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Flying Toaster reacted to thirdkingdom's post in the thread Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store with
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We stock a wide selection of rpgs. Indie and small press rpgs outsell mainstream (ie D&D and Pathfinder about 5:1) -
Flying Toaster reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with
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Flying Toaster reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Many tables in the early days mooshed together original with Advanced. Many rules in Advanced were dropped or not noticed. Gary...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Are you familiar with the section of the (IIRC) 1e DMG where it specifically instructs the GM to behave in a passive-aggressive manner...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
And yet Gary is taken as The Word when it comes to how D&D should be played. The OSR started as "D&D as Gary intended". We had a whole...
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Flying Toaster reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Folks get pretty creative with character generation. I've seen a lot of house rules for rolling stats over the years... All stats are...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
Maybe speak for yourself on this one. There is more to collaborative games than just being present for group success. Perhaps you...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Proof of any playstyle pre-internet is impossible to assemble. Everyone was siloed at their own tables, even more than they are today...
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Flying Toaster reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
There was also the 'zine scene. All of these debates about how to run/play D&D from adversarial (even extremely so) to far more...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Well, "always" depends on how you interpret OD&D clerics, where there was simply no discussion of the matter at all. I suspect when...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
🤷♂️ I think a lot of groups were taking their cues from the former wargamers running TSR. A lot of the 1E material, especially when...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
How different would the RPG world have been if we could take the GMing advice from Apocalypse World or Monster of the Week or any of the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mecheon's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Not just Dragon, but if you read a lot of older RPGs from the time there's a lot of "The DM's word is LAW! Murder your player's...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.I knew there were similar insectoid beings in science fiction and in the RPG homebrew community of the 70’s, but I could not find...
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Flying Toaster reacted to the Jester's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I love the thri-kreen, but I am 85% sure that they are a rip off of Arduin Grimoire's phraint.