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  1. TheAlkaizer

    D&D 5E (2024) Poll) Will the DMG2024 have Infinite Quivers?

    What if it's an endless quiver that can hold a fixed number of arrows, and magically replenishes one arrow every hour. Then you still have to track the arrows?
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    How Do You Keep Track of All Your RPG Books?

    I adopted a tool called Notion which I've introduced to my workplace. Since then I use it for a ton of things. It's basically a markdown-equivalent notetaking app with some powerful features like making some relational databases. For RPGs, I have a database of games, and a database of books...
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    Spoilers Rings of Power is back!

    So my girlfriend insisted to watch the remaining episodes. Were now done with Season 2. It might be some of the worst television I've watched. Season 1 felt soulless but inoffensive. Some major departures from the lore immediately killed the show for me, but I was able to non-chalantly cruise...
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    Rings of Power is Back [+] Appreciation

    I have very few positives thing to say about the show, which I'll detail in the other thread. However... [SPOILER FOLLOWING] The shot of Durin swinging that axe at the Balrog was amazing and made me immediately want to play a TTRPG. I love dwarves, they're the best ancestry.
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    Level Up Gateway Level Up Gateway is getting close!

    Ah, interesting! I've started web development two years ago in my free time. I also decided to go with Svelte. It's so elegant and easy to work with. My stack is similar, except that I haven't dove in backend yet, so I haven't really touched to Express.
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    Level Up Gateway Level Up Gateway is getting close!

    Just out of curiosity, what tech/languages/framework you and/or your team chose to go with to build this?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Agathys forever

    The old formulation suggests that only the temporary hit points granted by Armor of Agathys trigger the damage. The new formulation suggests that any temporary hit points trigger the damage.
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    Spoilers Rings of Power is back!

    I found the first season to be pretty mediocre television. But there's a few moments I enjoyed and I was open to seeing what they'd do with the feedback. My girlfriend convinced me to watch the newly released season. I've been a lot of people saying it's better than Season 1, but I disagree. I...
  9. TheAlkaizer

    Players Don't Care About Your Setting

    My experience is that players don't care about the settings at the start, or at least most don't. But my experience also showed me that through play and time, you can reliable get them to care a lot about the setting.
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    WotC Greg Tito On Leaving WotC: 'It feels good to do something that doesn't just line the pockets of *****'

    I'd agree with this. The war between creatives and managers/marketing has always been strange to me, as I found myself on both sides of the fence and understand them quite well. The idea that if you leave creatives alone and let them do the products that they want to do will inevitably lead to...
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    WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

    In my case it has a big impact. But only on D&D as an actual product. It doesn't affect my interest in the hobby, other games and the books and editions I already own. I haven't bought a D&D product since 2020, an I don't see myself buying more in the years to come. There's just too many good...
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    RPG Print News – Mongoose Publishing, Legendary Games, and More

    I bought Mongoose 2nd edition earlier this year and I've been slowly prepping. I'm about to run it really soon. I'm really excited!
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    Dungeon World Gets New Owners, Second Edition Planned

    I wouldn't say unreadable. It's well written and I like the tone. If you sit down and read it linearly it's perfectly fine. However, the meandering of Crane's writing, the unnecessary complexity of some rules (or at least how they're presented) coupled with naming rules like "Let it Ride" mean...
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    Starfinder Update from Gen Con

    I own all Starfinder 1st edition books. Haven't played enough for the amount that I sank into it. But I really love their setting and I had two amazing campaigns with it. I was very excited at the mention of a second edition. When they mentioned compatibility with Pathfinder 2e I thought it was...
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    Olympics Talk: A brief discussion before it goes away

    I don't really watch the olympics, so what I'll share is pure dump of opinion for conversation sake. I never understood the presence of disciplines that are not objective in their results. For example, if there's an event to see who runs the fastest over 100m... it's simple. Whoever crosses the...
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    Trailer Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer

    I enjoyed Civilization games. But I felt like Civilization VI was lacking in many regards; and they fixed it by releasing 53$CAD DLCs that were quite meager in content. I'm not excited for Civilization VII as I expect the same issue to just grow in magnitude.
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    Dungeon World Gets New Owners, Second Edition Planned

    I'm not gonna comment on the issues regarding Crane's relationship to Koebel. But the quote of Crane saying that DW needs a good editing pass leaves me hesitant. I absolutely love Burning Wheel, it's a great game. But all the Crane's products that I've touched severely lacked in editing. The...
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    RPG Print News – Free League, Mongoose, and More

    I'm very curious about it. The price is steep though, and I know nothing about it. Will look for a review or preview.
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    Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club

    We're gonna need another club. The 10 Million dollar club. This one is not exclusive enough anymore.
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