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  1. damiller

    How do you pronunce "grognard"?

    I've always pronounced it (spelling it phonetically mind you) grow-nard(s). Maybe thats why when I say it people wonder what I am trying to say.
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    Three Cheers For Content Moderation!!!

    I totally forgot about this cartoon. BUT it is basically where I got my stance from, I am sure I saw it a couple of months ago, and I thought, that is an argument I can get behind, because I really think the whole "cancel culture" thing is garbage. Thank you for linking to that, I am saving it...
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    Happy New Year (and Enworld Resolutions)!!

    My new years Enworld resolution is to finally actually be part of the community and post. I've been aroundish for almost 20 years!! :O
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    Three Cheers For Content Moderation!!!

    I've never spent much time on the "free speech" on social media issue (i include forums in that group). My thoughts have basically been this: To my understanding - In america, generally, free speech is not protected on private property. The social media companies are, as far as I know not public...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    That title didn't test well, so we went with RETURN of the Na'vi
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Fought ancient blue Space Invaders
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    D&D General I DM because...

    I played when I first started, but he real lightening for me was DMing. I just have never been interested ENOUGH in one character to play them for long, and as a GM I get to play as many characters I want. Its work, but its work I really enjoy. I have spent countless hours figuring out how to be...
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    D&D General DM Says No Powergaming?

    I don't like "powergaming" I don't want to work that hard to challenge your character in what is most often the biggest part of the game: combat. However, I won't ban it outright. I'll take a look at the rules and say "we aren't playing with that". For example: In Champions Now there is a way...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What could One D&D do to push the game more toward story?

    I will say, that in service of a What I've done is take a note from Nights Black Agents: I make combats player facing which means for 5e that they are now just skill rolls. I often use armor class as the dc. if they are successful the enemy is beaten. If they fail. We then may enter regular...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What could One D&D do to push the game more toward story?

    For a long time as GM i "worried" about telling stories. I wanted to help players tell stories. Then I realized I can't make stories. I can only make plots. For me stories are what the players DO with the plot. The choices THEY make about the events that happen during the session. Therefore I...
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    Hot take: Only the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings should be viewed as canonical Middle-Earth books

    I think canon is the ring of power. its necessary if you want to have control.
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    [Online][Other][GMT-6] Silverish Age Supers- S5e

    [Online][Other][GMT-6] Silverish Age Supers- S5e Looking for 3-4 players to fight villains, and then traffic. You'll play superheroes taking on the tropes of the genre, and then trying to live life. A “house rule” doc explains more. Time/Day: Fridays 7-9.30pm Central Standard Time (GMT-6)...
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    And the interesting thing about real world mythology is just that: its contradictory. In some ways, thats what makes it true. Cause life is contradictory.
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    This is almost the kind of discussion we had in the One Ring game I mentioned upthread. Its why I referred the problem to manuscript traditions. In New Testament scholarship, for example, there is no one verifiable text. There a multitude of manuscripts ALL with differences. (In fact noted...
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    In one game of The One Ring I ran, we had some changes to the cannon. I explained it via manuscript traditions, but my player insisted on their being only one true/factual way it happened. And didn't like our campaigns changing that. We didn't get too deep into that discussion, but it was fun...
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    Star Wars: Andor

    And since the Empire are supposed to be Space Nazis, isn't incompetence supposed to BE the point. A large fat fascists system that only exists because average folks didn't just say "uh no thanks" out loud?
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    Weird Frontiers DCC [Online Game Every Other Saturday, starting 8/6/22]

    I'm starting a Weird Frontiers campaign. I've got 3 players would like 1 more, 2 more max. We play every other saturday, starting 8/6/22, from 7-9.30pm CST. using discord for voice roll20 for maps. You wanna play?
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    Sale Darrel's Stock of Stock Art

    More stock to stock up on!!! Stock art #6 - map of a bank - outline/bw stock art #7 - cover image homage to Jack Kirby - black and white/outline/colorized Stock art #8 - 3 more public domain super heroes
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    Sale Darrel's Stock of Stock Art

    Some more stock art to stock up on! Stock Art #4 - More Public Domains Supers Stock Art #5 - Skeletal Star Lord
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    Oh wow. Everything I ever wanted in a Trek Show.
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