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KorvinStarmast

00:20

Apparently, Mr Rogers liked D&D

BESW

00:53

@BardicWizard I haven't been able to find any active invite links, just references to it.

@AncientSwordRage If you're totally burned out on urban fantasy, then any urban fantasy is going to be too much. But one thing that attracted me to PC Grant (and to Obsidian and Blood before it) is how much it's not "just another" urban fantasy. It's a police procedural, a story about what it means to be part of --and not part of-- particular landscapes, a love letter to the magic of the mundane unseen, and a gentle rebuttal to the naive detachment of "grim" urban fantasies.

PC Grant stands in particular contrast to Harry Dresden when it comes to what "urban" means in the phrase "urban fantasy."

I totally get going "oh no another urban fantasy series." I recommend Rivers of London in part because I've felt that way so often.

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Hot RPG Questions

02:05

Q: Is there any option that allows sneak attack against someone your allies are flanking?

Sneak attack requires that either your foe has lost their Dexterity bonus to AC, or that you personally are flanking that target. A foe flanked by your allies, but not by you personally, isn’t subject to sneak attack. Is there any feat, class feature, etc. etc. out there that changes this? Could ...

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Bardic Wizard

05:49

@BESW there’s an invite link here but it goes to an old server. However there’s a link in the general channel of that server for the new one

That’s how I got there

Hot RPG Questions

Q: Herbalism Kit: Identify Poison (Potion?) - XGE Typo?

In Xanathar's Guide to Everything near the bottom of the first column on page 82 is a table for Herbalism Kit Activities. One of the Activities is "Identify poison", but I suspect it may be a typo, and that the Activity was intended to be "Identify potion". Please forgive any oversight on my beha...

dnd-5e equipment poison

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AncientSwordRage

07:24

@BESW I'm not at all burnt out, what you're describing is what attracted me to the series in the first place

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BESW

08:30

@BardicWizard [covert mission sotto voce] I'm in!

trogdor

08:50

lol

AncientSwordRage

@BESW Thinking about this just now, it's more likely I'll have taken some familiar things for granted than anything else

@KorvinStarmast I don't see an actual reference in the text to D&D

and it looks like Mr Rogers felt like Video Games were Bad For Kids™

SmokeDetector

09:18

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AncientSwordRage

09:45

@doppelgreener I'm still a little unclear on your comment on the Spell Shroud question

> We're dealing with the context of a game where past editions, e.g. D&D 3.5e, did exactly this thing.

by game we mean "A set of editions" not "An instance of that system being played", right?

AncientSwordRage

10:13

I didn't realize it didn't carry over from D&D 3.5. Thanks for the info folks! :) — Vrastyr 9 mins ago

that clears up a lot

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Thomas Markov

11:58

This question seems to fit pretty plainly into our definition of a "campaign research" question, and wanted to make sure I'm on the right track there.

Also seems like it might fit right into worldbuilding.se

KorvinStarmast

12:18

@AncientSwordRage And he was correct about that. You might want to consider the context of when he was presenting that (1985) and his advocacy for Role Playing Games in person (TTRPG) of which D&D was the largest known game outside of the hobby. He even mentions exploring dungeons (as well as space games, so you could think of Traveler or Star Frontiers) but he was also careful not to endorse a certain product: just a game playing form.

I lived through that period; "D&D is about devil worshippers" stuff was still alive and well. Roger not taking that line was noteworthy. Unlike the modern literalist manner of communicating, being even slightly able to read between the lines and pick up on contextual clues was a common skill then. I guess that skill has been lost.

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast I'm not going to start arguing whether video games actually are or aren't good for people

But I got what he said about 'make believe outside' but that's not D&D, thats running around with your friends; more in line with larp than a TTRPG

He makes no mention of dice or miniatures either

Reading between the lines and picking up contextual clues can be very prone to personal biases

@ThomasMarkov yeah it doesn't belong here

I wish it had been closed before the answers came in :(

@KorvinStarmast especially the line "They don't have to buy anything or spend any money to make the games work" make me feel he definitely wasn't talking about D&D, at least in terms of how it was played then, right?

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Thomas Markov

15:16

This answer needs a (possibly huge) revision for the release of Monsters of the Multiverse, with some races and sourcebooks being obsoleted. I'll think about how best to do it and push an edit through sometime this week. — Thomas Markov May 16 at 20:00

Narrator: He didn't.

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doppelgreener

17:33

@AncientSwordRage sorry for the confusion there. Brain did not words well yesterday.

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KorvinStarmast

18:41

@AncientSwordRage and a thing called experience. He was talking more generally than about a single product, to be sure, but the mention of dungeons is where you need to grasp the context of the time in which that book was published. If you lack those cues due to your lack of experience that doesn't mean they don't exist.

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AncientSwordRage

20:30

@doppelgreener no worries, happens to the best of us ☺️

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