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    Adventures with extensive backstory

    I dislike infodumps in general. I believe roleplaying, given its format, benefits from fast, punchy descriptions and backgrounds. Take Maze of the Blue Medusa as a shining example of this. That's the background. Now let's go to a in-game description. No diatribes on the painter, the...
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    Burning Questions: Why Do DMs Limit Official WOTC Material?

    I play either allowing all 1st-party sourcebooks or core-only. For the former, it's because I like to give experienced players the tools to show their system mastery. For the latter, it's because the limited scope helps new players acclimate. Issues like thematic appropriateness or broken...
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    EN World New GMs, players, read the first post in this thread! (updated 5/21)

    Yoon-Suin and A Red & Pleasant Land are the two of the best things to come out of OSR. The only thing I wholeheartedly believe to be better is Maze of the Blue Medusa.
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    Do your Political Views shape how your villains and heroes act?

    To try to answer OP's question: my politics heavily impacts the lens through which my games play, but my personal beliefs do not impact the good-evil demarcation I use in my games. As an example of the latter, in a system with mechanical morality like D&D, I understand alignment to follow the...
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    Fire Mountain Games - 5 years since funding - communication thread

    Is there precedent for Kickstarter to go after owners of unfulfilled projects?
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