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    D&D General Hasbro enters gambling deal using Dungeons & Dragons intellectual property

    Meanwhile all I can see is Elminster in a mankini draped over the rollers of a slot machine showing results using beholders, mimics, and gold pieces. I envy you your visual as I do not want to see Elminster in a mankini but Borat burned that notion into a part of my brain that will not go away...
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    D&D General Hasbro enters gambling deal using Dungeons & Dragons intellectual property

    I'm just glad they don't own Mattel / Barbie or that movie a little bit ago would have come with an Only Fans page... But it's only a matter of time for Elminster to get his. :P
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    Electric Car Ownership - Any Experiences?

    I've owned a Tesla Model 3 since 2018. Before we knew Musk was... problematic. It's paid off and worthless for resale now so I keep it. That said were I to replace it, I would only go for another EV, and despite opinions of the brand, I would only go for one that could use the Supercharger...
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    In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?

    A lot of serial killers probably have better motivations... D&D PCs very often kill people to get paid or to steal the stuff of the people they kill. Trying to get a group of players in a fantasy RPG to do something just because it's the right thing to do, and to the minimize loss of life...
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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    Bought the digital pack for Legend in the Mist https://sonofoak.com/products/legend-in-the-mist-all-digital-bundle Now I've been hovering over the same pack for one of their other games, Otherscape. Most of the week. I'll probably buy it today...
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    In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?

    I agree. Not just D&D though. I don't like them or their equivalents in any tRPG. I'm fine with nature and spiritual forms of magic that circle around it. But anthropomorphizing it gets weird. Plus, people don't like it when I make this opinion (some folks get extremely mad about this view)...
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    In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?

    The biggest flaw with a lot of fantasy pantheons is given that regular people also have super powers - you'd rightly see all those guys running around claiming to be divine beings as full of it. All they are is more powerful super heroes and villains than you. In any 'pantheon' where a mortal...
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    D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll)

    Fantasy was always Steampunk and often even had high SciFi. It was only D&D that wasn’t and that bled into other tRPGs and fed back into some post D&D “litRPG” fantasy. But we’ve always had rayguns, aliens, and robots in fantasy. Let alone steampunk. Terry Brook’s Shannara was originally...
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    D&D General My experience with popular D&D VTT tools

    For me the recommendations would be Foundry or Owlbear. Do you want a powerful engine you can heavily customize but might have to turn half of it off, but for which “there’s a mod for that” is the answer to most if your unmet needs? Or do you want a chat box, a pretty picture to set the mood...
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    [GMing] Description techniques

    Even years before Daggerheart came out I liked the idea of getting the players to describe what they see for me. Give a few mood triggers for a scene, then have them fill it out. I always struggled for ways to do the obvious without actually doing it - Daggerheart just suggests directly asking...
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    Simpler alternatives to run Shadowrun?

    My biggest problem with Otherscape is that so far every game I have found running it is running Shadowrun setting using the Otherscape rules. ;) The game is "almost literally" Shadowrun with simpler rules. Probably a better setting too, since it hasn't retconned itself and I don't believe it's...
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    What makes a successful superhero game?

    I'm almost wanting to say "nothing." Over the years it seems like every attempt eventually gets too complicated to run. In theory I think the best example I have seen is City of Mist - but I don't own it yet, I own another game in the same line: Legend in the Mist, so this is based on an...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Me too. But it is true that a LOT of DH players and GMs are coming from D&D and their idea of fantasy is whatever is in a WotC book, rather than literary or mythology based. So while that's the last thing I want, everyone else at many tables wants it first.
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    Check Out The Mutants & Masterminds 4E Playtest

    This. I did buy the Pathfinder 2E playtest - in print form in a local store. But charging for a playtest PDF. That's unethical. That alone might cause me to pass on M&M, and for a few years it was the main thing I ran and played. As for finances. If that's an issue - you use kickstarter...
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    SkyNet really is ... here?

    "Skynet" has been here for about a decade. It's just a random set of memes instead of a hostile killer computer.
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