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I am very happy with this, as it means going forward I can eradicate hand crossbows from my game. I [CENSORED] can't stand [CENSORED] [CENSORED] hand crossbows, so now people can take a [CENSORED] brace of pistols instead. Playing PF2 has opened my eyes to ways guns can work in the D&D milieu...

I'm going to have to take some codeine for my backwards compatibility; it's really playing up this weather.

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Da comrade. This way, when remaining players look at character sheets, they take game much more seriously.

Only GM for players you physically outmatch and can intimidate through body language. Give the players what they want, but only after sufficiently disrupting their plans. Make sure everyone has fun! No NPC is untouchable and no situation inevitable, if the PCs decide to get involved.

There's a decent amount of the setting in Blades in the Dark that's canal-based. At least a couple of the city neighbourhoods use canals rather than streets, and it came up quite a bit in the Blades games I've run. Might be worth a look if you can find the pdf or whatevs.

Things I'd like answered in a canal city setting, to make it interesting?: a) What's under water in the wet areas? b) What's exposed in the areas where the water has dried up, or where certain areas are flooded by tidal forces? c) Which factions control the gondoliering? d) Who and what...

No Sex Please, We're British!

Never, ever confuse Finger of Death with Power Word: Finger.

I'm sure I drank a bunch of exactly this in the 90s? It might have been vodka-based, right enough. Dorfwater: The weakest of the Dwarven spirits. It won't kill a human outright, but halflings might want to be careful. Half-a-Dribble: Halfling honeyed wine, not strong but it does produce...

It's like watching a newborn god learning in real-time. It's fascinating, it's awesome and it's terrifying. But eventually it'll be happy little gun-drones, singing in the sky, only shooting the people with the wrong brainwave patterns.

My entries can be summarised thusly: Birthright, Birthright, Box Sets, Loadsamoney but on Pathfinder.

I was underwhelmed with the first packet. I found this one more toothsome and much more interesting, so consider me whelmed. Perhaps the third packet will actually overwhelm me and spark serious interest.

My feelings on AI art are complex and it's a bit of a Gordian knot type problem. However something happened the other day that has been a bee in my bonnet ever since. Out walking the doggo, we found a whole deer skeleton, picked pretty clean. I took a few photographs on my phone, for no...

I think an argument might be made that games such as Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green and Blades in the Dark are Naturalistic, in that the outcome of extended play is deterministic on the narrative level and on the mechanical level. Eventually you're going to fail, and fail badly. And the systems...

Man, I am a relic of pre-Frank Miller Batman. I have no problem with Bruce Wayne bench-pressing a truck. Or jury-rigging an antique engine into a 1000cc bomb, or tweaking the Batmobile so it out-drags everyone in a 1000m row, prison-fight style. I have a problem with omni-god Batman who can do...

This is Albania...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but some of its strands will originate from Cubicle 7's RPG material,

"I forge my disguise out of herbs and use poison to force the navigator to tell me the right direction" is an active sentence I would expect to hear from any post-Albanian Socialist/D&D player.

You see, in a strictly socialist-realist world of RPGs, those tool proficiences would be seen as intrinsic to the living reality of working class adventurers, and so would join the ranks of "actual" skills, where "actual" was seen as mere bourgeois coding used to suppress the skill base and...