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Wayne's Books
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Wayne's Books
@Waynes_Books
Seller, cataloger, gamer, and collector of old school RPGs. Buy/sell/trade.
Arizona, USA Katılım Eylül 2012
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Very meandering essay. Spends the whole time taking the piss out of everybody, then describes his preferred playstyle... which is folk D&D w/o the title.
I'm also finding the whole socialist shtick very tedious at this point. Indie creators making a buck in the hobby doesn't make them the equivalent of WotC. Folks making a name for themselves through their creations and ideas is a Good Thing.
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#folkdnd is how we grow the hobby.
That makes it both real and generative.
Joseph McKeever@RuneK2015
Folk D&D is Fake and Gay open.substack.com/pub/runeknight…
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TTRPGs can - and should - go off-script in a way that Diablo can never match. Diablo would be the worst kind of railroad if it were ported directly to the tabletop.
Last night, my Star Wars D6 game (Starfall module), the players were at the finale, facing off against Capt Kolaff. It's assumed by the module - and me! - that the players will seize one or more of the AT-STs and duke it out with Kolaff. Did my players do that? Only inasmuch as they wanted to distract Kolaff while the Minor Jedi scaled his AT-ST, sliced open the hatch, and dropped into the co-pilot's seat with a lit lightsaber at Kolaff's neck.
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The way many people online describe "old-school play" with TTRPGs makes it sound like the most boring nonsense, like a worse implementation of Diablo. If I want dungeon hack-and-slash today, a video game does it better.
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@OldSchoolRPGArt @BlackDragonCan I love that all of Raupp's art for Ruins of Andril has the same character party throughout the dungeon.
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@LawDogStrikes That's crazy. @KevinLamb74 is awesome.
I think I have one whole person blocked. Not even sure where I'd look that up.
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Should large accounts that offer a product be blocking potential customers? Is it a good business practice? Does this lead to future animosity?
Kevin Lamb@KevinLamb74
@LawDogStrikes Somehow I don't think they will, lol.
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@LibertyForAll19 Good read! Different ways of looking at the XP for Gold mechanic.
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POWERS & PERILS: An Old School not-D&D RPG (1983)
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POWERS & PERILS (1983) going to the shop shelves. P&P was Avalon Hill's shot at a Fantasy RPG to rival D&D. Authored by Richard Snider, who was already a name in the game hobby, P&P is unique, and deserves a look. See the deep-dive at my photoblog; link in the comments.
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@LawDogStrikes I was honest. WotC was selling a lot of books in the early years of D&D5e, which also indirectly charged up the indie scene and the OSR. Now they've damaged the brand, interest in D&D is fading, because WotC can't stop stepping on rakes.
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@SandyofCthulhu I always thought the LEAST interesting thing about the Elric Saga is Elric. Mopey, utterly-selfish goth kid given way too much power. I kept reading the series for the supporting characters and world-building (at least until Moorcock got bored and burned it all down).
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Elric of Melnibone. And he managed to go through his villain arc and become a hero again.
I thought one of the best analyses in the Deities & Demigods was when Jim Ward (or possibly Robert Kuntz) defined Elric, the hero of a dozen or more books, as "Chaotic Evil" and went on to explain why Elric could still be a hero. He did a bang-up job. I wonder how many people had a light bulb moment about alignment because of that.
Community Notes & Violations@CNviolations
This should be fun.
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@Nerdcognito Any interest I once had in WWII themes has been completely burned out of me. Ready for something else, anything else.
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Fresh Wolfenstein TTRPG announcement from Modiphius.
Brutal alternate history in 2d20 system.
Classic Gaming could hack this for interesting campaigns.
Would you run a Wolfenstein style game?
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The Leonard Heid ARDUIN Collection
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The Leonard Heid ARDUIN Collection (Dave Hargrave inscriptions) + Misty Isles. Up for auction now. A whole lotta old school Arduin history. Link in the comments to my photoblog post. Ebay link in my post - many more pictures there and I'm not allowed to tell Ebay buyers about it.
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@DungeonNoir A little deep-dive I did, comparing the Paladin in Hell module cover to the original DCS art in the PHB.
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TSR in 1989: "No more demonic imagery on book covers."
Also TSR in 1989:
Kevin Lamb@KevinLamb74
TSR in 1989: "No more demonic imagery on book covers." Also TSR in 1989:
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A versatile universal mechanic goes a long way toward that goal.
Folks love to bag on 5e, as do I. But they were some of the snappiest games I've ever played.
The D20 vs DC mechanic, combined with advantage/disadvantage meant my rulings were predictable and quick.
So intuitive that my players would sometimes suggest the adds and difficulty, and i would concur.
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Lots of rules in a game make my head hurt sometimes. Much rather just go with the flow or "wing it" than hunt for wordy rules.
What does this say about me? What does it mean?
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RAVENLOFT Van Richten's Guide series (1990s) going to the shop shelves
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@hill_jowett If anybody ever rolled an 18 on 3d6 at any time, we stopped what we were doing and finished rolling up a new character. heh
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I find the word "no" or "did I ask for a roll?" works wonders, followed by the stare!
If something cannot be done (it's impossible) or cannot be failed (you are skilled and the task is trivial) then I don't ask for a roll, I simply describe the result to the player.
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
As a gamemaster, my eyes roll so hard when a player rolls that Nat 20 (or in a 1d100 system, an 01-05) when it's not needed, and then thinks, "Well I'll hang onto it until my next roll is called for." What. The. Heck. I've actually watched players roll their dice again and again, as if it was a nervous tic. Then when a good roll came up on the dice, they "saved" it. That's not how it works, pal, though I understand the temptation. My solution is I say, "Well, roll just once more - then you can save THAT roll instead, because it's announced." Also - hard never-broken rule. If your die rolls off the table, it must ALWAYS be rerolled. You NEVER get to count a die that landed on the floor, your lap, or elsewhere. This has two good results: 1) everyone gets to see the die roll. Not that I don't trust you. 2) now people don't like seeing their dice roll off the table.
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@Blackmoor_Film Being a nerd back in the 80s was not great at school. I remember hiding my Dragon magazines inside other mags.
The guys would rag on me briefly, but it was the girls who were relentlessly cruel.
It wasn't even close.
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I have come out of the closet with my gaming habit.
When I was younger, part of being a D&D player and war gamer, also involved being embarrassed to admit publicly that you were a total nerd.
There was a stage where I maintained a very stealth approach to my gaming habit.
Being mocked for your D&D was actually very common in the late 70's and early 80's.
My name is Griff.
I am a game addict.
😅😂🤣
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
When I walked around campus in the 70s with my new AD&D monster manual, I slid it into a newspaper because I was so embarrassed at the amateurish and garish cover art.
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@bob_antonuccio Hello. They vary a bit. Link in the comments to my sales site will answer your question. best, -W
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AD&D metal miniatures (1983-4) going to the shop shelves. Link in the comments; new arrivals can always be found on the home page.
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