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  1. MoonSong

    D&D General Words which replaced "race" in fantasy games

    Te more I think about it, the more I'm liking Origin as a term. Because it is more open that way. Maybe a character is one of a kind like an homunculus, a golem, an artificial construct, an awakened animal, a modified member of a living group - vampires anyone?- or a someone who has a people. No...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Should 2014 Half Elves and Half Orcs be added to the 2025 SRD?

    But we had a narrative something that had lore, art, and visibility. It could be tweaked and improved on. Now we have nothing, only "you are truly one or the other" or maybe "something you can hope to get to play at most once". Also I can't let go of the awfull feeling that came upon hearing...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Should 2014 Half Elves and Half Orcs be added to the 2025 SRD?

    @TiQuinn this is a matter of representation. For a lot of us mixed people half-elf is representation in the fiction, a way for us to project onto the fiction. Losing it in the way that it was lost was insulting and upsetting.
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    What Is A Sith/Sith Post RoS?

    My headcanon is that the sequels are from a timeline where Luke didn't learn anything, didn't redeem Vader and thus Palpatine survived.
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    D&D General Words which replaced "race" in fantasy games

    Oh, indeed. My favorite terms are kin, folk or origin. People/peoples and even kind or type work too.
  6. MoonSong

    D&D General Words which replaced "race" in fantasy games

    I'm on your side here, but there's room to pull a thread that way. Not the same baggage, obviously, but there is some.
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    WotC D&D Historian Ben Riggs says the OGL fiasco was Chris Cocks idea.

    It didn't prevent the creation of Fate, or One Roll Engine, nor Savage Worlds. So many publishers focusing on a single system let breathing room for the jewels to shine instead of .
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    WotC D&D Historian Ben Riggs says the OGL fiasco was Chris Cocks idea.

    I'm not exactly glad. The whole debacle hurt the trust in creating OGC. Yes, the srds in CC are fine and the ORC is dandy, but a lot of game content is stuck as OGC, and the loss of confidence in the OGL may make it harder to defend in the future.
  9. MoonSong

    Today I learned +

    Even a bad horse can be made into plenty jello and paste.
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    Today I learned +

    Turns out there isn't enough electricity nor cooling systems to keep feeding the AI boom. https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/data-centre-boom-reveals-ai-hypes-physical-limits-2024-07-04/
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    RPG "Dating Apps" For LFG

    Yeah, this is what I was talking about. What was the name?
  12. MoonSong

    User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

    Name The original name I was using was a combo of my email name with the word lurker (and it came from mangled Indian to try to spell forty-two n_n). Back then I only registered in order to be able to see the comments in the votes. I was just happy being a lurker, but once I registered I...
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    Today I learned +

    It sounds like a waste of a horse.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What I Don't Like About Subclasses, and Potential Solutions.

    PF1 sorcerer isn't that much of a solution. The bonus feats and spells were cool in theory, but in practice they were either irrelevant or came online too late.(So, for example you could pick the bonus feat you wanted or you could pick it as soon as it was available to you, which usually was...
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    RPG "Dating Apps" For LFG

    Ot was it Player Locator? Edit: Gamers seeking Gamers?
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    RPG "Dating Apps" For LFG

    Is the Gamer locator still online?
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    Today I learned +

    As far as I know, it had to do with John D Rockefeller growing up poor and then remaining frugal once he hit it big. But since he was one of the richest men around, what he ate gaines prestige. Or something like that. I have no source. But speaking of sources. Have you watched the life of Leon...
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    RPG "Dating Apps" For LFG

    I think that Start playing is kind of like that, but paid. There's also reddit r/LFG Edit: ok on a second read it isn't like that.
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    D&D General Race Has No Mechanics. What do you play?

    The way I see it, there would be no mechanics associated with race, but by picking a race you're claiming a stake of narrative space. A fictional stance that has consequences even if they aren't summarized and turned into rules or numbers. I ser no problem with the changeling example, yes they...
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