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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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Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with
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And if you want it taken seriously, then you do need to change the names, because if you mention Cthulhu by name the players will... -
Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
Putting anything into D&D from some other media - eg elves and hobbits - is pastiche. Which was why Gygax put the whole Cthulhu...
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Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
Yeah, it is. Punching actual Cthulhu is a lot funnier than punching a lookalike. D&D is inherently silly. Lovecraft mythos is...
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Well, no, not exactly. This is you inferring something that's not really what I'm talking about. My decision making for Clara was... -
Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
Pastiche is what D&D is at it's core. Doing pastiche is D&D being itself. It's when it tries not to be pastiche that it becomes a bland...
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Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
They certainly have a strict moral code, which is why 1st edition made them lawful neutral. It doesn't mean they aren't weirdly alien...
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Parmandur reacted to Older Beholder's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
Imagine if someone had told Gary he couldn't mix together Tolkien, Lovecraft, Moorcock, Vance and anything else he came across that...
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Parmandur reacted to beta-ray's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
Do you play Fortnite? I actually don't but I do know a few people that are avid players. They mention to me that the Fortnite...
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"What's the point of a civilization if no one is being civil?" "My neighbors didn't give birth to a baby. They gave birth to a civil...
