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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    That would be cool. One time I just showed up on the day, and let me tell you the pickings were slim! :LOL:
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    If it doesn't sell out before I register, I might. 😅
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    The Secret of Weepstone

    There's a thread about it in the old school forum as well: https://www.enworld.org/threads/osr-inspired-video-game-the-secret-of-weepstone-has-a-trailer.714844/
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Wednesday evening Nov 26 went with a set of exercises intended to be complementary to the previous night. Machine triceps extensions 87.5x28, 90x25 +80x10, 90x24 +80x10. Advanced weight on the first set, reps on the second and third, compared to last time. Lat pulldowns (narrow grip) 105x18...
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    OSR A new Revised & Expanded edition of Labyrinth Lord is out

    The original had quite a few modifications from B/X. Including spells above 6th level, character advancement to 20th, xp advancement charts with different numbers, and the inclusion of additional weapon and armor options from AD&D. It also modified morale checks to be upside-down compared to...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Last weekend I finished Gandhi's Satyagraha in South Africa, for my book club. I found it very readable, though he omits some details I'd like to have seen. I appreciate the generosity of Gandhi's approach; constantly giving people the benefit of the doubt, at least externally. Giving enemies...
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    Why do we need thieves??

    That Colville vid is really good, on this topic. Good guidance on how to build/get that community, as well as how to maintain/nurture it once you've got it.
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Tuesday night aimed for usual upper body trio and maybe something extra if I had time, but the triceps machine kept getting occupied, and I ran out of time waiting for it. I did sub in another exercise while waiting. Smith inclined barbell bench 70x22, 90x10 +80x5, 90x8 +80x3 +70x5. Tiny...
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    D&D General Red Wavy Lines

    Those look to me like they could be curtains or cloths hung on the wall and strung between posts (like a privacy screen), or some kind of energy field or magic wall. What does the room description say?
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    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    I'm looking at the BECMI Basic Dungeon Masters Rulebook, page 23, and it says Blindness imposes a -4 penalty to hit, slows movement to 1/3 normal or 2/3 normal if led, and gives enemies +4 to hit you. Remember that AD&D predates BECMI by several years. To the best of my recollection blindness...
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    Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Auction at Christie's

    Please share photos of your Holmes set with language about elves choosing from adventure to adventure! Zach Howard from Zenopus Archives has no mention of that change anywhere in his exhaustive change list of differences between the printings/versions of the Holmes rules, but it's certainly...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The Bard (of Why HeroQuest is so Great fame) talks in the video below a bit about the archetype of the barbarian and the importance of physicality, "rippling musculature" and the vitality of the body in the genre, especially post-Frazetta. He opines that Conan's body gives him his agency in the...
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    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    Watched this when it came out on HBO Max this Spring. My recollection is that it was decent, but I felt they overdid the callbacks to/quotes from/references to the LotR movies.
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    D&D General Red Wavy Lines

    TSR tried out several different methods for solo adventures. BSOLO Ghost of Lion Castle, XSOLO Lathan's Gold, and XS2 Thunderdelve Mountain used the Choose Your Own Adventure-style system of having paragraphs of content shuffled out of order through the module, so you couldn't read them...
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