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Flying Toaster reacted to Burnside's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with
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I don't understand why people make an issue of this one. Why is this assumed to be an in-game term? It's a rules term. People aren't... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Lord of the Rings is one very specific work of fiction; steampunk is an entire genre. You might as well say that Aquaman is closer to...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
The Handlebar Moustache's earliest appearance is in art from Iron Age Celts (the iron age of course being 1500 to 500 BCE). But even if...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
I know that game publishers really want consumers to BUY THEIR pre-written, highly produced, often crowd-funded setting books. However...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
... see, -now- I want a "Big Trouble in Little China" style campaign setting and game. DM and 3 of the players design a deeply...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Wizards Goes Big with Vecna: Eve of Ruin with Like.
In retrospect, this adevnture is such a great concept, especially for the 50th anniversary - fighting Vecna across D&D settings -...
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I like a mix of both but more on the side of vicarious adventure. Call it 65%/35%. All smash and grab isn't interesting to me but I...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e?.A few more thoughts about Wizardry, and how it both followed old D&D conventions and also anticipated some later trends in character...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
.....thank you. You have no idea. Ahem. Anyway, I think the answer to, "Why 1e?" is quite simple. Think of me as your RPG sommelier.*...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e?.I am imagining the “open market” for magic items in a Gygaxian 1E world like Greyhawk: (a sketchy half-orc dweomer-monger, clad in a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
In the DMG it's more a matter of implication. All the discussion of rarity and how difficult it is to make them. The charts do tell...
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Flying Toaster reacted to grimslade's post in the thread Homebrew What makes for a perfect base hub for adventures? with Like.
I think a network of 'home' bases works best. There is a hamlet/thorpe/village with the usual mundane tools and repairs available and an...
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Flying Toaster reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Homebrew What makes for a perfect base hub for adventures? with Like.
As others have mentioned, it depends on what style of campaign you want to have. The first two work well if you're going for an "expand...
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Flying Toaster reacted to sevenbastard's post in the thread Homebrew What makes for a perfect base hub for adventures? with Like.
Some sort of keep possibly near the border. Names of NPCs optional.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread Homebrew What makes for a perfect base hub for adventures? with Like.
The one time I set out to create a homebase option, a run down former "adventurer's guild" in a city that the party could clear the...