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  1. GrimCo

    Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1

    Problem with space combat is that we don't have real world practical experience as a reference point. All our wars have been waged on single planet with atmosphere and gravity. Most of sf space battles are based on real world naval combat, be it old Age of Sail or more modern WW1/2. And most...
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    Playing AS monsters?

    Played and ran quite a few. First one was back in HS 3.5 days, our party was half dragon, half fiend, bugbear and werewolf. Played in all undead campaigns, all drow campaigns, all lycanthrope campaigns and some with monster mixes. In PF1, i ran "We be goblins" and "We be goblins too", but...
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    D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party

    It's not binary. There are few categories: It doesn't work by design (4e) It works by design (0-2ed) It can work, but it takes some extra work by DM (5e) It can work, but it takes lot's of extra work by DM (3.X)
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    D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party

    In some games, power difference works well. D&D isn't one of them ( at least since 3ed). It's mostly due to the fact that with each level characters mostly grow in power vertically. With levels, HP go up, there are stat increases, to hit increase ( less so with 5e, but prof mod increase is there...
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    When you play in person, where do you play? (Poll)

    At someones home. Be it DM's, be it one of the players. We rotate at hosting. Exception was when one of us had newborn/very young kid, then we would play at that persons house. It's practical. I can play and keep eye on kid (if he needs feeding, diaper change etc). It also gives wife free time...
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    What's Your Price Limit?

    Only problem is, there is no universal way to determine what is fair price. It's completely subjective and depends on ratio of price and value you get out of product. Best way would probably be - price with which both buyer and seller are reasonably satisfied.
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    Diablo RPG Kickstarter signup is live

    I'm not kickstarter fan, but as a Diablo fan, if hardcovers ever hit regular sale, i will buy it, if for no other reason, than as cool art and lore books to enjoy.
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    Things Said That Stop the Game Dead in its Track

    It's Conan with filed off serial numbers. If i remember correctly, they didn't have rights to use Conan in Red Sonia movies, even though it was same studio that did all 3 movies. Kalidor sounds similar and in all other aspects, Arnie just plays Conan. TBH i don't think that movie was bad...
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    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    Visa/MC are de facto duopoly at this point when it comes to debit cards. Almost all banks use them, they are accepted pretty much everywhere in the world and work with all atm/pos machines. When it comes to card networks, they got it covered. There are alternative payment gateways that automate...
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    What's Your Price Limit?

    That same bundle is 61.95 euros ( or 99 CAD with current exchange rate). For double PDF is expensive. Especially since most hardcovers are around 40e per book (with free shipping from German Amazon). When it comes to PDFs, i'm ok paying like 50% of hardcover price.
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    Running multiple games in parallel?

    Usually none. Most of people i played with aren't willing to commit to more than one weekly game. Even when they do, life get's in the way and in the end, they need to choose one game to stick regularly or they alternate no show sessions between campaigns for some time, then just pick one at the...
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    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    Depends on the seasson. Sure, it's not scalable for high volume products. But, at least in EU, there are payment gateways that are much less prone to outside pressures than Visa/MC (which are card networks/card processors, not pure payment processors), especially ones that are in Netherlands...
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    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    Direct bank transfers? It's PIA since without payment processing gateway, you need to enter info manually, but it can be done. We rent out house and all private bookings are direct bank payments from account to account, no 3rd parties.
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    D&D General 70% Of Games End At Lvl 7?

    Kids take lot of time. I love them, they are my pride and joy, but they drain energy. In 5 years, all the kids from the group will be at least elementary school, so, more time and energy. Unless wife changes her mind and we go for kiddo numero 3, and friends wife changes her mind and they go for...
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    What's Your Price Limit?

    It would be way more easy and cost effective to sell it online. Unfortunately, Ebay isn't really a thing here for buying/selling used stuff and with postage prices, sending it cross border to another EU country costs 8-12e, so it's not worth it. It's just cheaper for me and the buyer to hop in...
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    D&D General 70% Of Games End At Lvl 7?

    Thing that helps immensly is people having stable life schedule, enough free time on consistent basis and playing game being high on their hobby priority list. Back in college, one semester we played Tuesday mornings (10-14). It just happened that we all had only late afternoon lectures that...
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    What's Your Price Limit?

    Not Ebay. Once a month, we have flea market where people sell books, comics, vinyl records. It's mostly alternative crowd (punks, metalheads, goths) and younger crowd, which intersects with gaming crowd fair bit. Also, that venue is 5 minutes walking distance from Faculty of electrical...
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    What's Your Price Limit?

    Also, one good thing about physical copies (at least for fairly mainstream and popular games). If you buy them, flip trough, don't like or worse, never open them, you can usually flip them for almost same price you bought them or trade it for something of similar value. PDFs? Nope. You bought...
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    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    Yea, Visa/MC are big players in payment processing and can throw they weight around. But, they are not payment processor per se. They are card networks, they only move money using credit/debit cards, they don't process direct bank transfers. I'm just curious, is there a way to get payment...
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    D&D General 70% Of Games End At Lvl 7?

    One thing i really like about 5e version of LoTR is that's capped at level 10. From memory, i think idea is that you get from level 1 to level 2 after first session, 2-3 after session third session and for players that aren't complete beginners, you start at lv 3. Even taking that into...
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