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    VTT/online-play Etiquette and Horror Stories

    We don't use video because I feel its a waste of bandwidth, and plus several of us don't have cameras, so the clothing policy isn't a issue for me, but I would see how it could be. We roll VTT dice only. My very first online session, I was a player, and one of the group proceeded to eat his...
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    Show your game prep notes

    Three Word docs: Encounters & Sidebars, 9 pages Campaign Notes, currently 13 pages, but only half the campaign has been fleshed out. Seeds, which is the grand overview of the campaign, and also ideas and twists that haven't been plugged in yet. currently 7 pages. On Roll 20 maps: Information...
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    Aging and Gaming

    I just post written descriptions. Not because of age, but because inevitable one player missed something, and has to be brought up to speed, or we get two different interpretations/recollections of what I said. So I just put a decription of the room or area (when needed) into a info dot on the...
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    WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

    I've been hearing gloom & doom since I was a kid and we had drills in grade school where we trooped down into the basement to practice for when the nukes flew. 'When', not 'if'. There was an impending ice age predicted back then, and oil was due to run out in the distant date of 2000. Oh, and...
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    Free RPG Day 2025 Offerings

    Good to hear that there are still FLGS. Last I checked, I'm 3+ hours from the nearest here.
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    Tomb Raider RPG Cancelled For Creative Differences

    I think they lack a comprehensive cleavage rule system.
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    WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

    Odds are, they never will. The core reasons their situation was bad in, say, 1970, are still true, and often worse, today. At least during the Cold War they could get aid based on their strategic positioning, but that's long gone.
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    Ivan Van Norman Leaves Darrington Press

    Not officially, but it is inevitable in the years to come.
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    WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

    Yeah. Even if the trade war persists, I don't think American children are going to lack entertainment hardware anytime soon.
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    WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

    The shelves are overflowing where I'm at.
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    WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

    Not really. Their warehouse staff are not well-paid.
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    WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

    They certainly plan to replace warehousing jobs with robots. Wal Mart just expanded drone deliver to three additional states, and is openly challenging Amazon in that regard.
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    Best RPG to run a Firefly game

    What wrong with the Firefly RPG?
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