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    How did you learn to run or play Mage?

    No, just a few scenarios It's easy to come up with plots... but dealing with the total mayhem that a party, especially a mixed party, can do is not as easy. Improv was essential. Kind of... it was easier to run the kinds of game I wanted using Ars Magica (which was also Marc Rein•Hagen)... And...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    I found 3 ½ on KS: 2 bestiaries, a deck of support cards (Class abiliities, 2× 1d12 subdecks. some other cards), and a setting that's for 5E, but they're considering a Daggerheart conversion. 2 of them are not running yet. All non-Darrington, under the CGL. None on Backerkit. Nothing relevant...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    It's not unimportant, but yeah, it's less vital than in D&D. Throwing some healing at the Guardian can magnify their abilities.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Well, yeah, one might break it, depending upon which. Some have unlimited summons, some have activation of several at once. No, that's the Solos. If the party is large, and you want them running scared, use a solo of the next tier. :devilish:
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    VTT/online-play Etiquette and Horror Stories

    Not when the needed dice are non-standard and out of "print"... Or when players can't be arsed to learn a d6 conversion table that's used constantly. Or you have a player whom the group knows they lie about their dice... Especially if the group is big on the game side of RPGs. I had one FTF...
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    VTT/online-play Etiquette and Horror Stories

    My guy with low bandwidth often forgets he has push-to-talk on...
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    The EN World Selfie Thread

    Goodness! Yeah. Barney Miller was a great show!
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    ToV Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide and Monster Vault Free on Alchemy today (including PDFs!)

    GTove doesn't require an account for GTove itself, but does use your google drive... and hence google account.
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    The EN World Selfie Thread

    At the age of 40, I got carded for a movie. I wasn't certain whether to be thankful or annoyed.
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    VTT/online-play Etiquette and Horror Stories

    Posts inappropriate text/images in the chat I keep a separate off-topic channel. My players use it. Slows down game due to refusal to learn how to use the software This is a "goodbye" level offense Insists on rolling physical dice when everyone else rolls in the VTT Also a "goodbye" level...
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    The EN World Selfie Thread

    I only got assumed older during high school when in NJROTC uniform or CAP uniform. Especially as a Cadet Ensign. That single undersized and un-beveled bar got salutes from a lot of USAF NCOs. (The ratio on commissioned bars are 3:8, cadet are 1:4. If you know that both are used, the cadet bars...
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    DriveThruRPG quietly releases "legacy" URL for those who prefer the classic site look

    They told me about it before they went live with the new site system as the main page. I may have been part of a test group. I did give (fairly negative) feedback during the trial period.
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    The EN World Selfie Thread

    I've been accused of being 16-17 until I was thirty, and of being under 21 until my beard started graying at 50... And someone once approached me and asked if I was my own offspring... I recognized her, and said, "n., I am the guy you are reminded of...and don't apologize for it." Hugs...
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    Worlds of Design: Playing Favorites

    From 1983 until about 1990, I had a clear favorite: Classic Traveller, then MegaTraveller; If it was a pick up game, this was my usual pick, second choice being Starships & Spacemen. My regular scheduled games varied. No, I didn't play just that one genre (it's really not a single genre game...
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    The EN World Selfie Thread

    In fall 2014, I was subbing at a local high school, and two juniors (letter jackets for class of 2016), in the music department. It's lunch time, I'm reading a rulebook for an RPG... and one of them starts making an obvious pass. "Hey, cutie, you new here?" is pretty unsubtle. That was the day...
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    The EN World Selfie Thread

    The reality is that non-white is a problem for naming public buildings. Shouldn't be, but is. Did he have a relative in Anchorage AK? I knew a chap who looked like a skinny version of him. This was me in about 2015:
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    ToV Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide and Monster Vault Free on Alchemy today (including PDFs!)

    In case it escapes someone, to get the pdf, when you've "purchased" it, the pulldown on the right end of the open button includes the option to "download PDF" - not just TOTV, but the TOTV Monster Vault.
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    New Tunnels & Trolls first look at UK Games Expo.

    the new edition uses one unified mechanic... and it's just as easy to call for a level 2 SR on Luck in this version... but noting that luck isn't scaled the same as the others. (typical is going to be 3, but it can range from 1 to 7 for starting PC, unlike core atts, which are 2-4)... The lack...
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    Monty of Dungeon Dudes infuriated at publishers writing own licenses instead of CC – WOTC most permissive

    Only if said creators actually like the system elements. For many, biggest games in the SRD space (D&D 3.x, D&D 5.x, Pathfinder) are mediocre. (or worse.) Played because they can't find players for a game they prefer. And let's not forget the d20 bubble, and its bursting, hurting mostly...
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