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    D&D (2024) Greyhawk Grognard covers the Greyhawk section of the DMG

    I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of female Atlantian racist fascist albino assassins, and we'd hate for them to feel excluded
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    D&D (2024) Greyhawk Grognard covers the Greyhawk section of the DMG

    I dunno, it beats the "Scarlet Brother- and Sister- and Gender Non-Conforming Siblinghood"
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    I mean, it's where we get experience points and levels from. And considering that pretty much every computer and video game RPG can trace their lineage back to either Ultima and/or Wizardry (which was HUGE in Japan), which were themselves D&D with varying degrees of serial numbers filed off, it...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Not for nothing, but Jennell Jacquays also spent a lot of time doing dungeon level design for video games, including Quake II, meaning that she's responsible for some of the best level design and design principles in two nerd-adjacent hobbies; she also co-founded the Guildhall at SMU, which is...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    No, that's all fair, and I've definitely let the bigots, and I've definitely let those like Ernie and Jim (I'm not interested in relitigating FM, who is wholly apart from this entire debacle, other than to state that people are complicated and that I've seen enough myself to form my own...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    If there's one thing we can credit Lanasa for, it's how well he and his ilk (Dinehart, et. al.) have brought into the light the rampant bigotry infecting most of our hobby's surviving founders. You can take that as a win or a loss as you choose but I've always found sunlight to be the best...
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    D&D General D&D Lay Offs/Corporate Re-Organization

    And the best one with a primarily human cast
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    D&D General D&D Lay Offs/Corporate Re-Organization

    Can somebody explain success to me?
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    “AI” and education…

    I'm not sure that there's a ton to be done about it, really, at least not until we start transitioning to more sustainable forms of energy (and, more importantly in this particular use case, cooling). That said, I'm not opposed to "then don't do it" when "it" is almost exclusively theft and...
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    User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

    My username is a bit boring, just my last name really. My current avatar I selected after I transitioned, and it is an artificer from Eberron, my favorite D&D setting. I thought she looked cool.
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    Pathfinder 2E I made a Pathfinder campaign setting inspired by Ancient India!

    This looks absolutely incredible. I'll be interested in picking up a physical copy once those are available for the collection at the library where I work. We love to showcase diverse creators! Thank you for sharing!
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    “AI” and education…

    "AI", such as it is, has been around for years (decades, really) and has a lot of really important and positive uses, and as we develop it, I'm sure it will ultimately work out to be a net positive for society. The problem is that "Generative AI Tools", such as they are, currently operate...
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    XKCD: What if Earth grew 1cm every second?

    Was pretty sure that was a distinction they cleared up. Anyway, I'm just here patiently awaiting the video on the Interplanetary Cessna, which was my favorite segment in the book
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    BrOSR

    I was about to say, these guys seem to be awfully big fans of John Harper, and I cannot possibly imagine the feeling being mutual :ROFLMAO:
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    BrOSR

    This is primarily because, almost without exception, they tend to enter every human interaction with ulterior motives of their own. It's international Realism(tm) on an individual scale. Zero-sum relationships. When this kind of "power" is your core philosophical framework, anyone different...
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