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    RPG Print News – Goodman Games, Free League Publishing, Troll Lords Games, and More

    Given Len Lakofka is still around, they should really go further than just Bone Hill - do his entire L1-L5 series, cleaned up and 5e-ified!
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    D&D General Why do you play Dungeons & Dragons?

    As someone who played a LOT of collectible card games back in the day... at least two dozen... ... I can count the number that I played that were mechanically better than M:TG on one finger, and the number on par on one hand: Better? Netrunner. And it was designed by the same guy. On par...
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    D&D General Why do you play Dungeons & Dragons?

    Because it's not just a game... ... it's a universe. When you look at the whole legacy of D&D - all the products, all the home games, all the stories - there's nothing else quite like it in the RPG world. There's just so much... there... there. The worlds, the adventures... just like Middle...
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    Heroes' Feast: A Cookbook & DM's Resource

    Just saw that it has reached #1 on Amazon in the "Party Cooking" category... Double meaning, anyone?
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    D&D 5E Things You Would Rather Do Than Have A PC Kender?

    Truth be told, I don't have any problem with Kender PCs at all anymore, as I no longer game with teenage wangwranglers, but with adult players who understand that the game is supposed to be fun for everyone at the table... (And, at this point, I'd honestly prefer a Kender PC over a Drow...
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    D&D 1E Mearls on AD&D 1E

    2 year thread necro? Eh, that's just pulling a corpse from the bottom of the pile to animate your zombie.... now, digging out a 16-year buried skeleton is a whole different matter...
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    Dragon Reflections #34

    I always had that feeling back in the 90s when I'd read their reviews section - could I really trust reviews of a product coming from a publication made by the same company? Especially because they never contained much criticism of that company's own product... At the same time, I missed seeing...
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    D&D 5E Kobold Press (and are they the new Paizo?)

    Can't wait to get my ToB II PDF today... It'll be the perfect way to reward myself after finishing a four hour exam on retirement planning... ;)
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    RPG Crowdfunding News – The Wagadu Chronicles, Stargate SG-1 RPG, and more

    Ooh... Flames of Freedom looks really interesting. If I wasn't grossly above my kickstarter budget for the year already, that's one I'd back. Love the concept.
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    D&D 5E D&D doesn't need bards

    To my mind 5E finally got the Bard right - the formula shouldn't be .5/.5/.5, but more like .8/.8/.8 - while it looks unbalanced on paper, it's limited by the fact that a single character can still only do one thing at a time, and is powerful enough to actually make a difference. The problem in...
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    D&D 5E Kobold Press (and are they the new Paizo?)

    Indeed. But that's why they'd have lots of allies meeting there... on the map it looks like a natural chokepoint blocking any advance towards the Ironcrags, Dornig and/or Morgau.
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    D&D 5E Kobold Press (and are they the new Paizo?)

    Nuria Natal is also the second most powerful empire in the setting... the Sultanate would have to bring all their legions to bear to even have a chance of defeating them. And that would leave all their other fronts defenseless, so it's not happening. Even taking the Magdar Kingdom or an...
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    D&D 5E Change the name to Dungeons OR Dragons

    I was thinking "2 Dragons, 1 Dungeon". But that would just be wrong....
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    Worlds of Design: How RPG Tools Have Changed

    Just DMing with a laptop has been huge for me; I make a simple Excel spreadsheet to track initiative, resources, etc; keep Word documents open with notes and material I've written up, PDFs of adventure modules and monster manuals (which I then use Print to PDF to print separate files for maps...
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    D&D General What's your favorite starter sandbox region?

    I think you mean antagonists, unless you're running a very different Realms game than most...
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    D&D 5E Grande Temple of Jing - anyone have opinions on it?

    "jing" has a number of meanings in Chinese, including "capital" (as in "Beijing") - but as slang, "jing" alone... just means splooge.
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    D&D 5E Grande Temple of Jing - anyone have opinions on it?

    Sorry man, I can't even see "Grand Temple of Jing" without seeing "精"... which means semen.
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    D&D 5E Kobold Press (and are they the new Paizo?)

    On the other hand, they dropped a completely different hint on the website yesterday: https://koboldpress.com/kobold-dispatch-october-edition/
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    D&D 5E Kobold Press (and are they the new Paizo?)

    The Ghoul Empire has only recently consolidated itself (within the last century) and has already overrun most of the Underdark, driving off most races and all but destroying the Drow. Now they are beginning to threaten the surface, which is a major part of the plot. The Dragon Empire is a...
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