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I'm wondering if this tech would actually be better at the table during live play? It is so hard to account for the tech of all the players in an online game. For example, I've played around with ambiance music and like it during live, in-person play, but it always feels like a distraction in...

Have any of you tried cloth map printing services (e.g. Custom Game Cloth Map RPG Printing Service - Geekify Inc How does the price compare to printing to color on paper and laminating? I'm guessing at the larger sizes, if your local FedEx, etc. won't laminate, cloth maps may be a nice...

Well, I have to say that I also benefited from the fact that my dad still had a large supply of ink but wasn't print much or often. So I never had to pay for even ink. I even got a number of free blueprint tubes to store all the maps I printed. I'm downsizing and moving and it was hard to...

Exactly. I think running away and even attempting to parley was more core to the game then. Morale rules in OD&D were there from the start. Combat was not default annihilation. Failed morale would lead to monsters fleeing or attempting to parley. Morale was even more strongly emphasized in AD&D...

Skaven real-real, yes-yes! (WFRP 4e, The Enemy Within Campaign)

I bought the Schley maps for Curse of Strahd. At the time my father was still only semi-retired and still has a large-format printer so I was able to print everything out at scale. It was nice for in-person play and, while I'm nostalgic about minis on beautiful printed maps and using LOTS of...

Yep, but it is hard to keep discussions going here on specific game systems. It is almost always more rewarding to go to a forum on Reddit, Discord, etc. that is dedicated to the game. My current main campaign that I've been running for a year now is Warhammer Fantasy. But I play a lot of one...

Convert the PDF to DOCX ("Word"). Then in Microsoft Word do a search and replace. In search put "^g" (without the quotes) and leave the replace field blank. That should remove the graphics. Apple Pages and the free, open source LibreOffice don't offer the same functionality. If your...

The DDB app however is an accessibility god send. Not only allowing you to blow up the text, but it is so easy to jump to specific content. It is the gold standard for accessible reading. I've comfortably read whole books on my iPhone. Even I'm my MacBook, I'll use the iOS app from the app...

Yes! Fish Fries are a big thing in Milwaukee and I always look for the ones that do local fish.

You can look at this from the perspective of the designers theme/genre expectations or from a following the RAW. As for the former, there are players who will turn any TTRPG game into slap-stick comedy (or a soap opera, etc.), so I find this to be more of a discussion about table expectations...

While larger print physical books would be nice, I can understand that the economics of it makes it impractical. Also, it would make for larger/heavier books, making them less practical. So, I don't get too worked up about game books becoming more difficult to read as I age. What drives me nuts...

If you live in a larger city, see if TooGoodToGo has taken root. It is an app that lists deals from restaurants when they have too much of something, often near closing, but not always. You can get great deals and is a good excuse to try new places. It is still fairly new to the USA and seems...

My workspace is pretty conservative in terms of dress and office/cubicle decoration. While I still have a bit of hesitation in coming out of the game closet at work, I mostly don't bring it up because other than kids, weather, and maybe local sports teams, most conversations stay work related. I...

Yeah, I mean every game I play is actual play and live play. Maybe "broadcast actual/live play" would be better? BAP? BLP?

I still read "AP" as Associated Press, have to remind myself this is a gaming forum and then read it as Adventure Path because that is the first TTRPG use of the initials I encountered. Having AP being used for Adventure Path and Actual Play in the same thread is confusing. My New Years...

I guess I'm not really disagreeing insofar that I'm not going to disagree with your person view of D&D. I personally enjoy D&D, even if I've not been playing it for over a year. Lots of people are obviously enjoying it and sticking with it because they enjoy it and are familiar with it. Do I...

Moving to Milwaukee made me realize how good I had it in the Twin Cities. From my old home in Roseville, I was minutes away from Gamezenter (Previously Fantasy Flights Game Center) and the The Source. The source has a great collection of new and old TTRPGs. Gamezenter has incredible play spaces...

Disagree with the first point, but agree with (less emotionally) with the second. I appreciate D&D as having enough cultural cachet and market penetration to act as a gateway to the hobby. I wouldn't have had nearly as many opportunities to introduce people to the variety of other games I have...

Sometime the pressures of Kickstarter itself leads to mental health issues. I try to default to sympathy. It is just another risk I accept when backing a project by a solo creator or small team. I've had some projects that I thought for sure were going to fail when it became clear that the...