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    D&D General Stop Yapping, Start Playing: Trimming GM Descriptions

    How about just, "you're not a writer and this isn't your novel. Just describe stuff conversationally, the way you would when talking normally." I actually think a few descriptive elements is more important for players than GMs; they should find ways to remind people of who they are. I don't like...
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    Shadows of Old Night - Dramatis Personae

    Meanwhile, here's my four PCs, which took over after that point. All of them had some backstory rolls generated by the tables in Knave 2e, so they're all a little random. For that matter, that's where their names came from too. The bold below is either the random pre-game career or the two...
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    Shadows of Old Night - Dramatis Personae

    The actual "story hour" to come later, I suppose. I wanted to start archiving characters first—both NPCs and PCs. I make character models using Hero Forge Pro. Some of them are a little older, but as new features and assets have been added, I've tried to make sure that things are upgraded to...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Provides Guidance on How to Run Heroes of the Borderlands As More Traditional Campaign

    Neither would I. Because that's not a tradition that anyone in living memory has celebrated, making that another ... funny ... use of the word traditional.
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    Will the complexity pendulum swing back?

    It never left. Rules light may be the darling of the indie internet crowd, but every game that is leading in sales is extraordinarily crunchy. To me the question isn't is crunchy going to come back, it's is it ever going to freakin' wear out its welcome and leave.
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    Streaming services, which do you have or are you getting rid of?

    Everything that I have through either my cable internet provider or my cell provider, which is actually most of them, albeit with ads in many cases. I don't pay a separate bill for any of them. Amazon Prime is the only one that we pay for explicitly, and that's actually mostly because we want...
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    D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-]

    I've always liked Eberron, but my biggest hurdle in running it has been its focus on themes that I'm not interested in pursuing. I've actually found that "remixing" Eberron to something that is Eberron-like but not exactly Eberron works better for me. That's largely true for every setting...
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    Spoilers What do people get wrong about Tolkien?

    They might have had. There's plenty of stuff in the History of Middle-earth series, and I'm sorry I can't remember which volumes now, that suggest that their ears were leaf-shaped. My own personal pet peeve is the certain declaration that orcs are corrupted elves, when no such thing was ever...
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    PSA: Don't Let Orcs Loose in Your Fantasy Human World

    That's extremely debatable.
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    PSA: Don't Let Orcs Loose in Your Fantasy Human World

    Steel is the great equalizer. Orcs are like Neanderthals in being bigger, meaner (but admittedly probably not greener) than people, and yet, there are no Neanderthals today. Humans can last just fine against orcs, just like Romans lasted just fine against Gauls, while admitting that individual...
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    D&D General The rapier in D&D

    Frankly, I think that in order to fight dragons, except for exceptionally small ones, you should have some kind of fantasy ordinance, like ballistas with magical or blessed bolts or something like that, and large weighted nets to hamper its ability to fly, and otherwise a whole host of special...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How excited are you for the 2 upcoming Forgotten Realms books?

    I've got, I believe although I need to check, the entire 3e run of FR products. I'm not even all that excited about that, but certainly I have all of the FR material that I ever need right there. Even if I were to play a 5.5 version of 5e, I wouldn't need a 5.5 book on it. Setting stuff is...
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    D&D General Nentir Vale In Other Settings

    No, I meant the "New Shield Lands", which is a small rump state of the original Shield Lands, and claims the rest of the territory once occupied by the "Old Shield Lands". Nentir Vale being a frontier territory in this area that Critwall would like to peacefully reincorporate makes perfect sense.
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    Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Coming to America via Steve Jackson Games

    I also discovered just now after looking that they only published about 20-21 or so in the original US print run. The later titles never got US releases. So I guess I was more familiar with the full run for my region than I thought.
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? +

    I don't run games in the Forgotten Realms, because I only ever really run games in my own homebrews, but I do have a strange love-hate but more love fondness for the Forgotten Realms, and I've recently embarked on a project to read (or re-read, for many) every single 3e Forgotten Realms product...
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