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Dozens of 2D minis every time. 3D minis are great when you only need a few for a board game. But for a TTRPG starter set you want a good assortment of PC options and common monsters. If there will be an introductory adventure, I would focus on having enough so every monster in the adventure has...

So gravity powered rail systems, water-powered systems, pulley and counterweight systems (w/ human-powered crank mechanisms, similar to ancient cranes), have all been mentioned in this thread. Another possibility could be wind-assisted tunnels with bellows and natural ventilation shafts used to...

Fantasy Name Generators https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ Parf Edhellen https://www.elfdict.com/ * translates English words to Tolkien elvish (both Sindarin and Quenya). Good for coming up with Elven location names. Dwarrow Schollar https://thedwarrowscholar.com/ Lots of great resources...

Nothing beats a 3D mini IMHO. But standees are still nice and allow you to put a lot more in the box. Wood standees feels pretty niche and I think you would get more bang for you buck with full color thick cardboard or flat plastic minis (like Arcknight's). I also worry that wooden minis would...

I don't and make an effort not to. My personality can make me pretty compulsive about organization and I try to resist that outside of work. I don't succeed very well with digital material as I save and folder everything in Google Drive. But I don't put too much time into that other than...

Got back into TTRPGs in 2014. I keep seeing new editions and starter sets for games I've bought and never got around to playing. There is a weird pull to want to buy the new version, just in case I do play them. I've not succumb to this as I've gotten over my earlier impulse buying of...

Are you just burned out with running supers games or is there something about them (either the typical systems or just running games for powerful PCs) that you don't enjoy as a GM? I'm in the same boat regarding romance. I might include it in a campaign I'm running with my regular group, but I...

Yeah, I was upset, but after reading the discussion on Discord, it is clear that it is not the Con organizers fault. I suppose they could have sent out an e-mail as soon as they learned about it, but I'm not sure how early the portal opened and how long it was open before the con organizers knew...

Yeah, I saw that on Discord. Usually I try to access these kinds of sites early because often the third-party entity operating them doesn't stick strictly to the schedule. Didn't this time, lesson learned.

Easy. Follow the Balder's Gate III method. Important NPC allies and escort mission macguffan-folk set up at the party's base camp and aggressively hit on the PCs after several interactions. ;-)

Well I was in at exactly 12 noon Central and all 7 of the walking distance hotels on the mmxreservations site were already sold out.

WFRP 4e is set in the era of Karl Franz, pretty much same time period as 1e (this is a bit of inconsistency and retconning, 4e is set in 2501 whereas 1e was set around 2510-2512). The politics of this era feature heavily in The Enemy Within campaign books, which are an updated and added-to...

If you are willing to pay more, you can call the hotels directly. I was able to get a room at Home2 and use my Hilton Honors discount. Will be a suite instead of two rooms, so I'm getting one expensive one room for two couples (King bed and pull out queen) instead of two rooms. The price is...

Well that sucks. Gamehole Con said that the housing portal opens at noon. I go in exactly at noon, everything in walking distance is sold out. I refresh for a while, clear my cache and try again, try in another browser...all sold out. Either they already had the rooms for exhibiters etc., or by...

That's nice. Though, I would get a room when I went to Con of the North, even though I could drive home every evening if I wanted to. I like to be immersed in the con and stay up late and just walk to my room and go to bed. But Con of the North is held IN the hotel. At Gamehole Con, even most...

I chose a lot of options because the reasons have evolved over time. Initially, it was because my work caused me to move overseas, so it was the only way to keep playing with the group. That is still the case, but I came to like the features and functionality of VTTs for more battlemap focused...

Maybe not! https://www.completecompendium.com/appendix/grayphil/

Ah okay. Sorry, just moved here last spring. Only attended for the first time last year. Don't know much about its history or the organizers. But it was a goldilocks convention for me. Just the right size. Before that I only went to Con of the North, which I love, but it is small. Before 2014...