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  1. Count_Zero

    Worlds of Design: “Old School” in RPGs and other Games – Part 2 and 3 Rules, Pacing, Non-RPGs, and G

    Yeah - the sentiment in these articles as a whole feels very strongly like gatekeeping - that if you're not playing the style of game that lewpuls endorses (I'm not going to explicitly describe it as "old school" because has been mentioned over the past few threads), you're not a real...
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    So Mike Mearls is on the phone...

    I like this - but with a twist - doing this as part of a Council of Wyrms campaign - setting information on Dragon society, more information on different types of dragons, rules for creating and running dragon characters, and a campaign that you could run with those characters.
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    Nentir Vale Coming to Dungeons and Dragons

    Maybe it'll be opened up for content o the DM's Guild
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    Feature Request: Bookmark/Subscribe to Files

    I was thinking, it would be great to be able to bookmark or subscribe to files in the downloads section so, if I quickly need to re-find or re-download a file, I can quickly find it in a pinch, instead of having to hunt for it.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tell me about your Adventures in Middle-Earth experiences, please

    From a narrative level - how hard would it be to take some old MERP adventures and adapt them to Adventures in Middle Earth - not mechanically (I know that bit is going to require a total overhaul), just in terms of narrative structure?
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    We Were All New D&D Players Once

    Also, part of the reason for doing it at the end of the session is that it doesn't cost playtime, and the player will have had just observed how their charater worked (or didn't) in play - and this works whether you're using pre-gens or if the players created their own characters (as was the...
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    We Were All New D&D Players Once

    My rule of thumb, on the small handful of occasions where I've run games (which was also for new players), was that at the end of any session, before level 3, the new player could re-spec. By the time they hit level 3, they should have a pretty good idea of how to play their class.
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    Harassment Policies: New Allegations Show More Work To Be Done

    As far as improved ways of communicating the harassment policy goes - in addition to posting the policy around the convention, my local anime con (Kumoricon) includes a presentation of the Harassment policy as part of the opening ceremony, through a "Rules Video" created by the con staff and the...
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    Adventure modules that take place in a theater?

    It's not traditional D&D style (and it's a movie theater), but there was a really good scenario in the Call of Cthulhu D20 corebook set in a haunted movie theater.
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    WORLD OF DARKNESS DOCUMENTARY JUST DROPPED ON AMAZON PRIME!

    Only in Amazon UK, apparently, not in the US.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Joe Manganiello’s article on D&D at NBC News

    Anymore, I don't really encounter "stigma" behind Tabletop RPGs... I more find people who are more surprised that they still exist. At best they know about D&D 5e, but they either don't know about anything else, or know that it used to exist but assume that other games (including Call of Cthulhu...
  12. Count_Zero

    New Action: Flee

    I think, mechanically, if you're going to keep the Flee ability from being used for unlimited Kiting, rule that the next action after fleeing can't be an attack action. You can heal, you can hide, you can cast spells that aren't attacks (teleport, Sanctuary, etc.), but you can't fight. That...
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    Gygax IP To Be Made Available For Video Games

    Well, we've got Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity games (and related titles Tyranny & Torment: Tides of Numenera). We've got the hordes of Wizardry-style Dungeon Crawlers coming out of Japan that are getting localized (the Etrian Odyssey series, the Class of Heroes series, bunches of other...
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    Gygax IP To Be Made Available For Video Games

    I remember when everyone was saying that MMORPGs were going to wipe out the tabletop RPG forever! Funny thing - it costs considerably less to make a tabletop RPG than an MMORPG, and MMORPGs have considerable upkeep costs. Even if you're making an offline RPG, it still costs more money to make...
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    New Issue of Dragon+

    I'd like to view it without an app as well - though only because the app bricked my phone last time I installed it.
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    D&D 5E (2014) I believe the Greyhawk Campaign setting was a missed opportunity for Wizards of the Coast.

    Oh, and it's only novels were, to my knowledge, the Gord the Rogue novels. I've only read the first book in the series, but it was... not great.
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    RPG News for Thursday, 17 January, 2013

    I checked just now, and currently the WotC page on DriveThru isn't showing any products, but it's there, for what it's worth.
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    Article: RPG News for Thursday, 17 January, 2013

    I checked just now, and currently the WotC page on DriveThru isn't showing any products, but it's there, for what it's worth.
  19. Count_Zero

    Sci-Fi gamers: what's the RPG you use / prefer

    I like both the ICON and CODA Star Trek RPGs (I managed to find a copy of the FASA RPG rules, and I picked them up, but I haven't had the opportunaity to actually do anything with them yet.)
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    Code Spillage

    I've noticed some code spillage when I'm posting replies. I notice the following lines on the top of the screen I just thought I'd let you know about this.
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