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Bologna….d&d bologna that is, brought to you by license from TSR. I learned that one from @Alphastream.

Ohh how about the both count. If the player picks up a dice first it’s made with advantage if the DM picks up a dice first it’s with disadvantage?

On what basis could you refuse? I’m actually facing this right now. I have offered to run a D&D game e for some co-workers. All are fantasy movie and videogame geeks, 1 is an experienced D&D 5e player, one played in the 90s and 2 are new to ttrpg. Right off the bat the least experienced one ask...

Oh me for sure. I don't get to watch a lot, (wife and son both hate black and white TV shows), but I always love when a window to watch one opens AND it is one of my favorites (or a forgotten one).

So, to properly run a Dragonborn NPC I have to reference both the MM and the PHB? That may be the correct interpretation but man that pushes 5e further down the list of games I want to run. But then again in 3rd I never added class levels to monsters for the same reason.

So this thread made go reread the first part of the Raiders of the Lost Ark novelization. He gets tells but some are razor thin more like he gets ‘a feeling’. But how to gamify that? As a DM putting in tells means I have to be more mindful and thoughtful about placement and purpose, which is...

I am a lesson learned kind of guy. I mean waiting a month longer than I wanted for the core book was not as big as a deal as I made it out to be, but no waiting this time. It's funny the standard book at $39.99 seems almost too low (not complaining, but I was expecting $50ish usd) and the...

Well my wife has been asking for my Christmas list.

I had no idea there was a new Black Company book. It has kind of thrown me. I read the first 3 and silver spike multiple times in the 90s. And the books of the south once each as they came out. I’m not much into grimdark anymore, do I jump back in? Do I reread the Books of the South? Do I...

Yeah I think I overstated it a bit but I was vaguely remembering this passage: "I am very old, oh man of the waste countries; long and long ago I came to this planet with others of my world, from the green planet Yag, which circles for ever in the outer fringe of this universe. We swept through...

Didn't one of REH Conan stories have a wizard from outer space? And Saber Hagen's book of swords turns out to be techno not magic right? (It's been so long since I read them I may be confused on that one)

I have recently come around to this as well. For me it was watching sportsball games. In American football the QB knows where every defence guy is yet can get blindsided. There is even special protections for both QBs and receivers cause a hit coming in at the slightly wrong angle can be...

For years (and I mean over a decade) I thought there was an insanely popular thread on a homebrew Coraline RPG. I finally opened it to see what the fuss was about and realized it was Coreline a sci-fi game.

Yep. for myself I have wondered how a party would handle the most house in hommlet or get the weapons from plume with minimal combat.

I thought it was a weird yet possibly cool start to a new play by post game. Morris could be a computer running constant simulations and spitting out the percentages. Umbran would be the crack black ops guy running the missions. And Danny A is the retired gamer in hiding who knows more than is safe.