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djotaku replied to the thread Tell your overdue Kickstarter story.I have 2 that meet the original Criteria: Blood and Glory - a horror-themed 5e module. Last update Jan of this year... -
2025 was a good year with some lessons learned. Pretty much all of my gaming is online (Roll20) these days as my closer friends have...
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djotaku replied to the thread Let's Talk About Our Year In TTRPGs.I'll be writing a blog post about this in a few weeks, but the highlights: finished first ToV homebrew campaign started running...
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djotaku reacted to UnplayedRanger's post in the thread Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder 2E Quickstart? with
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djotaku replied to the thread Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store.This year we did an American Revolution/Salem Witch Trials trip with the family and ended up visiting a comic shop/FLGS in every city...
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djotaku replied to the thread Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store.When I went to a VERY nice FLGS / Comic Shop in Lexington, Massachusetts they had a cafe there as well as a cyber cafe upstairs.
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djotaku reacted to Velderan's post in the thread Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store with Like.
The other thing I'm seeing more of is game stores with more open space to play games and a small cafe to sell coffee, sandwiches, and...
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A good licensed game will construct the mechanics to suit the setting (rather than just shoe-horning the setting into an existing set of...
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djotaku replied to the thread What’s the draw of licensed games?.So far the only one where I cared was Cosmere. Because the official adventures fill in some of the backstory to the books. I haven't...
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To me, it is a line between canon and homebrew. A stamp of approval, which implies some quality control, as well. Edit: I tend to prefer...
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I kind of get it. A series you love gets an official RPG, with official art, with official…officialness. But then the thing comes out...
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The generic name is Heroic Resource. Not very inventive, but it's descriptive. Each class has their own name for flavor. Colville are...
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Between the different resources and the different class names ... Draw Steel is giving me tryhard vibes. We're changing the names to...
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djotaku reacted to gnarlygninja's post in the thread Draw Steel: Fake variety helps no one with Like.
In my experience with the playtest info, the fact that some classes get 1d3 and some get 2 had 0 impact on how long it took players to...
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djotaku reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Draw Steel: Fake variety helps no one with Like.
I've recently had a long flight and read the release candidate offered on Matt Colville's Patreon. And something jumped out at me about...