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    Best Horror Movies of All Time

    The "Easy" List Alien Chronos The Fly Ginger Snaps House The House of the Devil Jacobs Ladder Near Dark Pontypool Sauna A Tale of Two Sisters The Thing VVitch Debatable of horror or just dark fantasy: Nightbreed. And yes. I'm one of those people who think it's the vastly superior of Clive...
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    D&D 5E (2024) The New DM Tools In The New Dungeon Master's Guide

    I've read the 5.14 DMG, and frankly I understand why they haven't. It's not good. Terrible disposition hampered by uninspired writing and vague rules descriptions written for experienced dungeon masters that don't really need to read it. Coming after the excellent 4e Guides, it's a disgrace...
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    D&D 5E (2024) PHB 2024 Is Hilariously Broken. Most OP of All Time?

    It doesn't give the bonus action attack back, it just says the bonus attack can be made with a weapon that isn't two-handed. For all intents and purposes, you still only have one bonus action, it's just that the authors suck at describing things in natural language so they didn't bother to...
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    Mongoose acquires Twilight 2000 and 2300 AD

    If one were to steal and homebrew magic and abilities from their other YZE games, I think their TW2000 version would be an excellent foundation for a Stand Still, Stay Silent campaign. Which also can feel a tad too close to reality nowadays...
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    Is There a Better Way to Illustrate Water on a Dungeon Map Than This?

    Shade the water works great in order to make it distinguishable. I quite like how watabou's One Page Dungeons does it but limitations happen when drawing on paper vs printing out/using digitally.
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    Traveller Creator Marc Miller Passes Ownership To Mongoose

    It's in the works. Don't know what's missing or anything but there is a beta of a dedicated Mongoose 2e system. Mongoose Traveller 2e | Foundry Virtual Tabletop
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    Dragonlance New Dragonlance Novels from Weis and Hickman in 2026

    Both of these things are very true. While their dedication to the DL world is admirable, they're being far to precious about all of it. Which also leads to point two: to enjoy the W&H novels — at least for me — one need to be either 14 years old or have a heavy nostalgia for the books. Neither...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Help me understand & find the fun in OC/neo-trad play...

    I've started to avoid Neotrad threads because the definition they use is so different to what I'm used to that it's a bit hard to discuss. But what's often ignored in the English speaking versions is that Tomas Härenstam's "trad games" of neo-trad had its foundation in the Swedish BRP...
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    D&D General When did you leave D&D? Why? For what game? And what brought you back?

    Didn't really play DnD before 4e — I had played rpgs for a long time before that, DnD has never been me default game. Moved on to 5e and played some OSR* and have to say that I will play in campaigns with friends but if I want to GM fantasy I will go to other games. *) If an OSR game is based...
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    How Do You Feel About Published Adventures as a GM?

    I do want to run Dracula Dossier sometime and I have stolen ideas and characters from some but other than that, written adventures have two things against them. (a) I've never learned how to run them as I've at the most done perhaps three or four in total. And running a pre-written adventure...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

    And in this case I'd go no. Better learn and talk about different ways how to handle religion in the games than put up most of the DnD pantheons as a teachable example — they're very Christian in how they approach a diversity of gods and they're could be a lot better. If you want a pantheon of...
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    D&D 5E (2024) New D&D Edition's Player’s Handbook Alternate Art Cover Reveal

    Only when compared to Amazon. They have the same listed retail price.
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    What keeps uninterested players showing up each session?

    Speaking as someone who started playing in the 80s, fights and loot were fun the first year or two. Now long fights — and I struggle with fixed order because of the repeatedness of it — and dungeon crawls are what interests me the least about playing RPGs. So no, I don't think it's about new or...
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    What keeps uninterested players showing up each session?

    Which leads to the question about phones earlier and there has been players who have their phones up and they have been keeping up far better than the neurotypical player that keeps notes. If things are a distraction, asking them to limit their use is good but it might also be a tool to keep...
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    Asmodee Owner To Split Into 3 Companies

    I mean, they started out as Nordic Games back in 2011. There has never been any real "innovation" coming out from them so banking on that is a fools game.
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    Asmodee Owner To Split Into 3 Companies

    Then that part will at least survive for now.
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    Asmodee Owner To Split Into 3 Companies

    Middle-Earth acquisition for Embracer is all about that sweet licensing money without putting in any work. If they want to pay the loan then I think it's a good chance we will see more Star Wars content because every penny will help. If they don't want to pay the loan, then all of Asmodee is...
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    Asmodee Owner To Split Into 3 Companies

    Depends on how you see it, declaring bankruptcy and stripped for parts is not a good thing. Especially considering how Asmodee set things up with cross-licensing between the subsidiaries. Really doubt anyone want to buy a company in full with that much debt. There should be a lot harsher rules...
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    WotC WotC President Cynthia Williams Resigns

    In that case, they forgot to do the things she'd be a fall guy for. WotC under her management has been pretty much same as the last two to four.
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