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  1. Longspeak

    Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

    The Brass Dragon Circus & Traveling Sideshow - Mercenaries and Thieves use a traveling circus as cover for their real jobs in three sessions with three crews. The Yuan-Ti invasion continues to hamper efforts for all to get a dishonest days work done, but two crew manage so far, while a third...
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    Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for March 1, 2025

    Hey, I went here and it just said free, not PWYW. But it's for 2024, and I'm too lazy.
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    Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for February 16, 2025

    Hey, IDk if this is a thing, or my blockers are acting up, but.... https://humblebundleinc.sjv.io That's what shows when I mouseover your humblebundle links. My browser won't follow that link. I have to manually go there. Doesn't happen of the drivethru links I follow.
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    Dice etiquette, rules, and superstitions

    It's been a while since I've run in-person, but... I have an in-bounds area, and if the die goes out, re-roll. If the die has stopped and the cat 're-rolls' it, take the original roll if we can. Otherwise take the cat roll if it's in-bounds Re-roll, get that dog outta my house! Actually, the...
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    How likely are you to use D&D for your next game?

    So... I clicked Not Sure. The new 6e (don't give me that 5e2024 nonsense) is not on the table at all... but TBH I only went so hard into 5e because that's where the players were. If I could get a full table reliably with one of my other games, I would. And I don't mean one-shots. I wanna run the...
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    Underrated RPGs

    I once played a Paranoia game at a con with weird rules. I was a spy from another alpha complex with no clones to back me up working in secret to sabotage the mission... I was disguised as a citizen of this complex... come to find out... so were all the other PCs. We were all clones from the...
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    Underrated RPGs

    I thought I knew all of WEG's offerings, but never heard of it. Went looking, and there's a modern incarnation. DriveThruRPG It's got the WEG logo on it and all. It's on the list!
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    What's your VTT of choice?

    Roll20. I'm old, and learning new things is hard. No more new things, please.
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    D&D General On Humble Bundle

    Their past with harassment, and the fact their CEO (CEO, Right) was oh, so remorseful that he got outed.
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    D&D General On Humble Bundle

    I at least wish their cut was flat, not a percentage. "Oh! You want to give more? Okay, we'll take that!"
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    D&D General Which BG3 companion?

    Tactician. The Astarion thing... I kill him.
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    D&D General Which BG3 companion?

    Was Minsc not on the list? Karlach, natch. Shadowheart and her slightly evil, mostly tragic self. Jahiera, for the mom vibe. Minthara for the "Mom's hot friends I'm afraid of" vibe. I've started BG3 like nine times and only once has Astarion lived to see Baulder's Gate.
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    D&D General On Humble Bundle

    Some of that looks interesting, but I don't want to give Frog God any money.
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    Any AI Gamemasters Out There?

    If it helps, M, I'm there with you. Video games are fun and all, and BG3 in really good in the depth of choice and how it interacts with those choices... but it still ain't a role-playing experience. You need people for that.
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    WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

    I voted 1. If you'd asked if they affect my buying choices, it'd be a five. But they won't stop me from play the game I've love since childhood. They have no impact on that, only whether I buy new stuff from them.
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    D&D 5E Baldur's Gate 3 needs more short companions!

    Halsin is Woof Elf, and he addresses his size if you get the right dialogue option. He's at least aware he's an Elf Of Unusual Size.
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    Aging and Gaming

    I turned 57 a few months back. But aside from a few months in the late 90s where I tried to "Grow up and be responsible" (My wife made me stop that, said it was painful how miserable I was), I've gamed since I was 12. Prior to me stroke in July, I was running five games a week. People said I...
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    Positivity: What I'm doing to combat sexism in TTRPGs

    I'm an old (middle-class, white, male, cis) gamer, and I've struggled for years with a TON of implicit assumptions and the general wrong-headed things I grew up with in the 80s. Most of us did. I thought I was one of the good ones because I never went out of my way to be one of "those guys." But...
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    How to Tell a Player, "No"?

    For me, I list out the allowed resources and tell new players it's up to them to sell me on any variance. When they just suggest random stuff without any attempt to sell me on the idea, I refer them back to the list. If they persist, I tell them a flat no. I do try to explain I'm trying to get...
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    D&D General Folks Who Came Back With 5E: Did You Stay with 5E?

    I stopped playing D&D in 2e, about 30 years ago. Nothing drastic, I just found other games I enjoyed and spent years doing that. Shadowrun, Everway, TFT, Heroes Unlimited and Mage were the largest part, but I tried a LOT of others over the next 25 years. In 2018, my daughter's then boyfriend...
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