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  1. Cergorach

    What are your thoughts on TTRPGs with non-standard dice?

    I dislike the FFG type of custom dice for RPGs as you're totally dependent on that company for those dice, especially annoying when you try to run games a while after they stopped supporting that game...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    1st level characters killing Brainpuppies!
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    What's the bare minimum for a VTT?

    Immersion. 3D dice rolling for me is a necessity for a VTT, as just random number showing up totally disconnects me from the pnp RPG experience we're trying to recreate online. 3D dice tend to be very low impact on the computer hardware, 3D minis tend to be very high impact on the computer...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What books would you like to see (in 2026 and beyond)?

    While normally that would be an automatic buy, but with the recent Spelljammer, Planescape, and Dragonlance implementations, I'm not convinced it would be something I would enjoy. What I would buy: Monster Manual 2 Epic Levels
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    Wizards of the Coast Releases Exodus TTRPG

    It's WotC after all... And another reason why I'm not buying this, no more room in my book case and space in there is precious! The videos of Exodus the computer game were interesting, the announcement of a TTRPG was one of those red flags. This release so far ahead of the computer game is...
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    Other D&D Variant Simple 1D6 D&D variant created with ChatGPT

    I agree, a difference of opinion isn't trolling. But that's not what you're doing, you're playing bait and switch. Showing a small RPG made via ChatRPG is interesting enough, but then you start preaching, throwing a molotof through the AI window. Then I go looking and see your account was made...
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    Other D&D Variant Simple 1D6 D&D variant created with ChatGPT

    Not everything needs to be my creation. As I indicated, neither was the used adventure, Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Nor were the rules that is D&D and we use. Think of it like this: When I walk out on the street, doe the pavers I walk on need to be handcrafted by myself? Does the bread I eat each...
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    Other D&D Variant Simple 1D6 D&D variant created with ChatGPT

    And now you're just trolling! 🧌 AI/LLM can do certain things, other things it absolutely sucks at, and there is no way of really improving that due to how the whole LLM thing actually works. 63 years ago the Jetsons predicted we would have flying cars, but they didn't predict the smartphone...
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    US Tariffs: $80-$200 Surcharge On All Packages Regardless of Price

    True that it's going to impact the math hard! But even before the tariffs you saw a bit of an implosion on boardgame KS projects. Mythic Games was just one of the companies that started to drown, three years ago they started to fumble with the Darkest Dungeon KS and recently CMON had to start...
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    US Tariffs: $80-$200 Surcharge On All Packages Regardless of Price

    Devastate does not mean destroy. Also keep in mind that these tariff shenanigans are US only, the rest of the world is still perfectly willing to trade with each other. And while the US might be a large part of the English pnp RPG industry, it's certainly not all of it. Free League for example...
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    US Tariffs: $80-$200 Surcharge On All Packages Regardless of Price

    Hey. This is how we did it pre-Internet. I would ask colleagues of my father to bring back specific Warhammer stuff from the UK which we couldn't get here or only at insane prices. I still remember going to the UK on a school trip (from the Netherlands) in the mid 90s, doing some serious game...
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    Other D&D Variant Simple 1D6 D&D variant created with ChatGPT

    Let me start by saying that the negative comments with little more argument then "But it's made by humans, thus better!" argument is going to drive more people into the arms of AI/LLM generated content. AI/LLM are tools, tools used by humans. Those humans decide how to use the tools, and what...
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    Explore the magic of baking with Story Bake

    Looking at the last two articles, someone's hungry! ;)
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    Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1

    It's a forever arms race. Those laser might be thwarted by deploying reflective clouds of particles that either fully reflect (possibly using the laser/energy against the craft that's firing it) or diffuse it enough to be essentially harmless. Or missiles with reflective heads of ablative heads...
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    Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1

    I absolutely think that depending on the situation, a rotary cannon atop an armored flying tub ranges from cheaper to far, far cheaper. Imagine an Iraqi tank column moving up. Are you going to use a guided missile for each an every tank in that convoy? Do you even have enough guide...
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    Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG)

    People dismissing Cosmere as "IP fans just bought it with no intention of ever playing it!" let me ask you the question: How many books or pdfs do you have of RPGs you've never played? What about once a decade or two ago? Us pnp RPG folks are historically famous for this! ;) Let me start by...
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    Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1

    But didn't the books happen before the TV show? And the TV show is pretty true to the books from what I remember... So the setting didn't benefit from an actual physicist and engineer. It's a story that's not that far into the future (~2350) where humanity has colonized the solar system, but...
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    Champions of Chaos, a New Warhammer: Age of Sigmar TTRPG, Announced

    Why just Slaanesh? Is it due to potential tentacle porn? What about Tzeench 'The changer of ways', that might also have so horrific consequences! Papa Nurgle isn't exactly family rated either... And the amount of blood and gore Khorne can produce might make some people hurl if you get into the...
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    Cubicle 7 Announces New Horus Heresy RPG for Warhammer

    It seems like you're more talking about splitting the player base then splitting the attention of the publishing company? WFB => WFRP4e has a LONG standing fanbase that would have zero interest in an AoS RPG and vice versa. BUT there a ton of new AoS fans since the 2015 release because they...
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    Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1

    Sure, how we think about that now. But just how realistic is the psychic goo and the giant space portal? Or how realistic is the actual space ship when you start thinking about things like reaction mass quantities (fuel)? Certain aspects make appeals to your feelings or 'realism' while ignoring...
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