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    D&D General The Official D&D Table of Adventure

    The Origins 2.0 version starts at $2700 with Presidents Day pricing. Guessing there might have been some pre order reductions or additional options included. Seems on par with similar custom tables from other vendors. Looks nice. Hope it works out for OP.
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    Please recommend North American tabletop roleplaying conventions.

    While the city isn't on your list, Norman OK has Soonercon in June: Soonercon | Oklahoma's Premier Pop Culture Convention At least for now, you can take a passenger train from Austin to OKC, with a stop in Norman, IIRC. If you are an NBA fan, longshot chance for a game 7 in OKC on June 19th...
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    You can expand design space a lot by changing what an "unmodifier roll" represents

    Minor stuff doesn't have to resolve to a simple +/- modifier. Spice pack that renders Iron Rations tasty. Special oil when wiped on armor, counts as a repair and refit session. Non magical small gem that when charged in sunlight for two hours will glow like a torch for 2 hours when activated...
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    Pathfinder 1E Outsiders and their "down" time.

    While off duty, they are running a contest to see how many of the dungeon inhabitants can be made infatuated with other dungeon inhabitants. Could make for some interesting encounters when the party finally arrives. Especially if some of the 'monsters' are still looking for love when meeting...
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    D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash

    I got the feeling that the whole topic is a jest. That said, I disagree on the CE idea. Otherwise, most parties convert to CE the moment they enter the dungeon and start killing everything and keeping the loot. If you kill everything, good, evil, neutral, other and also chaotic and lawful, you...
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    D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash

    True Neutral Murderhobo = Kill everything and let whatever, if any, afterlife sort it out. And keep all the loot. True Neutral Pacifist = Find an out of the way place and ignore the rest of the world.
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    D&D General Hasbro CEO Says AI Integration Has Been "A Clear Success"

    Apparently, the pink slips were replaced by pink toned emails saying don't bother showing up this morning.
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    Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk?

    In the US, many of the western railroads probably qualified as mega corps. One of the subsidies they got from the US Govt was alternating square miles of land along the tracks they laid into the western US. Land = money = power. Many of the railroads leased their right of ways to telegraph...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Questers Toy Line Revealed, Due for Release in July

    Is there a size reference on these? The way the announcement reads, kind of implies in the 25~30 mm scale range. The blind bag aspect is a negative IMO, but if the price point is low enough, might gamble a couple times trying to get a mimic. No real interest in the other two. Can give the...
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    These are the Good Days [+]

    The wide variety of product available. A few examples. Miniatures - Most vendors started out as suppliers of minis for Ancients Armies. Early RPG character minis were rare and made of poorly cast lead. Now there are many vendors selling a wide array of minis made from several materials...
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    How do you like your steak?

    Ground up and turned into hamburger. Never really cared for steak. But my taste buds are at least one standard deviation away from normal. If steak is the only choice, then medium well. With lots of steak/BBQ sauce.
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    Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static?

    I would get really irritated as a player if I had to follow that Bard in the play cycle order. Why should my Thief fail at a pick pocket try with a 19 die roll just because the Bard has a +13 modifier and rolled a nat 20 just before the thief goes? So the Bard gets laid and my Thief gets...
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    D&D General Hasbro CEO Says AI Integration Has Been "A Clear Success"

    AI slop generated so the next person can use it as input for an AI generated report. Agree on the power point thing. Sat thought way too many meetings with way too many slides. Hated that most of my continuing education college classes ~15 years ago were the prof reading power point slides in...
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    D&D General D&D memes thread discussion…

    A few weeks ago the daughter of the daughter of a long time friend started playing with us. Three generations at the same table. And yes, I have a few unpainted minis from about the time I started playing with the friend, before any of his kids were conceived.
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    D&D General Hasbro CEO Says AI Integration Has Been "A Clear Success"

    One of the AI ads during the Super Bowl was pretty much exactly targeting drudge office work. 'AI can finish out that 1000 row spreadsheet in just a few minutes.' 'AI can build that 100 slide power point.' 'AI can create the emails for the layoff notices(*).' (*)this one wasn't in the ad...
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    Making the cut for your TTRPG library

    It was for me. Kept most of the RPG stuff but boxes of magazines kept for many years found the recycle bin. Several shelves of non-RPG books got donated to the local Friends of the Library sale. Hundreds of VHS tapes also got culled. Mostly Star Trek stuff. I had binge watched them a few...
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    D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?

    For a real life example of a fighting man that had many other skills, consider the Roman Legionnaire. Pretty much defines the basic D&D fighter. Sword, shield, armor, helmet. Kills things. Pillages the result. But when the legion wasn't fighting, it was the empire's engineering corp...
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    Making the cut for your TTRPG library

    Probably not a good person to respond. I still have my white box D&D and black box Traveller sets. But even if you don't run them, there is a possibility that some talented GM that is financially challenged would be happy to run a group using those or other books. Sometimes as source...
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    What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?

    Based on the clarification, still believe it is NOT railroading. Spell slot didn't work as the material component was missing. Chance for investigation into how the fork was stolen? Did any of the players think of trying Dismissal? After all, while on the Feawild, the party ARE extraplanar...
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    What do you like in a session write-up?

    Nothing says you can't do both. A brief 'just the facts' recap and a more verbose story telling. Link to a long abandoned campaign blog from 2007ish : Greyhawk's Cauldron IIRC - 3 folks contributed to that one. Other things like next game time and food plans were handled via a separate...
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