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    Minneapolis. Sunday Night 5 PM to whenever. Dungeon Crawl Classics. You know you want to be here.

    Sign up here and I'll get you the contact info. We've been playing D&D, DCC, WWN/SWN since 2019, but I'd like to add more players to our group, as not all of us can come every Sunday and my style favors an "open table". https://www.rpgtablefinder.com/table/5462
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    OSR Subcreation and the Invention of the Monster Manual

    Today I learned... That Jorge Luis Borges wrote a Monster Manual 15 years before D&D came out. The Book of Imaginary Beings Should I be surprised that the mind that wrote Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius created a pre-RPG monster manual? Probably not. And if you haven't read the aforementioned story...
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    D&D General Anybody know what ever became of Rick Swan?

    ENWorld has long been frequented by many legends of D&D's early days, and most recently we've been enjoying Jim Ward and Ed Greenwood's reminiscences, among others. In that light, I was just wondering today... what ever happened to Rick Swan? Back in my early D&D player days in the mid to late...
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    Starting a new Midgard campaign in Minneapolis - First Game on 8/25/19

    So, a friend of mine and I decided to kick off a new D&D campaign. I've been wanting to run a game of 5th edition since it came out, but haven't had the chance- I regularly DMed 2nd and 3rd edition for nine years (along with the various Star Wars RPGs, and Earthdawn and Alternity as well), but...
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    Treasure Generators for 5E

    Howdy! Been along time since I've been a regular around these parts... I mostly stopped playing D&D around 2006, and didn't care much for what I saw of 4th edition... not that I had time, between building a career (and changing direction about three times), pursuing an advanced degree, changing...
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    DMs: What are your character pet peeves?

    The subject says it all... as a DM, what kind of characters can't you stand. I'm not talking about distinct classes (though we all have a few we don't know what to do with- Monks, for me), but tropes that really drive you crazy. For me, it has to be the "mysterious wanderer from a far-away...
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    Choosing the best system for a homebrew space opera campaign

    Hey, I've been thinking of starting a homebrew space-opera campaign, inspired by a mix of many influences, but primarily: -the old Starflight computer games -"A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge -The Golden Age Trilogy by John C. Wright -"Ventus" by Karl Schroeder -the Race for the Galaxy...
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    Running a Multicultural, Multilingual Roleplaying Group

    So, a few months ago I thought it unlikely I'd ever play or DM again. I'd sold my books years ago; I hadn't played since I graduated from college in 2005. While I lived in the states I continued to pick up Dungeon (RIP :( ) from time to time, and browse ENworld now and then, but, like many, I...
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    Starting new group in Shanghai- anyone interested?

    I'm starting a new D&D 3.5 group in Shanghai; we plan to play on Sunday nights, from 7:30-8:00 to midnight. We'll probably be playing at a place in Xujiahui or north Minhang (over by the Nanfang mall); the game will be conducted in English, but non-native speakers who think they can keep up are...
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    I'm sick of saving the world. Let's conquer it.

    The title says it all. I'm tired of "heroic" adventures and adventurers. No more paladins, no more rogues with a heart of gold, no more kindly old wizards. I want to play Darth Vader. I want to play Hannibal Lecter. I want to consort with fiends and slay angels. I want to desecrate...
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    George Clooney to do "The Diamond Age"

    http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39447 Oh yeah. Oh mother******* yeah. Finally, we'll get at least a TV treatment of Stephenson. While I still think Snow Crash is his most cinematic work, and Cryptonomicon would make a fantastic miniseries, I won't complain about...
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    Seeking Gamers in Portland!

    Howdy! I just moved to Portland, OR (from Albuquerque, NM) and I'm looking for either a group or gamers interested in forming a group. I prefer to DM, not play, and I've wanted to run one of the adventure paths (Shackled City, Age or Worms or Savage Tide) refit for my home setting- if anyone...
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    How in the heck do I get this party together?

    Hello again... my, it's been a long time since I started a thread on here... Anyway, I've just decided to start a new Forgotten Realms campaign, set in the Eastern portion of the realms (those areas covered by the Unapproachable East sourcebook- Aglarond, Thay, Thesk, Rasheman, The Great Dale...
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    Rules for Ruling Domains: Which is the best set?

    Okay, I'm running a campaign where rulership could become an issue (as well as mass/army combat). I've already picked out my mass combat rules (Cry Havoc!), but I'm having a tough time deciding on what system to use for rulership of domains. Now, I have three systems at my immediate disposal...
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    Gestalt Characters and Normal Characters in the same game...

    I'm thinking of allowing gestalt characters as an option in my campaign. Originally I was thinking of applying a 40% XP penalty to any gestalt character, which would make it roughly equivalent to 1e and 2e Multiclassing, as far as balance is concerned. However, I see one problem with this-...
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    Intelligence and NPC Tactics

    All experienced DM's have run into this problem before- how does intelligence (and, to some extent, wisdom and alignment) effect the tactics that an NPC uses in combat? In general, I use the following assumptions: Int -: Typically undead and constructs, they fight until they're burger, bone...
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    Enter the Meatrix!

    This is pretty cute... http://www.gristmagazine.com/soapbox/meatrix110503.asp Who knew that the Matrix was all about animal rights? :)
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    Introducing a girlfriend to gaming...

    I haven't done any roleplaying in several months- my last group couldn't find a convenient time to game through the summer, and our Midnight campaign fell apart. Recently, however, the other DM in our group, after a 2 year campaign, has decided she's going to "hang it up" in a few weeks and...
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    Alignments, Cycles, and the Anger of Angels

    Recently I was reading a text about Tibetan Buddhism, in which the author (Robert Thurman) advanced a controversial theory about the conquest of Tibet- that Mao Zedong was an incarnation of Vajrapani, the Thunderbolt-Wielding Bodhisattva (think "angel of death") who tried to destroy Tibet in...
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    The Wachowskis Next Project???

    http://www.fantasynews.co.uk/wachowski-project.html Hmm... it sounds... a lot like The Matrix !!! Seriously, it sounds like fun, and it's just a rumor at this point... watch for more...
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