Chuck Out
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Chuck Out

Why not throw away 50% of your RPG collection?

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A Competent Town Guard

There is tension here. If a town exists, it’s pretty good at taking care of itself, but invariably, to make the story epic, defenses have to be rendered sufficiently helpless or corrupt as to make the heroes existence a necessity. That’s the whole point.

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The Story of the First Role Playing Game (sort of)
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The Story of the First Role Playing Game (sort of)

From Ben Robbins:

No, Major Wesely wasn’t a Major back then. And no he wasn’t called a GM or a DM, because Game Masters or Dungeon Masters didn’t exist yet.
But a GM is exactly what he was — the very first GM
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The Blessing of Bad Ability Scores

Everyone wants a myrmidon, and not Jim GarbageWater the outcast elf who is weak, blind, and cannot walk over a mile without a 15 minute break to catch his breath.

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