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Potentially weird question: if you had to assign a #dnd alignment to the fear of spiders, what would you give it?

  • Chaotic Neutral. People freak out (chaos) due to ignorance (neutral).

    • So what are your favorite, or just memorable, out-of-print RPGs?

  • I was very fond of Albedo. Still am! Empire Of The Petal Throne was also one helluva great setting. Complicate rules, but that's not always bad.

    • Every DM's secret weapon

  • And yet... people buy modules all the time. I always thought that turned into a board game.

    • Have you considered determining NPC gender randomly?

  • I did this in a novel I wrote, actually. I assigned TLA 'names' based on their job (ENG, PIL, etc), and any time a gender would normally be referenced in the text I used XXX - both for easy searching. I got about 70% of the way through when my beta readers rebelled - they absolutely HAD TO KNOW what gender everybody was. Sigh.

    But by this time the characters' personalities and speech patterns were well established, so I flipped a coin for each one, and continued onward. I'll probably do this again some day and just ignore the beta readers.

    • What do you use as map-making software?

  • Pencil and paper.

    • Lil dragon

  • As a gryphon who is very tired of seeing dragons everywhere... I love this.

    • Marc Miller has sold Traveller to Mongoose

  • I really enjoyed the few games of (1st edition) Traveller I got to play. Most fun I've ever had dying during character creation. Repeatedly.