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Yes, IME players cheating on rolls was a much bigger topic of concern back in the day. I still occasionally encountered it with younger... -
I will have more to say about this book later, but the end of chapter 54 and alll of chapter 55 of Christopher Ruocchio’s The Demon In...
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prabe reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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This goes to @Campbell's point. Someone who doesn't like "fail forward" gives an example of clumsy GMing - narrating the cook in the... -
prabe reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Boy, I did not have that many people coming out of the closet as owning that product on my bingo card.
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prabe reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Of course, maybe we shouldn't be asking for a roll to open the lock in the first place. I don't know about you, but most of the time if...
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prabe reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And none of the comments made here since pointing out why the example you sited was incomplete or how it could be made to work have done...
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prabe replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.Barker's long had a gift for starting stories. Sometimes he gets mislaid on his way to finishing them, of course. His opening to The...
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Gaming inherited arguments from wargaming, science fiction fandom, and constructed language fandom, among others. Oh, and reenactment...
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prabe replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I don't think people in the Pleistocene would have objected to the GM making an adjustment to a roll that was in the players' interests...
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prabe reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
To be fair, in most games which rely heavily on success with complications generally rolls should only be called for when the...
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prabe replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I can see that. Seems that in the Pleistocene, the GM ignoring a die roll or considering it to be one higher or lower or whatever would...
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Definitely. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The book does talk about the prevalence of cheating, and why...
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prabe reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
At least when people start threads promoting terrible people I get to add a bunch of names to my ignore list. It's really depressing how...
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prabe replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I haven't read anything like as much on TRPG history as some people here, but my strong sense is that it's been the same arguments and...
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Shared Fantasy is really worth reading. As far as I'm aware, it's the earliest academic work examining RPGs and gamers. But it's also...