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    Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+]

    I like having the monster stats in with the encounter to prevent flipping back and forth or worse, bringing more books to the game. I could be fine with monsters in the back of the adventure that I can print out to use as a sideboard. This would save space if they are reused several times...
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    RPG Evolution: Inspiration from Saugus Iron Works

    I just saw that they can make blast armor- in Fallout4.
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    Various Solutions For Tabletop Dungeon Terrain

    I think there might be a problem with portability to the convention with big sets and power requirements of bringing a TV. One does not always have space at a convention and all maps/terrain should fit in a briefcase (my opinion).
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    Various Solutions For Tabletop Dungeon Terrain

    Is it TotalConfusion? I'll likely be there. I ran something last year and just used printable 1inch graph paper found online. I used magic marker to draw the rooms and then I could pull out one at a time to place them on the table like a jigsaw puzzle. It worked fine, but might have been a...
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    RPG Evolution: Inspiration from Saugus Iron Works

    We used to always go to Old Sturbridge Village in central Massachusetts. It is a whole village of old stores and buildings brought here to make a village. You can see the farmers and the blacksmith along with the potter and cooper. It is good for a day of walking around. Christmas is nice...
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    Want to play a Duck?

    I want to like them, but cannot get past thinking that Thanksgiving dinner is trying to fight back. To be fair though, I am not a fan of any animal PCs in general. The new art is better than the Daffy Duck old style.
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    Homebrew Need help with homebrewed Magic Surge mechanics

    I seem to be lost on these charts you have. The first thing you mention is the level of the spell, but the chart shows something called magic impact with modifiers starting in the middle and not not at the bottom. Same with the other chart about zones. I can get that some places have a better...
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    Favorite mythological creature

    My father used to tell the story of the Hobyahs. I think they are originally old Scottish, but blended into English at some point. They seem a bit like kobolds and rats rather than dogs or dragons. They would come around to steal children and get scared away by the dog. Eventually the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Common house rules for 5e.

    @lh3 welcome to the boards. I have been doing the same with having a potion as a bonus action and roll, or as an action and get full HP from it. It has been mostly spending the action to get the full amount over needing to use a bonus action myself. I'm wondering now with 5.5 out if things...
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    Anticipatory Grief

    Sometimes things suck all around and strangers, or quasi-strangers might be better or worse to talk to. When my do got cancer a few years ago, I told the wife that we spend hundreds of dollars on the dog and thousands on the kids. Sometimes ones financial situation is taken into account when...
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    Homebrew Need help with homebrewed Magic Surge mechanics

    @Ranger Aarakocra welcome to he site, sounds like a cool idea but a heavy lift. I like the spell-fail chance by level of spell. One issue is that you are adding another roll(s) every time someone uses an action. This tends to slow things down. If the payoff is worth it, then go for it...
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    D&D General *Hobbits* in a late-80s AD&D product

    I was thinking that the author might have been part of that British D&D nonsense back in the day. It might have been a natural slip.
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    D&D General *Hobbits* in a late-80s AD&D product

    Found the culprit, unless we are blaming the editors. I'm more interested in the XP totals and how you get different amounts for killing or defeating or retreating.
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    Toys For Tots

    Dice are always cool. Maybe a HeroForge gift card. I give to the local Veterans shelter myself as they always need socks and t-shirts.
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    OSR Modules with the best layout & presentation

    I was thinking this when reading some of the other posts. I have players that are now focused on the monsters and not listening when I tell them about the high ceiling with the shadowy alcoves. Then when spiders jump down, they are all- what the heck, you never told us that.
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