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  1. Longspeak

    TSR TSR’s Brian Blume Has Passed

    To be fair, it would have been better if this was an April Fool's joke. :(
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    RPG Crowdfunding News – The Griffon’s Saddlebag, Fading Suns, World Wide Wrestling, and More

    Dang it! I can't afford this much awesome right now! sigh Fine. I guess I don't need to eat every day.
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    OD&D Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play BECM/RC D&D? How Was/Is It?

    Look hard enough, I bet you find a Discord group.
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    OD&D Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play BECM/RC D&D? How Was/Is It?

    I don't know the number, but Earthshaker (I think that's right) was always one I wanted to run for my group.
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    OD&D Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play BECM/RC D&D? How Was/Is It?

    I owned and enjoyed reading the entire BECMI set. I only ever GMed B and E. Never had a group stick to C or M levels. Never really wanted to try running I. But we were mostly AD&D 1st and 2nd by that point. I liked how BECMI simplified things a bit, but most of my players wanted the extra...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Of Hearth and Home: Everyday Magic

    I went and peeked at this, then bought it, based on this recommendation. Very interesting, well-thought out, different, not just a reskin of Warlock like I've seen elsewhere. Nicely written, arranged, and illustrated.
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    D&D General I need a D&D counseling session! Help! (Re: Update ("Argument-Stopping Protocols" -- please advise!))

    That's true. I've had many friends over the years I simply wouldn't game with, but would love to hang out with, get a beer with, etc. Not every friend need to be included in every activity.
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    D&D General I need a D&D counseling session! Help! (Re: Update ("Argument-Stopping Protocols" -- please advise!))

    Yeah... Don't game with problem people. And... this might not translate 100%, but in my work I have written a lot of policy and procedure documents. A good P&P is written with the expectation of good faith on the part of the people who will implement the procedure. It's "here is how to do the...
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    D&D General I need a D&D counseling session! Help! (Re: Update ("Argument-Stopping Protocols" -- please advise!))

    I would not sign this. I understand there is history in your group, but so much of it seems angry and confrontational, it taints even several of the valid points. If I was a new player and presented with this to sign, I would nope out before finishing reading all the rules. Also, threads like...
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    Unearthed Arcana Spells & Magic Tattoos: New Unearthed Arcana

    One of the things from the old RIFTS game I really loved was its take on Tattoo magic. I saw this UA and dared hope... But no. These are cool, I suppose. I will have to just homebrew my own, probably modeled on Warlock. Spells and Invocations class abilities are tattoos one activates to make...
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    On Behavioral Realism

    I have not really encountered this problem. Now... most of the time, players don't want to RP this. They want to say "I get a room, a bath, a meal, and some sleep. What's next?" And that's valid. Some don't even want to have to say it. It falls under the category of "uhh.... duh!" for them. Of...
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    My COVID19 Journey

    I am from Seattle, and still in Seattle, working in Chinatown, actually. Me, my wife, and my son are all in essential services, we we continue to work, continue to carpool. Chinatown has become a wasteland. The few people out and about all wear masks, businesses are shut down. Even most of the...
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    What are you listening to?

    GUNSHIP's Woken Furies, is what came up on my randomized player just now.
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    AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?

    AD&D 1e was the game my best friend and I transitioned to after playing the blue box. At the time, I never really considered that we had changed games. We just used the "advanced" rules for the game we were already playing. I played the same character, and suddenly had to roll percentile dice...
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    D&D and the rising pandemic

    I already game online, and last weekend my online gaming saw its first corona-related hiccup. One player had been working from home and needed to makeup lost hours, while another was going emergency supply shopping with family. Still, only a hiccup. The week before we had minor roll20...
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    Critical Role Wildemount has new subraces and reprints a ton of others

    I've made a habit of calling Half-Elves "Elfkin" and Half-Orcs "Orcs" (from a human POV) or "half-bloods" (from the Orc POV). Can't use "Orckin" because then everyone will ask them to exterminate their termites and such.
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    Critical Role Wildemount has new subraces and reprints a ton of others

    I got my copy yesterday. So far, I am liking what I see... except I don't like and probably won't use several of the races that made it into the book... at least as PC options. More study needed. But I bought it for the setting info, to possibly use ideas from there to supplement my existing...
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    How has the Coronavirus affected your roleplaying games?

    All my regular gaming is online. A convention I was going to help out at (ironically because the original person backed out due to fears of coronavirus) was cancelled.
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    [Green Ronin] Modern AGE?

    You know, I got Dragon Age and Blue Rose 2nd... and was less than impressed with the mechanics. I've considered adapting Blue Rose to 5th ed... but the things you're describing... they might be just what I needed to fix Blue Rose's system.
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    D&D and the rising pandemic

    I'm in a hotspot. Well... the news says it's a hotspot, but mosly I see it as a fear spot. I, personally, am not affected. All my gaming is online. But my wife and son had to address this in their weekly Starfinder game this week. They decided they were not going to give in to the fear, but they...
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