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    D&D 3E/3.5 The 20th Anniversary of 3rd Edition D&D

    I'd started gaming with AD&D, continued into 2e and lost interest in D&D for several years. Played a bunch of other systems during that time. My wife and I wed in September 2000, and several of my friends gave "us" a copy of the 3e Player's Handbook as a wedding gift. and told me it was...
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    Lay-offs at Fantasy Flight Games?

    Only if they manage to finally fulfill Siege of the Citadel the board game. :cautious:
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    12 new monster images revealed from Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes!

    My stomach hurts after that one, but thanks for the laugh. :)
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    Minis or Theatre of the Mind? (Survey)

    I voted miniatures, and that's typically how I've played since high school many moons ago. However, when running in town stuff and even some dungeon exploration stuff, I've gone with a TotM approach. Really depends on the group and how "involved" everyone is at the table. If everyone is actually...
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    For those who don't generally like to use Campaign Settings, what's your favorite one?

    For D&D, I prefer the Al-Qadim setting. For "generic" fantasy (and by that I mean tongue-in-cheek insanity inducing dark humor)*, I tend to run games in the Old World Warhammer setting when I'm not running a setting I've fabricated. *Yeah, I know. Your definition of generic and mine probably...
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    New PATHFINDER Minis: Gnome, Eidolon, Dragon

    It's a dragon. Foreground legs are visible, both front and back legs. Offside rear upper leg is visible, most likely meaning the lower leg is hidden behind the foreground leg (or maybe it's a pegleg dragon). :-) Offside front leg is raised, claws extended, and somewhat camouflaged by the offside...
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    What are you currently playing?

    Currently playing a Drow elf monk in a friend's 5th ed D&D Forgotten Realms campaign, which meets every other week. That's the only thing I'm playing at this point, but I am slowly reading my way through the 5th ed DMG, Savage Worlds Deluxe Explorer's Edition, Dungeon World (again), Marvel...
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    Random Dungeons with Dungeon Tiles

    AnthonyRoberson, This is a pretty good start with this set of tables. Did you ever get further? I know I'm replying to an old thread but just happened to spot this today and have lately been thinking about random dungeons with Dungeon Tiles.
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    Writing games - advice on motivation

    This. As for the advice to "take a break" for a period of time (aside from a walk around the neighborhood or so), I decided to take a short break from writing back in May of this year . . . and I'm still on break. :eek:
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    Fantasy RPGs for Kids

    Have you looked at First Fable (available through RPGNow)? It's available as a Pay What You Want product. It might be a bit too basic for your needs, but I figured I'd toss it into the mix. I picked it up thinking I'd use it with my kids, but they jumped into D&D 4e and enjoyed it so wound up...
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    D&D 4E [4E only] What kind of miniatures do you use, if any?

    Gotta use 'em all! Although I voted metal minis, which has been my primary miniature type of choice in thirty-some-odd years of gaming--no matter which system (D&D; GURPS; Big Eyes, Small Mouth; Gunslingers & Gamblers; whateverelsewehappentorun)--I use metal, plastic, paper stand-ups, chits...
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    It's D&D's 40th anniversary. Tell me your D&D history, and what it means to you!

    I first started playing AD&D back in '79 or so, during an afternoon when my best friend, David, and I decided to check out a "gaming group" holding session in one of the classrooms after school. The group was running AD&D and the DM informed us that his dad had just purchased these new books...
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    What alternatives to "human" are there?

    In his MythAdventures series, Robert Lynn Asprin called humans Klahds.
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    Modern & Near-Future street tiles

    These are very nice. And needed. Finding well-designed modern floor tiles is nearly impossible. Fantasy abounds and sci-fi is possible (but still fairly distant) but the only modern tiles I seem to find are zombie apocalypse oriented with mutilated corpses scattered all over. You have a few...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 Wow! Look at this awesome new unofficial 3E news site!

    My profile states I joined in 2005, but I recall joining much earlier (or at least lurking since 2000 or so) and spending far too much time reading through posts on the main site and in the forums when I should have been working (ahem). Eric Noah's site (and now EN World) have been my main go-to...
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