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    What NEW TTRPGs are Releasing in 2026?

    The SRD, in whatever form, is apparently aiming for a July or August drop, and a Kickstarter for the generic version after GenCon. Allegedly they will start general playtesting sometime...soon.
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    D&D 5E (2024) One Store's Sales (D&D 2014 & 2024)

    It is truly a wild and different product, miscellaneous seems fair.
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    D&D General My Review of the Forgotten Realms Ultimate Bundle (major spoiler alert)

    It is somewhat curious frok a lore nerd perspective as a 180 degree reversal of Muhorandi attitudes towards tomb raiding on prior iterations of the FR...but royal patronage for dungeon clearing is more conducive to actual gaming than "the government will come down on you like a ton of bricks for...
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    D&D General My Review of the Forgotten Realms Ultimate Bundle (major spoiler alert)

    The USD MSRP is $110, so 15% of the CAD price being about $30 sounds possible
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    D&D General I want a video game done in the Dalelands

    Hillsfar is not in the Dalelands, though it is nearby.
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    D&D General My Review of the Forgotten Realms Ultimate Bundle (major spoiler alert)

    Mackenzie De Aramas said ar HenCom the feedback on the lore wasn't negative, kt was the mechanics. The Dragon stuff fits better as Favrion rewards, anyways. Paladins in the Core rules are not related to God's in amy way, so I don't see a serious point of confusion here.
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    A Deep Dive into Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun

    By "Deep Dive" I understood this to be the review after she read the book, as opposed to the first impressions review after fippong around a bit.
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    So the sort of connection you ste looking fir is provided in 2024 books, following the example of the 2024 DMG, on the basis of Background, not Species. The Free City of Greyhawk has hooks provided gir NPC connections for any of the Backgrounds in the PHB. WotC seems to be working to emphasize...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    It's like saying you know the CEO and CFOnare old white dudes and assuming there cannot be any young African-American female employees or the company that employs 100,000 people. That part you get to make up, using the established bits about the Dlaming Fist and Drafonboen mercenaries. Yes...
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    D&D General Is the SCAG Still Useful?

    It gets a bad rap, but there is a lot of cool stuff in there.
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    D&D General The Story of Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    That is an S-Tier plot hook, risking Wizard WW2 through PC Shennanigans is amazing.
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    OK, now I went down the rabbit hole. November 25, 1783 was the day when British forces left New York City, and was widely celebrated as a holiday, Evacuation Day, for nearly 100 years, along with earlier Calvinist originating Thanksgiving celebrations celebrated at the state level in late...
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    It was part of the economic stimulus plan President Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt introduced to turn the Great Depression around. It is designed to soup up the Christmas spending season, and has worked for nearly 100 years to do so.
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    D&D General The Story of Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    I love it when the art direction does stuff like this.
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    What NEW TTRPGs are Releasing in 2026?

    The big release of the year is going to be the Mistborn RPG.
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