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    D&D General Species of Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    Kind of hard to call anything a retcon when it comes to Eberron because so much of what we know about the setting is often filtered through education guesses and unreliable narration. Like the "Changelings descend from Doppelgangers" thing I'm pretty sure was always just "we all kind of think...
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    Which Social Media Platforms Do You Use?

    Yeah you gotta be real deliberate and real proactive with your YouTube feed or it'll steer you towards the grifterverse every damn time. Facebook, is of course The Site That Commits That Also Tells Me What My Parents Are Doing It has only gotten worse in the past five years
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Does anyone remember that list that popped up on reddit a few years back, it was like a big long "My rules as DM" list, and the list was full of the most egregiously awful, rude, outrageous nonsense ever, like clearly nobody real thought like this and the list was really just ragebait, right...
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    Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did

    This is basically how every game of Chrononauts ends up playing out
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    Which Social Media Platforms Do You Use?

    Yeah I made the switch from the hellsite (Twitter) to Bluesky a while back and have zero regrets.
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    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    Look, somebody has to put food on Ben Barnes' table
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    As someone who works at an American university, the Canadians absolutely have timed it much better. Fall semester here the students get the full week off; except instead of being in the middle of the semester like Spring Break, they have to wait a full month plus to get any kind of break. Which...
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    Oh I assumed that that was intentional, the "you" was a general you, not you specifically.
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    As for Thanksgiving meals, I'm not a huge fan of turkey so I'm more of a sides girlie. Mashed potatoes & gravy is my jam. Cranberry sauce (from the can! I want to see the ridges! Taste the ridges!). My wife also makes an amazing brussels sprouts dish with balsamic vinegar and whole garlic cloves...
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    The amusing thing is that this actually happens in A Christmas Story. If you haven't seen it, the traditional dinner is ruined so the family end up going out for Chinese (complete with a horrific racist joke about the staff trying to sing Deck the Halls)
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    Do you observe Thanksgiving?

    We've turned it into a big friend get together potluck where my kid organizes a Mario Kart tournament. The historical context is obviously horrific but it is a bank holiday and it's still a great excuse to get together and celebrate our own community
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    General video game discussion

    And that's just if you stick to the single player campaign. I don't know if any normal human is built to withstand the whiplash of going from Stardew Valley to a Call of Duty online lobby.
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, where we remember and mourn our trans siblings who we have lost over the past year. This includes 21 deaths by suicide and 27 deaths by act of violence (that were reported, as transgender individuals often have their identities stripped from them in...
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    General video game discussion

    Was going through my physical media and discovered that I had I forgotten that, long ago, I had bought The Switcher (that is, The Witcher 3 for Nintendo Switch) so I played that last night until I passed out on the couch. Good times.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Yeah, I mean this is a problem with campaign expectations, not the game itself. I've played in and run games with all kinds of specific rules for what was or was not in play. Our college 3.5 D&D group had a character who always wanted to play a centaur. I was never in favor it, but she also had...
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    General video game discussion

    I mean, that is exactly what would happen in Dwarf Fortress too, only it'd be funnier
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    General video game discussion

    Dwarf Fortress sure is a weird game
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    TSR On the Relative Merits of the TSR Editions

    I know that I played 1e at some point as a small child, but I have absolutely no memory of it outside of it happening. Mostly I was around 2nd edition because those were the books my older brother had and that was the edition they played, and I got to watch him and his friends play when I didn't...
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