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  1. Flexor the Mighty!

    D&D 5E (2014) How do you handle insight?

    Yep. I always ask my players to describe what they are doing a bit more than just checking for traps. Are they touching it? Standing back 75 feet and giving it an ocular patdown? Otherwise they never did anything that set off some negative effect. "What do you mean I set off the trap when...
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    What props or other immersive things have GMs used that were cool?

    I used to try to add in music and whatnot but I found I was spending too much time fiddling with that and mostly dropped it.
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 6th edition - What do you want to see?

    I had a player tell me he wanted to use intimidate during a fight in 3.5. I told him the most intimidating thing he could probably do was keep swinging that greatsword at his foe. But if he wanted to stop that and run off at the mouth he could give that a shot. I have a hard time thinking it...
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    Who brings food? The GM or the Players?

    I host and referee most of the time but I get off work an hour before game time so I lack time to cook for a group and I don't eat the garbage they do so. Usually I eat my dinner before arrival then they order pizza when they all get at my house. On the odd nights we game at another friends...
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    [Reaper Bones] Scale dilemma

    Looks like your boy is a chip off the old block when it comes to painting! How I wish I had someone else I game with painting miniatures.
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    D&D General D20 Modern, superheroes and "Cobretti effect".

    +1 for mentioning the classic of American 80's action cinema. Cobra. Crime is a disease...and he's the cure.
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    D&D General Players make the rolls and Defensive Reactions

    I would never give up all the rolls. Last night in our game a player was going to run by a warg to attack a different foe and I jokingly told him, "you sure you want to do that? He will get a free attack as you leave his engagement range and I'll probably crit you." He said yes and I promptly...
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    No XP/Laughs?

    Now I'm down to 12 likes from 2013. Which means nobody really like me anymore. Mom was right!!! :(
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    TSR Elf Stranded on the Warden: A Short Gary Gygax Story

    Love it! keep these stories coming.
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    TSR Elf Stranded on the Warden: A Short Gary Gygax Story

    Love it! keep these stories coming.
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    POLL: What edition of D&D did you most recently play/run?

    Ran Swords and Wizardry (OD&D clone) Sunday afternoon and again tonight.
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    OSR OSR Gripes

    I run S&W in a meat grinder dungeon. Stats don't matter much, there aren't any skills to speak of, and the rules are pretty sparse. Awesome! Tell me what your PC is doing and I'll adjudicate according to the rules we have and if there aren't any I'll use my best judgment and try to be...
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    Speeding Up Play (Without Being a Jerk)

    Don't get me started on my slow poke group...
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    D&D General Gamer Stats From White Dwarf in the 80s

    Looks pretty much like the shop I wargame at. Mostly white dudes with some women, maybe 20-25%. They do Vampire LARPing on Saturday nights though and I bet the crowd changes a bit more for that but maybe not. Though in life I have yet to meet a woman who was into playing RPG to be honest...
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    Castles & Crusades

    Yeah its a 1e/3e mashup in a way. Its saves tied to each ability kind of bled into 3e with the primes kind of being your proficiency saves. Its a good game and I ran a campaign but I switched over to Swords and Wizardry since its even simpler and runs like lightning. I would heartily...
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    Why are we okay with violence in RPGs?

    Violence can be bad, but it can also be very necessary. In D&D its usually very necessary to get those GP and XP. ;)
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    2019 Pogre's Miniatures and Models - Printable Scenery Winterdale Water Mill

    I have had mixed results with the contrasts paints but some are quite nice and I think the orc flesh one will let me finally knock out those 40+ orcs I have left over from the WFB boxed set I bought back in the 00's. I wonder if I can use only contrasts and bang out that entire lot in one...
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    Why are we okay with violence in RPGs?

    They had the original Braunstein stuff at GaryCon and it seemed far more like LARP than anything else to me. LARP with props, which I think is just LARP.
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    Why are we okay with violence in RPGs?

    We never ran hirelings or henchmen until my current S&W game and usually ran one PC, one power gamed out, min maxed, "sure I rolled those stats..." PC each. But we didn't run though a lot of the classic modules. Wish I had.
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