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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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payn reacted to LordEntrails's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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1) No. Its a situation, it's not a predetermined outcome. 2) Railroading, to me, is when player actions don't matter. Such as Dragon... -
payn reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In? with Like.
This opened a mental door! I almost never buy & read fiction I know to be based on RPGs or most “geeky” TV shows or movies. (I do...
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Remathilis reacted to Seramus's post in the thread D&D General D&D Archetypes that spread out to other settings and media with Like.
It was more of a group project, with simultaneous launches of both the Dragonlance modules and the Dragonlance novels. Weis is on record... -
payn reacted to jdrakeh's post in the thread What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In? with Like.
D&D novels as canon. Ensconcing the FR novels in official canon was the thing I hate TSR the most for. I mean, from a financial...
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I’m not stuck so much on his being a bad doctor, it’s that he’s a bad doctor but he’s a successful one in terms of diagnosing and...
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FrogReaver reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Yes, it is not fully possible, as the player literally never is the character and have all the exact same information than the... -
As in House himself, presumably? But otherwise, yeah, that sounds reasonable. (I understand he hates the clinics Cuddy makes him do...
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mamba reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
While appreciate you making an effort to help me figure out "what went wrong" I have a bunch of follow up posts in this thread that, if... -
Reynard replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.While appreciate you making an effort to help me figure out "what went wrong" I have a bunch of follow up posts in this thread that, if... -
darkbard replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".I want to counter this spurious Alexandrian claim about dissociated mechanics using two recent examples from the 4E D&D game I'm playing...
