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    Undead Origins

    Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff (2e) 2e Undead: ? Lich: ? Shadow: ? Slow Shadow, Normal Slow Shadow: A side effect of the damaged spell-portal occurred when the dragon used pan-dimensional magic to escape it: a permanent portal to the Derniplane of Shadow was created on that spot. As...
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    60% off Darrington Press's Candella Obscura RPG PDFs.
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    Undead Origins

    A Guide to the Astral Plane (2e) 2e Undead, Undead Entity: ? Tl'a'ikith, Sword Spirit: ? Tl'a'ikith, Undead Githyanki Knight, Invisible Spirit, Spirit, Guardian: ? Chaotic Evil Undead: ? Undead Killer: ? Undead Warrior: ? Undead Automaton: ? Animated Dead: ? Top-Shelf Undead: ? More Intelligent...
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    TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?

    Following up on this. 2e DMG page 68: The story award should not be greater than the experience points that can be earned defeating the monsters encountered during the adventure. Thus if the DM knows there are roughly 1,200 experience points worth of monsters, the story award should not exceed...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    To bring this back to novels and reading . . . My first thought is that Romance Supernatural Thriller pretty much seems Laurel K. Hamilton's whole thing for her Anita Blake series. magical vampire hunter who gets involved romantically with a vampire and werecreatures and deals with big dark...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Absolutely.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Predator, Aliens
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    TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?

    The biggest source of xp in 2e was defeating monsters. My memory is that the story xp stuff was optional.
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    TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?

    The DMG was notorious for having secret rules. Most thief skills have lots of rule aspects only stated in the DMG and there is a whole section of extra aspects of spells. It also did not help that even reading the DMG rules could be scattered in there in multiple parts, some obvious and some...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Can you give an example of things that are of the same piece that are tough to fit together?
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    Undead Origins

    Monstrous Compendium - Ravenloft Appendices I & II (2e) 2e Bastellus, Nightmare, Dream Stalker, Dream-Stalking Bastellus: Any being reduced to below level 0 by the predation of a bastellus dies in its sleep, seemingly of a heart attack. If the body is not destroyed (via cremation, immersion in...
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    D&D General D&D memes thread discussion…

    Depending on what is out there to get xp on, what they know about what is out there, what they encounter, and what options they actually have to choose. In games counting xp players still can't really just decide they are going to level up every session. They can decide not to level up by...
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    Undead Origins

    Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III 2e Darklight, Strange Undead Darklight: However, the Inner Planes hold certain spots known as "leaks" - places where the energy or matter of one plane seeps onto another. When such a rift occurs on the Negative Energy Plane, spirits frequently try to...
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    Undead Origins

    Silver Age Sentinels D20: Stingy Gamer Edition Silver Age Sentinels d20 Bloody Mary, La Llorona, Virgin Mary, Vampire Adventurer 7, Child Hunter, Would-Be Conqueror of the Spirit World, Demon, Fiend, Spirit, Villain, Kidnapper: Doc Cimitiere, Lucas Duvalier, The White Doctor, Zombie Costumed...
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    Unearthed Arcana WOTC still can't get the backgrounds right in the new FR book.

    There is more than one way to skin a cat or stat out a concept in D&D. Both fit pretty well, unarmed, unarmored super brawler can work for monks but also the eat spinach in one quick action and get super fighting strength short term is very fitting for barbarian rage (plus in 5e barbarians are...
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    Frog God Games has a Thanksgiving 50% off sale on 67 PDFs. Stuff like the megadungeon Rappan Athuk, the fantasy Central/South American type stuff like Tehuatl and Maize and Monster, and shorter holiday themed adventures like Beware the Yule Cat. Through the end of November.
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    Undead Origins

    Microlite2020 Basic Monster List 1.0 Microlite20 Skeleton Warrior: ? Wight: ? Zombie: ?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Orc lore in the new Forgotten Realms books?

    Cool, thanks. Any quotes from the player race/species end on orc culture in general in FR?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Orc lore in the new Forgotten Realms books?

    So what do the two new 24 FR books say about Orcs in the Realms now that Orcs are a full PC race and not in the 24 MM and the 24 PH is super light on orc lore and characterization? From the table of contents it looks like Orcs have a single page in the player's FR book along with other PH...
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    Undead Origins

    Microlite78 First Edition Lite (Second Edition NO ART) Microlite20 Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Horror, Undead Monster: These beings were alive at one time, but through foul magic or by dying at the hands of another undead type, these beings rise again as undead horrors. Ghast: ? Ghoul...
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