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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

    We're less than 16 hours away from the final match of the tournament! Look forward to it!
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    Matt Colville's Community

    No matter how much some would love for it be otherwise the case, language is deeply, deeply personal. It is rooted in history, culture, family, and individual experience. Any attempt to pursue what any specific word can, should, or does mean is inherently going to be significantly more fruitless...
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    Your top 5 movie trilogies of all time, and why?

    The only five I could truly put forward are: Lord of the Rings (Peej Edition, naturally) - A bit of a cheat to film all three at the same time, but hell if it didn't make it the best, most cohesive movie trilogy of them all. Star Wars (Original Trilogy) - The only truly cohesive AND excellent of...
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    New Unearthed Arcana Brings Back Five Subclasses

    I'm just not entirely convinced it's trope that needs to be turned into a full archetype for the game at this point, in the year 2025 (2026, presumably for the actual published product), both for cultural sensitivity issues and for the promotion of alcohol issues (given the game is still...
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    General video game discussion

    It runs okay enough, but yeah diplomacy is useless and the balance can get really wonky really quickly, and sometimes you'll find a ton of great stuff in your starting area protected by like lone scrub units and sometimes you'll be surrounded by hordes of endgame monsters right out the gate. On...
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    Your Three Desert Island RPGs

    Look, I'm 40, I work in a university library, and my kid is about to turn 11. I need somewhere to still get to feel young :cool:
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms: Real World Gods Still Present in the Old Empires

    I mean, in some instances it makes about as much sense as the current historical consensus for where some our lost civilizations ended up. "Oh them? Yeah, they were all murdered by the sea people." "Really? Wait... then who the heck were the sea people?" "🤷‍♀️"
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    Do you "roleplay" in non-TTRPG Games?

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    General video game discussion

    Beat I waaaaay back in the day, and managed to beat II on the GBC despite definitely, at that point, being too old for that kind of grind. Still have managed to fail every time getting through III, so I'm hesitant to pick up the HD-2D for it. Especially since I'm still waiting to pick up Ivalice...
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    General video game discussion

    Whenever I'm feeling like sitting at a computer to play a game, which is rare these days, I've got my GoG copy of Master of Magic pulled up
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    D&D General WotC is at it again

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    General video game discussion

    I have not but I will have to look into it if I ever end up getting a steam deck
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    D&D 5E (2024) How to Make Sammaster the Big Bad of Your D&D Campaign

    Are we back to the original Cult of the Dragon, then? Or was that whole business with Tiamat retconned to be a schism?
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    Do you "roleplay" in non-TTRPG Games?

    All I can say for certain is that the only thing you are missing out on by not playing Diplomacy is pain
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    General video game discussion

    My comfort food game is Civilization VI, generally, but every time I come back to it I get fed up with it all the more quickly. I still haven't been able to make any progress in any narrative-focused game since beating Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which I'm sure you've all already played because...
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    Do you "roleplay" in non-TTRPG Games?

    This is also the best way to play Sheriff of Nottingham, in case anyone was wondering. "Why sir, I am nothing more than a simple cheese monger!"
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    D&D General WotC is at it again

    I bet if you find that post your uncle made on Facebook a decade ago about claiming full and complete ownership of all your content and C+P that onto the D&D Beyond forums it will render the whole thing null and void. Checkmate, Wizards!
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    Ken Burnside on how screwed Asmodee is

    I feel like when you've reached a point where getting bought out by Saudi investors is your best case scenario you've made some very serious mistakes at some point down the line.
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    Are you ready for some Football (Americano)!

    McCarthy is "injured", of course
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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

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