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  1. MatthewJHanson

    EN World Our new Community Supporter Accounts

    I upgraded now I'm truing to figure out how to add my signature. Anybody know how to do that?
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    Best Way to Find New Players

    I found my current group through a meet up, that was before the Covid crisis though.
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    Kickstarter Is Losing Nearly Half It’s Staff

    That sounds rough. I do suspect that games are probably doing better than a number of other categories, since its easier to do those remotely. I have a project that I set a May start date for long before Covid hit. I debated moving it, but I'm going to go ahead. Partially because it has a low...
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    D&D General Who's your villain?

    Dragons. There are five ancient dragons vying for power (one for each color), along with their very large extended families. The humanoid races kind of get stepped on in the conflict until the PCs rise up and start slaying them.
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    Release The Runewild Campaign Setting for 5e - Beautiful and Cruel

    Thanks! We're really happy on how it turned out too! Yes, physical books are coming. If you've got your DriveThru settings so that you can get emails we'll send out an email to everybody who got a PDF copy (including Kickstarter backers.) (Also make sure you're set up to get emails from us)...
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    D&D General What Style of Campaign Do You Prefer?

    I'd like an option for character driven. I like campaigns that explore the character's goals and motivations, their interactions with each other and with the greater world overall.
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    How do people find and pay writers for RPGs?

    RPG.net has a sub-forum dedicated to freelancing that I've used before: Game Freelancing
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    D&D 5E (2014) Aspurgers/autism effects?

    I highly recommend the Fate Accessibility Toolkit. It's covers playing characters with a range of disabliities, including a section on autism, and all the sections are written by people who live with the disability being discussed. While written with Fate in mind, most of it can be applied any...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Running High Level 5E is more fun than I thought it would be.

    The game I'm running is at 11th level now, and I'm really looking forward to hitting the higher levels. It's fun to just throw things at the PCs and see how they react.
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    D&D General My Favorite Edition of D&D is...

    Started with the Red Box Played the most 3rd edition (was in college for a good chunk of that so had lots of free time). Favorite is 5e.
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    Release The Runewild Campaign Setting for 5e - Beautiful and Cruel

    Beyond the kingdom of Aruanda, there is an untamed land. It is a place where witches walk, where goblins cavort, where the borders between the mortal and fey realms grow thin. For some, it is a place of unspeakable wonder; for others, only madness and death lie within its trackless depths. It is...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Starting level

    I'd let your players decide and be okay with whatever they pick. Personally I'd rather start at level three.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What level do you typically start at for a new campaign?

    My group has played several campaigns of 5e now, so we've been skipping the early levels. This current campaign started at 7, the one before started at 5.
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    Kickstarter Abstract Dungeon Zine now on Kickstarter

    Sneak Attack Press is excited to announce our Kickstarter campaign for a zine supporting Abstract Dungeon. In 2014 we ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for Abstract Dungeon, a fast and story-focus roleplaying game where your character abilities are resources you spend instead bonuses to...
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    Help finding the right "new" system (for us)

    If I can plug my own game, Abstract Dungeon is designed to be easy to learn. It also plays very fast since your dice are a resource you spend instead of rolling them for every action. It is light on published adventures. There's three in the core book and we're planning to Kickstart a Zine soon...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wand of the War Mage, Rod of the Pact Keeper, and Saving Throw DCs

    Can you elaborate? In addition to Rod of the Pact Keeper, there are a number of other items that also add to save DCs.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wand of the War Mage, Rod of the Pact Keeper, and Saving Throw DCs

    So the rod of the pact keeper grants a bonus to both spell attacks and spell DCs but only works for Warlocks. Wand of the war mage be attuned by any spell caster, but it only grants the bonus to attack. The two have the same rarities. Is there a clear design reason for this? Does anybody see...
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    D&D General No Fixed Location -- dynamically rearranging items, monsters, and other game elements in the interests of storytelling

    I'd say I do something similar, but instead of saying things have no fixed location, I try to reward PCs with clues based on the actions they take. If information is critical to the adventure, I make sure they know it, usually by having an NPC just tell them. (i.e. there's a dragon living in...
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    D&D General How Would You Do a Dragon Themed Campaign?

    I'm running a dragon-themed campaign right now (maybe to publish don the road?) heroes are professional dragon hunters, in a world filled with dragons. Adult dragons have clear territory and some govern actual kingdoms. Humanoids live in small kingdoms and city states scattered about...
  20. MatthewJHanson

    Survivor Dragons: BLACK DRAGON WINS!

    Black 6-2 = 4 Blue 12+1 = 13
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