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    Gary Gygax's The Hermit kickstarter is almost over!

    TLG has 18 books in development across 4 crowdfunding campaigns (Codex Infernum, Codex Exaltum, Adventurers Armory, Monstrous Armory, War Mounts, Living Fantasy, Essential Facts and Things, The Canting Crew, Weyland Smith Catalog, Pantheons, Extraordinary Book of Names, Guide to Adventure...
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    How to Delay or Avoid GM Burnout

    My group is a difficult situation. First, one of my players is my wife. She loves gaming, and basically won't find another group without me because of social anxiety. Second, another player is my next door neighbor. He's a fine enough guy to play with. Third, the two remaining players are...
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    How to Delay or Avoid GM Burnout

    I started my most recent campaign full of excitement about a month ago. I picked a new campaign setting (Eberron). I left confusing new systems to get back to something more familiar, but with new options (Level Up - A5e). I did research and created interesting NPCs. I designed an...
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    Level Up (A5E) A5E First Impressions

    The "official, plain" character sheet: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f30140933f50e61c794e1a3/t/6174371ed1923915805f3930/1635006238699/Level_Up_CharSheet_BW.pdf
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    D&D General Former WotC Employee Greg Bilsland Returning to D&D?

    Kyle Brink was the last I heard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/has-kyle-brink-left-wotc.705240/
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    Level Up (A5E) A5E First Impressions

    Maybe. They've been hesitant to try OSR games and were really wanting something with tactical play and a lot of options. I talked them back from Pathfinder 2 to play A5E as a compromise.
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    Neverending "Yes ... And" Feedback Loops in Mysteries

    My response is to create a dungeon so there's a flowchart of somewhat limited options. This will hopefully save me from planning for a multitude of eventualities, at least for a few sessions. Hopefully this will get the players to change their mindset to be more proactive.
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    Level Up (A5E) A5E First Impressions

    I agree. I think that the simplicity of the concept is affecting my ability to explain it.
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    Neverending "Yes ... And" Feedback Loops in Mysteries

    They're still running from site-to-site, collecting clues and doing nothing. I presented them with a village where the people were being charmed and tortured by fey. Them: "too bad - I guess we're gonna leave." Me: "so you just want to let these people die?" Them: "yeah - it's not really our...
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    Level Up (A5E) A5E First Impressions

    They're still not getting the hang of skills. Ultimately, I think for my own sanity I'm going to default to the 2014 way of doing things just so they can write clear numbers on their character sheets. Every single time we make a die roll, it's "what's my bonus? do I get proficiency on this? do...
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    Shadowdark Class Design with Kelsey Dionne: The Necromancer! Live at 12pm Pacific.

    I voted for "Psion" in the poll and I'm a little disappointed to not get it. Oh well, maybe a 3rd party will make one.
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    GAMA's Communications Manager Declares Organization 'Broken'

    Origins is our go-to "large" con now that GenCon has ballooned to a size and cost I can't handle. Additionally, the tradeshow is held in my state now and generates valuable income in my region. I hope GAMA improves what it needs.
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    Shadowdark Setting Looks Set To Be 2025's First Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunder

    Currently at $2,000,621. Officially crossed $2M
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    D&D 5E (2024) Okay MM 2024 is fully released, when is the 5.5e SRD going to be released?

    It took nearly 2 years for 5.1 to be released. I'm not expecting 5.2 to be an immediate priority.
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    Neverending "Yes ... And" Feedback Loops in Mysteries

    So the group's fissure between who wants to have action VS. who wants to keep pursuing mysteries came to a head last session. Both sides started arguing about what is "fun" in an RPG. We had a fight. There was essentially a TPK, but they survived (I fudged it - which I hate to do - but the...
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    Pathfinder Teases New Runelords Content

    Aren't they making a Pathfinder-inspired board game set in Golarion? My guess is that the Runelords feature in the boardgame.
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    Combating My Own Boredom as a Player

    A nice house rule that would make it go down easier would be to allow different types of movement as a part of the same action. Like, if I moved to the wall and had movement remaining, I could begin climbing it as a part of the first action. If I finished climbing the wall with the third...
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    Level Up (A5E) A5E First Impressions

    The players reached level 2 last session and we spent the last hour leveling up. 3 of the 4 players are getting Combat Maneuvers, so that took some explanation and lots of research. I am curious to see how it impacts the game: the speed of combat, the power level of characters. Other notes...
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    Combating My Own Boredom as a Player

    I have never played with a PF2 GM in person, online, at a convention, in this multiverse or any other, who would have ruled it that way. IME, the way most PF2 GM would rule this is that a brazier spill would have a DC and damage that is connected to the level of the hazard - not the character...
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    Combating My Own Boredom as a Player

    We had a 2-week break from PF2 to play Call of Cthulhu a couple months ago. I really enjoyed it.
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