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    Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

    You want to debunk the existence of ghosts? Here goes. The US South is not overrun with millions of ghost stories centered around the angry ghosts of enslaved people. Germany and Eastern Europe are not overrun with millions of ghost stories centered around the angry ghosts of the Nazi’s victims...
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    Sword World to Get Official English Translation

    I got nothing. If they’re doing it manually that does not fill me with confidence.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Someday I'll learn to not bother. I wish it was sooner rather than later.
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    GenCon 2025 TTRPG announcement speculation thread!

    I lost interest in M&M during the release of 3E. But I'll still buy the core book regardless. I hope they release the "playtest" version as a PDF instead of keeping it physical on-site only.
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    What are your thoughts on roll-under/roll-high mechanics?

    I absolutely love them. Makes things so, so much easier at the table. I hack Blackjack opposed rolls into most roll-under systems because it makes more sense than any other method I've come across yet.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I always come back to mushrooms. How many people died trying the different varieties of mushrooms and why would they keep on trying to find the edible ones? I guess it's a bit of "We're going to die anyway, might as well risk it." But still. And once agriculture is discovered, all the...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Yeah. That thought goes through my head regularly. I'm the primary cook at my house so I'm always encountering ingredients and recipes that make me wonder about that. How desperate were they to try that? How did they randomly come across this complicated series of steps to make that edible?
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The great thing about Eeyore as a character is that it shows kids what kindness and compassion looks like. Eeyore's friends in the Hundred Acre Wood never abandon him despite his sullen disposition and depression. He's legit a walking poster child for mental health and his friends keep on...
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    Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

    The human brain has evolved to see faces and patterns as a survival trait. Far more likely there was a vague pattern in the mustard and the student's brain filled it in as a child's hand print. Similar to your story, I had a philosophy lecture where we talked about knowledge. The prof lead the...
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    Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

    No, ghosts aren't real. Low-frequency sound does weird things to people's brains. https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/infrasound-paranormal-activity.htm
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    Sword World to Get Official English Translation

    We've been talking about it since Saturday over here. https://www.enworld.org/threads/sword-world-rpg-official-english-translation-by-mugen-gaming.714547/
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    The Daggerheart license has been updated to include clarification on actual plays and a few other bits. In all some good changes. https://darringtonpress.com/license/
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Prepping a Modiphius Discworld game.
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    What is adventuring?

    Adventuring is all the fun and exciting bits that separate what the PCs are doing from the ordinary life of an average person in the setting and from the ordinary lives of the players at the table. Danger, suspense, thrills, amazing locations, terrible monsters, etc. All of it.
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    RPG Print News – Liminal Horror, Dungeon Crawl Classics, and More

    Great summary. Heel turn is the perfect phrase for this. Goodman spent years (decades) building up a stellar reputation for products and inclusivity, including denouncing Bledsaw on camera while sitting next to Jennell Jaquays. Then he set the whole thing on fire with a single announcement and...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Finished this last night. A peppering of decent advice through the second half of the book. Worth the read to reinforce what others have said better. Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying and Return of the Lazy DM have far more detail and far more actionable material that covers the...
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    Today I learned +

    Yep. Most of that is unregulated nonsense. Even when it is regulated, there’s a huge financial incentive to lie. This article is a few years old, but most self-labeling is just as questionable if not more so...
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    GenCon 2025 TTRPG announcement speculation thread!

    I’d be surprised if several late night hosts and comedians didn’t form their own studio in the next year.
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    Sword World to Get Official English Translation

    Nice. Video announcement with the CEO of Group SNE. https://mugengaming.com/blogs/news/mugen-gaming-announces-sword-world-in-english
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