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  1. Voadam

    When you play in person, where do you play? (Poll)

    Usually at my friends' (a married couple) house, sometimes one of them are the DM, sometimes another of us in the group is. The last year plus face to face campaign I ran was at their house. They have a young kid (kindergartner) and we play in their first floor or basement after the kid is down...
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    TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D

    i.e., e.g., c.f., etc. When he said q.v. what did he actually mean? Did he mean it that way in the actual specific instance? Unreliable usage is kind of unreliable. The girdle use of q.v. is not quite the same as the use of q.v. in erase. In erase it says it can be used against glyphs of...
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    Removing X ability score minimum to cast spells

    I used this as a house rule in my 3.5/Pathfinder 1e games (see "Magic is Easy" in my Freeport games' house rules). It makes lower stat characters more viable and more multiclass caster options more viable. I think of core multiclass casters generally as a big power drop compared to SAD full...
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    Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien

    I think I read the Hobbit around the same time I got into D&D, age 8, second grade. Not sure when I saw the 1977 movie, probably on TV sometime after it came out, I don't think I saw it in the theater. I know I had one of those kid records of it with an accompanying illustrated book and that...
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    TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D

    The hammer, gauntlets, and girdle? Yeah, your talking about the hammer, gauntlets, and girdle.
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    TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D

    It is written ambiguously, thus 1e rules lawyer arguments to be made. The girdle text says outright the two stack with any hammer, the gauntlets suggest it is desirable in combo with a girdle and any hurled weapon (so spears, axes, daggers, darts too) but does not state why, and of course the...
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    D&D General D&D Releases New Japanese Campaign 'Oni’s Right Hand'

    It was the 1e Oriental Adventures. The 1e Kara Tur boxed set just looks like a list of TSR people in the credits though I do not recognize Jay Batista or Deborah Christian
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    Undead Origins

    Superteam Handbook Mutants & Masterminds 3e Undead: ? Mindless Threat: ? Avatar of an Undead God-Thing: ? Tepalcatli: ?
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    D&D General Kara Tur 5e

    Here is a starter search for such products, just ignore the WotC/TSR stuff
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    Undead Origins

    Supernatural Handbook Mutants & Masterminds 3e Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Monster: A curse that transforms victims into undead monsters or animalistic savages can just as easily be an example of a progressive mutation as exposure to radiation or mutagens. With Germany’s mounting losses, the...
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    Undead Origins

    Power Profiles Mutants & Masterminds 3e Undead, Undead Being, Undead Creature: Necromantic powers are death powers, but have the additional connotation of involving spirits or souls and creating, commanding, or communicating with undead beings. Necromantic powers are usually magical in nature...
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    D&D General Kara Tur 5e

    Monsters, monsters, monsters. Yokai, yohei, lungs, jiangshi hopping vampires, kaiju, etc. Non-monk martial arts options.
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    As a GM, which monster do you find the most difficult to role-play?

    I think of the smooth talking deal making manipulators as the arch devils. Most rank and file MM devils are the legions of hell, lawful order-taking soldiers of different types.
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    Celebrating 50 Years of Chaosium!

    I really like my Elric book.
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    As a GM, which monster do you find the most difficult to role-play?

    There are other examples, the Temeraire Napoleonic Wars with Dragons series with a British naval officer and his talking dragon as protagonists comes to mind as well as this guy from He Man. That said I really enjoy bestial dragons and have a bit of a hard time including D&D dragons (and...
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    Celebrating 50 Years of Chaosium!

    I do remember elements of sexual assault, sexual weirdness, and torture that were pretty rough. Some of the torture resulting from their don't kill each others' characters internal writer policy so that the regenerating Tempus got captured and sold off to a vivsectionist for a long time. Also...
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    Celebrating 50 Years of Chaosium!

    Passed TSR in longevity after WotC bought D&D, Flying Buffalo was 1975 as well (not sure whether that was before or after Chaosium) but they sold out recently as well.
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