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yup same here. Except it was denting my dice tray and the papers I was rolling on before I got the dice tray.
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I was at a friend's house one time and he showed us his new metal dice way back when they had just started coming out. He then rolled them on his glass topped coffee table. Thankfully it wasn't tempered glass. It chipped in 2 spots and he was like omfg. But he'd the same guy that let his 1yr old hold his fancy glass glass dice. Yeah she spiked them into the floor in 2seconds lol.
 
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My daughter is still loving her D&D class at summer camp. She had a cold last week, and my wife asked if she was going to stay home, and she said no because she would miss D&D.
I'm thinking she would like playing it after she's done with camp, but I have no idea where to find younger kids that also play and it feels like it would be a trap if I search online.
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Thanks search function! Lightning Lord Rule Lightning Lord Rule
Anyway, a long time update on my initial post. She gave up D&D for a while, not really caring because none of her friends were into it. But now a group of 6 kids at her school have started playing. Last week was their first get together, and they were just designing their characters. There's a problem now, because 4 of the 6 want to be rogues and the other 2 want to be wizard type characters. But yeah, at least they're doing something.

To get my daughter even more into it, I showed her the 2 D&D episodes of Community tonight, and she loved them.
 
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Thanks search function! Lightning Lord Rule Lightning Lord Rule
Anyway, a long time update on my initial post. She gave up D&D for a while, not really caring because none of her friends were into it. But now a group of 6 kids at her school have started playing. Last week was their first get together, and they were just designing their characters. There's a problem now, because 4 of the 6 want to be rogues and the other 2 want to be wizard type characters. But yeah, at least they're doing something.

To get my daughter even more into it, I showed her the 2 D&D episodes of Community tonight, and she loved them.
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5e has some flaws but subclasses at least allow a group of 3 rogues to still feel "unique". A swashbuckler and a mastermind are gonna play differently. Encounter design may be a pita though heh
 
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So next Sunday I was planning on continuing with my groups adventure in the tomb of annihilation. We've just made it to the gears of hate.

But then I realized. June 22nd is Summerween! So now I'm doing an impromptu summerween adventure with them instead. I'll be using their lvl 1 character stats for the new stats for these chars they will be making.

So Summerween is from the show Gravity Falls. Great show btw.

I also made these kinda burnt up pages for character sheets.The burnt aspect just felt right. Dunno why I did it lol.
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Perkins and Crawford to the queerpg from Critical Role. Crawford I feel is probably a net positive for Wizards losing, but Perkins has been around and worked on a lot of the pre-woke stuff.

Critical Role likely threw them a lot of money to jump ship, to add legitimacy to their woke game for the initial sales/etc. I can see them hanging out for a year and then going to some independent studio after their stock options clear/etc and they can take advantage of all the people who say they like DND but actually don't play the game.
 
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I'm glad this lameass shit got canceled. The video looks like a Dragon Age: Veilguard clone. If you go down the rabbit hole for the companions, they're all exactly what you'd expect in a 'modern' D&D game.

Moving forward, I have almost zero hope that any studio is going to get execute a D&D game well. Larian was a fluke and a game of BG3 quality (or even close) is not something we're going to see again. I'm optimistic that there will be more great RPGs, but not with the D&D IP. Wizards of the Coast is way too far gone and they demand a ridiculous amount of control over the creative process.

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That looks like some real lousy arpg mmo shenanigans to me.

So I wish wizards would go back to making dm and player guides for all different worlds. Give me a dm guide for a world of transformers/gi joe/ninja turtles, Lotr, Harry potter, GoT. Whatever!

Do I do stuff like that anyway? Of course I do! But to have the books would be amazing.

Hell I do a spongebob game for my kids. They play chars in bikini bottom. They eat thst shit up!
 
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I can sort of see why they don't. You have what are effectively translation guides between major versions ('If you were running a 4e campaign, use <this> to help you migrate to 5e') and they can sort of be lumped into everything in a prior edition. So you can take the 3.0 stuff and translate to 3.5 (I would argue this was a major change, but hey, I'm old) and then whatever cool Oriental or whatever deal you translate that to 4e, then you can take the 4e (even though I'm pretty sure 3.x > 5e exists) and use it with the 5e stuff.

The community out there already has all that stuff sort of taken care of, I would imagine. The only thing you would -really- be doing, from a publisher standpoint, is modifying numbers that already exist in the newer form and adding in some flavor art.

It would sell, but maybe they have sales data that shows the costs of hiring artists/creating the books isn't as profitable as the first run in whatever edition they did put the book out?

Not saying I agree, but I am saying I get it. Having Transformers and He-Man stat blocks in official materials was always fun, if just for the sake of arguments with other nerds haha.
 
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I can sort of see why they don't. You have what are effectively translation guides between major versions ('If you were running a 4e campaign, use <this> to help you migrate to 5e') and they can sort of be lumped into everything in a prior edition. So you can take the 3.0 stuff and translate to 3.5 (I would argue this was a major change, but hey, I'm old) and then whatever cool Oriental or whatever deal you translate that to 4e, then you can take the 4e (even though I'm pretty sure 3.x > 5e exists) and use it with the 5e stuff.

The community out there already has all that stuff sort of taken care of, I would imagine. The only thing you would -really- be doing, from a publisher standpoint, is modifying numbers that already exist in the newer form and adding in some flavor art.

It would sell, but maybe they have sales data that shows the costs of hiring artists/creating the books isn't as profitable as the first run in whatever edition they did put the book out?

Not saying I agree, but I am saying I get it. Having Transformers and He-Man stat blocks in official materials was always fun, if just for the sake of arguments with other nerds haha.
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Lol I can't agree more with thr arguing eith other nerds part lol
 
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I don't understand how that can happen.

1: How do they have the books without having already paid for them?
2: Assuming they have them on consignment or something similar. How does that allow them to steal and sell shit that doesn't belong to them?
 
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Dunno if this is the right place for this but I thought these were cool and some of you that played back in the day or collect old D&D stuff may appreciate them. I had Google Gemini AI try to replicate the style of Erol Otus D&D modules and Gamma World module cover art and it came up with these:

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I entered a Kickstarter on gyroid dice that had an alternatively shaped 4 sided die. I'm hoping that satisfies. My other pet peeve is sharp dice, why is that a thing? You can see it in this picture. View attachment 583706
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Because it can also be used for caltrops! Gamers love multiple purposes!
 
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Grabbit Allworth said:
I'm glad this lameass shit got canceled. The video looks like a Dragon Age: Veilguard clone. If you go down the rabbit hole for the companions, they're all exactly what you'd expect in a 'modern' D&D game.

Moving forward, I have almost zero hope that any studio is going to get execute a D&D game well. Larian was a fluke and a game of BG3 quality (or even close) is not something we're going to see again. I'm optimistic that there will be more great RPGs, but not with the D&D IP. Wizards of the Coast is way too far gone and they demand a ridiculous amount of control over the creative process.

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Report: A Look Into Dungeons & Dragons Cancelled Open-World RPG "Project Dante," Gameplay and Concept Art Unearthed

Footage and several pieces of concept art have been discovered for a Dungeons & Dragons open-world RPG reportedly cancelled last year.
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Larian isn't a fluke as far as their games go. They make great games. It's definitely a fluke as it's a good D&D game though.
 
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I don't understand how that can happen.

1: How do they have the books without having already paid for them?
2: Assuming they have them on consignment or something similar. How does that allow them to steal and sell shit that doesn't belong to them?
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It's called consignment and it's not that uncommon actually. Normally they would not be able to, how ever they are filing a lawsuit to get approval from a judge to essentially steal the product. Apparently this has been allowed in the past, which is insane.
 
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It's called consignment and it's not that uncommon actually. Normally they would not be able to, how ever they are filing a lawsuit to get approval from a judge to essentially steal the product. Apparently this has been allowed in the past, which is insane.
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Well fuck. I sell guns on consignment sometimes. I need to look into the law and make sure they can only steal like this from companies and not individuals.

I suppose there's a chance that the publishers don't want the books back. Taking a write off might be worth it to avoid the hassle of handling all the physical media. They just probably don't want them being sold for next to nothing.
 
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