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    Worlds Largest Dungeon Holds 'Secret Doors' Contest

    Is the Worlds Largest Dungeon something that really needs to be redone? The first time around it was a snore fest, even for my notoriously hack-n-slash group. The idea is mildly interesting, but the execution of the original was poor. Are they going to do a major overhaul of the dungeon or are...
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    RPG Crowdfunding News – Household, DC Heroes, Mice of Legends, and more

    I already have both 1st and 2nd editions of DC RPG and the Mutants & Masterminds version. If they had offered $20 or $25 PDF's I would have pledged, but as is I really have no reason to do so.
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    D&D 5E Has Anyone Seen the Following Builds?

    I have seen a couple of Wizards take early dips into Fighter for the Action Surge and Second Wind abilities, in fact I have done it myself. I have seen Rogues do this as well, an extra Action and a bit of healing for a short rest is a decent trade off.
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    OSR Let's make Shadowdark classes!

    Torch Bearer: Mediocrity is your game and you don't completely suck at it. You are part pack mule, part personal assistant and you get no repsect. Weapons: Dagger, longbow, longsword, shortbow, shortsword, spear, staff Armor: Leather armor, chainmail and shields Hit Dice: 1d4 per level...
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    D&D 5E 5e isn't a Golden Age of D&D Lorewise, it's Silver at best.

    The problem with setting “Ages” is we really never know where we are until long after its over.
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    Webbed Sphere, Inc. acquires long time game publisher Flying Buffalo, Inc.

    Flying Buffalo has always been run on a shoe string budget, Tunnels and Trolls has always been a C list game. It would be interesting to see what might happen if they had an infusion of cash and some marketing prowess provided to them.
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    D&D 5E My critic on VRGtR

    No it is not a bad thing to give an audience what they want, it just feels like they gave a very narrow slice of the audience what they wanted. Maybe it is just me, but this book just falls flat and does not add much of anything interesting to the game.
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    D&D 5E My critic on VRGtR

    Frankly, I found this book to be meh! A friend of mine commented that it feels like they went to the Reddit page and wrote down the things people wanted and went from there.
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    News Digest for the Week of April 9

    Honestly, I hope they do an almost complete rewrite of Dark Tower. It is one of those modules that I have great memories about playing in it and running it back in the day, but rereading it today, it just does not stand up well. There many great ideas to be mined from the original, but it really...
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    D&D General Candlekeep Questions

    I have a small town named Foggy Bottom, just outside of Candlekeep where support staff live, along with many writers, historians and yes high level wizards. Anyone making trouble in Foggy Bottom would quickly find themsleves having to deal with the Home Owners Association and may the gods have...
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    D&D 5E Treating characters in the game as being part of a LitRPG novel/anime

    I have actually ran a GURPS Cyberpunk game where the PC's all meet in a Virtual D&D game. There were two linked story lines running in parrellel, one in the real world (the cyberpunk game) and one in the virtual world (the D&D game) and we alternated games every week. It was interesting to see...
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    D&D 5E Barbarian Fighting Styles

    It is cool that you are willing to work with your players to make the game more interesting and fun for them. IMHO, Fighting Style does rise to the level of a Feat and there is a Feat available to those who want to take it without a dip into Fighter. There might be some concern that a Fighting...
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    D&D 5E Barbarian Fighting Styles

    My only concern with this is it opens the door to other swaps, like could a Fighter who just obtained 10th level substitute in Reckless Attack instead of taking a 2nd fighting style?
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    D&D 5E Barbarian Fighting Styles

    This would eliminate one of the reasons to be a Fighter rather than a Barbarian, plus there are at least two ways to get a fighting style if you are not a fighter, 1 level dip into Fighter and the Fighting Initiate feat. Dipping one or two levels into Fighter would also give the character other...
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    D&D 5E Dante's Inferno on kickstarter

    This might be fun, Judges Guild did a Dante's Inferno back in the day, although it came up short in many ways. Like a lot of modules back in the late 70's and early 80's, there was not a lot of detail and I know our DM at that time spent a lot of time fleshing it out for us.
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