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  1. MNblockhead

    The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Added to D&D Beyond

    Apparently I want all my stuff on all the platforms. Not really, but the amount of times I've bought the same content for multiple platforms and formats belies any pretense of frugality. My problem is that I'm lazy and will buy things for immediate convenience, even if I don't have a clear...
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    Playing in Person Is Just Better (for me)

    Highly dependent on a person's personality (hi, I'm captain obvious!). When I was playing in person, I had a good area in the house for gaming, but it was multipurpose and was used for crafts, other projects, etc. most of the time. So every game day I would move tables around bring in some more...
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    D&D General What is your most prized Dungeons and Dragons Product?

    I really am mad at younger me for not holding on to my copy Deities and Demigods with the later removed content.
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    Aging and Gaming

    Are you against playing online? Makes it much easier to play when not near a population center with a lot of gamers and finding games other than D&D.
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    Aging and Gaming

    Yeah, this is a huge advantage to gaming when older. Assuming no job loss or crazy health expenses. But I've been fortunate so far... I find this the opposite. Work and family responsibilities and schedules make keeping to regular schedule difficult. My solution has been to schedule one long...
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    Aging and Gaming

    For the most part I agree, but I played every edition of D&D at Gamehole Con last month, and enjoyed each one. But, yeah, I'm not going to run AD&D as a campaign ever again.
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    Aging and Gaming

    Have you thought of gifting him a dice tower this X-mas? :) I've never really gotten into dice towers. I just love the feeling of rolling dice too much. But they do help keeping dice on the table.
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    Old Man Wants to Play Online

    Lot's of good advice in the comments above. I've tested most of the major VTTs over the years, though I'm a bit out of date since I've settled on Foundry. But based on your post, I think I have a few good recommendations. If you want to play D&D, get D&D Beyond and use its character sheets...
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    How Serious Do You Like Your Gaming?

    Run it serious, embrace the inevitable comedy.
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    D&D General What is your most prized Dungeons and Dragons Product?

    I have 4. The first, like you is my Curse of Strahd, 5th Edition book. Even though I ran a home brew campaign for a little over a year after getting back into TTRPGs with 5e, I loved Ravenloft (I6) back in 1e, and this books most strongly represents that mix of nolstalgia and fresh D&D that...
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    Aging and Gaming

    While I'm not that old (early 50s), I'm at the age where I now need reading glasses and my brain increasingly rebels at me trying to cram more TTRPG rules and lore into it. "Dag nab it, you still expect me to keep up with constantly changing law and technology and then come home and try to...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Oldest usage was to mean financially worst off (e.g., by some transaction): 1679 R. L'Estrange, Hist. Plot 53 1693 W. Congreve, Old Batchelour ii. i. 11 1737 J. Logan, Letter 25 July in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud, Correspondence of Scientific Men 17th Century (1841) (modernized...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Kobold Press posts 2024 DMG Hit Piece

    I mean, good enough to me. I don't need an apology, they didn't do anything to me. I was just turned off by it. If they noted that a meaningful number of their current and prospective customers didn't like it, acknowledged that, and took a different marketing approach. Great! I can learn about...
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    Playing in Person Is Just Better (for me)

    That's cool. It is the type of thing that I've been turned off of in the past because all of the bookkeeping, but with a module to just let the VTT take care of it, I could see doing this.
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    Playing in Person Is Just Better (for me)

    I was kinda bummed out about all the physical terrain, maps, battlemaps and minature gathering dust in storage. But my youngest son got into D&D and has a large gaming friend group. So they ended up getting put to very good use.
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    Playing in Person Is Just Better (for me)

    The game system I use does allow for the digital roll to be edited. You can also turn on setting for supporting manual rolls, but I don't think that can be set on a player by player bases. But for over a decade, starting when we were playing in person, we always rolled in the open. It was our...
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    Playing in Person Is Just Better (for me)

    Okay, I had to take a break in reading your post when I hit the bolded text. I need to know the story behind this. What game are you playing that requires a stock-market feature? Not making any judgements, whatsoever, just honestly curious.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    "All Cooped Up in a Manhattan Co-op, New York Times (May 17, 2007): https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/garden/17chickens.html
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Appendix N Equivalent?

    Well they are not escaping the rage of nerds angry for keeping it out. But I think it is mostly us older players who want it for keeping to tradition. Not that I personally care too much either way, but I do like the nolstalgia hit it the 2014 book gave me for including it. If I were an...
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