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Just started Katabasis by R. F. Kuang...already in the first few pages, this may be the smartest book I've read since Jonathan Strang &... -
I agree so much. Various regulars here have favorite authors whose works do nothing for me. So I don’t comment on them. Who needs it...
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Doesn't change the fact the larger version of that book was at leasta third longer than it should have been, and that was turning into a...
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Retros_x reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with
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That's my goal nearly all the time. I want exploration and discovery, with a healthy dollop of diplomacy and politics, and the... -
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I am not so much interested in the combat as war aspect. I am more interested in making the threat of disease or starvation actually...
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Lots of old timers have experience with this, or something close to this, with older editions of D&D. Wildly unbalanced combat, combat...
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Retros_x reacted to payn's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
My Traveller games are often exploration based with combats being few and far between.The Sci-Fi genre is both dangerous and imaginative!
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Retros_x replied to the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me.I have nothing to add, just wanted to say how beautiful it was to read that @Whizbang Dustyboots offered the perfect concrete...
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A theory I heard a while back is that your teens to mid-20s are the formative time when things ‘imprint’ on you, and that sets your...
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Retros_x reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me with
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D&D in the WotC era (and arguably in the late 2E era) has moved away from "boy, I hope I can survive sneaking into this sewer and... -
Just play it like you play your old games. You’ll have fun. I don’t think you will understand until you do. You seem to have some...
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Retros_x reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Just Because a location is not on the Atlas of Faerun doesn't mean its gone. with Like.
Are they?
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Absolutely. It made me sad as I read Wheel of Time. I could see the Slog dragging on and on, and then when he picked up speed again...
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Your point that King needs to hear "no" from his editor/s more often isn't even close to wrong, but it's not because Tabby is editing...
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I don't think he was ever married to cocaine
