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They are also good to put under minis to indicate status effect. I had moved to using Alea Tools Magnetic Status markers. You have to stick small metal stickers on the bottom your mini's bases to get the most of them. However, to save money and time I bought a Silhouette paper cutter to cut out...

Well, if the D&D slot machines are as loose with coin as the typical game is, I'm all for them!

BEGINNING OF A NEW CAMPAIGN Players: How about we play a superheros campaign this time? DM: I don't really like running superheros campaigns. Let's just play D&D again. PARTY REACHES TIER 4 LEVELS IN THEIR D&D CAMPAIGN

Is OSR just an adjective for "retroclone"? What little I've read about the OSR "movement" or philosophy of game design, it emphasizes rulings over rules, player skill over character skill, high lethality, exploration, resource management, randomness and emergent storytelling, and...

While I like all games I played in the '80s being considered "old school", in practice the term OSR loses all value for me outside of D&D. If someone advertises their game as OSR, I expect an OD&D retroclone like Swords & Wizardry or something like that. If someone says they are running an OSR...

Just tell the player that you are not comfortable with this for the first campaign you are running for the group. It seems that this one player is already causing you discomfort and sucking up your time trying to find ways to accommodate his wishes. Putting together a new campaign for a new...

There is another thread (Your Most Useful and Most Used RPG Products) asking about most useful and used RPG products, but it felt like going into online play tools would be a bit of a derailment. So I thought I would start a new thread, specifically for assets used for online play. I'm...

One said thing about having to go to fully online play is that all my physical stuff is just stored away and hasn't been used in years. I could say "Foundry VTT" but that seems to not be in the spirit of the question. I would be like saying "my kitchen/game table" or "my laptop/smart phone". I...

The Chinese just reads "Live & Fresh Supermarket". A lot of Chinese to English sign translations are funny because while they may choose an exact word-for-word translation, it turns out to be funny in a cultural context. For example, it is common to see 雄鸡 translated to "cock" instead of...

Well, I finally had my colonoscopy yesterday. Thought I'd just chill out today and waste some time on game forums and Reddit. ...thinking I'd rather have another colonoscopy. On a side note - wow, modern anesthesia is amazing. The only other time I've been put out was when I had some...

I got into D&D in the early 80s with Basic, played AD&D and a lot of other TTRPGs from that era. When I went to college in '89, I think I played one game of D&D but other than that didn't play any TTRPGs from '90 until 2014/15. A few years before I had moved back to my hometown from overseas...

If you are looking to commission maps, the Cartographer's Guild has a forum specifically for this. See the Mapmaking Requests forum: Mapmaking Requests Make sure to read the Read Me post: [Other] Requesting a map? Please read me.

The stake are higher in terms of one ego and insecurities? Close, long-term relationships evolve and it can be hard to evolve with them. The hurts along the way can lead some people to react to what should be an uncontroversial and obvious truism based on very specific and personal experiences...

On the OP topic, not only do I believe it is important to treat people respectfully, but I think it is even more important to have the discipline to remain polite in the face of lack of politeness and even disrespect. That doesn't mean being a push over. You can be politely assertive. Sometimes...

If they are chats with a live person, yes, I much prefer them than calling for many companies. Automated chats, however, I've found to be useless. Generally, I have already searched for solutions to my problem before contacting support, so the automated chats are giving me non-relevant...

[Checks your post's time stamp.] [Checks last time I posted.] Whew! It most likely wasn't me!

True for me with physical books, but if I'm using an electronic device I won't sleep.