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    Traveller 5e coming from World's Largest RPG in cooperation with Mongoose Publishing

    Begun the end times have.
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    Should traps have tells?

    Yes. Otherwise they're just a random "gotcha". Might as well roll a d20 every couple of turns and on a 1 kill a character.
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    burp
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    D&D 5E (2024) Eldritch Knight

    You would part an old man from his walking stick?! Barbarian!
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    Ken Burns' The American Revolution

    I'll have to check this out. I don't know about everyone else, but I get all my history (and math, science, and grammar) from Schoolhouse Rock. "And when the colonies complained, the King said: 'I don't care.'" I'm guessing that's not really a thing in the rest of the world.
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    Secrets of low-prep homebrew [+]

    For campaigns I used a lot of pieces from published adventures. Seldom the whole thing, but a map, or a keyed dungeon, or a set of encounters. I put more effort into how the things connect, and what options will arise from layer choice -- typically trying to have three options for each major...
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    There is only one sauce, and it has ridges from the can. Thanks for the tip on the garlic cloves in the balsamic sprouts; I haven't tried that. My recipe adds chopped walnuts and chopped dried cranberries.
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    Ravenloft, the Movie

    Probably eaten by one of the wolves in the forest. Those wolves were nasty. One game I played in we never made it to Barovia -- we left the trail and were eaten by wolves.
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    whoosh :p :D
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    Ravenloft, the Movie

    Well Strahd's really just Dracula in D&D drag, but that's how you differentiate this from everything that came before -- the vampire has a different name! And instead of Van Helsing, vampire hunter coming for him, it's a ranger, barbarian, magician, thief, cavalier, and and acrobat.
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    Ravenloft, the Movie

    Vampire movies always seem to carry their weight. Would a Ravenloft movie make a good D&D/vampire crossover film?
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    One of the best, timeless Christmas classics.
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    Is the movie A Christmas Story? Besides, I thought the traditional Christmas feast protein was a goose. Seems odd that that's evolved for the UK given that turkeys aren't native to Europe ... but then again I guess Christmas traditions are pretty modern. My mother's family's traditional...
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    Zork 1-3 going open source

    Dibs on playing the grue.
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    American Thanksgiving, Canadian Thanksgiving, or other Thanksgiving? Yeah, it's become my favorite holiday. It's a chance to power down, share a good meal, and reflect. We're mostly traditional US Thanksgiving menu: turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing (Stove Top!), cranberry sauce (must...
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    Burger me!

    Pineapple? On a burger? That's more heretical than Hawaiian pizza. (Egg's common. I've put egg into the patty itself when making it to help it hold together. Though I prefer it without the egg.)
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    Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Auction at Christie's

    When is a raven like a writing desk?
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    D&D General XP: How Do You Like To Earn It?

    Yes.
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    TSR On the Relative Merits of the TSR Editions

    I grew up with B/X and 1E ... like many back then, we really ran a blend of the two. So that's really my vote: AB/X. If I could only pick one, now, it would probably be B/X (which, functionally, isn't really different than BECMI). 2E I found too sanitized even thuogh it's mechanically far...
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    Anticipatory Grief

    So sorry to hear this man. You can't lighten the load but you can share it to help bear it. We lost our baby girl -- canine, age 7 -- earlier this year to cancer. She was diagnosed with lymphoma, started chemo, went into remission, had it come back, tweak chemo, remission again. Then we...
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