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Robert G. Reeve
@RobertGReeve
Here: writes about tabletop RPGs, pop culture, tech, politics. By day: content designer in fintech. stress cleaner.
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Aug 23 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
No, D&D's not about to delete your stuff to make you buy new books. There are some bad takes re: an update to 2024 content.

The reality relies on D&D's "basic rules."

I love content design, so let’s look at how D&D Beyond’s legacy content management plan is Good, Actually. 🧵 An article from the blog Wargamer.com reads: We may earn a commission when you buy through links in our articles. Learn more. DnD Beyond is deleting all 5e spells and magic items The digital platform DnD Beyond is keeping most of 5e, but deleting all its old spells and magic items, replacing them with 2024 content. First we have to understand the basic rules.

They're completely free and include almost all of the 3 core rulebooks, but with all the lore, intellectual property, and illustrations removed.

You can give $0 to Wizards of the Coast and still play D&D on their website.
Dec 11, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
I saw a viral Twitter thread on “pre-Jackson Tolkien/Middle Earth aesthetica” full of white supremacist dogwhistles.

Let's dissect some of them and talk about how white supremacists love Lord of the Rings.

🧵 For a better reading experience with more detail, subscribe to my substack, where I write about gaming, tech, and culture. robertgreeve.substack.com/p/how-lord-of-…
Dec 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
I had a wonderful #PAXUnplugged this year—I feel like Twitter-Rob is serious and unapproachable but convention-Rob lets down his hair (literally).

Here's just some of the great people who I crossed paths with this year. Follow 'em, they inspire me. 🧵 I finally got to hug @Persephiroth, who introduced me to the crew of the Shikar actual play after their panel. I wish I had more time to talk to Jasmine about Green Knight and to @LordBalvin about samurai movies
Dec 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
OpenAI’s ChatGPT designed this 5e D&D rogue archetype in 15 seconds.

It got the subclass levels correct (3, 9, 13, 17). It appropriately tied memories to psychic damage & wisdom saves. I asked it to make the 17th level stronger and it knew “memento mori” had to do with death. We are writing rules for th...Memory Shield: At 13th leve...give me an alternative 17th... I’m talking with @alyssavisscher and she asked for a spell with the same theme and y’all we are freaking out. The formatting is great. The editorial style is great. The clarification that the target is unaware makes sense (a little less when it adds damage at a higher level tho) next, design a 2nd-level sp...great! How about a 5th leve...A continuation of the previ...
Nov 3, 2022 • 24 tweets • 7 min read
I went looking for a logical or ideological consistency to Elon’s decisions about Twitter.

I remembered his chats on Joe Rogan's podcast, just dudes being guys, and that's when it clicked:

the Gen X entrepreneur. 🧵 In a PBS interview during the Bush presidency, Elon said he distrusts politicians generally but loves Reagan.

“Bush is like Reagan without the brains...Reagan actually had strong intellectual underpinnings for his decisive actions.” pbs.org/thinktank/tran…
Oct 21, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
🌶️ take:

It's nigh-impossible to have an original D&D campaign because you're using the same basic building blocks of lore and mechanics as everyone else.

(no, hiss, not another “system matters” thread) 🧵 D&D's old bones are itself a mash-up of every successful sci-fi/fantasy epic from the 19th century:

· races from Lord of the Rings
· cosmic alignment from Elric
· magic from Jack Vance
· adventurous themes from Conan, John Carter of Mars, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Sep 20, 2022 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Let’s talk about this AI-generated cover. And the value of labor

This person's taking a “no press is bad press” approach to marketing—leaning into “controversy” for likes. But they didn't take any time to understand the controversy around AI art.

Thread 🧵 @kawaii_tornado tweets a cover for a homebrew supplement thaA screenshot of replies from @kawaii_tornado where she says Before we start: do NOT go harass this person. They came out swinging with an opinion, and I emphatically disagree with it.

But some of her quote tweets say things like “kill yourself” and what the hell? Don't be that way. It's not going to make anyone rethink their position.
Aug 18, 2022 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
HUGE D&D ANNOUNCEMENTS TODAY

· New iteration in 2024 will be called ONE D&D and you can playtest it now
· Dungeon Master’s Guide revamp aimed at new DMs
· physical/digital bundles
· 3D virtual tabletop, customizable minis
· five additional 2023 book titles announced

Thread 🧵 NEW 2023 D&D BOOKS

· Keys from the Golden Vault—an anthology of heist adventures
· Glory of the Giants—it is what it is
· Phandelver—expands the Lost Mines starter adventure into a full campaign
· Book of Many Things—new options for DMs
· Planescape—a classic multiverse setting A slide showing the titles of five D&D books coming out in W
Jun 8, 2022 • 91 tweets • 33 min read
Two leading figures in the tabletop industry wanted tattoos from an artist who did work for Post Malone.

They berated him over a disagreement about the contract: “Be happy I am not punishing you for your lack of experience” In another instance, Jamison Stone put a writer he hired for his $300,000 tabletop RPG Kickstarter on a blacklist, simply because she asked for clarification on a late invoice.
Apr 21, 2022 • 33 tweets • 9 min read
Today is D&D Direct, an event where @wizards_dnd tells us about upcoming books, video games like Baldur’s Gate 3, and even a movie.

I could wait to comment on their reveals, but let’s put some skin in the game.

5 predictions for the next 5 years of D&D. Thread. 🧵 PREDICTION #1: a 3D virtual tabletop

This one's obvious. According to job postings, Digital Dungeons & Dragons is “the future of Dungeons & Dragons’ digital play experience.”

These postings are full of signs we can read like a haruspex to catch visions of a possible future. A list of careers at Digital Dungeons & Dragons. All are ful
Apr 13, 2022 • 39 tweets • 9 min read
My $500 router broke today—a nightmare if you work from home.

Let me weave you a kafkaesque tale of tech support where @netgear tried to bill me $229 for the call.

It’s a tale of corporate greed, romance (I miss Andre already), and confusion.

Thread 🧵 I did a ton of research on this Netgear Nighthawk combination modem-router, knowing that @ohadelaide and I would both be streaming, sometimes concurrently.

I didn’t mind the high cost because it was fast, future-proofed, and no hassle.

Until today.
Apr 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Watch John Oliver's segment on data brokers.

He went into a lot of detail I couldn't fit in my thread about ad tracking and my mom's toothpaste.

notice that he didn't say a word about phones listening to you talk. they DON'T NEED to. Shameless self-promo
Apr 12, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
The Marvel RPG teaser is hilarious

The abilities (might agility resilience vigilance ego logic) spell MARVEL

They call 3d6 "d616"; one's a "Marvel die." Roll a 1 on that die for a "fantastic" result.

Roll 6, 1, 6 to get an "ultimate fantastic" result

🧵 trivia: Marvel's "prime" reality is Earth-616, a designation first made in a comic by Watchmen author Alan Moore when he pulled in Captains Britain of alternate realities.

The artist, Alan Davis, said it refers to the mark of the beast, which in some accounts is 616 and not 666. A Wikipedia excerpt: The n...
Apr 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
i commissioned a family portrait to commemorate our new streaming group's April Fools Day session of DUKK BÖRG, a doom metal take on DuckTales.

@nerdypapergames knocked this one out of the park. Character deets below 👇 A family portrait of Clan Del Quack, illustrated in the styl The tall duck in the amaranth & arsenic tuxedo is @Nat1Fun as Mallard Del Quack, oath-sworn titan and housekeeper.

It is said that as the world of Dukk Borg met an apocalyptic end, Mallard shut himself inside the Sarcophagus of Plott-un-Common, which protects you from anything.
Apr 9, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Thanks Patrick. I think you have an steep challenge ahead of you if you want to make an NFT-based shared 5e world. Let me lay that out here.

This 🧵’s for you, Patrick; hope you don't mind some public debate. I actually think the OGL is the least of your worries.

I wrote that first thread for potential players to understand that Gripnr's Glimmering is going to look like a funhouse mirror of Wizards' D&D.

Anyone who comes on board for D&D might be surprised at the missing content.
Apr 9, 2022 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
Let's talk about this NFT D&D company.

Linda did great reporting on some decent people who just fundamentally misunderstand why people play tabletop RPGs.

They want to bring pay-to-play microtransactions to D&D. They want to own and resell PCs and their loot.

Thread 🧵 Linda makes it clear up-front that this isn't a "rug pull." The creators have had successful business ventures and are using their real names.

They believe this can work. It's not another crypto scam, it's just a bad idea. Read the article, it's incisive.
Apr 8, 2022 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
Now that Elon Musk bought 9.2% of Twitter (and his way onto its board of directors), what does that mean for, uh, society?

Twitter is where journalists, politicians, corporations, activists, celebrities gather. Elon called it "the de facto public town square."

Thread 🧵 Twitter isn't the most-used social media platform, by a longshot. Look at Twitter, waaay down there in user count. It's a marvel that Twitter commands as much attention as it does

(I added the parent companies to this graph) A graph of the world's most...
Apr 8, 2022 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
One of the alleged benefits of NFTs is that they're "interoperable." Hypothetically, they can cross between games, even between companies

But Ubisoft just called their first NFTs "history" and aren't giving any indication they'll apply to future games

Thread 🧵 Four months ago Ubisoft announced Quartz, a digital store (ahem, sorry, "experience") for digital collectibles

Starting with NFTs for the 2019 game Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

This week they've announced their final update for that game.

Whither the NFTs?
Mar 23, 2022 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Teddy Roosevelt's grandson Kermit Jr. is partly responsible for the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Kermit Jr. planned & carried out a joint CIA/MI6 coup that ousted Iran's democratically elected prime minister because he nationalized an oil company that became BP.

🧵 Theodore Roosevelt in his signature round wire glasses and wA black-and-white photo of the grown Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., A black-and-white photo of a four-axle, vintage oil tanker. Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh was friendly with the U.S. even after nationalizing the British oil company. Truman rebuffed British requests to do some backdoor colonialism to reclaim the oil in Iran.

When Eisenhower was elected, that changed. President Harry Truman and Prime minister of Iran Mohammed M
Mar 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I was just about to go live streaming Elden Ring, when my best bud @VincentWestpha1, who has already beaten it three times and gotten every achievement, called me and said he's making chicken piccata.

So I'm just going to eat dinner instead.

This guy should stream Last time I was at @VincentWestpha1's he said "Isshin? Isshin." and on no warm-up and having not played in months, he fired up Sekiro and killed the last boss in less than 10 minutes and then we hung out
Mar 5, 2022 • 30 tweets • 9 min read
I don't know if anything in gaming will ever again hit the way the Kingdom of Zeal hit when I first played Chrono Trigger when I was 8 years old

Let's examine its storytelling, narrative, and characters to see why it still holds up today. 🧵 A screenshot from Chrono Tr...The world map for Chrono Tr...The world map for 12,000 BC... In the game's opening scenes, we wander a fair and bump into a pendant-wearing woman (secretly Princess Marle).

Melchior, a swordsmith who seems like a regular vendor, recognizes the pendant.

Oh and our bestie's invention reacts to Marle's pendant and shunts her through time A screenshot from Chrono Tr...