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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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bsss reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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What about having those consequences be external to the player? I.e., the NPC rolls a nat 20 for an attempt to deceive, and the player... -
bsss reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I don't see how that could possibly work for you, given what you've said. You would be walking a tightrope, where at any moment you may...
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Reef reacted to Mistwell's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e" with Like.
The source for "6e" is TheRPGPundit, who is a consistently not reliable source, particularly about modern D&D. -
Sorcerers Apprentice reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e" with Like.
The subscription fees for DndBeyond are also a major difference. Pre-5e editions had a similar arc after the 80s when the game was still... -
Sorcerers Apprentice reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e" with Like.
It's not tricky at all. WotC have a working system for that: legacy content. They stop selling the books on DDB, but maintain supprt for...
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JI've started reading Children of Ruin by by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A couple of years ago I read the first book Children of Time.
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doctorbadwolf reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall, New Adventure Book Featuring Red Wizards of Thay with Like.
I don't particularly have a desire for Agalrond, at all. I just think that it is what the tealeaves say, based on what we can see of the... -
Reynard replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.I mean, you don't HAVE to take the bitter with the sweet when you have metacurrency. -
doctorbadwolf reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall, New Adventure Book Featuring Red Wizards of Thay with Like.
Less Thayand more Agalrond, I would say. The the ING seems to be related to the Arcane Empires region at large which makes sense of the...
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TTigris replied to the thread RPG Evolution: Why Paper Beats Pixels.We did not evolve using books either for 100 000 of years, so its not like books are natural to us. Also where it is and how to get to...
