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Release for Alternity Games Day
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Dungeonosophy
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Dragonhelm
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Cortex Prime Questions
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How to deal with a "true roleplayer".
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Owen K. C. Stephens hospitalized
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What's Your Fantasy Species?
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Updated Monster of the Week coming Feb. 27
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SWADE: Let's talk about the non-combat tools.
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le Redoutable
are Paladins Jedis , or
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Suggest some TTRPGs to me...
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Morrus
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(Traveller) Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society Volumes 9 & 10
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le Redoutable
two talents for 15 Classes, that gives us 30 secondary abilities :)
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How long on average are your game sessions?
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Holy Random NPC Generator Batman
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RPGing via Billy Bragg?
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New Sidequest Decks & NPC Decks Coming Soon!
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darjr
The One Ring Bundle of holding!
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darjr
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le Redoutable
two things here : stats slots and stats multiplication
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le Redoutable
le Redoutable
le Redoutable
WAYCOT and the six abilities
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le Redoutable
le Redoutable
TheSword
This surprised me. Well known publishers followings.
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Games on Demand Online is less then two weeks away!
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Tell Me About Your Favorite Mechanics
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Runequest Is Befuddling Me
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