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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    The way I see it, giving a concept a name is like putting a mental handle on that concept. It makes it much easier to deal with. It's not impossible to deal with it without one, but it takes more effort, and it's harder to use it as a stepping stone for other ideas. Take for example the XKCD...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is Combat Tedious on Purpose?

    IME, bonus actions are used far more by non-casters (or half-casters) than full casters. For non- or half-casters, the bonus action becomes "here's a thing you can do in addition to just attacking", which gives them some interesting (ideally) options. Casters usually get to have enough fun with...
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    GMing without an inner monologue.

    Perhaps. But it feels like I'm trying to explain what I'm thinking to myself, which seems odd.
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    GMing without an inner monologue.

    My internal monologue also has the issue of not shutting up, particularly when I want to sleep. I even "polish" my internal monologue by thinking about how to phrase it to get it right, which is kinda weird. But here's a description from the opposite perspective:
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    Today I learned +

    In Europe, 200 km is a long distance. In America, 200 years is a long time.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    No, it's clothing. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nBKZH5QHtgw And this (the discussion on clothing starts at about 12 min):
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    He's wearing a green collar though.
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    D&D General What Does New Coke Tell Us About Designing for D&D

    The problem with turning your passion into your job is that, well, then your passion becomes a job. It becomes something you have to do, even when you're not in the mood for it. And that's the kind of thing that can poison your relation with your passion. I figure the ideal situation is one...
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    Popular Board Game Terraforming Mars Gets TTRPG

    I think this works on a different scale. As I understand The Great Campaign for Pendragon, it covers a period of about 80 years, where you more or less continuously play knights who eventually (hopefully) marry and have kids who grow up to replace them. This seems more like the Foundation books...
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    Moonbeam Seeks to Take on Twitch as TTRPG Streaming Service

    Looking at the BackerKit page, it seems they started closed Beta 11 days ago, at which time they said they were planning on open Beta "next week" which should mean any day now.
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    Discord feels more like a logged IRC to me than a forum. It's primarily a synchronous chat. No-one would expect a reply to something a day old on Discord, while that's par for the course on a forum.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wargamer Takes Shot At WotC for Not Respecting Forgotten Realms Canon.

    Ah, that takes me back to the days of Manfred the slightly Ecru.
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    D&D General Can a Wish spell move a moon to cause an eclipse?

    Heh, reminded me of this gem: "Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wargamer Takes Shot At WotC for Not Respecting Forgotten Realms Canon.

    IMO, RPG lore is flexible anyway. The lore isn't "real" until it hits my table. Before that, it's all malleable. That doesn't mean that a change to the lore can't be bad (e.g. if they should decide that all dragonmarked houses in Eberron are non-profit organizations that use their abilities for...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    #5 seems unreasonable.
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    D&D General Why Mike Mearls left D&D, an interview by Ben Riggs.

    That stuff gets handled manually by the DM.
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