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Hhaakon1 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes? with
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Did she ask for your help? Did she complain that folks aren't having a good time, and she doesn't know why? If not, it would be showing... -
Hhaakon1 reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes? with Love.
I think you don't. Let her make her mistakes. We all made mistakes when we started (and still do). Compliment her on the stuff she's...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Levistus's_Leviathan's post in the thread D&D General 5 Cool Facts About the Inca and How to Use Them in D&D with
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I've been reading about the Inca and other pre-Columbian Andean cultures recently. They were pretty cool and I think underused in pop... -
Hhaakon1 reacted to Reynard's post in the thread RPG Buzzwords that have effectively lost their meaning due to poor over-use with Like.
So is this one of those threads where people hurl thinly veiled insults at other folks' preferences and playstyles, then cover with...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Theory of Games's post in the thread RPG Buzzwords that have effectively lost their meaning due to poor over-use with Love.
Railroad 🙄 Which runs into "player agency" (another spider-web). Which slams into "linear" and "sandbox" (two hornet nests). My two...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread RPG Buzzwords that have effectively lost their meaning due to poor over-use with Like.
Agency. I see that tossed round all the time. Problematic. Another one I see used in just about every discussion ever. (and I'm just as...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with Like.
I think the real difference for the "Character Creation Focus" of 3e and the explanation of all these 'generations' is very simple and...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with Like.
You picked your race, class, kit, etc. And then you had specialty classes like Ninjas, Shaman, and Psions. Then there was Multiclassing...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with Like.
Of course its workable. 1. "I'm a gamist." 2. "Well what does that even mean." 3. "It means ....." Open with 3 instead, and you cut...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with Like.
I apologize wholeheartedly for the oversight, and I agree with you. FIend Folio is a MILLION TIMES BETTER than MM2. But I appreciate...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with Like.
This is Fiend Folio erasure. I will be sending a death knight over to discuss the issue with you.
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Hhaakon1 reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with Like.
On the topic of agendas, I think the "casual player doesnt have one" is not entirely accurate. What I think is that a lot of casual...
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Hhaakon1 replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations.That information is on the website.
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with Love.
I think that 1983 is probably the best year to "cut off" the original period of D&D, and also marks the end of the (first?) Golden Age...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with Like.
That's still a good chunk of us Gen Xrs that missed 1e, I'd say anyone born in the 70s would have had a good chance to miss 1e or...