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    D&D 5E (2024) There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen: Snarf's Guide to Using (and adjudicating) Skills in 5e

    Just a quick note that the oft-ignored social rules in the DMG cover all that. I tend to concur. I don't want to be too rigid, but I do want substitutions to make sense.
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    Spoilers Fantastic Four (Spoilers)

    "playing 'Disintegration' by The Cure" I really liked a lot of the shrunken-down scenes with the ants and that sense of creepy but G-rated adventure some old comics could have. Those scenes gave me a bit of a horripilated thrill and made me think of old stuff like Journey Into Mystery or Tales...
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    Streaming Movies and Power Rankings: A Reverie on Max's A24 and Netflix's Rebel Ridge

    I getcha. I think I agree. We felt it worked once we thought about it, but they hadn't quite established/laid the groundwork for it to feel natural. Watched Iron Claw recently with the same friends, and I Saw the TV Glow back in the Spring with a younger friend. Iron Claw was excellent, and...
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Got in last night for three circuits of dumbbell bench with drop sets, inclined dumbbell curls with drop sets, and seated dumbbell lateral raises with drop sets. Getting some small incremental increases. After my circuits the triceps extension machine was again taken up, but I went and did a...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I think you mean "whoop whoop!"
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    D&D General Best Adventure I Haven't Run?

    The factions all have ways in which they can be seen as good or bad, and rivalries. They can all be antagonists if the PCs don't want to cooperate with them. Two of our casters joined the mage faction, three of us joined another faction, and we wound up largely opposed to two others. From...
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    D&D General Best Adventure I Haven't Run?

    My group played through it and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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    D&D General Favorite Creepy Monster To Run?

    Yup. I remember reading an OSR DM opining once about how he preferred NOT to paint his miniatures, because it made them more abstractly representational, as opposed to how a nice paint job inclines the players to focus on the miniature rather than their imagination. Speaking as a longtime...
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    D&D General Favorite Creepy Monster To Run?

    I quite like trolls, as long as you describe them horrifically and don't refer to them by name, I once had a random encounter for a mid-level party be two trolls creeping up and ambushing their camp at night, and the players were all horrified of the nine foot tall, long-limbed, loping...
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    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    Random note: the terminology originates in Chainmail, where it denotes the actual (six sided) dice each unit rolls when attacking, though it varied based on what type of unit was attacking what type of unit, and was often fractional. For example, Light Foot attack as follows: vs other Light...
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    Harvest Festivals

    One thing that can be useful to bear in mind is that there are typically several different harvests of different crops, and there may be multiple harvest festivals focused on the different crops and seasonally-appropriate activities. For example in Ireland there were historically three major...
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Got back in last night for three sets of lat pulldowns (narrow grip) with drop sets on the latter two, three sets of machine triceps extensions with drop sets on the latter two, and three of machine shoulder press with a drop set on the last one. And this morning I managed to motivate to do a...
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    Gaming Journalist Rob Wieland Passes At Age 48

    That is absolutely, tragically young. Awful. Where did he principally share them, for those of us who aren't familiar with his APs?
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    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    I know the subject has been given a lot of discussion in 1E circles, even though I'm only tangentially involved in them. I've seen multiple discussions on Dragonsfoot over the years, for example. Stuart Marshall (aka Papers & Paychecks), the editor of OSRIC, has an interesting perspective in...
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