Just a note, I will be leaving tomorrow for China. Nep was supposed to pick up with this encounter and then take over DMing for the Cragmaw Castle piece. If he can't post reliably it might be slow until both of us get back in a week or so.
Beijing. Will be taking tours of the Forbidden City, Tienanmen Square, the Summer Palace, and the Great Wall while I am here. And, of course, I have to have Peking Duck at least once.
As long as you are there, eating, be sure to try as many things as you can ... not just to duck <wink>
Other than that, it sounds like you will get to see the most notable sites. Hopefully you will a chance to see some of the less well known, but just as interesting sites ... if not this time, maybe the next!!
We are in the Dominican republic which means that there are very few electronic shops around . My buddy has a Macbook and I'm aiting for everyone to get off of our spotty wifi so that I can log in remotely from that. I nrrd to change the mouse pointer because it's invisible rigt now on my iPad. If i do that, i'll be ok. No map making in cripple-mode so it'll morph into theater of the mind for the bullette army encounter.
Zeim, I'm jealous. Enjoy that trip. I played golf today with a pilot that flies there a bit. From the way he described it, you'll love it! I'm having Chinese food for dinner in your honor.
i'm sure there are licensing fees and such that are how profits are made. Roll20, for instance, sells a few modules. But for all games, new purchaces are the meat and potatoes. How do you profil off of monopoly and scrabble? Once you have a set, you're typically not buying another.vit's new players that gobble up the merchandise and they probably don't know all the free ways to obtain material.
Think not? I have 3 or 4 monopoly sets ... all different. One is set in the UK ... i.e. the squares have names from England. There is the Millenium edition from 2000, on in a tin box called the '1935 commemorative edition' and so on. plus if you play often, they do wear out and parts get lost ... so sales continue <g>
Yes there is often a 'rapid growth' of a popular new product, but that usually 'settles' into a lower, but fairly consistent sales to new players and to players that have worn out their original volumes <g>
And you see that with things other than games <wink>
To be fair though the publish to make money element in most rpgs is a big motivating factor. That is why we get new editions. Yes sometimes they are better, and they fix things. But most are iterations of a new book so that the company gets a big pop in sales. It is just the way it works. I know I look at new editions and often buy them, so I support my addiction I mean hobby.
That only goes so far. For example, most of the 'D&D' games I see here are =not= 5th ed. There is just this one <g> A new release needs to have some reason for people to switch to it.
Did anyone ever run a 4th Ed game on DreamLyrics? It was current for 7 years, just as long as 3rd Ed. Longer, if you count 3.0 and 3.5 as separate editions.
I seem to recall one game, but can't put a name or GM to it.
Absolutely. A lot of players enjoyed 4th Ed, and I think the system had a lot of good points, many of which the author incorporated in 13th Age. As it stands, 13th Age is probably my favourite version of D&D, even if it is unofficial.
I agree. 13th age is absolutely fabulous. I tend towards lighter games as far as mechanics, but I do seriously enjoy it.
I haven't played enough 5e to get a good feel for it. I know I could like it, certainly harkens back to its roots fairly well. Just is almost too vanilla. Yet here I am buying at least a few of the books.
That was the goal of 5th ed Pande, and compared to 3rd and 4th, they did do that. However there are games that are even simpler ... so did they go far enough?? <shrug>
If I get a chance this weekend, I will look at my old characters and see if I can find one that looks like 4th ed. I seem to recall one as well, but likewise can't remember the name.
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