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    Tomb of the Lizard King - your experiences?

    So since I originally posted in this thread (20 years ago!), I have run through a 3.xE adaptation/conversion of this module as a player (around 2014) and have acquired my own PoD version in 2020 (though I still haven't done my own conversion to run it for 5E) Oh and the link in my original post...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    My old friend Sean (with whom my mini collection once comingled with freely while I was in grad school) had that mini. I think he went the damsel route. I would snatch it up in a second if I found it again, too. Classic! I was able to regain a couple of minis with nostalgic value based on...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    As I have undoubtedly said before, I am definitely a "table-ready" guy and the goal I am trying to hit when painting minis is, looks decent when in use on the table. I have painted a ton of minis with this ethos, starting in 2020 (but I already had a collection of a couple of hundred mostly...
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    Costumes and Cosplay

    Go with the one that has the fewest props involved. As someone who went as the Unibomber one year, carrying around my package addressed to Microsoft Headquarters with a rattlecan inside, I know it ends up being a real pain.
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    TSR Temple of Elemental Evil - Waterside Hostel

    I'm no fan of the Eagles, but "Hotel California" has a trapped in a demonic place vibes and fits with staying a hostile hostel. ;) I am thinking Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne probably has a lot of appropriate songs in their repertoire.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I have never spent the time to confirm this (I mean, I have a life) but I get the impression that there are a handful of posters who can be perfectly reasonable and admit/accept nuance and the difference of experience in some threads but in other threads when confronted by folks from “the other...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    “Nobody’s right when everybody’s wrong. . .” (<—— not a political statement, except in so far that D&D has its own political economy)
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    D&D 5E (2024) [Let's Read] Sands of Doom: a D&D Sandbox where you fight an army of Fantasy Egyptian Gnolls!

    Hmmm, so I was reading a little more about this on the website and there was one thing that stuck out to me and made me hesitate: "Once the plot of the campaign kicks in, the players have just 60 days to uncover the secrets of the desert while Lord Ammu raises a monstrous army to march on...
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    D&D 5E (2024) [Let's Read] Sands of Doom: a D&D Sandbox where you fight an army of Fantasy Egyptian Gnolls!

    Ooooh. I like a lot of what I've read here. I usually mostly a homebrewer, but I wonder if I can make use of this to place across an ocean in my current setting. I like the combination of Ancient Egyptian and some Darksun tropes. But I would want to do things like making the Porcine beastfolk...
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    Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

    I was really really really hoping that the eye-lien would end up in Boy Kavalier. 👁️ 👾
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    You know who I’m really tired of?
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    Spoilers What do casual fans get wrong about Star Wars?

    I considered myself a hardcore fan until about 1999, while feeling that you didn’t need to know anything outside of the original trilogy to be one (I read one SW novel once and realized i didn’t care about character interiority when it comes to Star Wars. If I can’t tell what a character is...
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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

    Hey @Gradine, I'm afraid I am going to have to withdraw. A close relative just had to unexpectedly go into the hospital, and on top of my head not being into it given what it going on, my schedule is going to be unpredictable in the coming weeks. Hopefully one of the alternates can take my...
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    TSR Temple of Elemental Evil - Waterside Hostel

    Well, my version of Nulb is significantly different from the one in ToEE. It has the same basic shape, but it has been taken over by bugbears and goblins and members of an Earth Elemental Cult (in my game/setting the four elemental cults compete/ally depending on their immediate and long term...
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    What constitutes a "hit" in your mind?

    Depends on the game. For D&D, everything ranging from a jarring parry that makes your arm feel momentarily numb to a grazing blow across the shoulder to an organ-puncturing or bone shattering blow. It really depends on how many hit point the target has left and how many points it does.
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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

    I am down to compete or judge, for whichever there is more need.
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    TSR Temple of Elemental Evil - Waterside Hostel

    Oh and I’d say half-orc or hobgoblin
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    TSR Temple of Elemental Evil - Waterside Hostel

    Ha. The PCs in my 5e Primordial Evil campaign literally got rooms at this hostel at the end of our Thursday night session.
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