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It is a great game. Not that repayable with the same group, but I played as a player and then bought it. Hoping to run it. When I played it was online and it works very well for online play. I think playing it in person would be a great experience with the right group, but it can be difficult...

Thanks all for the recommendations. I ended up getting Locke Lamora and Murderbot. I'll revisit and perhaps check out the other later. I'm a bit burned out on Warhammer 40k books. I've put the Johannes Cabel series and Spinning Silver on my list. Did you read Spinning Silver or listen to a...

So, first someone on EN World (I'm forgetting who) turned me onto The Wandering Inn, like some addiction broker. Despite the number of books in the series I finished them all in a time period that makes me question if I have a problem. I kept seeing Dungeon Crawler Carl being recommended and...

A-ma! How did you find EN World!? Sorry, whenever my mother-in-law visits my Amazon Video algorithm gets retrained and I have to scroll through pages of dumb Korean and Chinese soap operas until I can find my dumb fantasy and sci fi shows.

Start crunchy raw but mix things up over time. I try to run the game rules as written as much as I can, at least until I feel I, and the players, have a solid understanding of them. Inevitably, for crunchy rule sets and long campaigns, I'll start changing to alternative rules, third-party...

Still upset my dad threw away the old TRS-80. I would power it back up every few years and it still worked. But then he went through a big de-clutter project and threw it out. At least I managed to salvage his old slide ruler before he threw it out. I never got around to really learning how to...

If any fellow EN Worlders have backed Ember and have beta access, I would be interested in your thoughts so far. I assume that anyone backing Ember is doing so as a GM who thinks that they may run the game, so I'm not going to comment out spoilers or expect other to. Hopefully the thread title...

Took advantage of the Cubicle7 clearance sale and the books arrived last week. Great deal on the special printings. The Elector Counts was an impulse buy. Have no idea if the card game is any good, but it was on clearance and cheap enough to give it a shot.

Yeah, I got a LOT of use out of Strongholds & Followers and have generally liked every MCDM product I backed, but I never had any interest in using Kingdoms & Warfare once I got it. At least I only backed for digital.

That sucks. The libraries in my county when I was living in MN had conference rooms of various sizes that you could book for free. It was limited to twice per month for the same group. The main issue was that they would be booked up quickly, but if you had a reliable group, and were on top of...

My first apartment since moving to Milwaukee had lots of nice meeting spaces and common areas but it was all modern glass walls and large open areas. I don't like running games in a fish bowl surrounded by non-gamers. The place I'm moving to next has a nice closed off common room that gives...

Emphasis mine. You don't know how good you've had it until its gone. I moved from Roseville, MN to Milwaukee. I would have thought Milwaukee would be somewhat similar in terms of FLGS as the Twin Cities, but I've not found one FLGS in Milwaukee County with decent playing space for TTRPGs...

I bought so much physical play aids, terrain, and minis when I first got back into TTRPGs when 5th ed was release and most of it never got used. But as part of downsizing and moving, I've given it all to folks I know will get use out of them so I don't feel too bad. More of long-delayed gifts...

Congrats! Looks great!