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People do cheat, though. It's a fact. A guy showed up at our D&D meet-up a few years ago and pretended he was so nearsighted that he had...
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Silly can still be excellent. The Rat Queens series is pretty funny, but is a great D&D-style adventure book. (Not for kids, on the off...
Jun 21, 2025
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he wrote a draft, Zeb Cook didn't like/use it, wrote his own (he said), and then Gygax put his name to it. Reminds me of Stan lee in...
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No doubt. He did write a draft, Gygax probably just put his name on it.
Jun 21, 2025
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It's interesting to speculate though. I spent decades in the automotive industry and remember when most Americans couldn't imagine a...
Jun 21, 2025
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Yep. I’m so bad with names generally, real life too, that I just can’t make them up on the fly. I mean I can, they’ll just suck. Bob...
Jun 21, 2025
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My big hang-up with names is wanting cultural consistency. I could rattle off a dozen made up fantasy names, but I try to use stuff like...
Jun 21, 2025
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This is how I do mostly no-prep gaming in Stonetop (a dungeon world derivative from one of the major contributors to Perilous Wilds) -...
Jun 21, 2025
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The one bit of prep I didn't mention is a list of names. I am bad at names on the fly, so I now have a Google doc of names and also use...
Jun 21, 2025
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Thank you for the responses - they've been most helpful. Someone asked for a definition of "prep." To my mind, it is dedicated time...
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"I know it looks like I'm lying in bed, watching Netflix, but this is actually a crucial part of the writing process."
Jun 21, 2025
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I think your definition of prep is a lot wider than most folks', but unless @M.T. Black wants to give us a definition, it's gonna...
Jun 21, 2025
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Are you thinking of this from Chaosium?
Jun 21, 2025
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ah yes, the NEW YORK CITY supplement. most excellent.
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