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    D&D Beyond Cancellations Changed WotCs Plans

    5 Digits in American english is tens of thousands 1,2,3,4,5 digits
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    RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes

    Interesting. Always curious about Oz. No one where I lived would do anything about kids since we had basically no cops. no stores and no social services. On the other hand I was not a Kid on a Bike, not that many kids and you needed an expensive unaffordable mountain bike on our roads. We...
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    RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes

    Having lived in that period, given the limitations of media they mostly get stuff right. Heck the Breakfast Club was highly relatable to us in High School . There are things that are obvious "media tropes" but doing the "70's or 80's" right is easy mode. It get harder as things go farther...
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    RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes

    Makes sense to me and under those circumstances make a sound policy FWIW what I was allowed to see was highly controlled as a child , violent stuff needed permission. Original Star Trek though was "tell Mom its on."
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    RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes

    Did it harm you in any way? If it didn't why worry? I'm not a parent so grain of salt but I suspect the Internet should be off limits to kids myself
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    RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes

    Where I grew up we had two serious injuries, one broken arm do to jank playground equipment, which to our dismay had to be removed and one a very pretty girl paralyzed in a skiing accident. That's it sure it wasn't a huge district but even my 2k plus high school was hardly rocking and rolling...
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    RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes

    Kids today seem far more fearful . I don't know if its parenting, schools, Internet or just observation but it seems like these kids have had there spirits broken . As an example, I saw a young adult freakout over a small white dog on a leash. Sure the dog looked a little coyote like but...
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    RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes

    It almost always did. The 80's were for the most part very safe and kids weren't that stupid. I didn't do the "kids on bikes" thing as we grew up in terrain where affordable bikes didn't work but otherwise most of the genre is true. The D&D we saw in Stranger Things was pretty true to life...
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    Weekend Nonsense: Favorite Bad RPG

    I though the setting of Witchcraft was far better than that of Mage but too many of my players saw it as Wicca the Wiccaning and noped it. I did get them to play All Flesh which wasn't bad and years of Buffy and Angel, the best gaming period I ever had so it ended up a win in my column Mage got...
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    Weekend Nonsense: Favorite Bad RPG

    Yeah me too. Witchcraft would eventually morph into Buffy and Angel , same system just streamlined . It got played a lot as did All Flesh Must Be Eaten which used the same mechanics as Witchcraft . I have everything for Witchcraft except the Storm Dragons playtest, all legit as I was a...
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    Dragon Reflections #57

    Its about $9 bucks modern money. However an average wage was about 15k in 1982 You could get into a nice house for about 65K . The magazine was pretty inexpensive for a niche magazine If you wanted to buy the Monster Manual it was $12 also made of vibranium or something as it was...
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    D&D General Should The Pcs kill A Succubuss that's around 1,600 years old, which is The Succubus equivalent of A very smart 9 month old Baby?, or should they not?

    A suuccubus is a demon. it has no moral agency, is incapable of good and a danger to everyone. Kill it. Well unless its different in your game of course
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    A new free game: Lifepath RPG

    Lifepath seems pretty cool. Thanks.
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    D&D General Violent Solutions to Peaceful Problems

    As long as everyone is having fun you are doing it right.
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    I Am For The Darkmaster, Actually

    Yeah. We used a spreadsheet . Making a starting character for our games of standard system 5th level still took half an hour.
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