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    What's the WORST Star Wars movie?

    And Caravan of Courage! And Battle For Endor! I need all three of those movies on the poll so I can rank some movies beneath them!
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    This surprised me. Well known publishers followings.

    Their twitter followings: Paizo: 95.7K Kobold Press: 64.6K Free League Publishing: 17.4K Cubicle 7: 14.8K
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    Map-and-key RPGing contrasted with alternatives

    Mechanically quite abstract, but each region still comes with its own themes, descriptions, and monsters, of course!
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    Map-and-key RPGing contrasted with alternatives

    I'm pretty sure there was a dungeon-crawling Forged in the Dark hack where the travel to the dungeon and back was abstracted like the 3rd method described by @pemerton And Trophy Gold, the treasure hunting campaign version of the Trophy system published The Gauntlet, does something like this as...
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    Culture Feature: RPGs & Authors Beyond the Western Standard

    You're most welcome. If you get to play any of these games, do let us know what you think of them!
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    SWADE: Integrating Edges into Stat Blocks

    This is what D&D did with 4th Edition - anything resembled a spell was fully described in the stat block of the creature so you did not have to flip around to look it up. It's still incredibly annoying when it happens in games like Star Wars: Edge of the Empire, and I cannot believe game...
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    Culture Feature: RPGs & Authors Beyond the Western Standard

    I forgot to mention, I did a second RPGSEA thread, here... https://www.enworld.org/threads/kais-guide-to-rpgsea-games-and-creators-part-2.684817/
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    Culture Feature: RPGs & Authors Beyond the Western Standard

    Samuel Mui is a Malaysian designer who writes games about "ordinary people and extraordinary worlds." He explores topics that range from toxic relationships and religious trauma to tokusatsu superheroes and body horror. His current project is Horse Girl, a solo journaling body horror RPG...
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    Culture Feature: RPGs & Authors Beyond the Western Standard

    W.H. Arthur is a designer from Hong Kong probably best known for the crowdfunded The Sol Survivor, a GM-less RPG where several players collectively tell the story of a sun that was shot down from the sky (as told in Chinese mythology) and is trying to make its way back to the heavens. It's...
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    Culture Feature: RPGs & Authors Beyond the Western Standard

    There's some overlap here with my thread on Southeast Asian RPGs... (Disclosure: I am a Southeast Asian RPG creator) https://www.enworld.org/threads/kais-guide-to-rpgsea-games-and-creators.672137/ This thread is somewhat out of date...for instance, one of the creators has changed their name...
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    Assumed Success for Things Other Than Physical and Magical Actions

    GUMSHOE games like Trail of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents assume a high level of competence for any investigative ability, which could be social things like Flattery, Intimidation and Negotiation. If you have any points in the relevant ability, and an NPC  can yield information (a clue) that...
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    The importance to RPGing of *engaging* situations

    This is something where some games with faction play have an edge. Whether it's your noble house in Dune, or just a gang in Blades in the Dark, if all your characters have been created with a strong stake in one faction's trials and tribulations, it gives the GM a clear direction to go in...
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    Headlines From Hell, a mini-RPG tribute to the journalist response to the OGL crisis 😁

    Shortly after WotC gave in, an indie creator made this little solo RPG: https://zeshio.itch.io/headlines-from-hell
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    WotC Backs Down: Original OGL To Be Left Untouched; Whole 5E Rules Released as Creative Commons

    I give the credit to the whistle-blowers inside WotC for warning us about what was going on, and the WotC staff members who had to be breaking their backs trying to convince their bosses this was the right thing to do. That's where credit is due.
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    WotC Backs Down: Original OGL To Be Left Untouched; Whole 5E Rules Released as Creative Commons

    I just wanted to say that this whole tidal wave of community unrest could not have happened without the risks taken by the original leaker, and the WotC whistle-blowers. We owe a lot to them.
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    Pathfinder, Cthulhu, Level Up: D&D Competitors Start To Sell Out

    I haven't seen a spike on itch.io.
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    Pathfinder, Cthulhu, Level Up: D&D Competitors Start To Sell Out

    Good for you guys! The Scattering is real!
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    Keith Baker asks about walking away from Eberron.

    There was a nice short Actual Play session of Phoenix Dawn Command by Party of One. I liked it. The reviving heroes concept seems like a more nuanced version of the "Stormcast Eternal" from Age of Sigmar. https://www.partyofonepodcast.com/game/tmp-zvj3rdirz6jyitk/
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