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    Never argued otherwise. We have plenty of evidence that they're heading in that direction. They might not get rid of them completely, and definitely not tomorrow. But pointing out that they want to do it when they're getting rid of the regular publishing and distribution team and are actively...
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    From what I understand that just happens with consultants hired just to work in those projects. This is about firing the entire regular book publishing and distribution team.
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    Naturalistic Fallacy, plus bad analogy. Something being "normal" or commonplace does not make it acceptable, beyond reproach, or "the way it's supposed to be". Slavery used to be legal and it's still technically practiced around the world. That doesn't mean it's well and good human trafficking...
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    We've basically gone from "They're not gonna get rid of physical books" to "You only pay for your digital books (which you can only access from a digital platform) once." Give it time. All the signs from WotC point to them wanting to move to a strictly digital business model.
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    Posting this here since this is a relevant thread and I didn't see a new thread bringing it up (maybe I missed it, since this video is a day old, and I've been away for a while). Plus some in this thread had criticized people for speculating that this thing would happen. But as with basically...
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    Mod+ Statistical Representations in Class & Level Systems

    Hmm... This pic apparently became relevant to this discussion...
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    How many years have you been playing RPGs (including GMing)?

    34, maybe 35 years. I started the same year AD&D 2e came out, around a year before Dark Sun (first RPG product I ever owned). Played Basic D&D for around a year with my first group, before getting my own books and doing the transition to 2e. Then never looked back, and rarely played as a player...
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    If Role-Playing Games didn't exist, what would be your main hobby?

    Same. Looking back on it Martial Arts is the only other thing I can think of that I like as much as gaming that I would do regularly. I could've been a contender! But ended up with my ass on a chair playing games instead! :weep: EDIT: TTRPGs are the reason I became interested in academic stuff...
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    Backwards compatibility is irrelevant to whether a book is a new edition. AD&D 2e was mostly backwards compatible with 1e. It was still a new edition. Same with 90%+ of every TTRPG with multiple editions that isn't D&D. Even 3.5 was arguably a new edition, though, a lot of the text was...
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    It's going to be a new book, totally rewritten, with rule changes and new options. Not a copy/paste of the old text with just minor updates and corrections. That is by definition a new edition. Insisting that it ain't is just marketing trickery and a symptom of an age where governments and...
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    What makes a fantasy game, also a post-apocalyptic game?

    Yeah, I wasn't entirely disagreeing. More like clarifying that to the degree that there's going to be some technological decline involved in a PA setting, it is going to be more marked (by orders of magnitude) if the old world used to be high tech, than if it used to be medieval era or ancient...
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    What makes a fantasy game, also a post-apocalyptic game?

    Yeah, but that depends a lot on what type of technology we're talking about and how bad the devastation is. Advanced technology is a lot more reliant on a stable global economy to even get a lot of the rare earth minerals that go into its components. As well as having working infrastructure for...
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    What makes a fantasy game, also a post-apocalyptic game?

    I don't think that technological decline itself is the real defining factor of PA settings, but rather economic collapse as a result of the devastation wrought by the apocalypse. Which may halt technological progress, but not necessarily take it back. Since many PA settings may still have hold...
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    What makes a fantasy game, also a post-apocalyptic game?

    IDK, if Dark Sun isn't post apocalyptic fantasy, I don't know what is. This sounds like a lot of hair splitting around a poorly defined term using arbitrary standards for qualification. In Dark Sun the world was devastated and people are struggling to survive in an altered landscape that's the...
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    Mod+ Statistical Representations in Class & Level Systems

    Same. Maybe a bit leaner sometimes. But that's basically how I envisioned orcs early on when I started playing.
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    Great, now I can't take the idea out of my head of making these the official orcs for a "not-Shadowrun" urban fantasy world. :shade:
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    ChatGPT is the Darkness, confirmed! Now we know our greatest weapon against AI is Magic Missile and need to use it to attack the darkness. :thumbsup:
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    In my first encounter with an AI DM I'm gonna say "I attack the darkness!" using Magic Missile. And see if the AI gets it. :gunslinger:
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    Lots of MMOs that started without microtransactions promised they wouldn't have stuff like lootboxes before breaking that promise later. Promises from corporations are meaninglessness, and the OGL fiasco (among other things) proved that Hasbro/WotC is no different. Besides, the majority of the...
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