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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    Yes. That's the thing about Shakespeare that both his fans and his critics always forget. Most of his stuff was not meant to be read. Unless you're an actor you're not meant to be reading it. EDIT: And now I'm imagining some school in the far future making all the kids read the scripts from...
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    D&D General Favorite Iconic D&D Metropolis

    You mention not on the same scale as Sigil but in some versions of the canon Sigil isn't very big at all
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    My hovercraft is full of eels
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    I'll grant that that's what you get form the literal meaning of the idiom;s component words
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    D&D General Need Nightime Creature concept.

    Am I correct in surmising that you want low level and/or hordes, and that vampires would therefore not work?
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    D&D General Your D&D Party is too big! (Science says scheduling is hard)

    That's been what's most successful for me so far
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    D&D General D&D Pronunciation Guide

    It's pronounced Drew and they're all named Drew That sounds like Professor Frink doing an impression of the Swedish Chef
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    D&D General D&D Pronunciation Guide

    To me this sounds almost equivalent to saying that the word must be pronounced with a British accent (even though the audio sample is an unaccented monotone). It's IIRC primarily a British term and IIRC there's a version of the British accent that drops letters like that. So there's a case to be...
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    Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

    The Chosen Ones - not a specific adventure but a concept for modifying an existing adventure. The PCs are thrown into an adventure that they would usually be woefully underleveled for, however as luck would have it they are the chosen ones destined to resolve this particular problem. As a result...
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    Today I learned +

    Fun fact. Speaking of Cold War era spy drones, a couple decades ago the army decalssified some documents revealing that the thing that crashed at Roswell was an experimental unmanned spy device they had been testing at a nearby military base
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    Not really. "Social media' refers to microblogging sites, sites where you can "friend" people, and sites where a sense of community is levereged to subtly manipulate users to divulge personal information so that advertisers can profile them better. It doesn't just mean any site where users interact
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    I meant forums specifically. So discord would count, and reddit too, but i'm not sure those other things would
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    RPG Evolution: The Coming Social Collapse

    I'll never understand why forums went out of fashion
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    Semi-sensible thousand-year plans?

    *Creating a new kind of animal through selective breeding *Exhaustively reading ALL subject matter available on a given subject *Becoming a millionaire purely through hard work and saving
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    Semi-sensible thousand-year plans?

    Or go fully allegorical with it and have it that people are using decanters of endless water to power waterwheels for industrial purposes and thisnis gradually causing sea level rise Sounds a little bit like the backstory of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann EDIT: Also, there's this long-term...
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    Semi-sensible thousand-year plans?

    I think the Long Now Foundation designed a clock that's designed to operate on a timescale of about a millennium without needing winding, charging, or repair
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    D&D General Languages suck in D&D.

    I like to lampshade it by imagining that the racial languages are hardcoded by the creator gods and that "common" isn't a single language but a set of pidgins that are mutually intelligible with each other because they're all derived from mashing up the racial languages (which is also why...
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    [Creative Exercise] Worlds in a word, planes in a paragraph

    I had an idea pop into my head this morning for a Jovian moon named Ensalada which is made of iceberg lettuce (a parody of the real jovian moon Enceladus, whose surface is a giant iceberg floating on a planetwide sea). Could work as a gag in a Toon game.
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    Any ideas what to run for the ides of March

    Two adventures, in sequence 1.) A dangerous charismatic man is gathering power to overthrow the Republic and make himself emperor. He must be stopped or the world will be plunged into 1800 years of darkness 2.) The tyrant is dead but the work is not done. In order to save the republic the...
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