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    Humble Bundle Pros and Cons for the Publisher

    I got that bundle, with the FVTT Abomination Vaults module. That was very beneficial for both FVTT and Paizo. Bought quite a bit of FVTT stuff and Paizo stuff specifically due to that bundle. It showed off the paid FVTT module quality made by both FVTT and Paizo. I eventually spent a lot more...
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    D&D 5E (2024) So What Is Winter's Mysterious D&D "Season of Champions"?

    I wonder if WotC at this point would even do another full Dark Sun book? Yes it's rumoured, but rumours also can be wrong. What if it's a collection of classes, variants that could be used in other settings, including Dark Sun. At this point, i wouldn't be mad about it. And would just use the...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Am I the only one that's disappointed by the lack of a 'Curse of Strahd' anniversary edition? And to be honest, last year WotC did an update on Forgotten Realms and Eberron, this year apparently Ravenloft and maybe Dark Sun... If they do two setting updates per year, they'll be running out of...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    It was way, way worse!
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    Poll: VTT Users - Do you prefer self-hosted or cloud-based VTTs?

    A better question would be, are you even in the market for a switch to a different VTT? And my answer is: Heck no! I'm already using Foundry VTT, and I would not see a reason to move to something else. While I do self-host FVTT (on a dedicated Raspberry Pi 24/7), it was more the option to...
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    Homebrew Whacky Half-Formed Idea for Armor as DR...

    I assume that Armor DR replaces Armor adjustments to AC. Making people easier to hit and hypothetically harder to damage. That is fine as long as you're in a decent damage range. But now imagine a Rogue doing Sneak Attack damage once or twice per round. I'm currently building a 10th level...
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    RPGs that you feel trip over their own cool ideas

    Have you ever tried running the Cypher system modified without the cyphers? The Cypher system has a SRD, the license is different, but I assume you could build a variant that does not use cyphers while retaining the rest of the system. What I've seen with quite a few systems, that while one part...
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    D&D 3.x I miss 3.5 edition

    There's nothing stopping you from playing 3.5e, you could even go to Pathfinder 1e, which is close to the same... In 5e 2024 your character becomes a Swiss army knife, unless you build very specifically for it, your character is less of a one-shot glass cannon. And where 3.5e was more of a...
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    Phases of Growth in Game Design

    That's me 35 years ago... Trying to create a monster of combining ElfQuest, AD&D and Dangerous Journeys... Made character sheets, typed up rules on a typewriter (a LOT of Typp-Ex was used)... It did not survive contact with reality, while it was a very neat mathematical exercise, with all kinds...
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    My Changing Thoughts on Science Fantasy Games

    I still love Shadowrun, but there the balance between tech and magic has changed over the 37 years it has existed... And whether you like one or the other depends on the people and the specific implementation of that balance. For me peak Shadowrun is the first three editions, with the last three...
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    Coming [Chaosium] John Sumrow shows his magnificently eldritch cover for the forthcoming Encyclopedia Cthuliana

    Very nice! But there's generative AI in the picture... Right there on the shirt! :ROFLMAO:
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    Legends of Avantris Announces Neon Odyssey, a 5E Space Opera Project

    Maybe... But something like Alien is still a popular franchise, even after almost 50 years... We still think of the cool green and black CRT screens, while current day tech would probably use (O)LED displays especially in space craft as they would be a LOT lighter then CRTs. But the...
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    Legends of Avantris Announces Neon Odyssey, a 5E Space Opera Project

    I wouldn't expect a 5e supplement about Folk Horror to sell all that well either, but according to their website, they sold over 30,000 copies... And their KS raised $4 million... With a planned 400+ page book (which turned into a 623 page tome), but now they aim to do a 1400+ page trilogy...
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    Humble Bundle Pros and Cons for the Publisher

    Not a publisher. See it as additional exposure, piracy mitigation, and additional revenue. The example mentioned: Shadowrun PDFs, I already own all the SR 1/2/3 edition books, i bought pdf bundles for these, but for SR 4/5/6, I wouldn't be buying these at MSRP at all, as I have very little...
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    Legends of Avantris Announces Neon Odyssey, a 5E Space Opera Project

    We have the many, many Star Wars pnp RPG incarnations that were/are pretty popular. But what Dark Matter and Neon Odyssey have in common is that they aren't so much sci-fi, they are much more space fantasy, even more then Star Wars is. The same goes for Starfinder and the old 3e Dragonstar...
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    The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing

    According to this list: Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club 27 of 49 in the TTRPG million dollar crowdfunding club are made for D&D5e. In the last year it's only 2 out of 8, with shortly the 'Dragonbane: Trudvang' joining the ranks as the next non-D&D million+ KS. I assume Tier 2 is also a...
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    The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing

    That's kinda scarry! I see people's signatures and with smaller companies that use their home as their business address I see when and where they moved. But those documents only handle assets and possibly profit/losses(?). I saw no numbers for revenue. Sidenote: Across the channel (Netherlands)...
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    Hasbro Lawsuit Over Magic Card Overprints Voluntarily Dismissed

    I would even go so far as to say that management maximizes their own short term profits via bonuses and stock benefits over the long term viability of the company, maybe even at the cost of the company... That happens in only two ways: increasing the value of the stock, so shareholders can...
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