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    D&D 5E More Adventurer Corpses But Not Their Loot

    Hey, one of my most recent characters was extremely ecologically-friendly: mold earth is amazing for hiding bodies and awkward bits of evidence, and prestidigitation cleaned the rest. Finch didn't leave any trash, tracks, or sign that he was ever there.
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    WotC WotC: 'Artists Must Refrain From Using AI Art Generation'

    AI art is fine for planning layout and something to hand to your artists to show what you are looking for, but it no replacement for those artists. Not even if the AI gets better and learns how to draw realistic eyes, hands, and feet. If you can afford the color ink, you can afford to hire a...
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    Roll20 Has A New Mobile App

    Wish I had that two weeks back, when I was stuck on an 11hr car drive during my normal game time. Didn’t have enough bandwidth on my phone for a map-centric dungeon crawl, but accessing my char sheet and making some skill checks would have gotten through an RP-heavy session of Stars Without Number.
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    WotC “Atomic Arcade”— WotC’s New Digital Platform?

    So, the new “Gleemax”? Yawn. I learned my lesson back in 4e, I’ll care about a WotC electronic offering the day it actually goes live for public use. Promises and screenshots mean nothing.
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    D&D 5E The March D&D Book Will Be Announced Next Tuesday

    As long I get updated 5e stats for Page XX I’ll be happy.
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    D&D 5E The Dead Milkmen's D&D Adventure: Lost Tomb of the Bitchin' Chimera

    Outstanding. My old high school D&D group actually took a road trip to see the band the summer we graduated, long years ago, so we had already associated them with the game. Cannot wait to see what they come up with.
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    Worlds of Design: The Lost Art of Running Away

    Later D&D versions got players used to only seeing level-appropriate opponents. Encounters became a resource management problem rather than a real threat, tracking healing and spell slots before deciding to continue for the fight. Yawn. Early D&D wandering monster charts included everything...
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    Design Masterclass: 7th Sea

    As much as I love the setting for 7th Sea, my group had to house rule the 2nd edition massively in order to play it, because it doesn't actually by default have any way for you to fail at any task, unless you straight up say "I fail" (and get a hero point in return.) Ugh. The only way the GM had...
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    News Digest: BattleTech/MechWarrior Lawsuit Settled, ENnie Nominations and Voting Dates, The Expanse

    Easy to read dice aren't just good for gamers with visual difficulties, they're the last, best hope for gamers with ethical difficulties, as well. You know, that guy you've been friends with forever, but if he keeps fudging his rolls he's either going to have to use those novelty foam dice the...
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    Trapdoor Tech Closes Its Doors

    Why can't WotC partner, even temporarily, with software companies that aren't tiny, new, and over their head? Are their licensing terms so ridiculous that no-one else will even bid? The 3e eTools product was a disaster - you could only load your character on a system that had installed all the...
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    Your most anticipated games of 2016?

    Onyx Path's Changeling, 20th Anniversary Edition. (Fingers crossed that it ships in 2016) I can't help it, I love that game, even in its first edition with the stupid collectible cards. My gaming group even has a campaign running as one of the backup games brought out when the full group can't...
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    Design Your Own 3D Star Maps

    Can you adjust the camera angles to show the sky from the point of view of a ground based observer? I've long wanted a tool to allow me to design constellations and a solar system for a fantasy game world which allows me to show the sky from various points on the globe and at various points of...
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    TRAPDOOR TECH To Team Up With ED GREENWOOD?

    A company seeking interim financing?
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    This is a list of sci-fi backgrounds/careers. What have I missed?

    Scout / Explorer Musician Revolutionary Asteroid Miner Deepspace Construction Roboticist Cyberneticist Geneticist Clone Creche-raised Genetically Altered Mutant Heavy-Worlder Radiation Scarred Runaway Regeneration Ship-bred null-g habitat Education via RNA therapy, hypno learning, direct...
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    New RPG Company Casting All Women for Genesys

    OK, I know that's not my actual first post - did the counter get reset in some database update?
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