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  1. Yora

    Make It Yourself

    Yes, but those people have no taste. :p
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    Make It Yourself

    Not if it's quality over quantity. Most people are really just interested in more good and interesting stuff. Not just more stuff.
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    D&D General Worldbuilding Assumptions: The Nature of Gods

    In my homebrew setting, gods certainly are. But what exactly they are is unclear.
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    D&D General D&D Canon - why is it important and how does it affect your game?

    I've been running homebrew settings for as long as I can remember. I did run Forgotten Realms with my first group over 20 years ago, but that campaign never really interacted much with the stuff that is covered in setting books.
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    D&D General What if High Level Was Only in a Supplement

    I've been saying this for years! Player's Handbooks should only include character levels up to 10th or 15th. Anything higher is just confusing and distracting bloat for anecdotally 95% of all players.
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    What is A Mountain?

    The highest point in Wisconsin is 425 feet above the surrounding land. 1000 must sound pretty damn tall in that context.
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    What is A Mountain?

    In Schleswig-Holstein, we have mountains that are 20 meters above sea level. And maybe 10 meters above the surrounding landscape. Though while they have "berg" in their name, I think everyone would still call them a hill. When RPG maps indicate an area as mountains, my assumption is that its...
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    How much math should RPGs require?

    Addition and subtraction of single digit numbers is as complex as it should get.
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    Soviet Reversal or how the reward should be different from the challenge

    Mechanical incentives are a super useful tool to support players approaching the events in the game from the perspective of the genre that the campaign targets. A good combination of game system and campaign setting is one in which the things that make mechanical sense for the players are also...
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    Do We Need More Alien Contact Films & Series?

    Not really. If any script writers think they have something new to say that hasn't been done a dozen times already, I am all for being pleasantly surprised. But as with nearly all kinds of movies, we really don't need repeats of the same thing but with more cheap CGI. Also, have aliens who are...
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    Soviet Reversal or how the reward should be different from the challenge

    This is something I like about percentile skill based systems. (Or d20 systems that work the same in 5% steps like Dragonbane.) The chance to improve a skill is the reverse of the chance to succeed at the skill. In Dragonbane, any time you use any skill, there is a 10% chance to mark the skill...
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    Soviet Reversal or how the reward should be different from the challenge

    What's the Soviet part in this? Something about resources being reallocated to underperforming factories, incentivizing factories to underperform?
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    OSR Does anybody know anything about this OSR adventure: Gods of the Forbidden North?

    A brief summary of the campaign: The PCs are adventurers from the remnants of the Hadean Empire that fell apart in a chaotic war of succession two decades ago. They have come into the possession of an odd artifact from the northern land of Titherion that presumably unlocks the vault to a great...
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    OSR Does anybody know anything about this OSR adventure: Gods of the Forbidden North?

    I just grabbed it on a whim. This sounds like exactly my jam.
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    AD&D 2E Let's Read the AD&D 2nd Edition PHB+DMG!

    A big issue with all the DMGs. They all fail spectacularly in doing any amount of guiding.
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    RPG Evolution: Wait, Are We Still Role-Playing?

    The concept of people going by different names in different contexts really does not seem either strange or new to me. People have different identities for different situations all the time, and are known in them by different names. None of those names are more real than any other.
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    "Outside of Wizards Hasbro is such a mess." (Q3 WotC Info)

    License residuals are money in the bank, but they are not productivity. They are not a measure of the profitability of a company's core business.
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    Are Superhero films dying?

    Well, I hope so. Free up the studio money to create interesting expensive movies for people who really don't care about superhero movies.
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