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Perhaps this is a weird topic, and I should stop posting late at night, but in the monster hit points thread a thought occurred to me after reading this post: I highlighted "evocative" because that is what go me thinking. I'm a big fan of random name generation tables. But I find many such...

I put this in the D&D thread, because I'm thinking about D&D and D&D adjacent geekery specifically, but general TTRPG coded decorations may do. I work in an environment where decorating your workspace with lots of tchotchkes would be "a bit much." But I always like to have bits of subtle...

There have been a number of threads over the past few years on paid GMing, renting versus buying TTRPG content (e.g. DDB and Demiplane), the move away from physical to digital content, decluttering, and avoiding impulse buying of material (digital or physical) you barely ever look at. All of my...

Was reading another thread where a DM mentioned players passing their vetting process. If if not formalized, every DM has a vetting process. Generally, you need to limit the number of players in a campaign. I'll write up some of my thoughts of how I vet players for my games and experiences I've...

I'm in the process of moving to Milwaukee and would be interested in hearing from some Milwaukeeans on where to find good in-person TTRPG gaming. I'll be living in the Juneau Town neighborhood. Looks like there are not any FLGSs in walking distance, but quite a few within a 10-20 minute drive...

Troll Lorg Games is reprinting Gygax's world-building books in a new series or re-released books they are calling The Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds, https://myemail.constantcontact.com/WHAT-IS-The-Gygaxian-Fantasy-Worlds-Series-.html?soid=1102998498437&aid=SkQQ-xMSPHE The books include: The Canting...

Came accross this by chance when searching for something else. I don't recall seeing (and a search didn't return any results) this mentioned on any thread in ENWorld, so I thought I would post about it for other D&D history nerds. Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons, Edited by Premeet Sidhu...

This just came in my e-mail from Troll Lord Games. Didn't see other posts on this, so I thought I would post for those who are interested. See: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Gary-Gygax--Stones-Unturned--Turned.html?soid=1102998498437&aid=Gfu-3f3868A and...

Work has blown up my gaming planes for at least the next few months. But I'm using that time to prep for a Warhammer Fantasy campaign I will eventually run. It also gives me some time to dive into Discord and make better use of it. My players convinced me to move to Discord for my last campaign...

I'm fortunate to be able to take a longer break from work over the Christmas/New Years holidays. Games are always part of the gifts given and playing games is part of how my family enjoys the holidays. It is also a time where friends visit from out of state. Yesterday I got together with old...

I completed a 5 year campaign last week. In celebration of that, and for x-mas, I would like to get something for my players. Gaming/DnD themed. The campaign involved defeating a cult of Orcus. If anyone has any cool ideas, please share.

I'm finishing up a multi-year 5e campaign and am thinking of running my next campaign in another system. I purchased the Warhammer Core rules and starter set for Foundry and I'm really liking what I'm seeing. I've not run Warhammer Fantasy since the late 80s and I'm getting a nostalgia kick...

Just saw the maps alpha in D&D Beyond when I logged in today and played around with it a bit. Not too shabby. If you are looking for a simple digital battlemap with tokens and fog of war and are already using D&D Beyond, it is worth playing around with. If they would have had this a few years...

WARNING: this post and thread will contain spoilers for the Rappan Athuk (Frog God Games) setting/adventure If you are a player in this adventure or plan to be, you may want to stop reading. I'll avoid spoilers in the first post in case you missed the spoiler warning in the thread title. I'm...

Inspired by another thread on "what homebrew rules do we assume is common in the community", I thought it would be interested to learn what the community think are common rules of etiquette at TTRPG tables. Rules of etiquette tend to be unspoken and often assumed but can be drastically different...

I've been running Rappan Athuk for 4 years and 4 months. I should wrap it up by the end of the summer. I'm running the 5e version and most of the characters are at level 17 and will likely level to 18 by the end of the next session. Rappan Athuk, and megadungeons in general, are not everyone's...

An interesting conversation on Stack Exchange (Suitable Dave Arneson pilgrimage location) was brought to my attention by another EN World member via private message. For those who are interested in the history of D&D and TTRPGs in general, Lake Geneva is the primary "pilgrimage" location, but...

I just completed the latest WotC D&D survey. Not the 1D&D playtests, but the general survey where they ask you when you first started playing, how much you spent in the last 6 months, etc. Aaaand just like the last two time, the format was a mess. The save button is HUGE taking the entire...

I'm wrapping up a long 5e campaign and the group is talking about what we will play next. We are considering Level Up. If I run Level Up, I'll be doing it on Foundry. For those of you who are running Level Up on Foundry, what are your experiences? What works well, what doesn't, what gotchas...

Over the years that I've been participating in on-line discussions about TTRPGs, there have been times where the discussions hit on participants' pet peeves where people will opine on how certain styles or certain rules would ruin the game for them. Some of the big contenders are open-world vs...