable and the twitter poster appears to have gone nuclear at the suggestion of 'maybe our official fan reddit shouldn't be presenting an enemy list on the homepage'. he's been in a slapfight with this other group for at least five months: 
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Wow. Further in thread the head of Modiphus' RPG development quit the subreddit and also removed the word 'official' right before he did so. He also claims the reports are 'unsubstantiated' which either means he's ignoring them or hasn't bothered to look.
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Oct 31, 2019 13:21
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https://www.reddit.com/r/startrekadventures/comments/dp8vrt/modiphius_has_decided_to_remove_this_subreddit/ Looks to me like Modiphius is belatedly taking the step they ought to have already had in place, which is that Reddit content is not official Modiphius content, and Modiphius staffers are not going to officially moderate Reddit groups/threads. (It's kind of insane to do otherwise, really - you don't want to put your brand and product into the hands of anonymous strangers on Reddit, or even just unpaid volunteers. Fostering fan contributions on your own forums is more than sufficient for community support.) The stuff about 10th fleet seems to be a disagreement about whether it's appropriate to have a rule blanketly banning anyone who is a member, vs. banning specific people. I'm personally inclined to say if a group is a hate group you ban the hate group and that's fine, but I have no opinion and can't tell from what I see so far, whether 10th fleet is just a hate group. It certainly seems to me though that the DoubleBlindStudy person is fed up with dealing with nasty people and was expecting Modiphius to back them up wholeheartedly rather than distance itself from Reddit. The accusation that Modiphius has withdrawn/blackballed DBS from submitting or publishing content is the most serious one to me, and I haven't seen discussion about it yet.
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Oct 31, 2019 23:02
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If I started selling original unsolicited content for any game using their IP, I'd have to try really drat hard to fake surprise when it ends badly. (And it's not even Modiphius' IP so they're almost certainly restricted in just what can be done with it. Turning the wheel over to some dude on Reddit? Lol sure.)
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Oct 31, 2019 23:48
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Leperflesh posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/startrekadventures/comments/dp8vrt/modiphius_has_decided_to_remove_this_subreddit/ From the linked thread they at least claim to have not removed anyone's free content, RPGWebby's the guy called out as Modiphius' RPG lead.
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Oct 31, 2019 23:51
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I'm trying really hard to be sympathetic to the reddit person because it sure sounds like they have legitimate complaints about this 10th fleet group. And I also know that "but your tone" is a bullshit response basically any time. But the aggressive, hysterical posts really make me think this person is not cut out for forums moderation and probably needs to take a step back and breathe for a day. They are not helping themselves at all. I also kind of want Modiphius to be an OK company because I bought one of their games and want to play it and not feel bad about it. That's pretty selfish of me and I'm trying to separate it from how I'm reading the situation but maybe I just can't. e. it sure seems like if that moderator was willing to change their Rule 5 from "10th fleet is banned" to "No talking about or promoting 10th fleet here" that would do it? The only objection seems to have been that some people from 10th fleet might be innocent and even the moderator is saying they can't and didn't ban members of 10th fleet from posting, aside from one specific banned person. But I guess having what you thought was control over an officially sanctioned product domain get summarily un-officialed seems like retaliation and I can see how that's upsetting (but it never should have been "official" in the first place lol.) Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Yeah I don't follow all the events that are going on here but it's pretty clear here that modiphus wants control of any official labeling, which makes sense. It's their license and I'm sure the terms are very specific and wouldn't allow for these sorts of shenanigans.
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Azran posted:My friends call any TTRPG "D&D" and it drives me insane. It’s similar to how GW pushed Warhammer as a hobby or ‘the hobby’ instead of labelling itself as a wargame. All their material and the party line in its stores is that Warhammer stands alone as a distinct hobby composed of different activities - building, painting, gaming. Makes sense from a business perspective but seems to smother out the rest of the actual hobby of Wargaming.
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Nov 1, 2019 09:09
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That's a feature, not a bug.
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Leperflesh posted:I also kind of want Modiphius to be an OK company because I bought one of their games and want to play it and not feel bad about it. That's pretty selfish of me and I'm trying to separate it from how I'm reading the situation but maybe I just can't. Ehh. Chris, the owner, is a bit of a dick in my experience and ultimately drives their direction etc (see kickstarters funding previous and terrible time management for their first couple of years). On the other hand they've had a lot of good freelancers working there. Albeit some have very quietly spoken of being paid very late, which is sadly typical of many companies in the industry but that doesn't give them a pass. PST fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Nov 1, 2019 10:14
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Saw this today.u/TheInsultsGame posted:Lose friends this Christmas... https://www.reddit.com/r/tabletop/comments/drjdft/lose_friends_this_christmas/ I kind of want to back at $1 and drop a link to Ettin's "offensive card game" article.
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Flail Snail posted:Saw this today. Just put the link in the reddit comments.
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Nov 4, 2019 18:39
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Irony dollars are real dollars
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Nov 4, 2019 22:07
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https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1191767413068578817 There you go, I guess.
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Nov 5, 2019 20:15
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Two seasons? Amazon's betting big.
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Do you think they'll be donating all the proceeds from the deal to lobby for Amazon workers' rights this time or hope it all blows over?
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Nov 7, 2019 06:27
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They'll acknowledge nothing.
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Nov 7, 2019 06:38
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Flail Snail posted:Saw this today. Hello there, Cards Against Humanity But You Insult Your Friends. At least this guy didn't completely copy CAH's dressing, I guess.
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Dawgstar posted:https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1191767413068578817 Didn't they take $11m from kickstarter backers to make these?
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alg posted:Didn't they take $11m from kickstarter backers to make these? As I understand it (1) Kickstarter was for Season 1, and (2) Backers will still get access (somehow) to Season 1 without needing to pay for Prime
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CitizenKeen posted:As I understand it Presumably you can buy seaons individually and amazon lets you redeem vouchers.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:27
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Season 1 is also getting a couple episode expansion from what was originally kickstartered. Don't know if they've specifically said those are included, but it sounds like they will. Backers also get early access to the two episode "prequel" that was the original starting goal.
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Yeah them selling out to Amazon a fortnight after being slammed for collaborating with the much-less-obviously-evil Wendy's is incredibly disappointing, especially when the whole loving point of kickstartering things like that is that you don't NEED the corporates. If you want to get a second season, loving crowdfund it again. It'll work, and the second one will probably be cheaper than the first given that you won't have to do all the startup work. I'm SO loving disappointed with that choice. Doubly so when most of the commentary was largely-to-entirely uncritical or celebratory. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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yea it's kinda amazing to see people who called the Wendy's thing out celebrating 'woops turns out we sold our stuff to Amazon'. Like, I'm sure they knew after getting wasn't it literal millions for S1 they could probably do S2 just as easy. I mean, I'm glad people I like are getting paid and I do have Prime but it's kinda wild to tell your fans they have to give such a lovely company like a hundred bucks to get your content. Couldn't even hold out for Netflix? Those guys throw money at anything.
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Nov 9, 2019 00:09
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Y'all realize Twitch is owned by Amazon right? They are moving from one Amazon platform to another.
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Nov 9, 2019 00:12
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neaden posted:Y'all realize Twitch is owned by Amazon right? They are moving from one Amazon platform to another. You're not obligated to keep tying yourself to the same platform for all your output. In fact one of the benefits to getting as big as something like Critical Role is being able to make it without tying yourself to a big waving dick like Amazon.
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yea Twitch is basically a monopoly for streaming, but you don't HAVE to go to Amazon to make a show.
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Hey friends, I'm trying to do a small research project regarding the economic state of the tabletop RPG scene, if you're a designer of any scale, it'd be cool if you checked this out, we're already getting a lot of really useful data that I'll be analysing and sharing with the community soon. https://twitter.com/SandyPugGames/status/1192892576392720385
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