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    What was your 2nd RPG?

    The second TTRPG I ever played was AD&D 2nd Edition; the first was Earthdawn 1st Edition. Prior to that I had read through the original Middle Earth Roleplaying game box set, which my mom had bought me for Christmas a year or two prior, but my 12 yar old brain couldn't really make heads or...
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    From Gongfarming to Grave Digging: a Manual of Skills for DCC RPG available now!

    Greetings! Our first traditionally printed product, From Gongfarming to Grave Digging: a Manual of Skills for DCC RPG is available now! EASY SKILLS FOR DCC RPG! Sure, you’re no hero - but have you ever wished you were good at something besides fighting? Or that you could get better at it...
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    From Gongfarming to Gravedigging First Printing Cover.jpg

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    D&D General examples of high tech stuff in dungeons and dragons?

    The Illithiad from 1998 had a bunch of fancy tech for mind flayers, including biosuits, exoskeletons, glare goggles, and more. Some of this stuff was included in the 3.5 book Lords of Madness.
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    Hours actually playing RPGs, non-D&D?

    I run a weekly Dungeon Crawl Classics game in a local shop, and each session is roughly 2 hours (the store closes early-ish and while the owners don't care if we go over a bit I try not to abuse the privelege). I also run a DCC game online for my 11yo and his friends. Earlier this year I had a...
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    Worlds of Design: All in Your Mind

    I have never used miniatures in my games; if I want to play a fantasy boardgame I still have my old 1990s HeroQuest game. As I believe I mentioned in the other thread, I find players are far more imaginative in TotM combat than when they have a gameboard to use. IMO combat is tedious enough...
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    D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?

    Good stuff! The Building A City web enhancement for the 3.5 DMG is also super useful, IMO. I've even used it for other systems/games.
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    Science Fiction: Greatest TV Shows Part III

    Do limited series count? Here I am thinking of V, and its sequel V: The Final Battle. Shocking in its time and influental, I feel it/they should be on the list.
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    D&D General Making Spellcasters feel Caster-y without actually Casting?

    There was an article in Dragon Magazine back in the day called "The Color of Magic" that handled this kind of idea. In a nutshell, it suggests reflavoring spells to suit a specific theme (the example it uses is an ice mage whose magic missile looks like icecicles and similar reskinnings) and...
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    D&D General Favorite Creepy Monster To Run?

    Tough one! My initial throught was mind flayers, but honestly I don't use them much because if used to the maximum of their capabilities I don't know how a party could beat them. So I vote the Living Wall. They're disgusting, tragic, and evocative - equally as useful for intense personal and...
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    Who's on your geek Mount Rushmore?

    Weis & Hickman James Gunn James Cameron Wolfgang Baur All white, almost all men 🤮. If Weis & Hickman have to count as two (which would be fair), I'd drop James Gunn.
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    Tell me about VtM when it started

    I first heard of VtM when I was 16. I had been accepted into a "Gifted & Talented" high school located in the corner of a college campus about 2 hours from where I'd lived prior to then and several of my new friends had the WoD books. I never played in a strictly VtM game, but in several general...
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    Your Three Desert Island RPGs

    DCC RPG Distant second: Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea Even more distant third: Avatar Legends RPG
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    Worlds of Design: Grounding the Game

    I have never used miniatures in my TTRPGs in over 30 years of gaming; if I want to play/run a boardgame I have HeroQuest. I have played in a number of games over the years that did use miniatures, and while there are advantages, it's been my observation that players in such games don't tend to...
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