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TheSword replied to the thread High-quality systemless books [+].In case you want to follow up. https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/17/17757.phtml -
TheSword replied to the thread High-quality systemless books [+].@Autumnal I would recommend one called King For A Day. It’s a sandbox campaign that remakes the first chapter of Night Below into a...
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TheSword reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread What do you, personally, need a system to do for you? with
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This may seem really glaringly obvious, but I must have a baseline, universal task resolution system that intuitively covers just about... -
TheSword replied to the thread Planescape Best Planescape Book across editions and 3rd party publishers?.I’ll go out on left field and say Planescape Torment, it’s the most Planescape product ever released for the setting. It’s available on...
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TheSword replied to the thread D&D 5E Aerial combat in 5e.One more thing is to have creatures take up 10’ squares as standard instead of 5’ squares and use a 10’ grid. It much easier to map the...
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TheSword replied to the thread D&D 5E Aerial combat in 5e.It’s a lot of complexity to add in for a single arial encounter. Make sure whatever extra rules you put in for simulationist reasons are...
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TheSword replied to the thread What videogames are you playing in 2025?.Quite enjoying Alan Wake 2. Thoroughly enjoyed the original and love how the sequel riffs off the original. Frankly the graphics, story...
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TheSword replied to the thread D&D General Would You Play High Level (12-15);Wiith Pre Generated Characters? Mostly 5.0/5.5 but theoretically any edition..That would be the caveat where I think pregen could work - inexperienced players or veteran players + new system. In those circumstances...
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TheSword replied to the thread D&D General Would You Play High Level (12-15);Wiith Pre Generated Characters? Mostly 5.0/5.5 but theoretically any edition..I wouldn’t play a pregen for anything longer than a single session. I see no virtue in a pregen. If you want PCs to play simple...
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TheSword reacted to Yaarel's post in the thread D&D General Would You Play High Level (12-15);Wiith Pre Generated Characters? Mostly 5.0/5.5 but theoretically any edition. with Like.
For me pregens are strictly for a one-session adventure. So hypothetically, the one-shot adventure might be at any level. But if I was...
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TheSword reacted to GuyBoy's post in the thread D&D 5E If you could run or play in any D&D 5e campaign right now, which would it be? with Like.
I'm currently playing in Dungeons of Drakkenheim and it's absolutely awesome. I'm also playing in WFRP Enemy Within, and that is equally...
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TheSword reacted to Niafel's post in the thread What time would you play an evening online 3 hour game session mid to long term? with Like.
Right now I play twice a week from 9:30 to 12:30-1:00ish, which is later than I'd like, but I cope. (When it's not daylight savings...
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TheSword reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What time would you play an evening online 3 hour game session mid to long term? with Like.
I'm currently playing in a game that starts at 11:30 my time and goes to like 3 in the morning (on weekdays no less). An artifact of my...
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TheSword replied to the thread What time would you play an evening online 3 hour game session mid to long term?.I quite like the 9pm - 12am I do on Wednesday’s because I get less grief from my partner because we’ve still spent most of the evening...
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TheSword posted the thread What time would you play an evening online 3 hour game session mid to long term? in *TTRPGs General.The thread is kind of explicit in the title. I’ve been in weeknight sessions that started at 7pm, 9pm, even 11pm and went long into the...