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@Reynard with great power comes great responsibility. Your last rant kicked off one of the biggest threads of the year, and now you... -
Retros_x reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with
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I don’t think you are wrong but one big difference between learning when we were 10 and learning when you are an adult, is that back... -
One of the things I really dislike that has come out of the rise of popularity of D&D (and to some degree other RPGs; but let's be...
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Retros_x replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I read "In the miso soup" by Ryu Murakami and this book is ... something. Way more gorey than expected, but only in one specific scene...
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Retros_x replied to the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?.In my experience, lore only matters for players, if it becomes relevant to their decision making during playing the game. Anything else...
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Retros_x replied to the thread Immersion?.Immersion is a sensory feeling for me. To be immersed in a movie I sit in the cinema, not talking with anybody, just be in the story...
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Retros_x replied to the thread Player skill vs character skill?.I think its not a VERSUS. Sometimes you need or want player skill, sometimes character skill. For me personally TTRPG is about making...
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Big topic, but first thing I'll offer is that player skill in social interactions doesn't have to require acting skills or being...
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Retros_x replied to the thread First foray into paid DMing - 16 session in..First of all, I really enjoy reading these posts. Before I become an active member of enworld I was a lot in D&D subreddits, and...
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Retros_x reacted to aco175's post in the thread First foray into paid DMing - 16 session in. with Like.
This is what I was thinking as well. It is nice to see everyone is showing up and being good players. Maybe paying for it means you...
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Retros_x reacted to TheSword's post in the thread First foray into paid DMing - 16 session in. with Like.
Hey. So as some will know back in August I took my first steps into paid DMing. It wasn’t something I did lightly but I’ve been DMing...
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Realism doesn't have a ton to add to the trap conversation IMO. They are more fiction than fact, and also heavily tied to the idea of a...
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Yeah, while I will often grant automatic success to a Thief (I mostly play Shadowdark) using his crawling turns searching, all bets are...
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Happy to use any numbers you want. The math is pretty straightforward. The point is that a 33% casualties does not mean a 66% trap...
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It's interesting how different people interpret the question "should traps have tells?". Some variations in this thread: What is...
