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zottel replied to the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?.Just say 'I am having a hard time with unexpected rule changes.', either before, after or between sessions. I don't think it needs to be... -
Thanks to all of those who recommended Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master! For those interested, I offer a good-sized free sample of the...
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zottel reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General My experience with paid D&D tools after 3+ years as a DM/Player with
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If you're interested in giving it another look, I would recommend not attempting to begin with a fully-fledged campaign management... -
zottel reacted to Cynicide's post in the thread D&D General My experience with paid D&D tools after 3+ years as a DM/Player with Like.
I thought I'd weigh in on the subject of battlemats and VTT's. In 2020 my group lost their in-person play space, we moved online and I...
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I'm suddenly getting a massive whitespace appended to the end of every post in the mobile view. I haven't seen anything like it before...
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Heroquest. I say this as a very late comer (to Heroquest) I played it with my brother, and the role of Zargon (sp?) is a perfect jump...
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I read the first 200 pages of Justin Alexander's book and then told my son he could read it. He's about 80 pages in and just DMd the...
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zottel reacted to BookTenTiger's post in the thread D&D General My experience with paid D&D tools after 3+ years as a DM/Player with Like.
Like you, I find that music only really works in-person. I spent a while trying to set it up online and it was more distracting or...
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zottel reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread OSR What does OSR mean to you? What do you value most in an OSR game? with Like.
I have a wide umbrella that OSR games fit under. Examples for me are: OSE Shadowdark Crawford's Without Number series Into the ODD...
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zottel reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread OSR What does OSR mean to you? What do you value most in an OSR game? with Like.
The OSR space is also defined by a lot of people who want to kick people out of their club by saying that what those people are doing...
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I also think "zero-prep" is probably being used in several different ways, and it's probably important to be clear on the distinctions...
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zottel replied to the thread D&D General My experience with paid D&D tools after 3+ years as a DM/Player.Yes, I am very sure that's the one. Awesome piece of software, very easy to use, if you don't overcomplicate it from the start.
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zottel reacted to Algorithmancer's post in the thread D&D General My experience with paid D&D tools after 3+ years as a DM/Player with Like.
I've been DMing for a while now, currently running 3 campaigns and playing in another. Figured I'd share my thoughts on the paid tools...
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zottel replied to the thread Good solo games.I have started playing Lichdom a few months back, and have been enjoying it. The journal that I am getting out of it will be neat...
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For me, the gold standard is the Shadowdark Quickstart, which gives a tremendous amount away for free -- more than TSR included in their...