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Retros_x reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with
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How about: Put a very brief history/backstory at the beginning of the adventure that only has the essential information the GM will... -
Retros_x reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
I run too many different systems to have a single answer to that. I don't usually house rule critical successes or failures - I just...
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Retros_x reacted to Scribe's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
Bullet points, terse description, bolding/italics, some kind of keying identifier that draws attention to what is happening. Read it...
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Retros_x reacted to Jolly Ruby's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) GMs: How long should it usually take to go from level 1 to 4? with Like.
If you distill the math behind the adventuring days XP, the treasure hoards and the DMG advice you can find these numbers: Levels 1 and...
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Retros_x replied to the thread Project Hail Mary | Official Trailer 2.I loved the book and I am very curious how they will do it. Ryan Gosling is a great cast for the role IMO.
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I predict Ryan Gosling will be nominated for an Academy Award again and lose and then he and Amy Adams will have a drink together and...
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I fully agree, and I normally go this way. I always have dozen of books of different topics laying around. But as I said, it's been a...
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Retros_x reacted to Errant Thinking's post in the thread [Old school] I can't deal with inventory with Like.
I personally prefer inventory slots over calculating weights. Mausritter is pretty elegant in how it handles the inventory, though I...
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Retros_x replied to the thread [Old school] I can't deal with inventory.Most of the decision could be reduced to "Do I use this now or potentially later", "Do I pick this up" or "Do we go further?". Do I use...
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Retros_x replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.That is the main reason I have like 10 unfinished books right now - not counting the ones I completely DNF. But these books I feel I...
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Yeah. I do the same. It seems to come in waves. Fiction for a time then non-fiction. Forcing things almost never works out well for me...
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I’m a very big believer in feeding your brain what it wants to read, within very broad limits. I’ve got times when one or more of my...
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I've found it difficult to get through Neuromancer. Definitely not my writing style, but for some reason I'm having a hard time getting...
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That first section of Eye of the World is really cozy, hitting a lot of those Hero's Journey tropes in a very in-fashion in the 1980s...
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There's an excellent series of essays about the life of medieval peasants by Bret Devereaux over on his blog, which I'm a big fan of.