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    TTRPG Setting Books

    You already listed 2 of my top 5 (Midgard, Greyhawk), but I'd also recommend the Glorantha Sourcebook. It's the setting for the Runequest TTRPG, but the sourcebook is close to system agnostic. You can of course explore it with the rules tailored to it (Runequest - Roleplaying in Glorantha), but...
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    Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store

    Oh nice. I was told that's a picturesque city with an nice, open mall in the old section. In my 2 decades of software consulting I never did get out that way, but I think I was close when I worked in Richmond VA?
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    Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store

    That's a very attractrive store - where is it located? I thought you were Third Kingdom Games who publishes all those terrific hexcrawl products - you own or manage a store too? I own Filling in the Blanks and Random Weather Generation and use them with Old School Essentials whenever my party of...
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    Tell me about Star Wars: Edge of the Empire

    I'm someone that owned AoR and moved on from it for Star Wars roleplaying. I never did buy the EoE book, so I can't really tell you about it. In terms of the overall TTRPG - I think if you're joining a table in which the GM has been running it for a while and the players have been consistent...
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    Savage Pathfinder character design

    I think that's a good thing. I've never been a big fan of Savage Pathfinder, because it seemed to intro a fair amount of power creep into PC builds. I've DMd and played PF1e and played PF2e, so I can understand why Peginc felt they needed that. That said, for SW I go back to 2007 SWEX, so zero...
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    What’s the draw of licensed games?

    I see licensed products as 2 types: 1) where the IP is closely tied to a custom (often new) set of rules. 2) where the IP is adapted to an existing set of rules - usually a universal one. I rarely buy the 1st type, but on occasion do buy the 2nd. When I reflect upon the past decade or so...
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    Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store

    This is typically the case in my Canadian city. I recently went shopping for a core rulebook, but it was sold out. The book was at the Publishers webstore, but the shipping would have been the cost of the book - after exchange, book was already more than it had beenb at better priced LGS or...
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    Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store

    This is a deal-breaker for me when buying any core rulebook in print. I need the PDF to make homebrewing easy and to read it on my tablet. The print edition is mostly for players at my table and the summer months when I want to read outside and it's too bright for tablet reading. The PDF is...
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    Painting minis?

    I mostly paint my large Battletech collection these days. I won't add much to the terrific advice already given. I'm just going to say that in tems of primers, I've always had excellent results with Citadel (Games Workshop) primer and I won't use Army Painter primer. I didn't get tackiness as...
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    Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2026

    I'd forgotten about this earlier, but Dark Conspiracy: The Unseen War, will be releasing in 2026. These are a few sentences about its planned realease from Mongoose Publishing's State of the Mongoose 2025 webpage: "We are splitting this game into three ‘eras’, each spearheaded by its own Core...
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    Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2026

    Really, where? I was browsing for it the other day on DTRPG and couldn't find it. What I could find was PDFs for the 4, 13th Age 2e playtest classes, but those are far from a core rulebook. If I missed it among the gozillians of publications there, I'd really appreciate a link. Recently, the...
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    Fantasy Grounds Is Going Free To Play

    I've used roll20 in the past, but that it can't run on a LAN disconnected from the Internet makes it less attracive to me. I can do that with both Fantasy Grounds and Foundry. One of my campaigns is held at a seniors center and there's no Internet connectivity. I use FG there to display the...
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    OSR A new Revised & Expanded edition of Labyrinth Lord is out

    Yes, my bad - Pauli is the correct spelling. I read and really enjoyed Pauli's Greyhawk trilogy of White Plume Mountain, Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Queen of the Demoweb Pits. That Pauli wrote an adventure for this new LL, ups my interest in buying a copy.
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    OSR A new Revised & Expanded edition of Labyrinth Lord is out

    Paul Kidd is credited with writing the included adventure. Darn, wasn't planning on getting a newer edition of LL. But I'm a big fan of Paul Kidd, the preview looks good and the price is affordable.
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