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    Do orcs in gaming display parallels to colonialist propaganda?

    So (shifting gears a bit here), what do folks here think about the Reavers from Firefly / Serenity? The whole setting of this show and movie has many parallels of the American West (and post-Civil War reconstruction... which makes our "heroes" confederates... but that's another story). The...
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    A GMing telling the players about the gameworld is not like real life

    I'm going to chime in here with what I think this whole discussion on monster knowledge boils down to: Is it part of the game? What I mean by this is, does monster knowledge matter to the players and GM? Let's say I'm playing a game with a "scholar" class or character type. My character's...
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    New to DM'ing

    Here is my advice: Don't plot a story, set up a problem! PCs are going to go off and do unexpected things. You can't stop that... and nobody is going to have a good time if you try. So avoid trying to set up some grand story that the PCs are "suppose" to get involved in. Instead, set up a...
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    New monsters book for Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game

    I think there is a perception (not sure how wide spread though) that if a kickstarter doesn't fund in the first days and end at some ridiculous % over the goal then it isn't doing well. This is probably due to the big hit's getting the most attention so that's what people expect all KS's to be...
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    New monsters book for Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game

    Yeah, GURPS still suffers from a stigma of being "overly complex". But the Dungeon Fantasy RPG takes the biggest sting out of that by using professional templates for character creation and dropping all rules/traits/etc. that are not needed for the genre. What you have left is "roll 3d6 under"...
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