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    OSR Old school wizards, how do you play level 1?

    That's because he has a permanent, seriously upcasted Shillelagh on his staff, and a Robe of Mithril Full Plate +5.
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    Worlds of Design: Why Buy Adventures?

    Normally I buy a couple of modules per year for the systems I GM. Most I never run as I usually do sandboxy campaigns, but use as inspiration and as examples of that the creator think an adventure in the system should look like. But I'm currently on a Dungeon Crawl Classics high, and have...
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    Spoilers Rings of Power is back!

    I actually like this series. Yes, there are serious lore flaws, but it's not that bad as modern TV adaptions go. If the show is allowed to run its course it will probably serve as a pretty good prequel story to the Jackson trilogies. In one way I guess I've resigned to the fact that for someone...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Beyond Level 20?

    Maybe start the leveling mill again, just with higher numbers and phat powers. The restaurant at the end of the universe have a problem with giant god-rats in the cellar?
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    Players Don't Care About Your Setting

    For longer and more roleplay:y fantasy campaigns, I usually place them in Forgotten Realms or Golarion, so the one lore nerd in my group can go wild without any extra burden for me. For my upcoming Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign, I'll just make sh*t up as we go. The only genres I actually put...
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    Currently on a Cormac McCarthy rereading spree so...yeah...
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    WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

    Yeah, when I vacation travel I try to locate places that attracts blue collar workers. It's a good way to avoid tourist traps and find the good rustic stuff in back alleys.
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    WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

    I have only played using my home-brew sandboxy campaigns for many years now, so I don't know. I own a few adventures/campaigns from most of the various system that I've played, that I've used as inspiration/nicked ideas from/sampled what the producer thought an adventure should look like. The...
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    WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

    Take a deep breath sir. Hasbro is a megacorp and will always strive for optimizing profit, otherwise they will get sued and heads will roll, it's just a big corp fact and the big corp way in a hyper capitalistic society. But I have never called any edition of D&D a crap game. What I have done...
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    WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

    I wrote "just naked profit". Of course I want game producers that manage that precious balance between profit, engagement and quality to be successful. And I don't agree about your value for money argument. With 50 years evolution of layout, printing, game theory and experience I darn well hope...
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    WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

    For me it impacts my view of D&D, but not so much that it's Hasbro specifically. It's more that the brand is handled by a very large corporation where profit and massive sales are in focus rather than the game itself. The game doesn't have to be better than enough to generate profit that satisfy...
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    Be a GAME-MASTER, not a DIRECTOR

    Nowadays my campaigns is pretty sandboxy and I probably agree with the message. But I'm not gonna waste another 15 minutes on another opinion in video format that could have been written down and read in a minute or less. Or at least give us a TLDW option so we don't have to live through all...
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    Traveller Creator Marc Miller Passes Ownership To Mongoose

    I played Traveller before I played D&D back in the days. I own a bunch of MgT2e stuff, and they are very high quality, so I have full confidence in Mongoose managing the heritage. The only downside with MgT imho is that the system with all bells and whistles going is fiddly. As Foundry is my VTT...
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    General DCC RPG thread

    Yeah, it’s old school for real!
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    General DCC RPG thread

    Yeah, got six numbers and eyed through them, the majority of the content looks very usable. Good stuff, and it feels good to read a zine again!
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    General DCC RPG thread

    Got curious and eyed through Crawl content lists. Dafuq, crit tables for traps! 😍 Gotta grab a bunch of numbers of the zine, seems to be lots of fun stuff there.
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    D&D General In Celebration of Over The Top Violence in D&D

    It's dependent on system and campaign theme. But both me and my players do try to fill combat with descriptions of effect, fitting the theme. I'm currently riding a Dungeon Crawl Classics high though, starting a campaign next month where I expect 80ies heavy metal splatter movie levels of...
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    D&D General 5e Tier 2 Play: Advice

    For me, 5e is a system that after a couple of levels become more and more of a superhero game both in practice and presumptions. That is, everyone around the table knows that real death is a very, very remote possibility, no matter how I try to challenge them in combat. Instead the focus is on...
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    General DCC RPG thread

    Not a necro thread yet :) I'm an old GM but new to DCC. I'll start up a campaign in September, really looking forward to it! As to XCC, to me it seems amazing and I'm sure my table would love it. But we only play via Foundry, so I really hope there will be full Foundry support for XCC.
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    What is Your Current Campaign's "Appendix N"?

    On a gaming summer break. But I will start a DCC campaign next month where my Appendix N inspiration obviously will be Appendix N. :) Next year I'll start a Savage Worlds sci fi campaign where I aim explicitly for a slightly fattened up Traveller sandbox with ancients-style secrets. Appendix N...
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