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    Kickstarter Deal-Breakers (Poll)

    I checked off too many stretch goals, but it's more about what kind of stretch goals. I've seen plenty of KSes where the stretch goals are "Two Additional Monsters!" or "PDF of an additional adventure" and those are fine because they're low impact and not going to cost anything additional. What...
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    Pitch me the current RuneQuest

    I played the heck out of RQ2 back in the 80s, but I'll be a negative as well and agree with @Retreater. My version of the elevator pitch would be "In college, you missed sessions with your D&D group because your anthropology homework was just really so much more interesting. Now you can play RQ...
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    What is your gaming white whale?

    Right now, the real white whale would be a full run the Dracula Dossier (Night's Black Agents). I ran it six years ago, but it only lasted a few months and we finished up with one minor wife of Dracula being staked. As a GM, it was one of the most fun things I've ever run. I loved the system and...
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    Would you play a TTRPG that used Meters instead of Feet?

    Since like 1980, yeah.
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    Why do RPGs have rules?

    Rules define the universal constants and constraints of our fictional universe. Throughout our real lives we rely on reality having a shape and boundaries. We don't concern ourselves with stepping out the door and flying up into the sky. We know that water doesn't poison us. We know that hitting...
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    Alchemy VTT kickstarter over 200,000 in first few hours.

    I'm going to guess the success has something to do with all the emails I have from companies suggesting I back it. I'd honestly never heard about it prior to the Kickstarter. And whatever the secret sauce is, their backers are basically a list of every company I buy from: Free League, Chaosium...
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    [Chaosium] The age of the ORC begins: Chaosium to release a new edition of Basic Roleplaying in April using the Open RPG Creative License

    That's what I was wondering. I mean, presumably they will be released when this book comes out. Hard to offer a license that doesn't exist. And yes, Chaosium is in Bits and Mortar.
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    What if We Got Rid of Character Creation?

    If you made a RPG without character creation, the rulebook would end up partially burned, embedded in lucite, passed around to various RPG luminaries, and eventually lost in the mail... I think the "cinematic" scenarios for Alien work well with a premade cast of characters who are intended to...
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    Cubicle 7 Also Announces A New 'C7d20' System

    ORC is a license, not a system. On what compatible means, I'm primarily a Call of Cthulhu and CoC Adjacent GM (Delta Green, Cthulhu Eternal). These all share stat blocks that are similar enough that you can run basically anything from 1st edition CoC to Delta Green without any real adjustment...
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    D&D General Companies Cut Ties With Judges Guild After Owner's Racist Posts

    I don't think there's any real company here. Just the family licensing their father's work from 40 years ago. And running the odd kickstarter and not fulfilling it.
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    D&D General Companies Cut Ties With Judges Guild After Owner's Racist Posts

    In terms of whether to boycott or try to convince nazis to stop being nazis, I really don't have time in my life to spend arguing with people who want to kill me in the hope they'll change their minds. If their uncle wants to argue with the Bledshaws and try to convince them to change their...
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    D&D General Companies Cut Ties With Judges Guild After Owner's Racist Posts

    People need to go read the posts. We're talking about nazis. Real nazis. There's no "neo-" here. He's grinding axes and slagging on how then-General Eisenhower treated the nazis in 1945.
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    Die from Two Dice - use polyhedral dice to ‘make’ new dice

    See also the concept of a "control die" back when there were no d20s, only percentile dice.
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    Looking Back To The 80s With The "Realism" of KABAL!

    So what's an Origins 82 sold in zip lock edition worth?
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