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in Session 0 February 2016 edited February 2016

I can't give enough of a glowing recommendation to the value of running a Session 0 with your players. * It encourages your players to create pre-existing bonds between their characters, giving them reasons to already want to work together. * It…
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in Cognitive Association February 2016 edited February 2016

!http://images.vcpost.com/data/images/full/52934/mad-max-fury.jpg?w=590!
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in The "Review my Campaign" thread February 2016

@Keryth987 I can't believe I never noticed that. "Fixed.":https://ptolus-city-by-the-spire-by-bryan.obsidianportal.com/
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in Remove Default OP Banner February 2016

As an aside, I've found "Photobucket":http://smg.photobucket.com/ to be a fine (and free!) site for hosting my images. I have over a thousand images currently on there, and have only used 7% of my allotted space.
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in The "Review my Campaign" thread February 2016

I'm going to ask for some constructive criticism on "my campaign.":https://ptolus-city-by-the-spire-by-bryan.obsidianportal.com/ I've doubled the size of the site in the last few months (well over 500 pages with many more still to come), and I added…
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in Favorite / Most-hated Creatures and Foes February 2016

@Lxcharon If I remember correctly, the entire Slayer's Guide series was written for the d20 system. But the non-game-mechanics fluff is the part that stayed with me. Recurring villains are a staple of a good campaign, in my opinion. The most sati…
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in Abandonware for Fighting Fantasy-type gamebooks February 2016

Careful Andrew, or you'll get the Incarnation of Death knocking at your door. (I do think _Incarnations of Immortality_ was Anthony's finest work.) Nik, I've still got a few of my old paperback CYOA books. They're on his bookshelf, but he hasn't …
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in Abandonware for Fighting Fantasy-type gamebooks February 2016

Not to pick nits, but the "Blue Adept":http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Adept-The-Apprentice-Book/dp/0345352459 wasn't in Incarnations of Immortality. ;-) I _loved_ the Choose-Your-Own-Adventures books as a kid. I tried introducing them to my son a few…
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in Favorite / Most-hated Creatures and Foes February 2016

I also like using goblins and gnolls. 1. I built a pretty sizeable goblin nation in my old homebrew game. They were enough of a problem for the nearby human kingdom that a bounty was placed on goblin ears. The elite (barbarian) goblin warriors c…
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in Cognitive Association February 2016

!http://i.imgur.com/IDqfvOW.png!
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in Tucker's Kobolds February 2016

The players haven't discovered its existence yet, but the Delver's Guild has a name for the kobold-inhabited region of the Dungeon. They call it the FUG (short for *_the F. U. Gauntlet_*). :-D
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in Your Proudest Moment February 2016

Out. Freakin'. Standing. Last year I played in a Star Wars one-shot at Gamicon in Iowa City. We managed to unintentionally stumble our way into the hidden Imperial base where the Death Star was under construction. After a lot of sneaking, we mana…
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in Tucker's Kobolds February 2016 edited February 2016

Tucker's Kobolds must have been related to the "Dragon Mountain Kobolds":https://rpggeek.com/thread/675732/dreadful-meatgrinder-or-simply-ahead-its-time! I own that meatgrinder of a boxed adventure set, though I never got to run it (which was probab…
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in Hi, new to Obsidian February 2016

Welcome! :-)
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in Obsidian Portal Badge Renewal Initiative February 2016

"I’ll even throw in a Valyrian steel sword, one that has lopped off the head of a Hand of the King!" So... It cuts off royal thumbs?? ;-)
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in Your Proudest Moment February 2016

Many years ago, one of my fellow players loved playing halfling thieves (2E D&D days), and was fortunate enough to get his grubby lil' hands on a _ring of wishes_ (one wish remaining). He used that wish to gain invulnerability to nonmagical weap…
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in Your Proudest Moment February 2016

Thanks twigs! Reading through everyone else's stories was enjoyable, but I gotta say I wish I could be a player at Bortas' table. Those stories are _awesome!_
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in Featured Campaign of the Month February 2016

Congratulations Abersade!
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in Your Proudest Moment February 2016

One of my all-time favorite gaming moments was about eight years ago, during a 3.5E game, homebrew setting. I had a crew of new players, and I was reusing the old Dragonlance Xak Tsaroth (sunken city ruins in a swamp) map for a goblin city. The PCs …
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in Wiki navigation bar creation - formatting question January 2016

Dude, absolutely no worries about that. It's a great tool, and really well done. I wouldn't be concerned about it either, but almost all of my players can access our OP campaign site on their phones while at the gaming table. I want it to be at l…
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in Wiki navigation bar creation - formatting question January 2016

Got it. I just had to remove a few unneeded (for me) commands.
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in Wiki navigation bar creation - formatting question January 2016

I'm using Chrome on Android. I can check it on my wife's iPhone later tonight. Here's what I see: !http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/UselessTriviaMan/Screenshot_zps8eqh7guc.png!
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in Wiki navigation bar creation - formatting question January 2016

Excellent. I knew it would be something simple, but didn't know the syntax for the @text-align: center@ Thanks, Basileus! (It still doesn't completely work on my mobile device, but all buttons are at least visible and selectable. I'll take it…
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in Designing Music January 2016

I do some of my best game prep work while listening to my Alestorm channel on Pandora. Pirate-shanty speed metal for the win. But I too have a very eclectic collection of music - Metallica, Billy Joel, Chris LeDoux, Neil Diamond, Flogging Moll…
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in Nominate COTM Here! January 2016

Dude, thank you for the nomination. That really, genuinely means a lot to me.
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in New to Obsidian and new to D&D January 2016

I can't make a comparison, unfortunately. I still haven't tried FATE, though I've heard about its pros and cons.
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in New to Obsidian and new to D&D January 2016

You're looking at a _major_ overhaul of the D&D system rules. I don't want to discourage you - at all - from creating your world, but you're making a lot of unnecessary extra work for yourself. If I were creating a new sci-fi world, I'd do it…
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in New to Obsidian and new to D&D January 2016

Howdy facialfail, and welcome. :-) I agree with the guys above who beat me to the punch. D&D and Pathfinder are good at what they do, but they're designed to be fantasy. If you want a sci-fi game, there are LOADS of options out there that don…
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in Obsidian Portal Launch Feedback January 2016

Welcome, Aaron. :-) All I really ask is that you follow Andrew's example. Be present. Communicate with us. Let us know that we matter. (For the record, I'm not criticizing Andrew's predecessors at all. But he has provided something that this c…
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in Obsidian Portal - site update (Jan 2016) January 2016

And I for one welcome our Ant Overlords... ...Wait, what?

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