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    What do you do when a Player dies?

    Mine isn't exactly a player. Twenty-plus years ago my group played after-hours in the FLGS, and so I was not in control of the space and who was allowed in. Anyway, I had a hard and fast rule that a prospective player had to sit in for one full session before it was decided to let him join; if...
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

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    Games you need to go outside your normal group to play

    This thread has moved me to tailor an L5R campaign (using a different system) to my group. We won't get to it for a year or so, but there's no reason to miss out when you can adapt. WH 40k remans, but the lore is so dense I feel like the only way to run it is with the provided rules, and Dark...
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    True, but the key is just a dash. Not the steampunk nonsense of Deadlands, no magic, no spells, just bad people doing horrible things in a covert but organized fashion. No non-human creatures, no shamblers or Deep Ones. That keeps it from being 'weird'. They didn't have a term for serial...
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    This is the problem with fictional depictions of torture: they treat torture as an end unto itself. {Pedantic rant follows] The point of 'extreme interrogation practices' is to get the subject talking. That's it. From that point, it is simply interrogation, and anything a subject says is...
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    I've run several long campaigns in the Old West. The key is a dash of Lovecraft.
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    To be fair, he was commenting on my post, where I noted a shortage of pirate adventures, not setting material.
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    What RPGs genres are lacking?

    Non-weird WW2. There's only three I know of, one OOP, the other not very well supported, and the third is GURPs (Behind Enemy Lines, War Stories, GURPS WW2). Pirate campaigns. There's several pirate systems & settings, most awful, but there's very little effort invested in material to run...
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    If disney and warner brothers use Diamond, stopping this would cost them money. If they could stop it. This is how bankruptcies are done.
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    Ouch. I suppose pdfs are out of the question?
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    Thanks. The last time I bought a comic book, it was fifty cents.
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    Are comics a larger industry that RPGs? Never caught the habit.
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    Was Diamond big enough to warrant that interest? I know it was big in the RPG industry, but that's a shallow pool.
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    Looks like the last payroll was met, so they are clear in this case. Otherwise, generally screwed is the usual outcome.
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    Actually, I didn't, but you are probably right.
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