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    Monty of Dungeon Dudes infuriated at publishers writing own licenses instead of CC – WOTC most permissive

    Just add the share alike clause in CC. But, to be honest, this whole thread is proof that CC is too poorly understood. Creative Commons is NOT ONE LICENSE It's several. The base level of CC is a truly open one, allowing modified or unmodified use, not requiring attribution, and allowing...
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    Buying games to better enjoy live plays?

    I seldom enjoy live plays, but the Dial the Gate vidcast ep 8 where they demoed Stargate was amazing... Largely because most of the players (5 of 6) were stargate cast playing the nearly completed rules.... David Hewlett (Rodney McKay), David Blue (Eli Wallace), Alexis Cruz (Skarra), Julie...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Sun Fallout: Meet Sentient Rats. Make nice.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    fear of loss of characters is a real fear. Some players get attached quick.
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    No Initiative Order: How Do You Do It?

    I found it incredibly painful to use the results in descending roll order within Star Wars d6 1e...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    My players noted a horror edge to the QP module. I doubled down on it in my follow-on. I set up a buffed wraiths encounter (Tier 2 wraiths), with the questions: "What hell does this section of woods make you think of?" and "Who from it does that tree there remind you of?" Then the wraiths...
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    What other fantasy games are out there?

    Look at the one in Monarchies
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    New Tunnels & Trolls first look at UK Games Expo.

    Alpha, not Beta. And I can see the lineage; it's lineage is through the T&T CRPG as much as the TT... when we see advancement, I suspect a 7/7.5/D mode. I'm not surprised at all by the switch to a count-successes model; given that combat rolls can easily hit 6d, at which point expected...
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    No Initiative Order: How Do You Do It?

    Just resolve them in posting order.
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    DriveThruRPG quietly releases "legacy" URL for those who prefer the classic site look

    Nor mine. More importantly, the legacy interface for my library plays much nicer with several bits of hardware I use.
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    What other fantasy games are out there?

    Then just change it to a +3/-3. It's not a huge issue. I will say, Pugmire lives up to one of the failed promises of 5e... reducing the mods on rolls. It also cancels by the pair, unlike core 5e.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Plus there's a nice limit of 3 shorts before the rest needs to be a long. In re non-action... I didn't. I took something else on the list for inaction: they're yielding the spotlight to an NPC. It's not a golden opportunity... My golden opportunity moment, the Guardian leapt at the war wizard...
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    What other fantasy games are out there?

    The one drawback of the Pugmire system (all 3 core games are one system and one setting, in 3 different subsettings) is that it's got some very heavy allegory on race-relations in the mid-20th C US, most visibly in the Monarchies adventure in the corebook. That can put it off of some people's...
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    Best RPG to run a Firefly game

    D6 Space actually is what was slated to be WEG SW 3rd ed.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    I had swingy bits in each fight. Plus in my follow-up on the cue at the end of the QPM's postlogue.
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    Best RPG to run a Firefly game

    To be honest? Firefly (The Boardgame) the great big one with the map of the system and crew... as the mission generator, with the dirtside stuff resolved via Firefly (the RPG, Cortex Plus). Traveller isn't cinematic enough without tweaking under CT/MT/MGT1, and is too gritty on ships but too...
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    What other fantasy games are out there?

    I got monarchies to table, not pugmire... Juneteenth is the right time to play its corebook's adventure...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Given that DH has no initiative, and only on PC fear rolls or fear spends can spotlights happen to have the adversaries act, it's pretty straightforward to handle it. My gut instinct is to put it at "If the PC has acted twice without fear, interrupt for a spotlight"
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    It's worth noting as well that the final fight's baddies are in two flavors, decidedly not equal threat (and called out by the tags on them: Bruisers vs Standards, both tier 1) and the area pops in more standards, not more bruisers. My players ran the clock down mowing the standards. Neither...
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    What other fantasy games are out there?

    So going through my hard drive... Jackals: bronze age fantasy, set in a close analogue to the middle east, using a d100 based system, with both a system of awarded automatic advancements, and use-to-raise check rolls. No non-humans as PCs. Magic is linked to the culture of the caster. Several...
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