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Managing a table of ten players is less like storytelling and more like air traffic control. In the heat of my weekly library sessions... -
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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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TSR Inc. published Dragon #102 in October 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features gully dwarves... -
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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. In the world of public library gaming, overbooking is more than a strategy; it is a survival mechanism...
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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Running any free event at a public library is an act of local heroism; running a weekly Dungeons & Dragons...
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Despite hours spent scrolling through digital tools and PDFs, the nuances of the new system felt slippery, like trying to catch smoke...
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Charles Dunwoody posted the thread RPG Print News – D&D, CY_BORG, Apocalypse Prevention, Inc., and More in *TTRPGs General.This week, PCs range from monster truckers hauling freight while dealing with frightful creatures to the last remnants of humanity... -
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Golden Bee's post in the thread Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words. with
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Only a Scheme in Rio Tá de sacanagem? Que isso? New readers ask: Who are you people?! A dreary February in New Orleans. The place to... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Well, is a roll in combat a test of the character in any way? I mean, I could see the argument that a 14th level fighter with high... -
Evaniel reacted to TheSword's post in the thread RPGs that you feel trip over their own cool ideas with Like.
Pathfinder 1e feats and to a lesser extent 3e. They were great to start with, but once we needed an excel spreadsheet to find the... -
Evaniel reacted to TheHand's post in the thread RPGs that you feel trip over their own cool ideas with Like.
I felt like a lot of the World of Darkness games had a lot of examples of cool ideas on the story side, but then when it came time to...
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Zzakael19 reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
okay you both missed the actual point of my message, it's not about 'your character wouldn't do that', it's that Maxperson's argument...
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Zzakael19 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
So, basically frame tests of character as true judgment calls, exactly like what I said. A choice has to be made two or more options of...
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TTigris replied to the thread RPGs that you feel trip over their own cool ideas.Yes even if they "tried different things", then the reason they tried 2d6 (and liked it) for sure has to do with PbtA. Sometimes...
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GrimCo reacted to Koloth's post in the thread Why do so many campaigns never finish? Genuinely curious what others think with Like.
Part of it depends on the definition of a campaign. When I was in college and the game was D&D, AD&D or Traveller, our usual...
