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  1. el-remmen

    How Do You Like Your Steak?

    My vote is public. But has anyone encountered this thing at restaurants where they ask you "pink or no pink?" and not the standard "rare, medium, well" gradations we've all been using in this thread? I have once or twice, and find it annoying. A server explained that it was supposed to be...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I really think that any time anyone mentions "6 to 8 encounters per adventuring day" they should have to pay me a dollar, and if they leave out the word "adventuring" they should have to pay me five.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Not upgrading? What version of D&D 5e are you sticking with?

    Not sure how to vote. I use 2014 5e + whatever I like from all the books after it and all the editions before it. My next campaign will be a homebrew 5e ruleset.
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    D&D General Combat Against Player Engagement: A Systemic Challenge

    I am blessed with two groups that remain engaged throughout. So this is not an issue for me when I DM. But I will say I personally find it hard to remain engaged when it is not my turn as a player in an online game. I just find it easier to remain engaged when we are all at the table.
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    D&D General Your last adventure in photos.

    A giant wolf spider creeps down a tree to attack the paladin’s xvart squire, Xpyali.
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    D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 3: Magazines

    Not in print version, I can’t and what I want/prefer are the actual copies. But thanks.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Thoughts on bonus action potions?

    Using potions continues to be an action in my D&D games, assuming it is somewhere accessible. I can imagine it being deep in a pack and requiring an action just to get out (though that is rare). Characters still use potions during combat - but I have never had the experience where 3 round combat...
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    Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib?

    I feel like answering this question thoroughly would take longer to write than my prep notes and tend to write several pages of prep notes (though how I approach it means I don't necessarily write it all at once).
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    What Bit Of Fan Fic/Edit/Theory Made a Thing Better or even GREAT For You?

    I think the West End Games d6 Star Wars TTRPG mentioned this, and I never got into extended universe (which to me is everything but the films themselves - save perhaps for a couple of recent shows), so not sure if it ever explicitly came up elsewhere, but I think of the Empire as following an...
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    I think it is time for a break.

    None of my breaks (ranging from 6 months to a few years) have been intentional, but they all ended up being a needed re-charging.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Serkis is good, but Robert Ingliss's unabridged reading is unparalleled and includes all the appendixes read aloud (in voices when appropriate).
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    D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 3: Magazines

    I really liked Best of Dragon IV best, personally. The other ones had some cool stuff, but I think I used the NPC classes and the 1/2 ogre from IV the most.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Hmmm. . . or simply charge Snarf by the word for posting. . .
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Morrus should make the entire site ad free or grant everyone a free membership but then just charge a dollar for every post about alignment or arguing about THAC0.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Hot Take: The Lord of the Rings is a musical. 🎶
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    What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign?

    Sounds like D&D to me. 60 sessions for my tastes is about half to three quarters the way through a successful campaign that reaches around level 10. One of my current 5e games is about to play their 65th session on Saturday. They are 6th level (nearing 7th).
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    D&D General What version of D&D are you playing?

    I am running two 2014 5e games (with house rules) and play in one (with almost no house rules - much to my chagrin <---edit to add that I don't even mean I wish it used my own houserules, I just like houserules :lol: ) Shouldn’t there be a choice for homebrewed version of 5e? That will be my...
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    D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 3: Magazines

    For my tastes and experience, Dragon and Dungeon mags were /are the best value for D&D material. I am still collecting Dungeon mag (using the material therein to this day) when I can find cheap copies of my missing issues (tho i am mostly interested in the adventures from the 1e and 2E eras...
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    D&D General Favorite Forgotten Realms products of all time?

    Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog. The catalog idea itself is not to my taste for a fantasy campaign, but a lot of the stuff in there is cool.
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