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Well now that just makes it seem like I bought a very expensive bowl of fries... Auckland prices do tend to be a bit on the high side, I guess even the special deals reflect this.

I think the lack of downtime means people don't really think about it, I feel like many adventures instead have a story arc and you follow that, finish it, then start the next campaign.

There's a place in Auckland called Mr Murdoch's that does a beer of the week for $6. It can be a bit hit or miss since sometimes you'll get a fortune favours but the next week you get lion red. I know of a couple other places here in Auckland that do a happy hour, but normally it's just a...

I haven't used a DM's screen in ages, and didn't even know about them until I started playing 2e and bought some box sets that came with them. Each setting had a unique DM screen which was pretty neat. I likely mostly used them for saving throws, I can't recall what else was on them.

Not an RPG, but apparently, everyone plays UNO wrong and you don't collect the "go to jail" money when you land on free parking in monopoly. I think with RPGs, the original theme is going to quickly melt away once players understand the mechanics and realise what else can be done with the...

I get that most of the time people already add in permanent modifiers, I definitely did, but there will often be other modifiers due to spells or circumstance (if they're remembered). I guess since this thread is for 1e that most people back then would have played with a chart, it was before my...

I don't care if some/all of the art is AI, but if there is some RPG book which has a collection tables or ideas that are all AI generated then I'm less likely to buy it and instead go and generate my own info using chatgpt. There was apparently some amount of AI art used in the loading screens...

Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, I pulled the description from Howard's story, Red Nails, and then entered it into chatGPT. I tweaked the description because the initial image she looked too heavily muscled and probably could have knocked Conan on his arse with a single blow. ChatGPT really hates...

I don't even think it is an addition vs subtraction thing, it's more that with addition, you roll and add modifiers and that's the AC you hit. With subtraction you roll, add modifiers, then subtract that from your thac0. Even if you have a table to look it up, that's still another step. I do...

A good classic fish and chip shop is always good value for money and generally decent food too. I live in Auckland cbd so I have to go a bit further afield to get something resembling a smalltown fish and chip store.

When I was playing 5e, I tended to use dndbeyond for the functionality of easily being able to look up a spell description. For a lot of other versions of DnD though, I just use a google document with all the details, and paper to track my hit points.

And that's the thing, NZ is probably a bit more like Canada than the UK. I'm not saying that the UK got nothing, of course you received a lot but due to the UK's own well established media productions (compared to NZ) there were probably far less gaps to fill in in your TV programming so the...

Sure, it's everywhere, but I think we just received so much more of it since our own media productuon wasn't all that well developed so we ended up with all sorts of shows that might not have been given a shot in the UK. You guys are so much more established in making movies and shows that you...

Fabula Ultima has bonds though they aren't necessarily bromance bonds as they can be a bond of hatred to an NPC because they did something in your past. Some class abilities key off having a bond with someone and they can also help you when trying to do something, like trying to run down your...

I think living in NZ we are in a somewhat unique position, because we receive so much media from both UK and USA, it meant that we came across various European folklore and mythology but also American. I think I learned about Paul Bunyan as a kid, and a bunch of other mythological characters...

I remember growing up mum had kid's books on norse mythology, might have been some greek ones as well. I remember reading kid's books on Maori myths as well. No idea when I learnt about Greek and Egyptian myths. Some other cultures I probably have a bunch of wrong stories stuck in my head thanks...

If I can place my rolls wherever then I'll just make someone that can't talk his way out of a paper bag. If it's in order then that's potentially a deadly scenario, since if it ends up in constitution then I'm likely to have a short career, a 3 dexterity won't help much on the survival side of...

I haven't backed much; only 11 with one that failed to reach the pledge target. Most of what I have backed, I was fairly certain it would be fulfilled when I backed them. I did have one where I backed digital only and I wasn't really too worried if was fulfilled, I threw whatever 22 euro works...

One of my favourite Christmas movies is Klaus on Netflix, I'd be watching it again if I still had access. It's quite a touching movie with some real heartfelt moments, some of which made me a bit tearful. For Christmas fun, the Christmas Chronicles were great, thouroughly enjoyed them. I...