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Wake the dragon. I’m Batman. | Dire Curious
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Wake the dragon. The 4th Age. D&D: 2d12 →. July 8, 2014 · 6:16 pm. Wake the dragon. I’m Batman. I wanted to get this post written before the new D&D freebie document went live last week. I would have seemed more prescient. But having skimmed the 5e rules, my opinions are at least validated. Here is what no one else is saying yet: D&D has become. So you see how D&D is. Tabletop D&D will be the weakest link in the latest incarnation of the D&D. What’s going to be strong? However, contracts ended and the cu...
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Wake the dragon. Indie + Retro. | Dire Curious
https://direcurious.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/wake-the-dragon-indie-retro
Wake the dragon. The OGL. Wake the dragon. The 4th Age. →. June 10, 2014 · 5:07 am. Wake the dragon. Indie Retro. Even before the rise of Kickstarter, electronic publishing, print-on-demand, or desktop publishing, RPGs were a thing that lots of people tried to do. Even back in the hoary days of paste-up in the ’70s and ’80s you had TSR, FGU, ICE, and several other companies that weren’t three-letter acronyms. By the way, plenty of life remains in d20, even if you discount the obvious torchbearer of Pathf...
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Additional grist | Dire Curious
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Destiny first thoughts →. September 29, 2014 · 2:19 pm. In my recent Wake the Dragon. Series, I made an informal list. Of RPGs that crept in to fill the D&D void in the last couple of years. Here are two more that have popped up since. I have no idea what Rob Schwalb is up to, but I want to. Here’s a link to a timer counting down to some reveal in a month. Knowing Rob, it will involve something you could classify as “metal.”. Five Moons Kickstarter link. Sean’s Five Moons site. One response to “. And we ...
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Newer posts →. June 9, 2014 · 6:58 pm. Wake the dragon. The OGL. April 18, 2014 · 7:46 am. A meditation on game box sizes. At work, we recently had a discussion about box sizes. I wrote a whole essay to get to my thoughts on the matter, and then, as sometimes happens, the essay was not really relevant to the final, relatively short comment. So I thought I’d put it here. The original question was: Does the American market want big, fancy boxes? My argument was basically, no. In the US market, they’r...
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Destiny first thoughts | Dire Curious
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My First Euro →. January 14, 2015 · 6:21 am. I might have erred in starting to play a console game again. I’ve read a lot about how Destiny is either an awesome game or a tech demo with gamey aspirations. Arguments like that are clever iterations of “I like it” or “I don’t like it.” Me, I like it. It could be better, but I’m glad it’s not. If it were better, I would buy the thing and sink into it and get nothing else done for two weeks. My First Euro →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Wake the dragon. The 4th Age. | Dire Curious
https://direcurious.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/wake-the-dragon-the-4th-age
Wake the dragon. Indie Retro. Wake the dragon. I’m Batman. →. July 7, 2014 · 2:21 pm. Wake the dragon. The 4th Age. So in 2008, Wizards produced 4th edition. People tried real hard to like it (some succeeded), but the general consensus was that it kind of stank. At that time, indie and retro games were on the rise, but Wizards of the Coast RPG R&D was not-just-a-river-in-Egypt about what was happening. WTD Dire Curious prediction #2:. Although some decree that the OGL was Wizards’ main error, this ...
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D&D: 2d12 | Dire Curious
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Wake the dragon. I’m Batman. Additional grist →. July 22, 2014 · 4:10 am. We were playing Iron Kingdoms last week and someone mentioned a preference for a bell curve over a flat curve. In an unrelated conversation, we were talking about how useless d12s are, and what shame, since we all like them. I’m tempted to write in more depth about my thinking about 9-grid D&D alignment, but holy shit does anyone left on Earth care about what anyone else thinks about D&D alignment? 2d12 D&D for the masses. I think ...
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Wake the dragon. The OGL. | Dire Curious
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A meditation on game box sizes. Wake the dragon. Indie Retro. →. June 9, 2014 · 6:58 pm. Wake the dragon. The OGL. D&D has had five fallow years. A new version is upon us. As with a lot of game stuff, I know more than I’m telling, but not as much as I’d like to know. I’m going to spend a few posts taking about some things I think about the state of RPGs and I’ll hazard some guesses about what’s next that, statistically, will be embarrassingly wrong. That’s a decent system. You usually got some ...The pro...
