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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting.I do remember the 1983 boxed set having demographic data listing the populations of different races in various regions. There were a... -
Flying Toaster replied to the thread Zork 1-3 going open source.Some groups in the OSR scene seem to want games to be “serious business!!!”, which does not seem to have been the most prevalent...
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Funny, this is a very D&D thing (theme) to me, but I feel like it's missing from a lot of the "what is OSR" discussions I see. By the...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread Zork 1-3 going open source.Speaking of silly, names like “Frobozz” and “Lord Dimwit Flathead the Excessive” always reminded me of the weird names and fake swears...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Zork 1-3 going open source with
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The lore eventually gets pretty deep over time, as the Zork series is long and multiple other Infocom games were set in the same... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Vael's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen: Snarf's Guide to Using (and adjudicating) Skills in 5e with
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I'll interact more fully with the thread later, I just need to add: I want a schnauzer with my weinerschnitzel -
Flying Toaster reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Rock Gnomes get Magitek Mechas? Forest Gnomes get Biotek Kaijus? Up from the depths. Thirty stories high. Breathing fire! HIS HEAD IN...
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Flying Toaster reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
i've mentioned this before but i think it would be worthwhile to them if gnomes were shifted into a more nature spirit-esc 'proto-druid'...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Essentially there are no Halfling or Gnome polities in Greyhawk: you have to look at the birthplace charts or wandering encounter...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
I guess genasi fill that role, but I think it would have been neat to see undines, sylphs, gnomes, and salamandars fill the "lesser...
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I'm surprised that it is still so well known too. For my Senior Project, I assembled a small screen to a development board and...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pawsplay's post in the thread Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Auction at Christie's with Like.
The desk automatically fails any attempt to create allegory.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Auction at Christie's with Like.
A creature attuned to this writing desk immediately becomes fluent in 1d6 non-existent languages and gains an irresistible impulse to...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Alas's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Great moments in gnome history: 1566: Invented by Paracelsus 1976: The Gnomes book by Huygen and Poortvliet 2008: "Rawr! I'm a monster!"
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Flying Toaster reacted to talien's post in the thread RPG Evolution: Inspiration from Saugus Iron Works with Like.
For DMs looking to imbue their fantasy worlds with the gritty, relentless authenticity of a true industrial complex, there is no better...