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The first paragraph in the "Dagon" entry of Daniel Harms' Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, Third Edition, states: "DAGON. Minor being that leads the deep ones and in turn serves Cthulhu. Dagon appears as a deep one of tremendous proportions, or more rarely as a cloud of mist. One description...

I suspect it's a venue thing more than regional. I usually do very short games (2-4 hours), which aren't part of any organized play, at large conventions (e.g. Gen Con). There's no coordination by any of the players beforehand (or at least almost never; sometimes you get friends or couples, but...

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I was getting 502 bad gateway again quite a bit just a minute ago. o_O

Having been doing this for over thirty years, your experience sounds extremely unusual, both for myself and for other people who play/run games that I keep in contact with (and I keep in contact with quite a few). "Character introduction" (outside of outlining the initial scenario when play...

Yes, you are, since you initially responded to my post, which was itself a response to another post which was explicitly presented in the context of "if they're otherwise strangers, say at a con game or something." Glad you agree with me. In every convention game that I've ever run or been a...

It sounds like you're not making a distinction between established groups and con games, the latter being the context that was put forward. Having run my fair share of games at conventions, people don't take breaks or engage in post-game wrap-ups; usually they arrive at the last minute, are...

Considering that's the equivalent of calling people by their username when interacting with them on a messageboard, I'd find that acceptably polite.

Winston Churchill once said that a fanatic is someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. ...which, as it turns out, also describes edition warriors.

While I wouldn't go so far as to characterize them as a "political revolution," I have met people who explicitly bring commentary on contemporary social issues into a pastime that's understood as being escapist fantasy, which seems to be the crux of the issue. For some people, the "escapist"...

Yes, and it seems to be interfering with liking posts as well, though in that case the site just sends an error message and says to try again (which usually works).

That's not a good point. That's literally the opposite of a good point. "Not enough people care (where 'enough' is conveniently undefined) about these things, so they aren't worth keeping" ignores the fact that some people do care, and respecting that is the definition of empathy. I've...

When someone posts over a dozen times in a given thread, and then starts lecturing other people about how life is too short to be so worked up over a given issue, it's pretty clear that they're not worth taking seriously.

If it's true, that's a real shame. I got his autograph on his Lost Worlds book several years ago at Gen Con before a seminar he gave, and I still treasure it to this day.

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I think it's a bad thing. I can live with stuff being sold exclusively on one store; there's a lot of stuff on DriveThruRPG that isn't on Paizo's store, or itch.io, or the Open Gaming Store, etc. But I'm not a fan of treating tabletop RPGs like streaming content, where you're paying for access...

This is really beginning to look like it might be a fun movie.

You don't need to be sent anything; the entire book has been put on the Internet Archive (which strikes me as of dubious legality, and so I won't link to it here).

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