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  1. jdrakeh

    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Are you sure you're not RPG Pundit, because you're posting like RPG Pundit.
  2. jdrakeh

    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Your definition of "adversarial" is extremely narrow. From the Oxford Dictionary: Adversarial: Involving or characterized by conflict or opposition.
  3. jdrakeh

    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I've seen plenty of (countless?) instances of that in WoD games, as a direct result of the power paradigm that I called out. Including the one I explicitly mentioned earlier in this thread of the Storyteller abusing his authority to take agency away from players. That game was absolutely a fight...
  4. jdrakeh

    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    There were also a lot of people not giving that advice for decades. Again, look at the early WoD offerings in the 1990s. Early WoD Storyteller advice leaned hard into the idea that the story belonged to the Storyteller, first and foremost, and that the other players were just lucky that the...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    It would've literally changed how I played/run games decades ago, instead of like 15 years ago. Right? The game I'm currently writing has a discussion of safety tools, failing forward, when to roll dice (and when to not), and a really in depth discussion of player agency (and why taking it...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    There are still some bad Storytellers out there who were brought up on bad Storyteller advice from the early era of WoD games. I talk about one of them in a thing I'm currently writing. Like, holy crap. This guy was big on removing all player agency and then bragging about how clever he was for...
  7. jdrakeh

    DCC Goodman Losing Lankhmar License

    They absolutely lost me as a (longtime) customer over that.
  8. jdrakeh

    D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats?

    Standard Array on D&D Beyond. I haven't played D&D in about two years and I just wanted the least fuss method.
  9. jdrakeh

    What Are You Listening To? - Reprise

    Jess and The Ancient Ones
  10. jdrakeh

    RPG Evolution: Last Minute Dice Gifts for Gamers (2025)

    I'd like to add sculptured dice towers to this list. There are many different molds/prints available and most of them are quite affordable. I received a 3d-printed dice tower as a Yule gift over the weekend. It presents as a ruined tower. Very cool. I plan to paint it after the holidays (Santa...
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    Best Christmas films

    There have been two remakes. Both awful.
  12. jdrakeh

    Best Christmas films

    Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974). Arguably the foundation of the North American slasher genre, Black Christmas is a work of cinematic importance in that regard. Starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon (among others). It's the only Christmas move to absolutely horrify...
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    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    The new edition actually has less content in it than The Big Gold Book.
  14. jdrakeh

    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    A few months ago, I purchased some serial numbers filed off minis of Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser. I intend to use them as leaders of a Frostgrave warband (the barbarian as apprentice, and the rogue as wizard respectively).
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    Painting minis?

    That hasn't been my experience. I just (as recently as last month) had to boil and re-straighten bendy appendages and weapons on many grey Bones minis.
  16. jdrakeh

    Painting minis?

    Some stores do carry Bones mins but, yes, they're mostly acquired from Kickstarter. That said, there's a reason the white and grey Bones minis are inexpensive. And, yes, rattle can primer can be sticky/tacky on these minis. But as you (and pretty much every other posters in this thread except...
  17. jdrakeh

    Painting minis?

    There. You've said it multiple times in this very post "avoid using it on plastics" which is, by implication, all plastics as a function of basic grammar. Multiple people have pointed out that it's only an issue (and a well known one at that) with Bones plastics (white and grey specifically)...
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    Painting minis?

    I have stated from the beginning that it was all Bones minis except Bones Black. A fact that you repeatedly and conveniently overlooked in your push to establish a (false) narrative that spray primer was bad for all plastic minis.
  19. jdrakeh

    Painting minis?

    Yes, this. He's using very specific minis with a known issue and is refusing to admit that other minis made of different plastic don't have this issue.
  20. jdrakeh

    Painting minis?

    The grey Bones minis are made of the same non-standard (i.e. rubbery) plastic as the white Bones minis.
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