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a duchy is a place ruled by a duck

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Velociraptors are scary but really they aren't that scary because they can't change speed. They always move at exactly the same rate, so they're predictable and you can avoid them. The real one to look out for is the acceleraptor

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it's that time of year when countless people in countless schools and universities start thinking about running a d&d night, and I'm here to tell you: that's the devil talking. listen, I play a lot of games, D&D among them, and I run a LOT of events for college students. what you want is a game with dirt simple mechanics, character creation that can be completed in about a minute or less, and a contingency plan to split your attendees into groups if too many of them show up to reasonably play together. maybe something that doesn't even have dice idk. I'm not being a buzzkill I SWEAR I'm sincerely trying to save you from the horrors of a D&D night where 20 people show up and half of them have level 20 characters packing 16 magic items and a bad case of Main Character Syndrome and the other half are going to need to spend 45 minutes making their first character sheet ever. just play a different game man.

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tbh the current default state of operating systems & internet browsers looks fucking indistinguishable from when i gave the family desktop one billion viruses downloading Free Neopoints Hack in 2005

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centipede god

bonus:

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we need to bring back gamefaqs. i don't wanna join your stupid discord. i don't wanna use your ugly shitty fandom wiki. i don't wanna have to dig through poorly-organzied reddit threads. we want bespoke ascii header art! we want plaintext documents and guides with minimal clutter that are properly indexed and easy to navigate!

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The Squabble

Two little dragons vie for a place to perch. Nothing else to see here.

I love how this piece turned out!

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I love it when American game developers use Commonwealth spellings in their dubiously diegetic lore dumps in an effort to read as more sophisticated. What they're clearly aiming for is basically the textual equivalent of giving the baddie a British accent, but in my head, their Environmental Storytelling Toilet Skeleton is now Cockney,

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I've only barely started playing MTG but I am so far baffled as to how the community doesn't have some IRL equivalent of Pokemon gyms. People put so much effort into creating decks with unique theming, and while plenty of people are trying to optimize their decks to be flawlessly unbeatable, even more just seem to really like decks with cool themes surrounding particular creature types or mechanics.

I just think Magic would lend itself really well to a type of semi-competitive scene where you and your buddies can hop on the bus to the next town over to go fight Crab Guy (guy who likes crabs) at the Crab Gym (room at the back of a game store with paper crabs on the walls) to get your Crab Badge (small pin with a crab on it) by defeating his Crab Deck (deck whose only creature cards are crabs)

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I'd like to get into tabletop RPGs but I'm not sure if there's a game for the specific type of experience I want: I'd like a game that centers around adventurers going into dangerous underground places to fight monsters and seek treasure and perhaps grow stronger in the process. Not sure if such a thing exists.

I'm pretty sure you can homebrew Vampire: The Masquerade to accomplish this.

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it isn't crossed vampires have an issue with, it's right angles. they're allergic

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A surprising number of Hollow Knight's NPCs were created by Kickstarter backers, and the reason the game's worldbuilding is Like That is, to a large extent, the product of Team Cherry going the extra mile to craft a world where everybody's weird edgy bug OC fits in and makes sense – which is why it's very amusing that they 100% did not have to deal with this concern at all for Silksong, and the NPCs are still Like That.

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when i was a teenager i was really into forum-based writing roleplay groups and one time i joined one that was essentially battle royale and i made up my character with his little bio and posted it for other people to read and was like “yay i can’t wait to make new friends here (:” and then it turned out that i had somehow named my character the exact same first and last name as one of the moderators who was understandably EXTREMELY freaked out and thought i was someone they knew in real life trying to play a prank on them. long story short i did not make any new friends on that server

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My other idea: make new versions of old glam gear with more sensible dye slots. Make them require a token and the old item (so the old item isnt made redundant). Make the token obtainable from cosmic exploration and occult crescent and also tradable.

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I knew I was getting close to Textile City. I could see their monument, a colossal weaving device, looming in the distance.

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Visual novel where the central problem is that the narrator is too reliable, and you can only pursue courses of action which conform – however thin the technicality – with what they say is happening.