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    Gaming/RPG Fiction Should Make A Comeback

    Huh. I read that before it was a novel it was a highly modified d20 Future game.
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    Gaming/RPG Fiction Should Make A Comeback

    I think I prefer books that feel like they could be an RPG setting or are based on a homebrew game. For example, despite some weak writing and some uh problematic stuff, I do enjoy Lawrence Watt-Evans’s Ethshar novels, which has for example several different sources of magic and magic “classes.”...
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    Your Pizza Order

    I like a fried egg on my pizza these days.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Dumps Disclaimers From Book Credits Page

    Like this thread, which I did not notice until today, I have never noticed (or heard of) these disclaimers!
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    It's a fortnight? :p But I don't know, it just seemed like a good number. Do you have another recommendation?
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    My new plan (but don't hold me to it), is to take a break from the boards for the two weeks leading up to a new WotC book release and the two weeks after and to take the last two weeks of December off every year too.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Yeah, the trick for me is I either play with my wife (she not as into video games but does play occasionally) or I sometime play after she's gone to bed for a bit. But the reality is, since having a kid I have not had more than 30 to 60 minutes to play video games at any given time - and since...
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    D&D 5E (2024) New Constructs, Plants, Beasts & Humanoids | 2024 Monster Manual | D&D

    Do they though? Presumably there is a more economical way to get such stats without buying a whole book just for them. Like using and/updating an older version, finding a version you like online somewhere, or best yet, making it up. Now if there other stuff that might also be useful in an FR...
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    D&D General Vanity Frankenstein 5E: My homebrew D&D project [+]

    Here is a PDF version of the section on new and revised spells for those who are interested. The doc is something like 67 pages long. Actual spell lists however, are listed with their classes (which is how it should be organized, imo). I have playtest ready versions of all 11 classes and 38...
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    D&D 5E (2014) For those playing 2014 5e, how are you reacting to the 2024 update?

    In the process of creating my own Vanity Frankenstein of 5E home rules, I have taken from 2024 D&D in a few spots where the change seemed for the better (exhaustion, a handful of spells), but otherwise the basis is 2014 with some 2E and 3E thrown in.
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    D&D General Your last adventure in photos.

    This is where our last session started (with the PCs captured!). Luckily, they pulled out a victory and the session ended with two days of safe long rests getting HPs and HD back.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Quests From The Infinite Staircase

    I’ve been running my own conversion of When a Star Falls but decided to check this book for gibberling stats and was surprised (maybe I shouldn’t have been) that they have been turned into fiends (like gnolls, I guess. And like gnolls, I guess I’ll be keeping them as humanoids).
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    Dragonlance "You walk down the road, party is now level 2."

    3 hours. It is a slow pace but the players enjoy it. The focus for us is the characters in the world, and advancement is a by-product of that, not the goal. As you say, to each (group) their own, I guess. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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    Second person plural pronoun

    “Your seats at the table” works for singular or plural. No need for “all” at all. 😂
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    Second person plural pronoun

    pretty sure that was a riff on this older cultural touchstone
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    Second person plural pronoun

    Yinz. But I’ve been living in Pittsburgh for nearly 6 years and visiting here regularly since I met my wife (who is from here) for the last 16. 😂
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    What's your VTT of choice?

    For the game online game I run, we use OBR for exploration mode but Zoom with a camera (pointed at the table) for combat. We also roll our own dice and use the honor system. The online game I play on is also OBR but with Discord for voice and using the dice roller (which I am not a fan of...
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    How often do you play?

    Other: In-person game (as DM): every 3 to 5 weeks on a Sunday afternoon (sometimes a weekday evening) Online game (as DM): every 3 to 5 weeks (Saturday late morning) Online game (as player): every 3 weeks. (Wednesday evening) So that comes to 3 times a month at minimum but sometimes 4 or 5...
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    D&D General Chris Perkins and Stan! - previous D&D edition thoughts

    Thankfully I’ve never wanted to be part of a target market or ever felt that buying anything put out by D&D’s publisher was necessary (or even conducive!) to playing D&D, except maybe for one person to have a PHB or starter set (any edition).
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