Recent content by Malcolm Serabian

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    WotC Announces OGL 1.1 -- Revised Terms, Royalties, and Annual Revenue Reporting

    Not sure what you see as a problem… I can’t imagine very many creators are making more than 50K a year, except for Kickstarter things. And if you’re generating over 750K a year asking for a royalty sounds okay to me. Of course I‘m not a creator and I know the margins are small on rpg products...
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    Press [Chaosium] Nick Brooke on the Legacy of Home of the Bold - “it was thirty years ago today…”

    I played in Home of the Bold at RuneQuest Con Baltimore! I was the inept lunar soldier, and sometime bodyguard to King Temertain, Aleham Ratsbane, who pretty much single handedly lost Boldhome for the Lunars!
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    Top 3 All-Time RPG Supplements

    1. Lands of Mystery by Aaron Allston 2. Strike force by Aaron Allston 3. Grand Dutchy of Karemeikos also by Aaron Alston. All amazing products by an absolute master at teaching people how to play rpgs through these products. All usable with any system. All wonderful reads and endlessly usable...
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    Recommend me a RPG for reading.

    Runequest, Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon.all awesome. all self-contained. All really good reads.
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    D&D General D&D products that never were

    The island is campaign was originally published by The Companions as a five module series: The Curse on Hareth, Plague of Terror, and Brotherhood of the Bolt is a trilogy, followed by Street of Gems, and Gems for Death, The originals are not a marine based campaign at all. They are some of the...
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    What’s your favorite boxed set?

    A big chaosium fan here, and I read and enjoyed the book series - but for some reason I never picked this up
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    What’s your favorite boxed set?

    I also love this one. It’s probably my second favorite boxed set for most of the same reasons as you give. I always wanted to run it with a bit more John Carter vibe so boosting up the heroics and downplaying the doom and gloom. I have fond memories of this set, but I was recently rereading it...
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    What’s your favorite boxed set?

    Hey folks! What’s your favorite boxed set for ad&d and why? Let’s just list setting boxes… if you’re favorite box is a rules set, list it and why, But also add a setting box you love! If you want list your top 3!! I’ll star with my own number 1: City of Greyhawk. Why? Because it’s a complete...
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    [Call of Cthulhu] Dreamlands as a campaign setting?

    Interestingly I’ve read that Sandy’s original pitch to Greg for what eventually became Call of Cthulhu was a fantasy RPG set in the Dreamlands…
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    Do You Want A Tricorder Boxed Set?

    Yes please! I know I’ll be preordering as soon as it goes up. Also looking forward to the Shackleton expanse hardcover sourcebook they announced, I love planet of the week trek, but I also love contained sector setting for trek too… once long ago I was so looking forward to the Orion space boxed...
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    D&D General In defence of Grognardism

    But really is it logical in any way that the “wary tomb robber” has a wisdom of 8 and an int of 10? Does that person with those stats make sense as a know it all puzzle solving wise man? Does that sound like reasonable role-playing to you? I’m pretty sure that’s what ehren37 is talking about…
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    Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft: An In-Depth Review

    From this web site: Facts & Statistics | Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year. so you’re saying 1. none of...
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    Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft: An In-Depth Review

    McGibster Here is a very simple article about anxiety triggers which you can read. 11 Anxiety Triggers and How to Identify and Manage Them Here are 2 sections from the article that relate to things that can happen in rpgs. 10. Public events or performances Public speaking, talking in front of...
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    D&D 5E Resources for building a Homebrew mini setting / sandbox

    Hello gang Thinking of starting to work on a home-brew sandbox. I'm wondering what resources people would suggest would be most helpful for planing and brainstorming building a mini-setting about the size of Nentir Vale for a sand-box style D&D game... Things I'm thinking of looking at: The...
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