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    DriveThruRPG Print-on-Demand Prices Increasing Again

    4-5% is about right for Uk to be honest
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    What are you watching in (late 2025 and) 2026?

    Started Peaky Blinders. Never watched it before, which is ironic considering I live 20 miles from where it is set.
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    DriveThruRPG Print-on-Demand Prices Increasing Again

    Also worth remembering that inflation is a thing and in the absence of other cost savings like technology or cutting payroll, you have to pass costs onto the consumer or ultimately go out of business.
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    Dumb Game Ideas: Mash-Ups

    Love a mash up. Currently just finished a mash up of Keys from the Golden Vault and the Alexandrian remix of Waterdeep Dragonheist with 50% of Paizo’s Curse of the Crimson Throne thrown in. Liked it so much I'm planning on running it again with a different group.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dungeons of Drakkenheim: a dark fantasy sandbox in a ruined city

    It was touch and go. The lord of feasts is a pretty darn good archer and can make two attacks that would have spelled doom! One reduces speed to 0 and the other paralyzes. Either would have seen the death of three of the four PCs but luck prevailed.
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    Hasbro CEO Cocks and Execs Sued for Alleged Securities Violations

    If the plaintiffs can make a successful case that WoTC are breaching fiduciary responsibility when they make more sales then I will be very surprised. Requires a lot of assumptions that I just can’t see being proven.
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    Masters of the Universe | Official Trailer

    Sorry did I see that wrong or is his he man costume hot pants and a gym skirt?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wizard vs Sorcerer (a Campaign Experience)

    How is scouting working out with closed doors, chance of being spotted, local predators. Or do you keep it simple and give it free reign? It might be relevant for my next campaign. In a world where familiars are a known thing I would think folks would take this into account with their security?
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    D&D General 5e D&D Campaigns

    Campaign Name; Time PlayedDM/Player; Online/In PersonSetting Lvl achieved. Curse of Strahd; bi-weekly. 1 year.DM; In PersonRavenloft, 11 Phandelver/Princes of the Apocalypse mash up. Monthly over six months.DM; In PersonForgotten Realms; 5 Rise of the Runelords 5e. weekly. One year.DM...
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    First foray into paid DMing - 16 session in.

    I was being totally tongue in cheek about better players but your point is well made.
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    What Is Your Favorite Linear Adventure/Campaign

    You’re missing out. Parts four and five have been completely reworked in the latest release. Instead of traveling to Kislev in Part Four you now track down the remnants of the purple hand, the jade scepter and stop a terrifying Skaven plot beneath the city and in the middle mountains. Part...
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    First foray into paid DMing - 16 session in.

    I original put in a 10 minute break for toilet and coffee. However it ended up feeling a bit artificial and unnecessary. We just let people go for those things when they want to, which they do anyway. I kept finding I was forgetting about the break until near the end anyway because of being...
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    What Is Your Favorite Linear Adventure/Campaign

    Tomb of Annihilation and Rime of the Frostmaiden aren’t adventure paths and definitely aren’t linear. They’re both Sandboxes. I’d throw Curse of Strahd into this mix as well. Their chapters or parts of chapters can largely be played in varying orders.
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    What Is Your Favorite Linear Adventure/Campaign

    So the best linear campaign of any system is The Enemy Within. Five parts. There’s a lot of agency within each part. It’s got the best NPCs of any campaign and a scale that makes it epic. I have played it in WFRP and also converted it to 3e/Pathfinder - possible because the story and characters...
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    D&D General Adventurers a distasteful necessity

    😂 I meant it as common people, not in a derogatory way. Could have been clearer.
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