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Autumnal reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with
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It's great to hear from someone who was there. You're like a living artifact? Did you actually have any qualifications to be an... -
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Read Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton, which is a nice short read because (unlike most things Beaton is known for) it’s...
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Autumnal reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
In the 80s and 90s there were other companies where you could work full time--West End, GDW, Chaosium, eventually White Wolf, and so on...
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Autumnal reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
One of the constants at TSR, no matter who owned and ran the company, was the inability to deal fairly or constructively with creators...
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Autumnal replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I continue to use the library, and many folks on Booktube set up a variety of exceptions: series in progress, books by people you know...
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This is a good idea. I decided to simply read books I already own through the end of this year; and starting i 2026 I can begin to read...
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The one that really flipped the switch for me on adventure fiction and pacing was Dwight Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer. It’s...
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Some of the quotes in there (such as from Robert Louis Stevenson's essay A Gossip on Romance, about the nature of adventure fiction)...
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I remember thinking this was a pretty decent book, as well. The science had some wonky moments, and there was piano thing that ran...
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Autumnal reacted to aco175's post in the thread What Media Format Is Your Preferred Campaign Style? with Like.
I have been running more published stuff to start, but add homemade tangents depending on the players and where they want to go. I also...
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Autumnal reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread What Media Format Is Your Preferred Campaign Style? with Like.
When running open-world sandboxes, the closest match is the open world video game. When running most anything more limited in scope...
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Autumnal reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What Media Format Is Your Preferred Campaign Style? with Like.
I think one major thing here that pushes RPG campaigns structurally towards being like Buffy/Merlin is that in general, all the PCs are...
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Autumnal reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
In '82? Absolutely not. Gary didn't (edit, correction) move into the mansion for another year, and he didn't hire Lorraine until '85...
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Autumnal reacted to trappedslider's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Word of the day: MUFFIN-WALLOPER – (Victorian English) someone who likes a catch-up with a friend over a lovely cup of tea.