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  1. J.Quondam

    How long before you tire of a thread here?

    Just to pick a number, probably around a 100-ish? posts is when I'm done. Except for very active threads, it seems somewhere around there is when most threads have boiled down to a few particularly vested users discussing whatever tangent they've gone onto. Also, when a thread I'm interested in...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    From the taco video: "I don't have the lived experience to properly relate to those who purchase this," is the best thing I've heard this year so far. And it applies so very, very perfectly to so much in the world beyond salsa.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Test: Is delete posts new? I don't recall seeing that feature here. ETA - Result: I don't see delete post option.
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    In-person Game cancelled. What do you play?

    Hungry Hungry Hippos
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    For those who don't play D&D (or its clones), what keeps you engaged with EN World?

    Yeah, I appreciate the familiar format, and find the moderation to be generally very good. But for me the main draw (aside from the general topic) is the size: there's probably just a few dozen really regular posters, plus a couple hundred other semi-regulars. It hits a "comfy" sweet spot...
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    Warning points visible?

    This surfaced a few months ago, in an older thread. Relevant posts start here: https://www.enworld.org/threads/on-warning-points.674161/page-2#post-9598363 No real info in there, i don't think, but there it is if you want to take look.
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    For those who don't play D&D (or its clones), what keeps you engaged with EN World?

    Habit, mainly. Fortunately, EN World is way healthier than most of the rest of social media.
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    Most influential RPG

    So it's not the rules liten-ess alone, but the rules lite + genre specificity that really caught the lightning in a bottle? I think that's a pretty compelling argument. It also just occurred to me to suggest another ultralite that goes way back: RISUS, first developed in 1993, iirc, though i'm...
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    Most influential RPG

    I don't really follow gaming history closely, but I know there were tons of lites and ultralites long before this, an obvious one being Microlite20 in 2006. And there were "official" lite games published in the same timeframe, and probably before. (e.g., I think Fate Accelerated came out in...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Accidental house fires maybe, but trash fires are on the rise. Apparently that's due to discarded lithium ion batteries, and vape batteries in particular. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/lithium-ion-battery-waste-fires-are-increasing-and-vapes-are-a-big-part-of-it/
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    Your most "visceral" experience at a movie theater.

    There are probably others, but Empire Strikes Back is the one that immediately springs to mind, both because it was the first time I ever went to a movie theater, and also (of course) because it was Empire and absolutely gobsmacked my 7-year old self: AT-AT walkers, tauntaun guts, Bespin, bounty...
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    How Will The New Tariffs Affect TTRPG Prices?

    Yeah, exactly. And as the prices of pretty much everything keep seeping upward to match the new "low" tariff-imposed level, the inflated prices will be branded as a "big beautiful win for everyone!!" (But in ALL CAPS, of course. Because apparently that's all it takes for certain people to...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    What?? Inconceivable!
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    help with adventure suggestions: BBEGs are quarreling ex-lovers.

    Making the macguffin the one thing neither will give up just to spite the other is brilliant! Initially I was thinking about the tomb/monument itself (analog to the house in the movie) in that capacity, as the rationale why neither is willing to leave. But making the curse-breaker into a...
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    help with adventure suggestions: BBEGs are quarreling ex-lovers.

    This is some good stuff, thanks! I think I'm finally getting a handle on how to structure this. The cardboard BBEGs' motivations aren't terribly important, imo, but helpful to frame things. They are obsessive and straight-up evil; that's why they've been cursed, after all. Their main concern...
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    help with adventure suggestions: BBEGs are quarreling ex-lovers.

    Looking for suggestions. Aim is for a short one-shot sword & sorc type adventure only. The backstory of a tomb: It appears for a single night every 10-ish years or so, emerging from the sand at dusk and melting away at dawn. It is the tomb of a ruler and consort, who died hundreds of years...
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    TSR I need assistance finding a possibly imaginary box set

    Sorry I can't help with the actual question, but my next D&D campaign may very well start in a tavern with a gentlemanly old scholar ambling up to the PCs' table and saying, "I need assistance finding a possibly imaginary box set."
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    What are must read short stories?

    "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler, and other stories in her anthology of that same name.
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    D&D 3E/3.5 Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing

    I know there are publishers on there who sell PDFs on DTRPG and provide a link to their own website in their profile where they make POD available elsewhere, often by a link to Lulu. (And I know Lulu isn't too picky about what software is used to make the submitted PDFs, just as long as the file...
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    Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED]

    I think "naughty word" is an automated forum filter. The post-per-page used to be setting, but I can't find it anymore. You could start a thread in Meta and ask about that.
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