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    D&D General B3 Palace of the Silver Princess, and why (I think) it's great

    AGLA appears in medieval and later magical charms and on talismans, and might be a Goetic or Kabbalistic notarikon for ʾAtā gībōr ləʿōlām ʾĂḏōnāy, "Thou, O Lord, art mighty forever." This one looks like Dr John Dee's talisman. The 3.5 Tome of Magic draws heavily on medieval grimoires.
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    Trailer Fallout - Official Trailer

    The great thing about Fallout 4 is that with its huge mod support you can tweak it to your liking. I prefer it in survival mode with various environmental/nuclear winter mods, use alternate start, and always ignore the main story. Fallout: London is a fan-created mod (bigger than the base game)...
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    Trailer Fallout - Official Trailer

    Love the games. Just watched the first 2 episodes. This show is awesome. Completely nailed it and then some.
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    D&D General Which Gods/Pantheons do you use in your D&D setting?

    D&D doesn't generally do a good job of modelling anything real (society, religion, economy, technology - you name it), but rather exists as its own, self-reinforcing paradigm, where its various quirky elements support its idiosyncratic structure. We know, in a general sense, that religion is a...
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    A drink by any other name

    I'd echo @Dannyalcatraz and say not get too hung up on the terminology; the main point is to communicate a steeped nonalcoholic beverage to the reader. That said, the Sumerians and their successors drank beer. Thick, porridgy, flavored-with-herbs beer. Tons of it. With straws to filter out the...
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    D&D General Who “owns” a PC after the player stops using them?

    If I were an originalist, and spent hours poring over the 1E rulebooks attempting to divine their meaning - and I'm not, but let's assume I were - I think it's clear there are circumstances (lycanthropy, transformation to undead, divine ascension etc.) under which a PC explicitly becomes an NPC...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What if everyone in the setting had a [Class]?

    The premise is an interesting one; it raises the question of the difference between the results of a system where everyone (or nearly everyone) has an implied class, and the hard-coding of class into the mythic reality of the game world. I agree with the various sentiments that it needs some...
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    Campaigns inspired by songs

    Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd for a psychedelic slower-than-light Traveller game Dominion by Sisters of Mercy for a Birthright campaign The Prophet's Song by Queen All of Queen II Five Years by Bowie Warrior on the Edge of Time by Hawkwind The Necromancer and Cygnus X-1 by Rush Return of the...
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    Do TTRPGs Need to "Modernize?"

    I did something similar. It really wasn't onerous to implement, once the initial matrices had been written down. And there is the satisfaction of switching from a bardiche to a military pick when facing off against heavily-armored opponents. Fighters would tend to allot their initial...
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    Do TTRPGs Need to "Modernize?"

    I tried at various times to use it. It was a good idea, but poorly executed - largely because it didn’t factor in shields logically, and some of the bonuses and penalties seem pretty arbitrary.
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    Do TTRPGs Need to "Modernize?"

    I have a friend who hasn’t forgiven what I did in the Ruhr thirty-five years ago. It took France and Germany less time to bury the hatchet IRL, with WWII intervening.
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    Do TTRPGs Need to "Modernize?"

    "I love chess, but I wish I were better at it." The fact that this statement is made by literally everyone who plays chess says something about the power of this game. I also love this game, and it's the only game I have seen induce actual nervous breakdowns.
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    "Oddities" in fantasy settings - the case against "consistency"

    Just to echo the posters above, within the genre, a noble might bestow lands, a title and castle for great deeds and service faithfully rendered. Or a wicked knight might steal a castle and its lands, dispossessing its former occupant. Or it might be acquired as part of a quest, after the witch...
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