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  1. lyle.spade

    GMing with Joy: Long Term Gamemastering

    I look forward to them!
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    GMing with Joy: Long Term Gamemastering

    Well put; thoughtful; thank you. I am the Forever GM, too, and by choice. I enjoy it more than playing, even with all the additional work it entails. I think your recommendation to start small - promise a few sessions, or what I would call a "short arc" and then see where it goes from there...
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    Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before By Yourself

    The rules are quite simple but like many of the line's books, they are not sequenced well. There are a great many details spread around the chapters. That said, it works well in play if you keep in mind that it's highly narrative and low on prescriptions. If you're lost while playing, ask...
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    EN Publishing SPACE FIGHT! Starship Skirmishes Are Returning And They're All New!

    I see a FASA map and counters. Good stuff.
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    A New Look for DriveThruRPG

    I like it, although if anyone reading this can communicate to them that increasing the font size in the wide buttons (publishers, genres, etc) would be nice for the older eyes.
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    Slow page load speeds (esp. for included images and fonts)

    The site loads more quickly on my phone, but on a tablet and my desktop it's dreadful. The black letters in dark mode do not show up on the phone, either, but they do on the other two devices.
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    Slow page load speeds (esp. for included images and fonts)

    Page and image loads are taking me back to the days of dial-up, and I've checked my end of the connection and it's not me. Also, since the slider was added, all the article titles default to black font, which makes them unreadable on my dark screen setting. I think someone needs to check to see...
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    Dreams & Machines Is Modiphius' New Age of Roleplaying

    It's a form of 2d20, albeit stripped down and streamlined, from what I've heard.
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    Modiphius' Conan TTRPG Is Ending

    I'm bummed that 2d20 Conan is coming to an end, however, given the aforementioned heap of books, and the fact that Modiphius, through them, covered pretty much all of Howard's canon, outside of adventures I don't think there was much else for them to produce. I love the system, and I think that...
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    D&D General Dragon+ Content Going Away -- Whoops, It's Gone!

    We see in this a major drawback to content that's not really ours...that is, stuff we access via streaming or logins is really not ours. Kindle books, online music, this...if it's not on your HD alone, or your record shelf, or your bookcase, it's not yours and you can't truly control when you...
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    Kingmaker Adventure Path

    I've heard it, too. The problem with the AP - and I'd say that this is the only glaring problem with it - was that the whole "crazy fey behind the scenes" plot thread wasn't developed enough, not foreshadowed enough in the first five books, and so dropping it on the party in book six was...
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    Kingmaker Adventure Path

    Well said, and for the most part I agree, although our group solved the problems with the AP differently. Books 1 and 2 were exactly what we expected, and we enjoyed them a lot - that is, carving out a fledgling realm and realizing that you can't act like a murder hobo and never experience the...
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    RPG Inspiration: Non-Fiction

    History. Check out the 30 Years War for shifting alliances and big characters, plus nasty battles displacing civilians. There are plenty of off-the-beaten path wars, political dust-ups, interesting characters, inventions, and events. "When France Fell," about American and British relations with...
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    Not DnD: Star Trek Adventures at 10pm BST on Twitch

    Modiphius publishes some d20-based games, but they're all through their "Via Modiphius" program, which enables small companies to publish their work through MOD, None of MOD's games, however, are d20, and I don't see them moving anything from their house system to levels. In fact, MOD is...
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    Jonstown Review: A Rough Guide to Glamour

    Elvis, and is that Danny DeVito to his right?
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    THE REAL THING Is An Official RPG Based On 80s Band Faith No More

    So strange...so very strange. And yet, King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime is a classic album - all thrilla no filla. And yet I still have no idea what overarching idea or theme ties that, or The Real Thing, together.
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    Green Ronin Announces 'Cthulhu Awakens' RPG

    I wrote a review of the Fantasy AGE version of this system a few years ago - you can read it on ENWorld here. In short, I do not like the system. It offers some interesting mechanics to provide players with some variety of actions, but they end up making for a cumbersome experience at the...
  18. lyle.spade

    Making Religion Matter in Fantasy RPGs

    It was, how you say...a joke. Hence the smiley face. On the other and, Star Trek's serious business, isn't it? :)
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