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  1. timbannock

    D&D 5E (2024) OAR 10 City State of the Invincible Overlord

    Agree with the above; don't delete it, because this is knowledge that deserves to be out there. Also, mold festers in darkness.
  2. timbannock

    D&D 5E (2024) OAR 10 City State of the Invincible Overlord

    As if we needed more reasons than that not to back this :ROFLMAO: Given the work already done, I don't see Goodman Games reversing course. And given how little of the KS community is really dialed into the drama of our niche little industry, I suspect there's no great financial punishment...
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    D&D 5E (2024) OAR 10 City State of the Invincible Overlord

    Yeah, that moment has a very self-aware feel to it -- they know we're talking here, I'd think -- but also doesn't directly address anything. Here's hoping we get more, and it's not marketing-speak next time.
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    D&D 5E (2024) OAR 10 City State of the Invincible Overlord

    Well that makes this much easier to say no to! My wallet thanks you for sharing that info so I didn't even have to click through. EDIT: And you know what? Shame on GG. They took such a strong stance on this previously, did everything right by Jennell Jaquays in the Dark Tower and Caverns of...
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    GMing Mistakes You’ve Made in the Past

    1. GMPCs - I used to care about my NPCs to the point of having feelings when they got killed or denied something that seemed reasonable for them to get from the PCs. I realized this was badwrongfun as soon as my players could clearly read the situation: they could tell I wasn't acting with their...
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    Historic module anthology?

    The histories on some of the modules on DriveThruRPG/DMsGuild are often very, very good. Shannon Appelcline did many, but a few are written by others, as well.
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    Worlds Largest Dungeon Holds 'Secret Doors' Contest

    I hope this version has more verticality in its design. I ran the original a couple times, and had a lot of fun with it. When someone (here on ENWorld, no less) said "Run region A as if it were ALIEN" things clicked. Each region just needed a strong theme to work with that may or may not have...
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    ALIEN RPG Launches New Kickstarter

    The new brighter layout is gorgeous.
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    Wizards of the Coast Is Sunsetting Sigil's Active Development

    "We made some really bad decisions that you warned us of, and when that it didn't work, neither do you."
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    AD&D 2E Mere of Dead Men. Slave Vats of the Yuan Ti in 2025?

    Sorry, it's been way too long since I worked on it and ran it. I just recall taking the various sites and making them way more about having a faction and/or situation, and then having a few of the villains more active, involved, and mobile. I created a roll table for those NPCs/monsters so I...
  11. timbannock

    Favourite mecha RPGs

    Kill ENGN, which is sorta standalone but really an add-on for CY_Borg. It's got some create customization options, but the OSR chassis it's built on plays ultra-fast and makes it broadly compatible with a lot of other crazy stuff, not just on the Mork Borg scene, but also in the OSR generally.
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    AD&D 2E Mere of Dead Men. Slave Vats of the Yuan Ti in 2025?

    They are a bit railroady with some weird assumptions about what the PCs are likely to do. But if you set it up more as a sandbox, and maybe make some of the villains a bit more mobile, it could be a lot more interesting.
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    Invincible RPG Announced by Free League

    The supplement treadmill isn't something Free League seems to be interested in when it comes to their licensed titles, but given how much we got for ALIEN and a few others, clearly they are okay with doing it when it makes sense to. IMHO, I'm almost more excited for one-and-done or very small...
  14. timbannock

    Dark Tower Gets The Deluxe Director’s Cut Treatment From Goodman Games

    My order for Caverns was just locked, so I'm expecting it within the next few months.
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    Other Modes of RPG Play?

    Versus mode is certainly a thing, but I've never really seen a working example of it. Streetfighter: The Storytelling Game, Marvel Heroic, and some of the various wrestling games can certainly handle it, and I bet some of them even assume it, but I've never run it. Streetfighter certainly had...
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    Other Modes of RPG Play?

    Dunno if I'm splitting hairs, but games like Cortex and Sentinels (and maybe Fate?) are narrative-ish like PbtA but also scene-focused in a different way that emulates comics or TV sitcoms in terms of pacing and "how much information is encapsulated in a single dice roll." I don't really know...
  17. timbannock

    When did the "C" drop from CRPGs and when did "TT"RPG spring up?

    I think most of what others are saying tracks. I've been active on RPG Net and ENWorld since something like 2004-2006ish, and had been involved in blogging before even that, and I didn't really notice a heavy use of the "TT" in RPG until quite a bit into the 2010s. I think the absolute explosion...
  18. timbannock

    Shadowdark: tips for a new GM?

    Precisely! It interacts nicely with Talents, too. If you're a "master swordfighter" thanks to a +1 to melee attacks and another +1 with a chosen weapon (Fighter with a Talent and Weapon Mastery), well adding that into the attack roll for disarm makes sense, but not grappling.
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    Shadowdark: tips for a new GM?

    I just rule everything is an attack: if you succeed, you do the thing. "I disarm them!" Okay if you succeed on your attack, they are disarmed. Simple. The house rule part is this: on a natural 20, you can deal double damage OR you can deal normal damage AND perform a stunt. So you could deal...
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    Watching films at the cinema - also, RIP David Lynch.

    Yeah, if it's a spectacle, I'm all for it. But with even a 46" TV (or whatever it is that I have, it's close to that) 98% of comedies, dramas, and horror films are best on TV, where I can pause it for any number of valid-to-me reasons, optimize the audio and/or subtitles to my liking, and avoid...
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