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"The original 1979 edition of Puppy-Kicking Racists Are The Heroes was a seminal publication in the history of Dungeons and Dragons. In order to ensure it's properly preserved, we've entered a licensing deal with the reanimated corpses of Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin, and the guy who shot Uncle Ben."...

Yes indeed. Anyone who thinks bigotry in the OSR space isn't a problem is in denial, frankly. Bill Webb was mentioned upthread; if you look at the postings on a certain prominent OSR website about his harassment incident, you'll find outright hatred toward Webb's accuser and statements like...

"...so you see, it's all an analogy for the way undesirables invade our society and steal our cultural treasures." (I'm so sorry for putting that thought into your head, even as a joke)

Well then, how could we put concrete Hope effects into 5e fairly easily? Probably the most obvious way is inspiration/rerolls. Could also be tied to recovery mechanichs like Arcane Recovery. Might be tied to short rests -- you have to spend Hope to recover, or maybe to take a short rest at...

I love that. With enemies that are unusually hard or easy to hit, there will be a little variance from 5%, but that strikes me as a feature not a bug. Nice work! Well, if "just play DH" were the final answer, there'd be no point in this discussion at all. Daggerheart is a great game and I...

I've thought of this myself, and I wonder how well it would work to replace the d20 with two d10s. Obviously that changes the flat slope to a bell curve, but that's not necessarily bad. It might be rough when fighting a monster with unusually high AC. We'd also need to figure out how to do crits...

Even Hall of Fame quarterbacks throw bad passes. I knew exactly what Draw Steel! was intended to be before that project even had a name, when it was just called MCDM RPG, and I was excited about it from the start. I know the name of Crows and all sorts of miscellaneous stuff about it, but don't...

Maybe they don't care whether anyone is excited about their game at this juncture, but I don't see why they shouldn't be. Either get people excited or keep it secret until you're ready to. Instead they're releasing details about this project yet we have no real sense of what niche their game is...

What's the elevator pitch for Crows? Anyone know? Because calling it "dungeon crawler rpg" tells me nothing, really.

I have no idea why I was just quoted, two weeks and ~160 pages later. But I'm glad my hatred of tortles has reached a new audience. Tortles! Bah humbug!

Dragon Heist was hot and cold. At our table, it was terrific at the start and ended with a bang, but dragged pretty badly in the middle. I didn't play Descent Into Avernus but most people seem to have disliked it. Overall, not sure how to judge. But I feel his resume could be better, honestly.

Speaking as a player who owns the DCC rulebook (and a dozen or so adventures) I would rather see them publish a new edition and increase interest in the game than worry about "invalidating" my stuff. Right now DCC feels like a game very much in decline. My local DCC Meetup.com group used to be...

Also, not having a new edition makes no sense financially. A second edition of DCC would give that system some desperately needed buzz. It's so old that it's based on third edition! I can't believe there aren't any tweaks they want to make.

I generally won't allow warforged into the games I run (unless I'm actually running Eberron, obviously). I just really dislike having androids (or the like) in my classic fantasy. No firearms, either. That can all work for a particular kind of setting, but not for a Forgotten Realms style...

Did you miss the part where the cleric would be dead because of that? The statblock for the shadow did say that specifically. Just wondering. EDIT: Sorry, I thought you literally meant negative six, not six less.