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Ronnie Dugger, the founder and longtime publisher of the Austin-based Texas Observer, died this week at the age of 95.

Tom Robbins, longtime muckraking New York journalist and activist, died on Tuesday at the age of 76.

Okay, well, as I said up-thread, I think that's a fine way to play. Nothing wrong with it. For me, though, it's enough to think up a...

They can be. A failed ability checks in my games always comes with a consequence that follows from what's at stake in the situation, so...

Sounds like a normal failure result to me! 🤷🏼

I was the second post in the thread. I asked what you meant by 'narrative mechanics'. I got some laugh reacts but I was genuinely...

That's a bummer, but I hope for at least their sake that the pun was intended

He chooses to ally with Order, so it seems like a natural fit to me. It's listed as having an "essentially earthlike" environment on...

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has died at the age of 81. He was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Foreign Honorary Member of the...

It's funny, because a friend of mine used Crystar in his old game back in 2e and statted him up as a paladin. :) I had considered...

He should be a human paladin. His crystal physiology is basically armor. He's the main character, so he should be a PC. On the planet...

Why, yes! In the current state of my evolving default setting for D&D, which is heavily influenced by JRR Tolkien's "matter of...

Contrary to the impression my posts might have created, I'm not particularly concerned with the name. I'm just trying to understand the...

If I may go a bit tangentially from the thread topic, I invite us all to step away from repeating this mantra. Because the purpose of a...

I don't do critical success/failure on ability checks or saves. If the roll succeeds, the character achieves their intent. If it fails...