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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    Aye! Or close... it's a prelim/preview version, without all the final art and a few other bits. And I'm sure there'll be a few more nips and tucks in the rules and writing too. But it's already a lovely 330 page tome. :)
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    Friday Nonsense: Funniest Gaming Fails

    It was the final game. Of the final arc. Of the epic campaign. That we had played over many months. The things were in motion. Everything was in place. The final battle was on. And it all hinged on firing a sort of arcane super cannon, carefully tuned specifically for pointed towards the...
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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    OH! And also the pre-release for Tribes in the Dark, the revamped take on DP9's Tribe 8. Haven't read it all the way through yet.
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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    I recently got Legends in the Mist and I am practically salivating to give it another run. (We half-played the ashcan edition.)
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    Battletech Public Playtest Thread

    House Liao's Jungle arena? :)
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    As a total aside, as someone who really enjoys 'taurs and who has written and released 'taurric rules for 4 separate editions of D&D, it is very delightful for me to read in this thread how many people want to play centaurs. :)
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    Battletech RPG

    While it may be less frequent, chases, or RP-based mech challenges could still happen. Gunnery too, like say a Robin Hood type tourney or you've stolen an Savannah Master and are in a mad dash through the streets of Solaris trying to stop a mobster boss and you have that one medium laser to try...
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Good point, and worth highlighting the bit I, er, highlighted. From further comments on others here, it seems that often it may actually be more of a social concern (whether it be players who are all trying to steal the spotlight or characters who are all isolated and thus have less reason to...
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    Battletech RPG

    Personally I would bite the PCC go with Option B and the full PbtA method. Having to shift not just a single target number but a range has more of a cognitive load (7-9 becomes 8-10 becomes 10-12, etc). I'd rather keep the target number(s) the same and just change the base skill to it's own...
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    For me, "circus troupe" is nothing new. I've been playing for 35+ years, and even "back in the day" we had parties that were filled with what we might call unusual. I played a centaur back in the early days of a 2e game. We've also had parties of, say, all dwarves. It's run the gamut. And...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    D!oh, I read that as "take" the wrong books instead of "wake" the wrong books... you sir are 100% correct. Note to self for the future: always let the slumbering tomes lie. :D
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Almost! And you'd think it would be the librarian that would come at us with their two handed letter opener, but no, it was pages from surrounding books that took form as a giant serpent and attacked... Oh, I've definitively played that adventure before. :)
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Library tries to kill us.
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    Battletech RPG

    Hmm, taking a standard, say piloting roll of 5+ being a clean/full success (83.3% success), and flipping it around to figure out the plus to make it a PbtA 10+, would yield a modifier of +5. Higher than most PbtA modifiers, but then BT doesn't have partial success, so making that a +3 or so...
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    Various Solutions For Tabletop Dungeon Terrain

    Ah, Hextech, nice! Got a chance to see it in action at a con back in Jan. (I've printed some terrain bits over the past couple of years but haven't had a chance to use it in a game yet, alas.) I second this! We gave this a try a close to 10 years ago and it worked well except for the size...
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