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Flying Toaster reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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To be charitable to Keith, he has a successful brand and series of books for 5e14. Moving on isn't just a matter of running a new... -
Flying Toaster reacted to talien's post in the thread RPG Evolution: Goodbye But Not Farewell with Like.
When Morrus first offered me this role, I took it begrudgingly. I wasn't sure I could handle the organizational weight of running a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread RPG Print News – Dolmenwood, G.I. Joe RPG, and More with Like.
When I was really into GI Joe, I was too young for RPGs, or at least anything beyond the D&D Basic Set. When I was in middle and high...
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Flying Toaster reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread RPG Print News – Dolmenwood, G.I. Joe RPG, and More with Like.
I so want to run a G.I. Joe game... but I also know if I buy the game and try to do so I'm only going to hate the result. Because I...
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Flying Toaster reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread RPG Print News – Dolmenwood, G.I. Joe RPG, and More with Like.
It's a Catch-22, right? It's G.I. Joe, so there's automatically a non-seriousness to it that the toys, cartoon, and comic book play...
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Flying Toaster reacted to UngainlyTitan's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Not necessarily, the names of kings/queen have on occasion be chiselled out of the record (literally in the case of one Pharoh. at least...
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Flying Toaster reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Or just actual history, right? Im reading a fantastic book on medieval history and it makes a point of noting how often histories by...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I gotta admit I don't fully understand...or maybe 'sympathize with' is a better way of expressing it...the importance placed on...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I was thinking about this thread cycling home yesterday evening, and was puzzled by what seems to be an assumption made in many of the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
The notion that there is some sort of trade off between player and GM enjoyment of the game - on some posited spectrum from "dancing...
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Flying Toaster reacted to DrunkonDuty's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
So there's a lot of chat in the thread about player vs. gm, and the player's right to add to lore vs the gm's right to resist other...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Not sure if I agree with this. IMHO, aesthetics and resonance matter, and both of these are reasons why players pick certain races even...
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Flying Toaster reacted to plecostomus's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Just wanted to share a moment from my session tonight where players got really excited about some Dragonlance lore, and how I got there...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I thought I'd post some examples of "lore" mattering to the players. Here are two, both from high level 4e D&D play: The lore matters...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
See, I love history (real or imagined), so I want the history of the setting front and center. That's the most fun part for me. That...