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| bio | website | geek-related.com |
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| location | Austin, TX | |
| age | 41 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | 15 mins ago | |
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I’m a thirtysomething dad and IT professional living in the Austin, TX area. I started gaming way back in the day, 1982, with the TSR space opera game Star Frontiers. Since then I've been an avid roleplayer. I went to 5 Gen Cons, was a regional Triad for the RPGA's Living Greyhawk campaign, helped start a gaming club (the FORGE) in Memphis, TN, et cetera.
I GM and play a variety of RPGs; currently Pathfinder is in heavy rotation as well as various non-D&D-based games.
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Apr 18 |
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How do I quicken / sum up larger (but not army-scale) d20/DnD3.x combat? added 467 characters in body |
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Apr 18 |
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Pathfinder: 2 Talon Attack or 2 Attacks? added 7 characters in body |
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Apr 18 |
answered | How do I quicken / sum up larger (but not army-scale) d20/DnD3.x combat? |
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Apr 17 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 16 |
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What are some proven methods of generating attachment to locations/objects in a campaign? A big warning about this. If it's clear that the only reason the PCs get anything valuable is to threaten it, they'll stop. And if you threaten stuff they don't care enough about, they'll both not care and be disincentivized from caring in the future. Threatening it can be fun on occasion with stuff they're attached to, but mentioning it in the context of "how do I get people to attach" is dangerous and faulty. |
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Apr 16 |
answered | What are some proven methods of generating attachment to locations/objects in a campaign? |
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Apr 15 |
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What ways are there to anger the PC's without angering the players? edited tags |
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Apr 14 |
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Pathfinder: 2 Talon Attack or 2 Attacks? added 165 characters in body |
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Apr 13 |
answered | Pathfinder: 2 Talon Attack or 2 Attacks? |
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Apr 12 |
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Systems with a dice mechanic that handles very easy and very difficult tasks Right, not intended to apply to the comments above. An answer and associated comments were deleted that focused on how the OP's goal is bad. A polite comment noting alternative approaches (consider not doing sim resolution at all, consider removing dice rolling in the interest of time) would be fine, of course. |
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Apr 12 |
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Do role-playing games have to be fun? Question reopened. Please use real world examples in your answers, this won't be useful if the responses are just a long forum thread like list of everyone's random opinions on this topic. |
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Apr 12 |
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Do role-playing games have to be fun? grammar edit |
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Apr 12 |
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Systems with a dice mechanic that handles very easy and very difficult tasks Luckily all the argumentative responses were largely confined to one answer and its comments, which is gone now. You each get one polite "I don't think this is a valuable goal" comment up here on the Q if you want, but more than that is argumentative, off topic, and unhelpful. |
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Apr 11 |
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How can I expand the visceral gore as tell-tale scenery theme beyond dungeons? added 55 characters in body |
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Apr 10 |
answered | How can I expand the visceral gore as tell-tale scenery theme beyond dungeons? |
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Apr 10 |
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Game of Thrones d20 Cooperative? Amber Diceless Roleplay did this first and most famously back in the day. |
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Apr 9 |
answered | Can (ocean-going) sailing ships navigate The River |
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Apr 9 |
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Any mechanics out there for developing and maintaining a spy/information network? removed 4e tag so other people will care about the question |
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Apr 8 |
accepted | Can D&D Fourth Edition be played effectively in a non-gamist manner? |
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Apr 8 |
answered | Techniques for allowing character defeat without character death |
