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  1. Belen

    Shadowdark Setting Looks Set To Be 2025's First Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunder

    They are the size of a trade paperback,
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    Aging and Gaming

    Casters are easy in comparison to all the conditional rules and bonuses in 3.5/PF1e. You can a spell and it has an effect. The spells are easier than 3.5 too with things like concentration although not as easy as 2e.
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    Aging and Gaming

    The iterative attacks with -5 steps downs, the host of +bonuses, the reach, cleave, power attack….. 5e is so much less complex. I remember having to force players to write conditional Statblocks so we did not take 30 mins to figure out conditional bonuses.
  4. Belen

    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    I find that Google or DuckDuckGo helps me find things on the internet. :cool::p
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    I am happy to disagree and I do not care if some folks consider boards as social media. I happily do not. My main issue with social media apps like FB, TikTok, Instagram, etc is the proto-narcisstic nature of creating a public profile to just talk about yourself and get lots of people...
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    Missing players and other players running their PCs

    These days, we just cancel the game. I have run someone’s character in the past or, more common, make up an excuse for why they are missing. The last time, the character went missing and the group session was to find her but it made the player angry and she quit the group because her character...
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    It is an actual debate with many considering message boards not to be social media.
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    Meh...FaceBook, TikTok, Twitter....none of them have the active discussion of the forums. My experience is that they only served to divorce people from each other. People post their thoughts or life events to get a bunch of reactions but rarely real interaction. Old school ENW/CM had a lot of...
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    That is after 26ish years. I do not consider a message board social media where you are creating a account to have people follow you or follow others. The boards are for water-cooler discussion.
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    It all sounds like too much work to be a fan.
  11. Belen

    Aging and Gaming

    It need not be super light. I like 5.0 and it has crunch but anything like 3.5, 4e, or pf1e……no. I want to game rather than just deal with crunch.
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    Who has the time for discord or Patreon? I do not use social media, in general.
  13. Belen

    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    We are basically saying the same thing. The villains are the root problems we still have today that are propped up by "civilized" power structures although I would argue that they are really barbaric people using the levers of power to fulfill their needs at the expense of others.
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    DriveThruRPG Print-on-Demand Prices Going Up By As Much As 50% In The US

    It depends on print location. There are a lot of US-based printers although they have being moving some operations outside the US. This may halt of delay the process. Tariffs could be circumvented by becoming USMCA compliant. A lot of businesses never bothered because it did not matter without...
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    D&D General My player did the bag of holding + portable hole thing and got sucked into the Astral Plane. Where is he?

    The githyanki found a bit of meat drifting and thought it'd make a good birthday present. :D
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    True. It is a fun fantasy if you do not think to closely about the effects of loss of civilization. It can also be used to deconstruct the root problems with civilizations as well.
  17. Belen

    Aging and Gaming

    I get it. I went for 10 years in that state. Of course, I had just had my first kid and moved to a new region, but I could have easily started a new online game or found local players. I did not because of inertia and, honestly, a bit of depression. I can say that I ended up being happier when...
  18. Belen

    Aging and Gaming

    What? No. The crunchy stuff is a young person thing. The older I get, the less crunch I want in my games. I do not have time to deal with that mess. I want to sit down, play, have fun, and not get mired in useless crunch.
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    DriveThruRPG Print-on-Demand Prices Going Up By As Much As 50% In The US

    I have no clue what will happen. My US printers are USMCA compliant so they have just told us that they are not subject to the tariffs. It costs money to get compliant but Drivethrurpg may wish to consider it.
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