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    What are you reading in 2026?

    Found an online quote of the scene:
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    JRPG style TTRPGs

    I am not sure if this is JRPG in the video game sense, but Kamigakari: God Hunters is a Japanese TTRPG with Japan media themes so things like Japanimation including mechanics of building up to do your big strike a bit into the combat Voltron style instead of first shot D&D style. The mechanics...
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    Dungeon Crawl Classics What is cool to you from a player perspective?

    I had the second game a little while ago. It went well. I embraced an old school dungeon crawling ethos. When exploring around the tunnels in the wall of the giant tree house we saw a skeletal hand sticking out of a collapsed side passage my first question was "does it have a ring on it?" It...
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    Bringing Ecological Conservation into Dark Fantasy Worldbuilding

    Sometimes I see themes of demonic taint in an area or a far realms aberration incursion as affecting wildlife that can be a used as a metaphor for pollution affecting an area's ecosystem to its detriment.
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    What are you reading in 2026?

    I enjoyed those a lot as a teen when they came out and they show a development in Salvatore's writing over the original Icewind Dale books, but my friends and I at the time regularly ridiculed the double down maneuver Drizzt develops as we were doing LARP sparring. From my decades old memory...
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    RPG Sales of 2026

    Dragonbane Mirth and Mayhem Sale, up to 50% off. 11 days.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Weapon smuggling, then get drafted.
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    Undead Origins

    Player's Secrets of Tuornen (2e) 2e Lanelle, Ghost: ? Dalton Flaertes, Duke of Tuornen, Ghost: Lately, however, a popular bards' tune has begun making the rounds again, and it is sung even within the court of Tuornen. The song claims that Dalton was never slain, but that he met the ghost of his...
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    Undead Origins

    Player's Secrets of Tuarhievel (2e) 2e Undead: ? Banshee, Wandering Vengeful Spirit of a Slain Elf, Roaming Banshee: ? The Lich: ? Roaming Shadow: ? Wraith, Wandering Vengeful Spirit of a Slain Human, Roaming Wraith: ?
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    Undead Origins

    Player's Secrets of Talinie (2e) 2e Ghost of a Dead Priest: ?
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    D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash

    For the maintain the balance sort of True Neutral you have to frame your scope. Is it if outsiders of one type are taking over the world (classic demon invasion, Eberron style Far Realm aberration invasion, etc.) you actively oppose that? Or is it a world level thing like Mordenkainen where he...
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    Undead Origins

    Player's Secrets of Roesone (2e) 2e Undead: ? Ghoul: ? Ghost: In 475 MR, Roesone had been pushed out of Caercas by a mighty Dieman army, but the canny old baron turned and stood his ground here, catching the Diems by surprise. Low barrows mark the resting place of the 2,000 soldiers slain in the...
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    What's the hardest attribute to effectively role-play?

    In most editions of D&D the attributes are composite so there is a lot of ways to by the book RAW portray the same high or low score. A high wisdom could mean perceptive but foolish or the inverse. In a bunch editions where appearance is part of charisma Cyrano can be low average or high...
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    Undead Origins

    Player's Secrets of Medoere (2e) 2e Undead: ? Ghost, Specter: ? Specter: ?
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    What's the hardest attribute to effectively role-play?

    I disagree. :) They are fairly easy characteristics to portray if you want to. Int can be ignorance, or not understanding or full of mischaracterizations. Wisdom can be rash or oblivious or foolish. Low charisma can be quiet or awkward or boorish. Plenty of options that are fairly easy to...
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