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    Flowchart How to Play My Character When I'm Absent

    https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6yxs_fRGn4yYmNjZjQ1M2YtYmZhZS00YzQ1LTllZTctYzRhOGMxN2UxOWI5 I have a 9th level human brawny rogue patterned after Malcolm Reynolds. When I was absent once, the guy playing him told me he couldn't figure out how to make him work right in a fight. The other guys...
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    Photo of the Very First Braunstein - Almost

    This photo surfaced last year on the blog "Vintage Wargaming." In April of 1966 The Minneapolis Tribune did a feature on miniatures wargaming at David Wesely's home. Wesely refereed history's first roleplaying game in 1967, with Dave Arneson as one of the players. He's in this photo too...
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    Review of They Shall Be Paid In Coin of the Realm by Taurus Twelve

    "... the local press showed up... I was away... one of the freshmen... providing the reporter with her version... a number of painful gaffs... the “essence of role-playing” was “finding monsters, killing them, and taking their gold.”" I am a news photographer and I can tell you that it is very...
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    D&D 5E [5E] To Vance or not to Vance - That is the Question

    two things, one point 1. i've played the same fighter/druid on and off since 1985. [my screen name and avatar] i think the only reason i've played him so long was a house rule that divine spells were really 'prayers,' so they didn't have to be memorized at the beginning of the day, just...
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    D&D 5E [5E] To Vance or not to Vance - That is the Question

    They wouldn't get me back. We suffered for years with "Sorry, I can't do that. I didn't memorize that spell today."
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    Fortress America: When Gaming and Politics Collide

    Yeah, I'm a little offended by the US being cast as the bad guy and I wouldn't buy the game just for that reason. I'm an RPGer anyway, and I've found these types of game to be pretty dull, and it seems like this doesn't really have anything to do with the game play but it still bothers me and...
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    Using 4E D&D for a sci-fi campaign. Ideas?

    that's great to hear! i was thinking about doing it myself, searched '4th edtion sci-fi' and found this i'm a big browncoat, but my game group didn't really embrace the cortex system in the serenity rpg. they prefer 4th ed. dnd thought about a harder sci-fi setting for our game, but that...
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    Gotta Write Adventure 4 NonGamers - Need Your Help

    Thanks cam, fba, zeph, friday, arlough, aco, jester Tell me what you think about what I have so far. *** the 13-year-old nephew's PC gets a letter from his old mentor and war commander. he has died. To complete the will, the old mentor's prized possession - a dragon egg - must be delivered to...
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    Gotta Write Adventure 4 NonGamers - Need Your Help

    nobody dies. humor will definately come up it's safe to generalize that women are nurturing and like relationships love the fantasy tropes i think i can make it realistic, no funny accented dwarves. just found out i have my sister's 2nd ed. halfling thief who do i throw the softball to if...
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    Gotta Write Adventure 4 NonGamers - Need Your Help

    thanks guys. as a woman, do you think my sister will like a scenario that involves taking care of something, or something having to do with a relationship? as a sports fan, do you think my nephew will appreciate a story that involves some kind of medieval sport?
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    Gotta Write Adventure 4 NonGamers - Need Your Help

    Family bet: my sister and her one son, a gamer nerd, agreed that he will play a family game of softball with her and his jock brother (and 15 other friends and family) if she and the jock son play a game of D&D 4 with him and Uncle Varden. That means I have to write and DM a 1st level D&D 4...
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    D&D on 30 Rock

    I thought I had a crush on Tina Fey before, but NOW... ;) "She will be mine. She WILL be mine!"
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    Hail to the Geek Funny/Cool Song

    Ever hear of the Deaf Pedestrians? It's no White and Nerdy , but still... http://www.myspace.com/deafpedestrians "I play dungeons and dragons I got a 13th level halfling fighter thief got seven hit die on my backstab sometimes you know it's good to be a geek. It's good to be a geek...
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    D&D+Firefly=DragonFly

    Oooooooh! Me lilkey! would the skyplex be underwater?
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    D&D+Firefly=DragonFly

    No buzz. That's the only thing I don't like about SRPG [Well, healing was confusing, and the book was hard to reference quickly during a game.] Fun, intuitive system. Earning 'plot points' for playing your PC's complications is pure role-playing gold! The problem is that D&D4 is getting all the...
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    D&D+Firefly=DragonFly

    Take the Firelfy/Serenity story and superimpose it on a D&D-type fantasy world: DragonFly. With D&D4 getting all the current buzz right now, it could be a good way to 'keep flyin' even though your gaming group is more interested in dungeoneering again. The Central Planets = Central Continent...
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    Serenity Roleplaying Game Preview

    Try http://diceclub.ws/serenity.html
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    Serenity Roleplaying Game Preview

    Link See pictures from the games, including deckplans, character sheets, handouts and us gamers: http://diceclub.ws/serenity.html http://www.geocities.com/vardenkenzei/serenityrpg.html Intro Margaret Weis Productions is going to publish the Serenity Roleplaying Game, to be released, I...
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    Just names.

    Just names Kaliq bin-Samir bin-Qudamah al-Ramiz Weyland Khobyrgne Jack Armour
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