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9th-level layabout, vindictive good. He/him. Markedly left wing. RPGs are inherently political. Orcs are racist AF. #Vaccinate #BLM #TLM #AbortionIsHealthcare

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Anyone making bullshit kneejerk accusations of AI use against artists working on the new D&D books can seriously go fuck themselves. I am so done with this shit.

https://www.facebook.com/KaterinaLadon/posts/pfbid0Ytjzc2jZoVn1hsyNQseca3tcAzMiwpYApfw5YBEqSamshTvZEY6gpZEc2dc9BrbCl

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Shiny!

I am hugely enamored of the updated dragon designs, which kick several kinds of ass.

https://www.gameinformer.com/2024/05/14/the-art-of-the-new-dungeons-dragons

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“This machine kills AI.”

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On the Insane Angel Studios blog! The shortest distance between two points in a campaign is always a straight line — but what can you do when the players and characters decide to take a more circuitous route?

https://missivesfrommooncastle.blogspot.com/2024/04/going-in-all-directions.html

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A new design diary talks about lineages, how your choice of lineage traits shapes your character’s relationship to their line, and how the CORE20 system mysteriously inspired another system entirely.

Awesome worldborn concept art by @Kayandp

https://core20rpg.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/first-of-your-line/

An illustration of three essaruks, one of the twelve worldborn lineages of CORE20: To left stands a young dark-skinned bard with long white hair and visible lower eyeteeth, wearing a loose top and baggy pants, with one leg prosthesis and a lute slung over their shoulder. To right stands an older light-skinned scholar wearing loose robes, their gray hair plaited in long knots and tied up. Between the two, their arms hold up a young child wearing a loose sarong and laughing.
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    This is Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks talking about the amazing opportunities to use AI in D&D and Magic: The Gathering.

    I would very, very, very much like Chris Cocks to fuck off straight into the goddamn sun.

    https://venturebeat.com/games/how-hasbro-is-jumping-on-the-game-opportunity-chris-cocks-interview/

    The advantage we have–it’s funny. This is cutting-edge technology, and Hasbro is a 100-year-old company, which you don’t usually think is–usually you think there’s a threat there. But when you talk about the richness of the lore and the depth of the brands–D&D has 50 years of content that we can mine. Literally thousands of adventures that we’ve created, probably tens of millions of words we own and can leverage. Magic: The Gathering has been around for 35 years, more than 15,000 cards we can use in something like that. … We can leverage all of that to be able to build very interesting and compelling use cases for AI that can bring our characters to life. We can build tools that aid in content creation for users or create really interesting gamified scenarios around them.
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    The is a new approach to d20 fantasy, built on a foundation of freeform characters with no classes and no levels. It turns the aging “pass/fail” core d20 mechanic into fuel for shared storytelling — and you can play it right now!

    https://core20rpg.wordpress.com/the-core20-playtest/

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    More than just a preview, the public playtest package for the includes the full “Playtest Player’s Guide” and “Playtest Magic Grimoire” — the entirety of the player-and-GM-facing rules of the game — plus a 180-strong creature package and guidelines for GMs. Game on!

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    The cover of the CORE20 “Playtest Player’s Guide” with art with Xavier Beaudlet. Beneath a cloudy night sky, a red-haired warrior with a longbow in hand stands atop a rocky rise with their white tiger companion at their side. They watch a ruined tower in the near distance, which has lights glowing in two windows, a spectral apparition rising from the open ground-level entrance, and monstrous bats circling in moonlight above.
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    Time is a complete dick.

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    Oh, hell yeah.

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    At Winter Fantasy. Played my first at-table game (as opposed to playing online) in ages. Needed to cough at one point. Started instinctively looking around for the mute button.

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    @scottfgray It's on the inside of your elbow.

    scottfgray , to random
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    The is a new approach to d20 fantasy, built on a foundation of freeform characters with no classes and no levels. It turns the aging “pass/fail” core d20 mechanic into fuel for shared storytelling — and the public playtest is on right now!

    https://core20rpg.wordpress.com/the-core20-playtest/

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    I feel like the CEO-bonfire turbine is the exact breakthrough energy source the world needs right now.

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    Jennell Jaquays gave so, so much to the fantasy TTRPG hobby and industry, from the very beginnings of both. Even if her name isn’t on the game you play, even for gamers who’ve never heard her name — say a quiet thank you tonight for all she did.

    https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/news/jennell-jaquays-dungeons-and-dragons-designer-obituary

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    I’m reading the new “Lore & Legends,” and every time “D&D” appears, the too-small ampersand and the off-center kerning make me apoplectic.

    KeithAmmann ,
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    @scottfgray On the second page, it's using the full height ampersand in running text, but the small caps ampersand in small caps titles. The trouble with that is, you only use small caps ampersands in small caps abbreviations, like if your house style is to write "AT&T" in small caps. If you're using normal, full height caps for the A and the T's, the ampersand has to be full height, too.

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    @scottfgray As for the first page, I wonder whether they originally had "Dungeons & Dragons" spelled out in both instances on that page, small capped as they like to do, and someone find/replaced them to "D&D" without changing the style.

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