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  • In my personal experience that's much more difficult

  • Uhhhh
  • If this happens, the RPG is too complex for that player. Play a simpler system.

  • DMs, what obscure lore have your players not discovered?
  • I ran a game of "Index Card RPG" with the setting "Blood & Snow". The setting includes an adventure seed where Cavemen have to search for ancient relic pillars every generation to stop an Ice Age. I never told my players, but in my mind we were playing a Warhammer 40k game and this was a world a space marine chapter used to recruit those who were strong enough.

  • Combat vs RP
  • B/X is good. When characters have d6 hp and it's instant death at 0 the combat becomes way more serious and tense.

  • OSR @ttrpg.network Adrius @ttrpg.network
    Favourite lvl 1 adventures

    What is your favourite lvl 1 starting adventure?

    I just ran "Nightmare over Ragged Hollow" by the Merry Mushmen with Moldvay Basic and it was a lot of fun. It's a good starting sandbox with 4 dungeons, a goal and you can easily slap in more content.

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  • Warlock is a rules-light version of warhammer fantasy roleplay. The core dice mechanic is d20+skill. Combat rolls are opposed rolls, sword vs mace skills for example. It uses the career system from wfrp so characters start as something like rat catcher and change careers to advance. If you like the warhammer old world but don't want a crunchy game, I'd recommend it.

  • Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year
  • Great to know thanks! Sad to say but this is much less of a news story. China doesn't care about dual citizenship, this would have been a huge escalation if they hadn't been and it's click-bait that the article title doesn't mention it.

  • Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year
  • I wish they would tell us if the Canadians also had Chinese citizenship since China doesn't recognise dual nationals.

  • Check your public libraries for ebooks as alternative to Amazon Kindle
  • Project Gutenberg and librivox are decent resources for free older books. The author needs to have been dead for 70 years, so they are old but I've enjoyed "The Lost World" and "The hour of the dragon"

  • Guilty As Charged
  • If you're going to die, better to die on the main quest. I avoid side quest distractions.

  • Hello
  • I've got,

    OD&D, BX*, DCC*, OSE*, Black sword hack and Basic Fantasy. I've also got a couple that are OSR in spirit, Cairn* and Warlock*.

    My favs are BX and warlock so far. I'm eager to try out Black Sword Hack for another take on it.

    DCC has amazing art but wasn't my favourite otherwise.

  • Movies on CBC Gem - Recommendations
  • The vvitch was a pretty decent horror movie. Kind of slow and atmospheric.

  • The US may be able to remotely disable F-35 aircraft
  • This is exactly what happens in the Battlestar Galactica reboot with all the fancy newer ships in the first couple episodes.

  • Don't forget that the Proud Boys, aka MAGA's brownshirts, are designated as a terrorist organization in Canada
  • CBC Gem has a documentary about the Proud boys founder. I think it's worth a watch.

  • Canada’s navy sails with US ships as Trump talks annexation - Yves Engler
  • Yves also criticized Canada helping Ukraine against Russia back in 2023. For some reason there's a post about him every other day but he seems like a pretty shitty dude. I'm guessing he has a lemmy account so he can spam about himself.

  • Your Ideal RPG Series or Campaign
  • A west marches style campaign in the 40k setting. My first thoughts for this would be either the players are rogue traders or they're a bunch of hive scum and have different gangs as factions.

  • 5.5 be like
  • The best lore is lore made at the table with the players. The rest is just gm inspiration.

  • Your DnD Party is Too Big [the maths of scheduling]
  • I still play even if 2+ can't make it. It will depend on your group but my group of 6 has 2 very flaky players.

  • Your DnD Party is Too Big [the maths of scheduling]
  • The problem only happens when a group feels they need to delay if someone can't make it. As a GM I have a set day/time and play without the missing players.

  • Drivethru RPG raises Print-on-demand prices starting April 1st
  • It's worse than that. The original announcements said a 75% increase but the math didn't add up. I'd just be aware that soon prices will likely increase.

  • Liquor store in Ontario, Canada today
  • Hopefully they can soon use that empty space for booze from other provinces.

  • Drivethru RPG raises Print-on-demand prices starting April 1st

    Upcoming Print-on-Demand Book Price Changes – Effective April 1, 2025

    We always want to keep print costs as low as possible, and it has been years since we passed any price increases through to our publishing partners.

    However, our print supplier, Lightning Source/Ingram, has announced a price adjustment starting April 1, 2025, that will be reflected on DriveThru sites.

    Key Changes

    • Due to increasing supply costs in the US, Black & White print costs in the US will increase significantly, from around 20% for low-pagecount hardcover titles up to about 50% or slightly more for large hardcover books, and with softcover titles seeing an even greater increase.

    • UK print costs for Black & White books will also increase, but generally only by 3-4%.

    • Standard Color print costs will increase, by roughly 12-13% for US printing but only around 3% for UK printing.

    • On the whole, Premium Color print costs will decrease slightly for US printing but increase slightly for UK printing.

    Example 1: A 180-page large premium hardcover currently costs $32.10 to print in the US; after April 1, that same title will drop to $27.80.

    Example 2: In the UK, the same 180-page book currently costs £20.23, which will increase to £20.93 starting in April.

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    What Stormlight Archive lore do I need for Dawnshard?

    I've read "The Way of Kings" and I really didn't enjoy it. Before I discovered that I didn't like it, I bought Dawnshard while it was on sale. I'm too cheap to not read a book I've bought so I am planning on reading it.

    What lore or spoilers should I know to catch me up from tWoK to DS?

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    Adrius Adrius @ttrpg.network

    Reader of Fantasy books. GM of TTRPGs. User of Open Source Software.

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