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Mundane resources (lamp oil, food, water) are "you need them to not die like pleb" resources. (don't lose buttons) Character resources...

I stand corrected. It was so long I no longer remembered the name of the creators.

Started in school (back in the 60's and 70's) and then got more in my college days during some anthropology classes.

I don't do much with board or card games anymore, though I did when I was younger. With computer games I'm almost entirely in the Turn...

Cortex Prime was really, really late, and an argument can be made that some of its stretch goals never arrived in the form it was pushed...

At one point I did a couple of custom Savage Worlds setting--I've forgotten what they call them, frameworks or some such--for them back...

And yet I've seen people on this very board badmouthing players who are only interested in playing what they want to play.

Oh, and back in the days when we played games where there were significant chances of character death on the regular, usually people...

Well, part of it is at least investigative ones also often have less combat. There are other things that can get you killed (and...

That would have been my guess. Don't they normally pay the tip with the app when ordering?

So today I reordered the pizza from last night, and had it delivered. I haven't gotten around to clearing out my driveway yet, and I was...

Ah, I forget most people using VTTs are used to it also being a character manager.

No. I cited one example. Did you really need me to list every species? My point was 1.) it's never just one species (or class or...

If I'm considering joining a table of folks I don't know very well, or at all, and the DM has a list of seemingly arbitrary restrictions...

You didn't see past Gygax's style right away, it took time, you learned. Others did too, some didn't, some did but chose to stick with...