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I actually like the switch from 'Atlantis' to 'Tlalocan'. It gives the MCU underwater kingdom a way to distinguish itself from the Aquaman one from DC while also providing an interesting anchor point for art design. Marvel has never made Atlantis look good so nothing is lost and it gets more...

Yes yes alpha etc... but I am not a fan of their overall design choice.

I tried this and really had no idea what I was doing... I'll give it a go again later maybe

The Authority is a ballsy thing to have as part of your opening slate. Standing up Apollo and Midnighter while you are simultaneously re-launching Superman and Batman seems weird. Lanterns are cosmic space opera... that's what they are there for. If you want True Detective and you don't want...

I tried it out and its a blatant Diablo clone. This is not a bad thing as its very smooth and decently well done art direction.

It pleases me that everyone is still going forward with their own creations. WOTC may think that by falling on their sword they have somehow mitigated the long term damage, but you can't put this djinn back into the bottle. It also means that VTT team they have cranking away at the OneD&D...

"Here's a PDF of SRD 5.1 with the Creative Commons license. By simply publishing it, we place it under an irrevocable Creative Commons license. We'll get it hosted in a more convenient place next week. It was important that we take this step now, so there's no question."...

I am 97% English/Irish by genetics (thanks 23&me!) and I have absolutely no rhythm whatsoever... yet I actually had fun playing through the first part of this up to and including the first boss fight. Not my cup of tea by any means, but GamePass means I gave it a shot and its entertaining.

FYI the Deadpool DLC (first part of Season Pass) went live yesterday.

Have we gotten an official word as to whether they also jettisoned Justin Roiland? I saw that Adult Swim did and that he resigned from Squanch but haven't seen anything from Hulu/Disney Edit -- nevermind https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/justin-roiland-fired-solar-opposites-koala-man-1235501863/

I think this is worth getting on heavy discount. Would be a great Game Pass game but... Sony...

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359835/dungeons-dragons-onslaught So lemme preface this by saying I pre-ordered this thing when it was first announced and promptly forgot about it until FedEx delivered it yesterday. I'm not wild about having supported WOTC, but it is what it is. I'll post...

It always mystifies me how some people manage to land in positions of authority like that. It seems rampant in almost every company in America. People who know nothing about what their actually doing that still manage to fall upwards due to playing the metagame.

Does anyone know this Chris Cao? His pedigree of being involved with DC universe Online isn't awful, but also not the best I suppose.

Wait....what?? I figure they had all been shipped out a long time ago. I did see someone post on Twitter just a couple days ago but I figured they were in some crazy out of the way place.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/attachments/39j2li89/OGL1.2_DraftForDiscussionPurpose.pdf The last page is their new draft VTT policy which specifies that video games like Solasta are considered completely forbidden under their new agreement.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playtest On Virtual Tabletops: There it is. That's where they want the D&DBeyond VTT to differentiate it from other VTTs Also means Solasta is 100% fuxored

Damage control squads report to all decks!!

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1428-a-working-conversation-about-the-open-game-license This one is better and seems more honest. Interesting that responsibility is moving down, not up, the chain of command. Still doesn't address the full degree to which they have alienated their consumer base.

Interesting read. I've seen the '70% of Hasbro Value' statement before and I don't know if its true. I DO know that Hasbro has done a completely shit job of cross promoting / monetizing WOTC over the years. I mean they crossed Transformers with My Little Pony before they did D&D. It can be...

Earthdawn (which I use in my game) does as well. It makes things often very exciting and has caused me to sometimes radically change the overall planned storyline when a player rolls like 42 against a target number of 8 when trying to find a clue.

The weird thing is that it's making all this money yet not many people seem to really enjoy it. Maybe the 'lets live in Pandora' second act works for some people, but I found it to be painfully dull and predictable. It was VERY pretty and it's fun to just look around and take in the visuals...

Rather than Egyptian gods I'd rather they do something like Mayan/Mesoamerican instead, or perhaps Babylonian. I quite liked the choice for Odin in this. It really played up the notion that he was a manipulator through and through. I am glad they didn't off the entire Norse pantheon like...

Hero / Champions was amazing fun back in highschool/college. Was good friends with a mega fan of the game who actually ended up doing some supplement work for them. The craziest thing about the system were the ways in which some people managed to craft crazy useful power sets with accountant...

Its dead and buried... it should stay that way lest the newer generations of man succumb to its horror.

This is one of the issues I have with the 'healbot' style of games wherein the one player who doesn't really want to be there gets charged with being a walking trauma center responsible for keeping everyone alive. The 'short rest' and daily hit dice was a massive improvement for D&D in that...

You and I and really anyone with a shred of imagination can come up with half a dozen relatively-easy monetization strategies that would have filled their coffers. Instead they came up with half-assed merch and a history of abject failure when it came to internal development of digital D&D...

I do wonder just how many D&D Beyond subs were cancelled this past week. You know that Hasbro didn't do a damn thing until their evergreen revenue source of monthly subs started to get dinged.

Its refreshing that the consensus is : fuck you Most people seem to be content with their decision to ditch DnDBeyond. Now the onus is on Hasbro to actually create a world class virtual table top for One D&D in order to compete and I guarantee they will not manage to do it. Then they will...

The initial reaction is exactly what you might think -- a mixture of qualified approval and disbelief : " Blog posts are not legally binding. I can say whatever i want in a press release, anything. Until we see an actual license document----nothing has changed." They do seem to realize they...

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-game-license-ogl About as close to an unconditional surrender as one might expect from a billion-dollar corporate entity

I agree that they have a right to make money, but they went completely lawyer-mad with this stuff. Too focused on believing they were entitled to everyone else's stuff than they were on making their own product. There is no reason why they couldn't have made Roll20 or Foundry and really set...

Chaosium is part of Paizo's Open RPG Creative License initiative Chaosium has joined the ORC

I could see the WOTC/Hasbro people saying 'well... fuck those dweebs. We have the movie coming out, we have Critical Role in our pocket, we will just get new fans, we don't need those losers anymore' It seems like an insane viewpoint, but some of those types believe that there is in infinite...

As expected Paizo has finally entered the battle and they came in guns blazing: paizo.com - Website Maintenance <-- the server is getting slammed so here is the message:

Unknown veracity so take with at least some salt Also #DnDBegone is just clever Looks like the stream they planned for today is gone?

Someone at Hasbro must be close to hanging. Here they are releasing Nerf D&D toys, Action Figures from the 40 year old animated series & the new movie, Transformers, a Lego set etc. Launching a new series with Paramount+, preparing for a full-court marketing press to coincide with the movie...

I havent reviewed campaign 1 in awhile, but I think this season will correspond to some of the more poignant dramatic bits for Grog, especially Grog/Pike interactions.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/dungeons-and-dragons-live-action-series-paramount-plus-1235483723/ There's also this from Kobold Press: https://koboldpress.com/raising-our-flag/ WOTC just decloaked on Twitter:

I personally don't use OGL--based material at the moment, but I DO use Foundry VTT and Forge-VTT as a hosting service for my game and neither of them currently has a contractual arrangement with WOTC and would likely be barred from hosting or selling any OGL-based content. What does OGL v1.1...