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  1. billd91

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    They can’t resist telling on themselves.
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    RPG Evolution: A roll of the dicey dice

    I know this isn't strictly related to dice materials, readability, or rolling methods, but... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T PUT YOUR DICE AWAY AT THE END OF YOUR TURN! I had a player who would do that so, at the start of his next turn, he had to fish his dice out of his dice bag again.
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    Spoilers The Pitt Season 2 Discussion

    One factor to consider that may affect perceptions - Robby has more women physicians under his supervision as senior attending than men. For men, he's got Langdon and Whitaker. For women, he's got Mohan, McKay, Santos, Javadi, King, and, in season one, Collins. As far as generating conflict for...
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    RPG Evolution: A roll of the dicey dice

    Fortuitously timely article, given the death of Lou Zocchi. I've switched to using a dice tray (and foldable tower) most of the time when I run D&D - largely because of table space at my friends' house. But when I run at conventions like Gamehole where I'm standing a lot more often (because I'm...
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    What are the rules for?

    The term that works best for me that covers what the rules do is operationalize. The rules operationalize how the characters interact with the setting - they give us, the players and the game masters, processes and procedures for handling what a player wants to do and how that action is resolved.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Tired. So, so tired of the same old BS.
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    D&D General D&D Red Box: Who Is The Warrior?

    Allow me to repeat myself (from back in 2024): "YOU feel excluded? How do you think women have felt for much of D&D’s history? At least you had this piece of art speaking to you, INCLUDING you, for FORTY YEARS. And now someone has produced a mini interpreting the character as female. The GALL of...
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2026

    Word from Jolly Blackburn is that Lou Zocchi, wargamer and dice expert, has passed away.
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    Alien forms of gameplay/game design you've encountered?

    It's also the kind of play you might see in an environment where dice are relatively scarce - like early days of the hobby.
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    Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2026!]

    It's true that lead has been in gasoline (and paint) a long time, but one reason GenX is so heavily affected is because of trends in use. The growth of car culture after the war led to steep increases in the use of leaded gas that persisted all the way until the US started to phase out leaded...
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    Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2026!]

    And that ban isn't even absolute. It's just for regular public use. Racetracks, for example, still often use leaded gasoline with measurable effects on child development in neighborhoods near those facilities. NASCAR, to their credit, transitioned off leaded gas starting in 2007.
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    Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2026!]

    It's a thing. The political zeitgeist around people contributes a lot to their socialization into political orientation. And the 1980s, when a lot of GenXers were first becoming aware of politics were the Reagan/Thatcher years - and that has had a lasting impact like generational cohort support...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    If you don't want an answer, don't ask the question.
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    Alien forms of gameplay/game design you've encountered?

    I'm going to suggest an alternate view based on games I've encountered. There was a guy who ran some pick-up tables at Gen Con WAY back in the early 1980s (at UW-Parkside and early years at Mecca in Milwaukee) who had the players roll for their sexual orientation in a similar way. 10% chance of...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Did you move an image in Word then print? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/26BDVgIXkTo
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    D&D General DDB/WOTC Price Increases

    Glass houses and all that. Since getting the material on DDB does add value for some people (such as sharing, integration into a character builder, etc), it's also trivially proven false that "it's just a format change." It may offer options YOU aren't interested in, but that doesn't make it...
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    D&D General DDB/WOTC Price Increases

    It's not too far off from lending a book, but that book only ever has one copy of itself since it's a physical object. Share a PDF and it replicates itself, so you have to be more trusting that people aren't going to share it forward. For most purposes, that's a minor concern, though, but not a...
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    Innsmouth added as new Ravenloft Domain of Dread, bringing Lovecraft to D&D

    Yeah, that struck me as weird as well. Maybe it's an Innsmouth patriarch like one of the Obed Marsh or something. Otherwise, they'll kind of have to redefine what a Domain of Dread can be a little bit.
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    D&D General I’m Trying to Love D&D Again—and I’ve Got Some Complaints. Young Grognard posting.

    Should be a default that everyone can sit at any table (literally and metaphorically) and be treated with respect - but the reality too often is it's not the default and people, using the weight of governments they control, are pushing back against making it the default every day. You just have...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Sometimes I get the impression a poster or two really isn't playing with a full deck of normal playing cards. And it also seems other people will go out of their way to be asshats to them.
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