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Leperflesh posted:It is not actually necessary to post about each thing you don't care about, presumably in each thread in which things you don't care about are mentioned. That seems like it'd be a lot of work. Tbh u also dont need to post about what you do care about. Noone needs to post ever at all.
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mandatory lesbian posted:Tbh u also dont need to post about what you do care about. Noone needs to post ever at all. posting is discretionary but lesbianism is mandatory?! No one told me! I've been looking like a moron!
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Benagain posted:posting is discretionary but lesbianism is mandatory?! No one told me! I've been looking like a moron! A newsletter was sent around. You need to open your mail occasionally.
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Nuns with Guns posted:A newsletter was sent around. You need to open your mail occasionally.
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3 Action Economist posted:All of the verbiage on Kickstarter just says Creative Commons, which is what the 5e SRD is under now. They say: quote:Tales of the Valiant is built on the Creative Commons and Open Roleplaying Content licenses, so the core rules are available for everyone to expand on as part of the 5E global community. Keep your investment in 5th Edition going strong! It’s ambiguous.
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Thanlis posted:They say: 5e itself is CC, so I'm reading that as saying they're using the ORC for their own additions while following CC's terms for the WotC content they're using
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Thanlis posted:They say: Oh, oops, missed that very obvious part, I guess.
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Leperflesh posted:You can also draft Magic instead of paying a zillion for a constructed format where you need to buy expensive cards to be competitive. Drafting is a really good format! I'm big on using pauper to get people into Magic as well. You can build a lot of decks for twenty bucks.
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WotC's also pricing all D&D books at $60 USD going forward: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-price-increase-rpg-rulebooks/ honestly this is probably reasonable since it's a bunch of full-colour pages but it's causing a bunch of whining on twitter already
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Please my family is dying/stop buying D&D books/no
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Arivia posted:WotC's also pricing all D&D books at $60 USD going forward: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-price-increase-rpg-rulebooks/ The most unreasonable thing about D&D has never really been the price of a given book but more that the "core D&D experience" is a three-book set. I wouldn't be surprised if $60 for a single full-color 300+ page hardback is probably still on the undercosted end of things, especially in the covid era with major shipping hassles, paper/cardboard shortages, etc.
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Kai Tave posted:The most unreasonable thing about D&D has never really been the price of a given book but more that the "core D&D experience" is a three-book set. I wouldn't be surprised if $60 for a single full-color 300+ page hardback is probably still on the undercosted end of things, especially in the covid era with major shipping hassles, paper/cardboard shortages, etc. to be fair, it has been traditionally poorly organized and at points badly usable (especially the DMG), but I don't think that three book set has ever been bereft of content. TSR/WotC never sold you a book that was worthless/could be skipped/was just a cash grab in that core book set. when I look at a single-volume core rulebook for another game I often find myself wanting the wealth of examples and guidelines provided in D&D's core rules (especially for player special abilities [spells in the PHB], player loot [magic items in the DMG], and NPC antagonists [the MM]), especially if it's a tactical adventure game. (I bought supplements for PARANOIA hoping for more forms to make my players fill out and more jokes because I wasn't funny enough to come up with funny adventure ideas myself.)
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Arivia posted:WotC's also pricing all D&D books at $60 USD going forward: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-price-increase-rpg-rulebooks/ yar har fiddle dee d- *handed a note* Oh. "I dont play DnD" huh.
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Arivia posted:to be fair, it has been traditionally poorly organized and at points badly usable (especially the DMG), but I don't think that three book set has ever been bereft of content. TSR/WotC never sold you a book that was worthless/could be skipped/was just a cash grab in that core book set. when I look at a single-volume core rulebook for another game I often find myself wanting the wealth of examples and guidelines provided in D&D's core rules (especially for player special abilities [spells in the PHB], player loot [magic items in the DMG], and NPC antagonists [the MM]), especially if it's a tactical adventure game. (I bought supplements for PARANOIA hoping for more forms to make my players fill out and more jokes because I wasn't funny enough to come up with funny adventure ideas myself.) I think it's less an argument of merit per se (because different versions of different core books across different editions have varied in terms of quality) and more that we know it's possible to make a one-book-and-done RPG where anybody can buy the One Book and have a fully playable game out of the box. Most RPGs, in fact, work this way. I find the model employed by D&D, where it is more or less literally impossible to organize and run a game of D&D without at least two of these three books' worth of content (the player book and the monsters book) to be, if I'm generous, archaic and outdated, and at my least charitable I would say the only reason it doesn't constitute a completely naked cashgrab is that I know if WotC ever tried to break away from the established convention their customer base would start complaining even more than they're going to about the price increases. e; I'm aware that the usual counterpoint to "they expect you to buy three books" is "well only the GM needs to buy the DMG/MM, there are starter sets, etc" but I'm willing to bet that WotC counts on a slice of their customer base unfamiliar or less experienced with running TRPGs simply seeing "these are the core books you need for the game" and assuming that means they have to buy them. Kai Tave fucked around with this message at 05:52 on May 24, 2023 |
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I kind of agree but I think it’s a different established convention that hamstrings D&D, the tradition of what things (ancestries/classes/spells/magic items/monsters) need to be in the core rulebook. It’s possible to imagine a one-volume starter book for D&D but it would be significantly cut down in stuff, and that “stuff” is a significantly important part of the game. I don’t think it’s fair to compare D&D to other RPGs without that tactical basis, because those other RPGs wield new content differently (ie: plenty of RPGs don’t need monster manuals.) There’s only ever been one single-volume D&D rules set and it’s a reference not a learning tool (the Rules Cyclopedia is very upfront about what it is and what it isn’t). D&D’s never been that single-book RPG, it’s always been bigger than that. e: oh and even Paizo’s two-volume model didn’t really work. There was always pretty important details about how to run the game in the later GameMaster Guide, and they admitted it was a core rulebook in the run up to 2e and formalized it for the 2e remaster.
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I do agree that a lot of it comes down to D&D being hamstrung by its own conventions, and like I said I know the D&D fanbase would likely complain even more if they ever tried to deviate from the three corebook model.
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In industry-adjacent news: Critical Role's Ashley Johnson has filed a domestic violence restraining order against her ex, Brian Foster.quote:Johnson alleged “many acts of terror” by Foster, with whom she broke up with in March, against her and her family throughout the relationship, such as repeated insults and property damage. Foster was forced to vacate her Tarzana, California, home in May after the emergency protective order was issued, per the filing.
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3 Action Economist posted:What a piece of poo poo For real, he sounds like an absolute dirtbag.
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From what I remember he became a serious drug addict in his early twenties, then was sober for many years. I am guessing he relapsed. Shame. I guess this also explains why they quietly removed him from his talkshow. Megazver fucked around with this message at 13:39 on May 24, 2023 |
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Foster was the one who'd sic CR's fanbase on people he got into Twitter arguments with until they finally fired him.
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Speaking of absolute dirtbags, Ryan Dancey decided today was a good day to delve into gender essentialism in game design https://twitter.com/rsdancey/status/1661082087578021888?t=bmX7C4jhrFxWW4W2RNIdLA&s=19
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gradenko_2000 posted:Speaking of absolute dirtbags, Ryan Dancey decided today was a good day to delve into gender essentialism in game design lol that he has a blue checkmark, but also quote:There have been a couple of pitches that came close; most commonly where a female pitched with a male designer. There is one team of two female designers that pitch great but their games are too light for us. I know why we didn't proceed with those pitches but they were at least in the ballpark. Sounds like he's gotten a decent number of game pitches he's just passed on because it's "not the right culture fit" for their publishing company? 
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Nuns with Guns posted:lol that he has a blue checkmark, but also Funny you should mention that. https://twitter.com/acutenausea/status/1661231254615003136?s=20
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moths posted:Also "political" sounds like it's preceded by a silent "not my kind of..." I just read it this way: https://twitter.com/emmahvossen/status/1138841342921060354
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moths posted:"Very early in her career" is a hell of a reason to ensure she doesn't get farther in her career. True, but that applies to everyone in every career everywhere.
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dwarf74 posted:Huh. That "Steve Jobs of MMO Marketing" guy has some lovely takes. IMO he needs to be reminded every single day of his remaining professional career that he was associated with the complete and utter shitshow that was Pathfinder Online.
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Comrade Koba posted:IMO he needs to be reminded every single day of his remaining professional career that he was associated with the complete and utter shitshow that was Pathfinder Online. IMO the industry needs to remember from time to time that when he noticed a private GAMA listserver had publicly viewable archives, he decided to use the confidential info instead of letting GAMA know about it.
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Kai Tave posted:Funny you should mention that. That war game sounds too political to me. What if we made it about giant robots instead? Those aren't political at all. And then Dancey could reject it on the grounds that by his metric there's too many of those!
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Kai Tave posted:Funny you should mention that. Got get 'em, Erin. 
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hyphz posted:True, but that applies to everyone in every career everywhere. Yeah, but for some reason the line between "promising up and comer" and "unusable noob" seems to always form a circle around white dudes.
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