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    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    It can... ...but yeah often times it doesnt.
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    Battletech Public Playtest Thread

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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    You still use XP?
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    GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?

    Something so simple could be whipped up via A.I. for nothing im sure.
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    GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?

    Every map has annotation with files that strip it out for running, a bestiary, and magic item index. Am I the only one who sees these? That clarity helps and is exactly what I was talking about earlier about what I see as thin experiences. I suppose mine would be the opposite of overindulgent...
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    Battletech Public Playtest Thread

    Thing about rotary auto cannons is they look a lot better on paper. I always am eager to field one and then… it’s just never as much fun as you expect. I too assumed ACs fired bursts but was abstracted for damage but RACs don’t bother me either.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Oh I’m having flashbacks of suicide gankers in EvE…
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    GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?

    One thing folks often don’t get is the APs from Paizo (until the recent change anyway) is that AP modules do not need to be run in their entirety. When you skip the supplemental material you get to about 60 pages in a chapter and with minimal changes you got a stand alone adventure. I know...
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    GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?

    I use Paizo PDFs even when im playing on table top face to face and keeping track of all I need is rather easy and convenient that way. Prep is more or less just reading the material over and organizing it a way to use it as I need it during the sessions. I really dont know how they could make...
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    GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?

    That really sounds like dammed if you do situation. Folks complain that the adventure is a railroad if they can run it like a script, give them a kit and its not straightforward and requires too much work. 🤷‍♂️
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    GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?

    I really dont understand these critiques of modern adventures. I have never viewed them as scripts, but as kits. The supplemental material is a great bonus reading pleasure for me and a springboard for my own ideas to bring it all to life. I dont need to pay somebody for a map and list of bullet...
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    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    looks at the above... Looks back at this and suddenly it all makes sense.
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    D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?

    Im far more likely to buy into this arc idea than the absolutist archetype. The absolutists are the types that just declare things like "Tobin the palladin destroys all undead" and they proceed to do so regardless of context even if it means the only result is essentially suicide for dear Tobin...
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    D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?

    This. My best groups do a lot of their "character" thinking out loud. You can explore just about any interesting group dynamic in this fashion. It can annoy folks who want spur of the moment decisions or to carry out secret agendas, though I think those things make a group RP exercise worse. On...
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    D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?

    Yeap I learned long ago there is no correct way to play a particular character. Everyone had their own interpretations on role play so I give a lot of leeway to folks as what I’ve come to see as common courtesy. Part of the fun is discussing and acting out the differences. Yes, the phrase is...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Can I interest you in some The Left Overs?
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    Why do we need thieves??

    I think the name “thief” Carrie’s a lot of baggage which is why modern takes use rogue or spy etc… I view the archetype as a character trained in chicanery, tradecraft, stealth, etc.. sure anyone could steal documents but folks with this training can do so without a trace and in ways regular...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Wow, that was 20 years ago,
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