The question is whether this is going to be better or worse than the 45,000 spin-offs planned.

90 percent of anything is crap. More stuff means there’s more choice in that 10 percent category.

I don’t think anyone was suggesting the question shouldn’t have been asked. That certainly wasn’t my intention. I apologize if it came off that way.

All I meant was that the gross sexist stuff in MCU movies — Black Widow’s debut in Iron Man 2, the way Scarlet Witch was handled in Ultron — wasn’t the Russos.

I think the Russos probably have earned the trust that Snyder has squandered on that score.

It’s been 20 years. It shouldn’t be surprising that her costume is different and that she might have changed her hair and make-up.

Honestly, if I was coming back to Earth since the first time since the 1990s, I would definitely hit an In-N-Out before heading to the Avengers compound to ask about what happened to all…

I think those were probably an outgrowth of seeing how much attention and revenue that came out of Crisis on Infinite Secret Wars.

Some versions of the game have a lot more monsters floating around or a ton more treasure, both of which impact the game. But warning players up front about the differences — “guys, this is old school, so there may or may not be a cave with 100 well-armed trolls in it later on, so running is always a good option, FYI”…

Some versions of the game have a lot more monsters floating around or a ton more treasure, both of which impact the…

Read the reviews and questions for signs of dubiousness.

Read the reviews and questions for signs of dubiousness.

I’ve been teaching a bunch of newbies recently. Even the math pros aren’t yet able to recognize any of them other than the D4 and D6 at a glance yet. It’s not an unusual issue for people just learning the game, especially if there’s a ton of dice on the table.

I’ve been teaching a bunch of newbies recently. Even the math pros aren’t yet able to recognize any of them other…

Especially since everyone knows that real men are all about eating dangerously spicy food.

Yeah, it’s shady as hell. If you look at who’s answering the questions about the product on that Amazon link, it’s not Wizards who are selling this.

More likely it’s someone who’s seen that the regular Starter Set is, at least temporarily, hard to find while Hasbro pushes the Stranger Things version and is cashing it.

Yeah, it’s shady as hell. If you look at who’s answering the questions about the product on that Amazon link, it’s no…

The good news is they’re almost certainly going to blow the rest of their fortune on cocaine and Bitcoin.

Note, I mean the official Starter Set sold by WotC, not that dubiously more expensive set that’s got extra third party junk added onto it that Eric linked to.

Here’s the official D&D Starter Set. Here’s the Stranger Things version. You can get the original one for less than $20 most of the time on Amazon and is all you…

Note, I mean the official Starter Set sold by WotC, not that dubiously more expensive set that’s got extra third…

That set he linked above is from a third-party vendor. The Amazon reviews for all the stuff they add on are mixed at best. I’d definitely just go with one of the two boxed sets from WotC myself.

That set he linked above is from a third-party vendor. The Amazon reviews for all the stuff they add on are mixed at…

DriveThruRPG/RPGNow is great for this, although just Googling “OSR” (for “Old School Renaissance” or other words starting with “R”) will point you to all the cleaned-up versions of the old school rule sets. I do think all of those require a bit more up-front knowledge than a newcomer might have, since they’re…

DriveThruRPG/RPGNow is great for this, although just Googling “OSR” (for “Old School Renaissance” or other words…

Eeh, I’m going to disagree somewhat. This is a pretty expensive list for newbie DMs.

First off, the Starter Set (either original flavor or the new Stranger Things flavor) is superlative, with a great, stripped-down ruleset that gives you all the basics and an adventure. The adventure in the Starter Set is easily the…

Eeh, I’m going to disagree somewhat. This is a pretty expensive list for newbie DMs.

First off, the Starter Set…

Taller. Everyone but him is actually standing on a box, Tom Cruise style.

Two years in, Vanilla WoW also had Onyxia’s Lair, Zul’Gurub, Naxxaramas, the Dragons of Nightmare, both AQ raids and cross-realm battlegrounds (AB, AV and WSG. Plenty to do.

Holy shit. They only have 3,600 Instagram followers. Lots of high school students have more than that.

And they got fucking written up in Travel + Leisure.

They sure can do the self-promotion game, that’s for sure.

It’s building a brand by which to sell other, cheaper, crap.

Very few of Gwyneth Paltrow’s audience live her lifestyle, but she can still sell them the image. And jade vagina eggs.