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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at... -
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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive... -
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Image courtesy of Pixabay. For years, my game room sat as a quiet monument to a dream: a dedicated space where I could play Dungeons &...
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TSR Inc. published Dragon #101 in September 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features the third... -
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The story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 is a tragedy of American history: a cautionary tale of class bias, social anxiety, and...
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Just something I saw over at DeviantArt - not my work -
I have used coffee stains
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Ppemerton reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with
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Yeah, I agree. The games I've played over the last year-ish that have very explicit social mechanics either via a multi-stage resolution... -
Ssevenbastard reacted to JohnSnow's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Actually, I think the bigger problem with 5e (and 2024 exacerbates it) is that there's only TWO classes in the game for people who don't...
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Ppemerton reacted to Nytmare's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
In a traditional system, you can replicate gripping and exciting dialogue by mistake. In a system built with the mechanics and...
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Zzakael19 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
Yeah, the suggestion that the damage/hit point systems is just an afterthought - that beating a Pit Fiend in combat is just a modest...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Not @Crimson Longinus but I'll take a guess: the question is whether - in the clocks example - you're looking at the state of the... -
Cleon replied to the thread Converting True Dragons.Also remembered there's a "her her" duplication error in Pearl's tactics that needs to be corrected with the next update. -
Ppemerton replied to the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc....Yeah, the suggestion that the damage/hit point systems is just an afterthought - that beating a Pit Fiend in combat is just a modest...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".I have Apocalypse World 2e. I have read properly ages ago, and I've been skimming ti lately. To me it seems simpler. The moves are...
