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    Running multiple games in parallel?

    Not many. Maybe 25%, but this can go up a lot depending on things. I do run a strict game. You miss a session and your house did not explode and I will just drop you from the game. So most players only want to commit to the once a week game. they will grumble that they had planned to water...
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    First Look Teaser | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    But he was alive. He could have rejoined......or did he take up teaching at Cambridge?
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    First Look Teaser | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Well, it is just Fan Service..... Is there a Directors Cut of the movie or something with this in it? But he came back in Picard........
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    First Look Teaser | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    He did?!? Gee there is a whole episode about him literately not joining Starfleet and finding his own path. So after that he re-re applied to the Academy....for like the 6th time, graduated and joined Starfleet. When did all that happen? Would make more sense for Dr. Crusher to have a third...
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    First Look Teaser | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    So it will be some sort of Mad Max 90210? Wow what a concept. Bad enough it will be "an academy" so it will be CW teen drama taken up to 11......but worse with all the propaganda. Guess we will get show after show about how One Viewpoint is Bad, but the Federation Hollywood Viewpoint is...
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    D&D General 70% Of Games End At Lvl 7?

    This is accurate. But it is more then just character level. Time-- an average game will take at least a couple months to get to around 7th level, Assuming they play each week and assuming the game for all of the game time......many groups do neither. So three months even of doing 'a game' is...
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    Running multiple games in parallel?

    I always use my own homebrew world and Multiverse, so that is not really an issue. Game 1 and 2 are set roughly at the same time, though they are thousands of miles apart on the map. Game 3 is set in the far past of games 1 and 2. (The winter games on summer break now 4 and 5 are spelljammer...
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    Between Diehards and Casuals is...the Fringe

    I might do the categories a bit different as I would include the amount of time spent gaming and how much interest is shown about the game in general. Diehards---I plant my flag here. DM three games a week, more in the winter...plus some once a month games and pick up games. I have a lot of...
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    Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien

    I got into reading at an early age. At the time, the average Yard Sale had a box of ten cent books. A lot of old yellowed paperback books printed in the 60-70's. Most of them were reprints of old pulp fiction from years before. The bygone fun days of walking around parking lots to find lost...
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    Game Mechanics & Lore

    It is a big question. A lot of games have a very narrow very set vision: this game is X and nothing else. The idea is if you want X, play X game. You want Y, look for a Y game. And this is great for that one thing. Game like D&D are generic. The game has only a few over arcing views and...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I'm not sure your point here. For more then the last 50 years nearly everyone has agreed on what the basic generic elf is and looks like and all that. There is an accepted general consensuses. Even all the people that say "My elves are different and special" have to go off that base. And...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Well, it is what is being described.....
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Except for the part that it does get pointless. Sure you can call anything and everything an "elf". But what go does that do? True. Most DM stick with the tropes. They don't make two headed reptile people and say "they are elves". Well, I would say that just like that author go write your...
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    Attributes Should Be a Guideline for Personality

    You are not. The player? No. The whole point of Role Playing is to play a role, not just be yourself. Only bad players just "act like themselves". Any and all games. Easy enough, this is a book smart individual with very little common sense. The Doctor is the classic example here. As is...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    True in general, but meaningless otherwise. This is the point though. You can't just say something at random is an elf, and then change it on a whim. An "Elf" has to be a fairly specific thing in general.....or it is not an elf. As always you want the DM to jump through all sorts of hoops to...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    It does very much water down things when anything can be anything, then nothing is really anything. When your at the point of just pure randomness, then you have a mess of a game. And.....you would sure disagree with a DM doing it, right? If some chicken eggs "just suddenly" grew into...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I'm okay with it. I think someone might respond that way too.......
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    This sounds like a normal good game to me.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    You said all games get value by having unknown things, I'm just giving the other side. I'm this type of DM. Things "nearby" are all made by me...as DM. There are not spots of "oh the town of Berryfalls is just a mile north, but no one not even the DM knows what is there". Though game style...
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