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Retros_x replied to the thread What are you reading in 2026?.I started WoT #3 - it feels like the prose is more refined suddenly, it feels somehow elevated, but maybe I am imaging because I read a... -
I just finished reading Matt Dinniman's 2020 LitRPG novel Dungeon Crawler Carl, and I'm pleasantly surprised by how it lived up to the...
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Retros_x reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with
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Speaking for myself, some of the latent BXisms are kind of a turn off for me with Dolmenwood. But ideally, that would just mean I'd get... -
I feel like this is something that might be blameable on Game of Thrones. It's like every show now needs fifteen main characters, each...
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Retros_x reacted to Artamo's post in the thread D&D General Adventurers a distasteful necessity with Like.
On the other hand, real life explorers were not exactly beloved by many of the locals of the places they were “discovering.”
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Retros_x replied to the thread OSR Looking for OSR that specializes in exploration and eventual founding of a keep.I agree. I think the best way is to just take the game you like the most for its base mechanics (Shadowdark in my case) and then slap...
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Retros_x reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread OSR Looking for OSR that specializes in exploration and eventual founding of a keep with Like.
Man, that's what my Shadowdark campaign is about. I might just steal all the haven management stuff from this.
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Retros_x reacted to Jahydin's post in the thread OSR Looking for OSR that specializes in exploration and eventual founding of a keep with Like.
Have some time tonight to jot down some more systems that reward exploration: Ultraviolet Grasslands - Grants XP Irownsworn (free!) -...
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I have a nice plan for 2026 IF I find the time. So I never read the classic dnd novels and my plan is to tackle The Dark Elf trilogy...
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I just finished reading Novalyne Price Ellis's 1986 memoir, One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard, The Final Years, and I feel like...
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Retros_x replied to the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+].Thats such a great idea! I have the same problem, fantasy names often sound too... fantastic to me. Like not based on any culture, just...
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Retros_x reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread Justice Ramin Arman Promoted to Game Design Director of Dungeons & Dragons with Like.
I started having that thought circa 2002. Most groups playing 3E I saw weren't doing it like forum theorycrafters assumed. They were...
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You also can’t have a debate because it doesn’t have a view.
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Retros_x replied to the thread How Does AI Affect Your Online Shopping?.Sorry I misunderstood you, I thought you were speaking of indie videogames. In the TTRPG scene I fully believe the complete desinterest...
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Retros_x reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread How Does AI Affect Your Online Shopping? with
Haha.
If you're knowledgable in economics, you've got to know that assuming rational actors is, in reality, a failure state.
