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  Gibt's jemand der "Retro" Midgard spielt da draußen? Ich versuche mich zwischen M2 und M3 zu entscheiden. Ich glaube M3 hat ein oder zwei Klassen mehr und die Regeln sind ein wenig einfacher als M2? Und M3 hat wohl eine andere Weltbeschreibung. Aber sonst ist beides mehr oder weniger "Midgard wie es sein sollte" für Retro Kram? Stimmt das so ungefähr? #midgard2 #midgard3 #retro

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  You're thirsty. It's hot. You drink ...

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  Sad but true, #BasementDelving is no more. Well, at least not in Ye Olde Basement at my parents house. 😭 Yes yes, of course I have my own basement now. But somehow I doubt that there will be #ttrpg surprises waiting for me there. 🤣

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  Hi there! I'd like to buy your stuff, but I want to pay less and I want you to use a service you did not list as a shipping option. Just need your Paypal ID! Regards, Some Moron #KleinanzeigenBlues

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  Certainly feels like I missed out on something BIG just because I grew up in the wrong country... 🤣

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  It's mashed potatoes and cauliflower with a light Bolognese and no I won't answer questions about it. 😇

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  Let's settle this conundrum once and for all: Since Shadowrun has no halflings, what do dragons eat for snacks between meals?

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  I guess the world today is ripe (aka dumb enough) for another one of these. So be careful what you post to #ttrpg sites and forums, you may get their poor operators in trouble! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games%2C_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service

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  I can't keep all my D&D versions straight anymore. So B/X uses STR for to-hit and damage bonus with melee weapons and DEX for to-hit bonus with missile weapons. Right? Which version is adding the DEX bonus to damage for missile weapons? Was there a version that added DEX to damage for bows and slings but STR to damage for daggers and axes to distinguish thrown and projectile weapons? Anyone? Seems to me that using STR and DEX in a "cross-over" way like that...

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  Someone take a seat at the #Barrowmaze table! This Thursday, May 28, at 8:15 pm CEST! Check out https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%c3%bcrich/The_Monday_Games for more deets and join us on our #IRC or, if you must, Discord. But the game uses #Galene which is a super-simple video conferencing thing that seems to work for most people. NO DICE CAM NEEDED! Although I might bring one so you will believe me when the masses of undead devour you!!! 💀 ☠️ 🥷 🪦 🏊 🧛 🩸 🧟 🐲

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  You may not want to hear this, but I'll say it again anyway: The primary motivation for AD&D was that Gary Gygax thought Dave Arneson deserved no more money for the game he invented. A game that, admittedly, Gary Gygax much improved; so much so that he's quite deservedly thought of as a co-creator of D&D. Note that it doesn't matter (much) that both of these people were different variants of "endearing assholes" to use a technical term....

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  Pretty insane #Barrowmaze tonight. At one point the party sights another group about 50 feet down a large corridor and decides to wait. They see light from around another corner that seems to indicate fire beetles, but they wait. Then they notice a large group of tomb robbers approaching them from behind. The party with their lights dimmed withdraws further to let them pass. The tomb robbers eventually encounter the other two parties who have already been "debating" loudly and...

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  Sometimes I need "quick" reminders on the Wilderlands without having to wade through a lot of (physical) pages. I usually end up in these places: https://pandius.com/wilder_r.html https://inplacesdeep.blogspot.com/2013/12/notes-on-wilderlands-of-swords-and.html https://inplacesdeep.blogspot.com/2018/10/wilderlands-history-corrected-now-with.html https://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?cache=1&f=13&t=16414 None of these are "canonical" a...

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  And now "Threshold Magazine" published by the once-famous "Vaults of Pandius" can fuck right off. #noai

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  I'm looking forward to our next STAR FRONTIERS session so I figured I should broadcast my excitement with a suitable image. Here you go! 🤣

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  Went back down into the Mushroom Forest Cavern in Arden Vul tonight. And Bur leveled up! Thanks @HeyeBodo ... also for not killing us outright. 😬 https://grenzland.club/~phf/bur.html #ArdenVul #Shadowdark #Valravn

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  There's reasons. 🤷

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  It's funny that ALIENS is probably my favorite movie of the franchise (the crazy David Fincher one is next) but a contemporary review in Different Worlds magazine from Nov/Dec 1986 says "...it will excite a great number of people for a few months. But in the end it will be forgotten—completely." 🤣 #Aliens #DifferentWorlds #NineteenEightySix

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  "Three classes should be enough for everyone!" #StoneTabletsOfWisdom

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  You know what? Forget "extraordinary" strength with percentiles and all that. Too fiddly! And I'm getting all sorts of inspired by the Palladium people these days so ... Yeah, I know! 🤷 Here's the deal. If you roll an 18 on 3d6 for a prime requisite, you deserve a chance for a little something extra. Just a ... you know ... a little something something. 😬 So roll a d6: 1-3: nothing happens after all, sorry, but 18 is still a great score; 4-5: your score is act...

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  Alright fellas, how about some nice fresh character sheets for our three Dralasite private sense-spots? 🤣 @frotz @kensanata @lkh #StarFrontiers #DralasitePower

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  I have a nice copy of Gary Gygax's "GW1: Legion of Gold" coming my way. I am paying about €30 for it as part of a larger package but I don't need it since I already have a copy. If you're in Germany (or at least close to Germany) and interested, feel free to send a private message and I am happy to "pass it on" for what I paid plus shipping. Please boost if you think you might know somebody who is into old Gamma World stuff. https://...

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  Today I saw a weird experience points table for bards in an old Judges Guild thing. And it dawned on me that I had missed something very, very basic: Gary's bard in the PHB was not the first bard. Of course not!! And here's a nice "rework" of the original bard class for Swords and Wizardry that I found a bit later on: https://garysentus.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-original-bard-class-adapted-for.html

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  I get bummed out when I see "AI" character portraits. I immediately have a "meh" opinion of the player. First impressions dude. If you can't draw, there's still a lot of other options, for example @kensanata's face generator: https://campaignwiki.org/face No need to reach for the humongous planet-destroying copyright-robbing machinery just for a silly little game. #noai

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  Spent the afternoon shouting at people (well, not really) about the B/X and BECMI combat sequences. Only to learn that they *are* actually different despite looking like the exact same lists. 😱 #bx #becmi #dnd

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  Whoa, I'ma ride the Pink Pony Express next week, and straight into Arden Vul with #Shadowdark rules. 😬 Thank you @HeyeBodo ❤️ #valravn

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  Just learned about these two (UK-only?) miniature sets. Loving the cover! One can almost see that Games Workshop was on the cusp of releasing Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, no? 😉 (Picture stolen from some Japanese site, sorry!) #citadel #miniatures #RetroDnD #UKDnD