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    D&D General The D&D Memes Thread

    I suppose a Donut Hole meme would be NSFENWorld. ;-). Also, I wouldn't want to get kicked out of the Royal Court of Pincess Donut fan club.
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    D&D General You Can Now Get Mike Schley's Official Map of Faerûn

    Sorry, they've been recycled. Moving to another state and downsizing from a house to an apartment, while working full time and dealing with medical issues is enough stress that I'm pretty much taking a Marie-Kondo-during-an-emergency-evacuation approach to de-cluttering and downsizing.
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    D&D General You Can Now Get Mike Schley's Official Map of Faerûn

    For medical reasons, we are selling our house and moving to an apartment, requiring us to aggressively downsize. Most of my physical gaming stuff I gave to another GM, whose kids also play, and I know they'll get a lot of use. I still have the digital files for the maps in case I ever run Curse...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Returns to Universal Studios Hollywood

    Do these events ever go "off Disney" and on the road? Seems like they may not be that practical for traveling shows.
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    Do you use a Discord voice changer for online play?

    I'm wondering if this tech would actually be better at the table during live play? It is so hard to account for the tech of all the players in an online game. For example, I've played around with ambiance music and like it during live, in-person play, but it always feels like a distraction in...
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    D&D General You Can Now Get Mike Schley's Official Map of Faerûn

    Have any of you tried cloth map printing services (e.g. Custom Game Cloth Map RPG Printing Service - Geekify Inc How does the price compare to printing to color on paper and laminating? I'm guessing at the larger sizes, if your local FedEx, etc. won't laminate, cloth maps may be a nice...
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    D&D General You Can Now Get Mike Schley's Official Map of Faerûn

    Well, I have to say that I also benefited from the fact that my dad still had a large supply of ink but wasn't print much or often. So I never had to pay for even ink. I even got a number of free blueprint tubes to store all the maps I printed. I'm downsizing and moving and it was hard to...
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    Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized

    Exactly. I think running away and even attempting to parley was more core to the game then. Morale rules in OD&D were there from the start. Combat was not default annihilation. Failed morale would lead to monsters fleeing or attempting to parley. Morale was even more strongly emphasized in AD&D...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Skaven real-real, yes-yes! (WFRP 4e, The Enemy Within Campaign)
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    D&D General You Can Now Get Mike Schley's Official Map of Faerûn

    I bought the Schley maps for Curse of Strahd. At the time my father was still only semi-retired and still has a large-format printer so I was able to print everything out at scale. It was nice for in-person play and, while I'm nostalgic about minis on beautiful printed maps and using LOTS of...
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    Anything but D&D

    Yep, but it is hard to keep discussions going here on specific game systems. It is almost always more rewarding to go to a forum on Reddit, Discord, etc. that is dedicated to the game. My current main campaign that I've been running for a year now is Warhammer Fantasy. But I play a lot of one...
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    A Veteran Gamer’s Plea: Where’s the Large Print Option for TTRPG Rulebooks?

    Convert the PDF to DOCX ("Word"). Then in Microsoft Word do a search and replace. In search put "^g" (without the quotes) and leave the replace field blank. That should remove the graphics. Apple Pages and the free, open source LibreOffice don't offer the same functionality. If your...
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    A Veteran Gamer’s Plea: Where’s the Large Print Option for TTRPG Rulebooks?

    The DDB app however is an accessibility god send. Not only allowing you to blow up the text, but it is so easy to jump to specific content. It is the gold standard for accessible reading. I've comfortably read whole books on my iPhone. Even I'm my MacBook, I'll use the iOS app from the app...
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    Cheap Eats?

    Yes! Fish Fries are a big thing in Milwaukee and I always look for the ones that do local fish.
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    Games You Rarely See Played "Correctly"

    You can look at this from the perspective of the designers theme/genre expectations or from a following the RAW. As for the former, there are players who will turn any TTRPG game into slap-stick comedy (or a soap opera, etc.), so I find this to be more of a discussion about table expectations...
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