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  1. TheAlkaizer

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    It's something I've felt too. In my experience, 5E has definitely brought a crowd that's leaning much more towards the weirder options available. I can't count the number of Kenkus and Tortles I had in parties in 5E. Couple that with the common issue of "Why are all these people together in the...
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    Paizo New URL for the Paizo Blog RSS Feed?

    Just to be clear, I'm not saying there's no RSS feed at all. But if there's one, it's not following the conventions and I can't find it where it should be.
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    Paizo New URL for the Paizo Blog RSS Feed?

    I just checked their new blog. The page source suggests it's a more custom solution done using Vue and Nuxt as frameworks. I didn't find any elements or reference to RSS in the page. There's a styling for an RSS element but it doesn't seem to be present.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I fully agree, and I normally go this way. I always have dozen of books of different topics laying around. But as I said, it's been a tough year and my mental health is not in the best place. And I found that it's difficult for me to sit down and read focused for a while. It's been a growing...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I've found it difficult to get through Neuromancer. Definitely not my writing style, but for some reason I'm having a hard time getting through fiction lately. I've hard a tough year and it's difficult for me to focus. Non-fiction (mainly history) seems to be the exception. It's by far what I...
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    Anticipatory Grief

    I'm sorry to read that. I like a quote that I read on the internet that says something like "to you they're a part of your life, to them, you're their whole life". I think an imperfect and difficult year with you might mean more to your cat than you think! It's personal to every one of us. But...
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    Want to play a Duck?

    Ducks should be the first step in a series of question to classify setting or the tone of games.
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    What was your 2nd RPG?

    Technically, my first ever session was a dude's place that my school friend was playing every week. They had a 2E campaign going for like two years. I played one session and didn't really enjoy it. So 2E would be my first TTRPG ever. The following year my math teacher in high school organized...
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    GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?

    My actual functional prep I try to keep at 30 min for a session. But I generally have a at least a dozen or two hours of prep ahead of a campaign. And I tend to do so loose prep here and there when I go to coffee shops or have some free time. Just jotting down ideas.
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    What's Your Bucket List Campaign to Play?

    Happy for you! I'm still waiting for that email more than a year after the planned date. I can't wait. Really hope it comes before the holidays!
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    OSR Games that really use combat as a fail state?

    The notion of combat being a fail state in OSR is something that gets greatly exaggerated though. Combat is not a fail state, it's just that it can easily lead to a fail state (dying). Combat is dangerous. The odds are more in your favour if you find another way to solve your problem, or to...
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    What's Your Bucket List Campaign to Play?

    I've got a couple. There's definitely a match between what's on my shelves and what I want to have: A thorough hexcrawl campaign through Dolmenwood Go through the six-book campaign of Symbaroum Do a long historical campaign. Something medieval/Viking-esque. I did plenty, but life has kept them...
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    D&D General Poll: How many Role Playing Games do you play besides D&D?

    I'd be really curious to know more about your solo journey. These are quite different games mechanically. I've only dipped my toe in soloing. Could be in another thread on in PM.
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    D&D General Poll: How many Role Playing Games do you play besides D&D?

    I have about three dozen systems in my bookshelf that I've read and die to play but didn't have the chance to play yet. It's definitely not only D&D!
  15. TheAlkaizer

    D&D General Poll: How many Role Playing Games do you play besides D&D?

    Ever? Maybe around ten. Right now? Only one. Although my group might have imploded because of layoffs.
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    Matt Colville's Community

    You'd think so. But language and language are not synonyms either. Common mistake.
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    The Pioneer RPG Kickstarter is Now Live!

    Every day is a bad time for my annual RPG budget. Oof, I was interested but yeah, that is the priciest PDF I've ever seen. I can get whole boxsets for that price!
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    Matt Colville's Community

    I think the difference is that the pineapple thread is obviously offtopic. He focuses on communities built around a specific thing (in most cases a product). If we take his own product as example, lots of people get excited for Draw Steel. They get together and they start talking about it...
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    Matt Colville's Community

    To those that are a bit put off by the length, I'd say that the first half is the most relevant to the current discussion about topics, roughly 30 minutes of it if it helps. Once he starts talking about Price, it swerves into a slightly different lane (not that it's not interesting, the price of...
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    What TTRPGs Excel At Not Having Combat?

    Burning Wheel has rules for fighting. But I've found out of all the games I've played, it can satisfyingly go on the longest without any combat and still be captivating. Currently running a 11th century anglo-saxon/viking campaign and we have yet to have a fight. And if you want to stretch...
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