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    D&D General All Time Favorite Dragon Magazine or Dungeon Magazine Content

    Without any doubt the "Voyages of princess Ark" articles...
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    Here's Who Won ENnies This Year!

    Congrats to all the winners! ...and keep on going on with all the remaining nominees!
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    D&D General [Poll] Metagame justifications for in-character behavior

    My vote goes to never for a simple reason: it is not metagaming if a player talks to the GM by using words referred to game mechanics such as THAC0 or similar... To my eyes metagaming is bringing on the other side of the game (i.e. the world where the PC are acting) concepts or logics which do...
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    Sell Me on OSE

    Sorry but where is it written the format? For that price i assume theseare pdfs but i could not find the info ... Re to the topic: is OSE more or less collectable than the previous edition (entitled "B/X essential")?
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    Level 1 Gameplay or Progress through Mastery

    True, but for those games where the PC are supposed to "grow", then there is a problem i raised here: https://www.enworld.org/threads/rpg-theory-in-game-balancing.689578/ ...and from the replies of this topic, the problem of making out a constant match between PC and NPC/monsters it seems not...
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    Level 1 Gameplay or Progress through Mastery

    Could you pls link this topic? I am very interested in reading it! Yes yes and yes! Nevertheless any rpg does need dice to make the game random... In a nutshell: yes for a game which leverage not on safety belts such as huge amount of hit points and THACO ridicolous, no for a game where dice...
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    D&D General Sandbox Campaigns should have a Default Action.

    Excuse me but i believe that the main unanswered point is not the sandbox campaign itself rather than the experience* of both DM and players... If the DM presents this question, it is clear he is missing smtg in terms of game mastery and the same works for players: they likely need to run a more...
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    Current fees and costs

    Well re to Kickstarter, I still do not understand the underlying logic... From one side I am aware of the fact the KS is born to help projects for people like me who are not a pro/company in the industry. On the other side my first thought goes against some projects done by companies in the...
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    Current fees and costs

    Thanks a lot for your advices! Just a couple of additional questions: do you think the layout/background of the page is smtg important or a detail which can be skipped? what are stock artworks? Apologies this is an unexplored field... Do you mean that there are websites where i can buy fantasy...
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    Current fees and costs

    I would like to have an idea of the actual costs I would need to face if I want to produce a "professional" product. The assumption is a new rulebook of approx 200 pages. To my knowledge the costs are: 1. Proofreading (the assumption is 200 A5 pages) 2. Editing (meaning the production of the...
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    D&D General Which Previous Edition (poll; read OP)

    BECMI is my favourite one... This simply for sentimental reasons, this is the first edition I played. Let me add an overall consideration: this poll could easily be read as "what is the edition you have first met and led you to the wonderful world of RPG?" ...it would nice to see the age of the...
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    D&D General What's on your adventure writing checklist?

    Great work! I have never considered to create and use a check list! Just one question not related to the list itself... I am considering since year to buy and read the Goodman games "how to write adventures that doesn't suck"... Is more or less this what i do expect to find in there? (In terms...
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    What film(s) have you seen the most times?

    I will not list those movies i have seen less than 20 times (it would be a very long list with more or less the titles i have already seen here above)... This is the list of movies i have seen between 50 and 100 times, yes that is correct, I know almost all by heart... The order is by number of...
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    Ironsworn is the perfect Covid Isolation Game

    Thanks for the tip! I will give a glance at it! It seems interesting!
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    RPG Theory - Intelligence and meta-intelligence

    Thanks a lot for both explanation and example! This is actually one of the options i was thinking of: replace the brain of a "poor" player with the suggestions provided by the DM upon a positive check... However i was thinking in my solution that the DM is simply asked to report that the PC...
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    RPG Theory - Intelligence and meta-intelligence

    You got my point! ...and thanks for explaining in another interesting way! Let me add my 2 cents and rephrase my initial question: my concern is referred to any attribute which is used in the role-play (namely the role-play, not the fact of playing at an RPG): you are simulating the psychics...
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    RPG Theory - Intelligence and meta-intelligence

    That is interesting! I look for a copy of this game then! In any case, could you pls explain better this concept? Maybe with an example so that i get it... (apologies it is not fully clear to my eyes!)
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    What game is the best simulationist game?

    Great! I didn't know that!
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    What game is the best simulationist game?

    Could you pls point me out this book? I miss it and would like to identify it as i am a great fan of CA Smith.
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    RPG Theory - Intelligence and meta-intelligence

    ...or as an alternative: is there any way to set up an RPG which has no need of INT? This way the problem would be removed from the starting point...
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