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    AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?

    I'm surprised he accepted it even as an in-game event, then.
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    AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?

    Either a naturalistic or passive-aggressive way of addressing that kind of problem, depending on your POV (or, I suppose, both).
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    D&D General The Great Railroad Thread

    I think that model also survives because its relatively era-agnostic; at least once you have community gatherings significantly bigger than dispersed agricultural communities, some kind of public house is present all the way from ancient cities to most SF settings. How relevant they are to the...
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    Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club

    Yes. Because as I said, I know of at least two cases where that was true. Extra was used to pay for, well, extras or to set up the next product. One of them has produced at least four games so far at this model. He's not a big player, but it seems to work for him. I'll give you that its...
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    Poll: VTT Users - Do you prefer self-hosted or cloud-based VTTs?

    This seems to be assuming a considerable more "responsibility" than has been my experience with the (admittedly singular) VTT I've used, which has required me to deal with setup twice in the last 15 years and never again. Needing to do more than that seems to suggest a more fussy VTT than is at...
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    Poll: VTT Users - Do you prefer self-hosted or cloud-based VTTs?

    Though I no longer do so, my first use of Maptool was entirely local for at least a couple years.
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    Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club

    I know, if you'll note I'm not sure as you get farther downt he food chain that premise is particularly true. I certainly know two cases where it wasn't, and I suspect there's many more. When you get to big players, or well known medium-sized ones it may be moreso.
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    Poll: VTT Users - Do you prefer self-hosted or cloud-based VTTs?

    That's pretty much where I am on it; all I really want usually is the sort of thing you have in 1 (as long as a die roller is possible, and even that's not strictly necessary).
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    D&D General The Great Railroad Thread

    I mean there has to be some rest-state at the start of the campaign.
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    Poll: VTT Users - Do you prefer self-hosted or cloud-based VTTs?

    I still say this assumes the rules book content needs to be baked into the VTT for the latter to be useful/useable, which is a kind of odd idea to me. But then, as I've said, a lot of people seem to demand more automation from their VTTs than I see as at all necessary.
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    Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club

    It can pretty heavily change the actual numbers aimed at in the Kickstarter, though. Number of backers to make it work is not a trivial difference.
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    Will the complexity pendulum swing back?

    I can see calling the ones on that list I'm familiar with rules-medium.
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    Will the complexity pendulum swing back?

    This was, when drilling down, what most caused me to shift to RuneQuest many decades ago; even though it didn't have much more meaningful decision making (otherwise a non-trivial factor in my preferences), it seemed to relate to what was actually going on in a way the semi-heroic abstraction of...
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    Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club

    Only time I see KSes that would be having only 20 physical print runs signed up for are ones that aren't doing the Kickstarter with anything but digital or POD printing in mind in the first place. They're just using the Kickstarter to pay for layout and art usually.
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    Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club

    Yeah, but that doesn't automatically stop someone who already had the resources and a big part of the work done from going ahead. But at least in several cases I've seen, they didn't, which suggests that the Kickstarter really is where at least a good part of those resources. Your post seemed...
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