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    Has Wizards of the Coast Given Up on Sigil?

    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Face was sick; called it.
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    D&D General What Does New Coke Tell Us About Designing for D&D

    New Coke was better than Old Coke.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    Hope you did it in a subduction zone, where continental drift will carry it deep into the earth's mantle and it will never be seen again.
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Snerk. Nah, it's the center of mass I have questions about.
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    Gen Con Sold Out!

    In this economy?
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    D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts

    nods approvingly in principle of relativity
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    Yep, which is why I pay no attention to the average. All I do is read the one star reviews; the worse the English in them, the better the book probably is.
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    You're floating those before you use them at my table.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    And often unaware: 🎶 Dana Andrews said prunes / gave him the runes / and passing them used lots of skills... 🎶
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    Psionics--the Poll!

    You can put psionics in your story and John W. Campbell will still buy it [1]. Not so magic. [1] In fact, it will increase the chances of him buying it.
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    D&D General Favorite Iconic D&D Metropolis

    Stoink, because I like saying 'Stoink'.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    There's a troupe that performs Shakespeare in reconstructed period pronunciation, where the language was still experiencing aftershocks from the Great Vowel Shift. It's interesting.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    Well, yeah, early on he wrote to a friend (from memory) "I have my Dunsany stories and my Poe stories, but where are my Lovecraft stories?". Then he wrote his Lovecraft stories.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    That, plus Shakes was writing in Early Modern English, which is not mutually intelligible with Modern English.
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    D&D General Why Mike Mearls left D&D, an interview by Ben Riggs.

    So, uh, does 3.x have handlers and restarts like a real language, or just throw/catch?
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