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Doc Hawkins posted::extremely ken burns voice: my dearest clara, i sometimes fear that this great edition war shall never end Oh, you've seen my letters to home since I've started modding an RPG forum.
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Dawgstar posted:Oh, you've seen my letters to home since I've started modding an RPG forum. yeah clara and i love reading them together
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Comstar posted:Hasbro Fires D&D Book Team! (Ep 367)]Dungeon Craft. (youtube) Then all the pathfinder fans will be all "You should try Pathfinder. We have books!"
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Facebook Aunt posted:Then all the pathfinder fans will be all "You should try Pathfinder. We have books!" I actually did order a dead-tree copy of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook last month I didn't realize how thick that thing is, dang. I carry it around for the weight when I'm rucking.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I actually did order a dead-tree copy of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook last month Oh yeah. Pathfinder core can be used as an improvised weapon that does 1d4+str bludgeoning damage.
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Feb 7, 2024 08:26
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When I set down my bag of books I worry that some pickpocket is going to think it's a laptop bag and try to steal it, only to dislocate their shoulder and sue me.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I actually did order a dead-tree copy of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook last month The OG or the remaster?
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Eastmabl posted:The OG or the remaster? 1st Edition. I've played enough of it (and D&D 3e) that I'm pretty confident I could center a game around it if I ever got or made the opportunity to play again, but I'm not nearly familiar enough 2e to be willing to make the investment just yet.
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Feb 7, 2024 09:01
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Nuns with Guns posted:Me, huddling in a trench scribbling a letter on dirty paper: "Day 538 on the front lines. D&D is still not dead, but central command is optimistic that we'll be home by next Christmas." Doc Hawkins posted::extremely ken burns voice: my dearest clara, i sometimes fear that this great edition war shall never end   
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Feb 7, 2024 10:05
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That post above is your annual reminder to read DIE.
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Feb 7, 2024 11:47
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I'd rather DIE!
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Kestral posted:That post above is your annual reminder to read DIE. I think I've read the first issue of DIE three times and always think "this is great!" but have never read anything else for some reason.
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Feb 7, 2024 14:24
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i read die last year, it's pretty good. anyone who cares enough about analog rpgs to read a thread like this would probably get a lot out of it. it's weirdly well-researched, like promethea for d&d.
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Doc Hawkins posted:i read die last year, it's pretty good. anyone who cares enough about analog rpgs to read a thread like this would probably get a lot out of it. it's weirdly well-researched, like promethea for d&d. Gillen was a music and then games journalist before comic writer so it's not that weird oddly I kind of credit Gillen with getting me back into RPGs (after the normal teenage stint of bad games with bad people) with Phonogram, which made me want to make something in a way I didn't have the ability to fulfill until I rediscovered RPGs.
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Feb 7, 2024 18:15
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i knew they're a perceptive and empathetic writer. i think the crux of my personal prejudice is, it went into historical depths i didn't expect to fit into a comic. i think i gave up on comics for a few years there. forget Little Wars, it brings in Gondal and Glasstown! so, fie on me. has anyone read or played the game? i think it's existence is a really good example of how both the rises and falls of d&d's popularity are good for the popularity of roleplaying games in the long run.
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I have the game. It’s a bit odd, in that it’s designed around the idea that you play as players returning to an RPG they played in the past. So a lot of the game world is improvised or player led. Also, it has the Over The Edge problem where even though you’re playing different players, you still play the DIE classes that were designed for the personalities of the comic characters.
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Over on EN World, there's been discussion over several people resigning from Evil Genius games in short succession, as announced on their respective Facebook posts For those who don't know, Evil Genius Games is a third party publisher for the Everyday Heroes line, a 5th Edition revival of the D20 Modern RPG. Currently five people have made such announcements, and a common theme among the ex-employees was concern over ethics and disagreements with the company owner on such matters. While they're under NDAs and thus can't come forward as to specifics, the CEO and a current employee later weighed in, with the former alleging that the ethical concerns were over the use of "controversial technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain." I've reviewed two of their products before and enjoyed them, so I've been following the company for a while now and this came under my radar recently. I should note that the story is still developing, so there could be new revelations made since this post. While there are threads elsewhere such as RPGnet, EN World has the most interaction including from the CEO, one post by an ex-employee, and a current EGG employee. Libertad! fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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The CEOs post says they have a policy condemning AI and blockchain, which makes me think it's a misdirection. There's no way so these people quit because they wanted to use AI.
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Libertad! posted:Over on EN World, there's been discussion over several people resigning from Evil Genius games in short succession, as announced on their respective Facebook posts Also of note they were the ones involved in that whole Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon fiasco where Evil Genius was going to do a game for the setting and there was a lawsuit against Netflix.
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Libertad! posted:Over on EN World, there's been discussion over several people resigning from Evil Genius games in short succession, as announced on their respective Facebook posts https://evilgeniusgames.com/blog/e-g-o-blog-episode-3/ quote:Fortunately, because Michael was doing the work of several people, So already you have some warning signs and then on top of that he was writing books. Like even if the CEO was being honest it really does seem like the amount of workload was a potential problem for its employees. MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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3 Action Economist posted:The CEOs post says they have a policy condemning AI and blockchain, which makes me think it's a misdirection. There's no way so these people quit because they wanted to use AI. The policy went up after most of the resignations; it reads a little bit like shutting the barn door after he realized how angry the horses were. And the horses were angry because he wasn’t agreeing to not use AI. Edit: I also just read the comment from Faith Elisabeth Lilley about helping other ex-employees process trauma; so yes, while I think the CEO was trying to implement AI and got real pushback, I also buy that there are other issues. Thanlis fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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Dragonlance author confirms Joe Manganiello’s secret TV project is dead There was work being done on a Dragonlance TV series, but it's now deader than a Stoned Draconian.
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https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/drangonlance-live-action-project-cancelled-joe-manganiello-dungeons-dragons/ You tried, Joe. 
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Hah he doesn't need that crap. He'll always have his role as Deathstroke the Termi... wait what's this news I'm reading.
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theironjef posted:Hah he doesn't need that crap. He'll always have his role as Deathstroke the Termi... wait what's this news I'm reading. Yes, sorry, the balance of power in the DC universe changed just as the Rock said it would.
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Megazver posted:https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/drangonlance-live-action-project-cancelled-joe-manganiello-dungeons-dragons/ Lol https://comicbook.com/gaming/amp/news/joe-manganiello-compares-baldurs-gate-3-to-early-dungeons-dragons-fifth-edition/ Joe M. posted:Manganiello said that the controversy led to Mearls getting pushed out of the 'drivers' seat' for Dungeons & Dragons. "And then the Twitter mob rises up with the pitchforks and the torches and it was right in that kind of weird spot when all of that was at its height and everyone was listening to the mob in that way," Manganiello said. "There are some people within [Wizards of the Coast] that saw their opportunity to try to go for Mike's head and get him out of the driver's seat and they were successful and in the end they were allowed to do it. I told Mike at one point, it was like Jimmy Johnson winning back to back Super Bowls with the Cowboys and kicking him out and replacing him with Barry Switzer and then just dismantling the team. There were a bunch of people that saw the opportunity to take credit for what Mike did, to try to launch and alter the game into a new edition and it just has gone downhill since That man loves him some Mike Mearls Dexo fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Feb 10, 2024 |
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So in this analogy who on the cowboys would be Critical Role, The Adventure Zone, and Stranger Things, the actual stuff that made 5e successful.
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Dexo posted:Lol I had no idea who he was until just now but gently caress him straight to the sun.
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There's like no way that those are his own actual opinions. I mean I'm preaching to the choir when I say that nobody, regardless of their own opinions about D&D editions, believes that Mearls solicited and incorporated a lot of feedback from diehard 4e players. I doubt Manganiello is at all invested in D&D as an actual ruleset/trio of books.
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Welcome to the normie opinions world, goons.
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Normies don't have opinions about Mike Mearls.
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Halloween Jack posted:Normies don't have opinions about Mike Mearls. Normies who are put into a position where they're talking to Mike Mearls and can ask "so what was designing 5e like" as random water cooler talk do. (So yeah. It's not normal, but it's the kind of weird you'd expect from a random guy who liked D&D back in the day but whose only reference point for the 5e edition change is talking to the people who oversaw it.)
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Halloween Jack posted:There's like no way that those are his own actual opinions. I mean I'm preaching to the choir when I say that nobody, regardless of their own opinions about D&D editions, believes that Mearls solicited and incorporated a lot of feedback from diehard 4e players. I do believe that, but it was like the concept of Sustain Minor and a bunch of assorted spellcaster QoL.
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Love the passive voice on the whole "some sort of controversy involving Zak Smith, let's just not go into what exactly that was, it was just you know a regular controversy barely worth talking about until the woke mob." Like, what was it, Joe? What was the controversy regarding Mearls and Smith? I honestly wonder if he even knows.
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My friend met Joe at Gencon once, just walking around the vendor hall. He's probably some form of nerd that enjoys playing the game and talked to Mearls who told him whatever bullshit and Joe took it at face value. His opinions are bad and wrong regardless
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Halloween Jack posted:That would be an extremely normal thing to go on at length about to a reporter. sorry goons, this one is for the normies!
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”Joe M.” posted:The actor explained to ComicBook.com the origins of Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, with Mearls and other designers part of a "crack team" who helped to resurrect the game from a low point due to divisive nature of Fourth Edition. "They thought [Dungeons & Dragons] was going to be over," Manganiello said. "Judging by the [sales] numbers of Fourth Edition, the vitriol towards that edition, they decided that it was over and that everyone left the game. So Mike Mearls was put in charge of this team to try to figure out what to do next. And they started polling some of the fans who were left. But whoever was left from Fourth Edition were really diehard lovers of the game. And so when you reach out and ask a really concentrated fanbase about what to do next, you're going to get good answers because these are people who have been there since the jump and say what is wrong. And so the feedback was really fantastic for Fifth Edition and Mearls was smart enough, he listened to it all and created this edition that was the most popular tabletop gaming system of all time."
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Halloween Jack posted:That would be an extremely normal thing to go on at length about to a reporter. I mean yeah, I suppose in interview format it would be weird for him to go into detail. I would also say while it isn't weird, it is super disappointing for him to bring up something as significant as that only to sort of arbitrarily downplay it as a minor kerfuffle that was harmless outside of bothering internet weirdos. Dude sucks, I guess.
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