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  1. GothmogIV

    AD&D 2E AD&D on D&D Beyond? One Man's Dreams...

    I guess I was thinking, there are a lot of people who are not playing D&D anymore, and offering them a different rule set might bring them into the fold. This all occurred to me when I saw that Luke Gygax was going to write some Greyhawk material. I hope, hope, hope they don't turn it into what...
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    AD&D 2E AD&D on D&D Beyond? One Man's Dreams...

    I was at the gym this morning, listening to this week's podcast while I was riding the pain machine bike, and I had a thought... What if WotC just put the 1st or 2nd edition rules up on D&D Beyond, and supported them with all their VTT/character/book stuff? I know that development is time...
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    Dolmenwood general discussion thread [+]

    I am finally sitting down to read through the world book. It is lavish. Just beautiful, and probably the most detailed thing I have ever read.
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    D&D Jihad: People Who Are Unwell

    Got you, @Umbran. No further comments from me.
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    D&D Jihad: People Who Are Unwell

    A few years back, a group of discontented white men found a hack into the Hugo Awards nominating procedure, and tried to take it over because there were too many non-white men getting nominated for awards. or something. it was dumb. They called themselves 'the sick puppies.' At least that's how...
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    D&D Jihad: People Who Are Unwell

    BROSR is like, "if you don't play AD&D the way we think it used to be played, you are a ______" (fill in the bad word. Like, really bad word). These are the Sick Puppy guys from the Hugo Awards a few years back. I am, literally, astonished by how vile the rhetoric is. About. Games. Horrid. What...
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    D&D Jihad: People Who Are Unwell

    There are some deeply unwell people on X. I mean that seriously: there are men--all men--who are nutzo about BROSR. I mean...it's hard to describe the vitriol these dudes spew about anyone who doesn't agree with them. We are talking Christian, far right-wing looney tunes in the game space. There...
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    D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk Coming From Luke Gygax & WotC

    I like me some grit, brother @Whizbang Dustyboots!
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    D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk Coming From Luke Gygax & WotC

    That warms my heart. I'm sure it will be cool for 5.5e players to get a bigger taste of the new Greyhawk. Maybe they'll make it a little gritter to try and attract old heads like me.
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    Dolmenwood general discussion thread [+]

    I have these books, and they are absolutely beautiful. Just gorgeous to read through. I bought them because of @SlyFlourish, whose infectious enthusiasm for all things TTRPG is...well, infectious! With that said, I don't think my group and I will ever play them. It's seems a bit too whimsical...
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    Homebrew Designing My First...Thing

    In my game, players will take on the role of doorknobs in an abandoned factory that used to make wicker furniture.
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    Homebrew Designing My First...Thing

    Thank you, friends. All really helpful. I sat down yesterday and started banging away at it.
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    Homebrew Designing My First...Thing

    Not by me. At least, not up until now!
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    Homebrew Designing My First...Thing

    I have been playing--mostly GMing--ttrpgs since 1981. I've run and played numerous games: D&D (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th), Call of Cthulhu (2nd, 7th), Dragonbane, Castles&Crusades, and Dungeon Crawl Classics. I have run one shots, mini-campaigns, and full campaigns. I love running games! (I like being...
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    Superman: Still Awesome

    Cavill was excellent, but the tone of Snyder's vision was very dark; it was like watching "Justice League: Seattle in the 1990s". I still enjoyed them, but it was an aberration from the way Superman stories are normally told. Gunn's Superman was much truer to the hopefulness I have always found...
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    OSR Castles&Crusades Interview

    Oh, sorry man! By choices, I meant...stay or run. You didn't have 85 HP to spend playing "Chop Down the Fighter." You had 11.
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    OSR Castles&Crusades Interview

    "Pull up a chair, grandpa, and tell us about the olden days!" Well...back in my day, the only way you could find out about TTRPGs other than D&D was by going to a game store or reading Dragon, or White Dwarf, Magazines (which you could only find in games stores). Our knowledge of what was out...
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    OSR Castles&Crusades Interview

    Back when I used to play AD&D, I remember being frustrated by the hit point bloat. Combat felt like chopping down a tree. Part of what I like about BRP is that hit points are lower, and armor plays a larger part in protection during combat: not just an AC, but actual armor points. Once your...
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    OSR Castles&Crusades Interview

    I thought the Reforged editions just stripped out the OGL stuff (I don't have them, so I'm not sure how they differ)?
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    OSR Castles&Crusades Interview

    All fair points. Thanks, fellas.
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