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  1. Longspeak

    Worlds of Design: The Lost Art of Running Away

    I use it as GM instead. Players won't run? Well, last night, when they surprised the bad thing in the middle of doing a bad thing, it ran away! Now, that was how the encounter was planned, and if the party hadn't split, they might have intercepted the bad thing. But they were split. They stopped...
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    Sale CAPERS Deluxe Hardcover Half-Off (Just $20)

    $20?! Deluxe Hardcover?! SOLD! Now... what's it about? Superpowered Ocean's Eleven? (Sinatra, not Clooney).
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    GM Burnout - Swapping GM Advice Needed

    I have had players do this in several games. Most often just to have a short break, a couple of times because a player asked if they could take over for a story. These were players already in the game, so they knew the lore. I just let them take over with the promise they would not overwrite or...
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    Release Monte Cook’s Numenera setting comes to 5e with Beneath the Monolith

    You earned it! All good points. And like I said I wasn't arguing against it. More... noting that some people like fewer steps. Personally, I like being sure you have my address right, especially since I used to ship packages to my work address and then my work address burned down. It was good to...
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    Leaving the Game: An Interview with Robert Bohl

    Never heard of him before, but bought the game just now. Robert, have an awesome exit.
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    RPG Crowdfunding News – Nightfell, Veil of Ruin, SCIENTIFIC BARBARIAN, and more

    Thank the gods. My wallet is safe this week. (Slightly tempted by Nightfell, but I know I'd never run the setting, and I have enough "just for reading" books right now.)
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    Release Monte Cook’s Numenera setting comes to 5e with Beneath the Monolith

    First, I love that one of the game's writers comes in here to speak intelligently and reasonably about the game. If I wasn't already a fan, I'd be on the website, giving the products a look, just for the responsiveness. One question about your 60 second synopsis... You leave off discussion of...
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    Release Monte Cook’s Numenera setting comes to 5e with Beneath the Monolith

    I Kickstarted this, and enjoyed reading Arcana of the Ancients. I've only glance through Beneath the Monolith so far, not needing the setting stuff, but... When I first ran Numenera, I envisioned a world of magic, wonder, and spirits, which would slowly reveal to be Clarke's "Sufficiently...
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    Owen Stephens Continues 'Real Game Industry' Posts

    I will have to praise the stuff I enjoy more often.
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    D&D 5E (2014) WotC's Jeremy Crawford Talks D&D Alignment Changes

    He wasn't trying to redeem a specific Yuan-Ti. He was arguing about how people shouldn't just assume a couple hundred magically disguised Yuan-Ti in the city necessarily meant something was wrong. :p Yeah, if a character was defending a specific Yuan-Ti - which has happened - that is a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) WotC's Jeremy Crawford Talks D&D Alignment Changes

    I had a player literally roll a die when it was her character's turn to take watch, and then tell me "During my watch I randomly decide to kill everyone else in their sleep." I was all. "Really?" She was all, "Yes. I rolled for it." So I said, "Everyone, the next morning you find X's...
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    Owen KC Stephens' Tabletop RPG Truths #2

    Honestly, for a lot of those lines, I forgot he was a game developer and thought he was working in a private medical clinic in the US like me...
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    D&D General Anyone ever run (or played in) a campaign with entire party (or almost) was a single class?

    Four players. Human Rogue (Mastermind) Human Rogue (Thief) Human Rogue (TBD) Human Sorcerer They've just taken over management of an inn as cover for their presence in the city.
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    RPG Crowdfunding News – Book of Fiends, Mineralogy Manual, Exalted Vales, and more

    Book of Fiends: As much as I like Green Ronin, pass. I don't need demons and devils for my D&D game. Exalted Vale: Already Backed Mineralogy Manual: On the Fence. Looks cool, but will I use it? The synopsis reminds me of one 80s cartoon in particular...
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    GenCon Online ticket registration is now live.

    How did they miss calling it "GenConline?" Trademark!
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    D&D General Turgenev's Friday Freebie Maps

    Nice. I'll send something this weekend. It's a location of some importance in my newest game, so I wanted it mapped for my use in Roll20, and... well... I am terrible and have no patience. :)
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    Critical Role PSA: You are not Matt Mercer

    Heck yeah. Okay, the drinking problem was a joke I tried to play off. But many people become upset when we fall short. Work, play, life, it doesn't matter. If I run a session which is an utter disaster and it's my fault? Yes, I will be that upset. I haven't fallen THAT far short in a long...
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    D&D General Turgenev's Friday Freebie Maps

    Do you take commissions? Or... ideas? I have something I'd like mapped and I suck too hard to do my own.
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