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    RPG Evolution: Playing Virtually? Don't Miss These Deals

    Maptools by RPtools has always been free and keeps getting better. RPTools I believe it's also one of the oldest and doesn't use a cloud but your own pc for hosting.
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    WotC World Reveal of Baldur's Gate 3

    I'm all for turn based over some sort of hybrid pausable real time. I also like that they seem to be using a lot more than we've seen in the past of the actual rules, though it'll take some time to iron those out I'm sure. There are lots of turn based games that have done very well, this will...
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    OD&D DMs Guild Treasures: 5 BECMI Modules That Deserve the Big Book Treatment

    I think there is if the thoughts in the intro were expanded upon and it was set in the pseudo setting it had that was placed in Mystara. The lands around the Palace could easily be expanded upon with new updates and whatnot. Honestly though? I'd rather have re-edits and formats of the old...
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    'DC Universe All Star Games' Is A New RPG Show Featuring Freddie Prinze Jr and Sam Witwer

    Xavier is a regular now of the PAX Acquisitions Incorporated games on stage, playing a Barbarian for a fondness of cheese named Bobby Zimmeruski and has become a fan favorite. Also a WWE wrestling favorite under the name Xavier Woods. Clare Grant is Seth Green's wife and has done several...
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    'DC Universe All Star Games' Is A New RPG Show Featuring Freddie Prinze Jr and Sam Witwer

    Freddie and Sam are both voice acting alums from the Star Wars animated universe, Freddie also has been streaming on twitch for quite a while now. I think it's interesting that they put this together and given the other members it should be an entertaining watch.
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    Explore Far Distant Worlds in the Traveller Core Rulebook

    So if they are anything like me it's all about the confusing editions like a lot of games I've heard are good but have gone through multiple companies. Like I know enough from casual encounters to know that there is original Traveller, then it went to Mongoose, then somewhere else? When you...
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    D&D 1E Dragon Reflections #29

    Just given the amount of work David Trampier was doing that year I can see why Wormy got a back seat. From his wikipedia article Cover art and some of the interior illustrations for Gamma World role-playing game (1978). Map board for the wargame Divine Right (1979). Cover art for the Dungeon...
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    OSR Old-School Essentials and Basic D&D Campaign Building

    I've been contemplating adding weapon mastery rules and the old 'simple cantrip' rules for Magic Users to the OSE rules. I love Basic Fantasy RPG too and some of their stuff could easily be added in since it is pretty similar.
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    OSR Old-School Essentials and Basic D&D Campaign Building

    If you end up running any old TSR adventures with it Charles it'd be neat to see a write up on that and how it handles it. Also how well it runs when using Ascending AC instead of thac0. It's neat and I plan on using it for a few things myself.
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    D&D General WotC Asks What Makes YOU Play Dungeons and Dragons?

    The unifying theme of the (old non AoS) world is Order vs Chaos with Chaos having a very real chance of winning if allowed to and still managing to get everywhere. There are some shared commonalities with D&D and Warhammer, but Warhammer is a very unique universe and very well fleshed out when...
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    D&D General WotC Asks What Makes YOU Play Dungeons and Dragons?

    I'm a fan of Greyhawk so that's where my favorite setting vote went. Also wrote in Gold Box Games :D
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    D&D General Vote For Your Favourite D&D Villain

    Love that Meepo is on there.
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    What is Greyhawk?

    No idea, her maps have been up for years now and I think it's one of the biggest things out there for Greyhawk that often flies under the radar. She has downloads of it as well broken up by Kingdom/Country as well. I think with a lot of the original D&D creators and players getting older or us...
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    What is Greyhawk?

    I am about half way through running it for my wife and kids and really like it, they did Keoland right with just enough fluff to spur imaginations and the inclusion of the Scarlet Brotherhood blurbs really makes it all fit together well. I allowed my son to play a lizardfolk in it because of the...
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    What is Greyhawk?

    While the old maps weren't great and some of the content isn't up to today's production standards, or even 3E, there are still a LOT of folks redoing or making Greyhawk just as nice an experience as FR or newer settings, you just have to know where to look. For example, Anna Meyers has an...
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    What is Greyhawk?

    To me Greyhawk is that lighter end of Grimdark. Yeah things are grim, but not quite like Warhammer (though it could be said there are similarities with the Greyhawk Wars and the encroachment of Chaos in the Empire) and not quite as fantastical as Forgotten Realms, where under every stone is a...
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    TSR Rob Kuntz Recounts The Origins Of D&D

    Yeah Arneson is to Gygax as Steve Woz is to Steve Jobs in some ways.
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    D&D General A Chat With 'Solasta' 5E Video Game Developers

    For the roleplaying server I ran we turned to the very well done "Community Expansion Project" to add more variety back in the day. I remember how folks complained about it's multi gig download requirement, but it added over twice the amount of objects, placables and tiles. For us it wasn't...
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    D&D General A Chat With 'Solasta' 5E Video Game Developers

    NWN got a facelift and has been re released on steam, they are slowly adding better graphics to it as well.
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