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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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Egg Embry posted the thread RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Mythic Legions, Godzilla, Temeraire, and more in *TTRPGs General.This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between March 26 to April 8. I’ve included options that involve kaiju... -
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KYRON45 reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck? with
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That's never occurred to me in 40-odd years of gaming, so I can't agree it's inevitable. In my experience, players who turn up less... -
gestures in the direction of Pathfinder 2E You could actually preserve certain D&D 5E-ish notions like bounded accuracy if you used... -
GothmogIV replied to the thread Dolmenwood general discussion thread [+].I have these books, and they are absolutely beautiful. Just gorgeous to read through. I bought them because of @SlyFlourish, whose... -
KYRON45 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck? with Like.
For sure. I've said this in the past, but if my current game tables dried up, I'd more than likely just move on from the hobby rather...
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I love 5e -- it has a lot going for it as a player and as a DM. But the other thread anticipating 6e got me thinking seriously about...
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KYRON45 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck? with Like.
No idea. I don't have gaming tables; I have tables of friends where we choose to play RPGs as a fun activity. If those tables decided...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e with Like.
Fully agreed. A certain edition was pilloried for making everyone into spellcasters and making it so all classes played the same. 5e... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e with Like.
What would also help is having mechanical class features that deal with exploration and social interaction and have them designed around...
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As a design change at the real root level, make combat considerably more risky so as to encourage non-combat or very one-sided-combat...
