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5E and Pathfinder Back to Back
I played D&D 5E for the first time on Saturday, then had another session of an ongoing Pathfinder game (Kingmaker) on Sunday, and I thought I'd share some notes from the combined experience.Like...
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Wading In: Alignment
Such an old argument, but one I see almost every week somewhere on the internet, so I might as well state my piece. Here is my response to what I consider the three most annoying parts of this...
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Wading In: "Realism"
Another old discussion that still seems to come up frequently online - some aspect of a game or the rules for some activity are "unrealistic" in the opinion of someone playing or running a game. Ah...
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Wading In: "Builds"
What was memorable about this guy? Point-Buy games have had "builds" for a long time - Hero, Gurps, etc. With 3rd Edition D&D all of a sudden D&D had "builds" and one of the plagues of the...
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Current Events & Coming Attractions - Pathfinder, D&D, etc.
Felt like summarizing what's going on here game-wise:Just ran the 18th session of the Wrath of the Righteous Pathfinder campaign and having a ton of fun. The Mythic rules add a lot of options that feel...
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Getting into a Well-Supported RPG
Does anyone run games from just the "Core Rules" for a given game anymore? I will say that I have for some games, usually smaller games like ICONS. It seems like that used to be more of a thing, but...
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Fun with Crowdfunding - Four Current Projects
An easy one: I have a fair amount of stuff for the original edition though I've run it all of ... once. Ah well, it's still cool though this one is a little pricey if you want an actual book. It's...
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Spirit of 77 - Game & Kickstarter
I had a post last week about some other RPG Kickstarters but for this one I wanted to showcase it solo.Kickstarter is here.I really like this one. The overall approach from the style of writing to the...
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Grab-Bag - Recent Arrivals
I've had an interesting mix of old stuff (below) and new stuff (mostly Pathfinder and D&D 5E) arriving lately. They've been stacking up though so I'm going to have to pause and spend some time...
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The Old Game Bag
I try to cover the Big Topics here on the blog - I've talked about dice, I've talked about notebooks, I'e talked about binders - clearly all very important topics. Today I thought I'd bid a fond...
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5E: A Review of Hoard of the Dragon Queen
As a DM who runs a fair number of published adventures I knew I would be picking this up and I wanted to write out my thoughts on it as an adventure I might run. I did not read any other reviews of...
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Grab-Bag II: The Follow-Up
I put up a post about some new arrivals last week and since there was some discussion around it I thought I would follow it up this week with the next chapter in the story:I really like the Mekton II...
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Slow Week Due to Star Trekking
It was a little slow last week and it may be a little slow this week as the latest expansion to Star Trek Online comes out today, and there was a lot going on leading up to that. I've been ... ah ......
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Superhero Week
I have some ideas on superhero stuff this week so coming up: a series of posts about superheroes! Also: I might get back to 40K on Friday.
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Why "The Flash" Doesn't Suck
Live-action super hero shows on TV have a mostly bad history. From decades ago through today most of them have been mediocre to terrible. I'm working on another post about that history, but today I...
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Live Action Superheroes and Settling for Less
It's a classic!I put up a post about the new Flash series yesterday and after watching the first couple of episodes I started thinking about the terrible record of live action superheroes on TV and the...
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