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Today, on Halloween, The Chaosium officially turns 50 years old. 🧵

On October 31, 1975 our founder Greg Stafford went down to the Alameda County Clerk’s office and filed the paperwork to officially register the company...

I agree. That is a nonsense request. Keep doing what you’re doing. Your channel is great.

Thanks. I snagged it and plan on giving it a read

I ran a game of Alternity StarDrive for a couple of years. We enjoyed it. Some of the rules were a little clunky, but I liked the normal, good, amazing degrees of success.

Cool art. I picked up the Goodman games homage to this module, and I am planning on running the 5E version in the near future.

That’s a good question. I will probably drop a few hints. I picked up Doors of Darkness and plan to run some of those adventures to ease us into the CoC mindset. I also need some time to get my brain wrapped around the 1920s before diving into my own stories.

My players are used to action RPG’s so they barrelled passed a lot of clues. That worked OK because it was one of the adventures from the starter set. I suspect that will be a problem later, but I think we got a good grasp of the mechanics.

I am finally running my first game of Call of Cthulhu tonight. I’ve been playing the game at cons for years. I finally sat down and read the keepers book and decided to take a crack at it.

While my group doesn’t play DND 5.5 I hope it doesn’t flop. I see it as the gateway game to bring new players into the hobby.

T -1 hour. I’m a huge Alien fan and looking forward to it.

Seems like a good rule. I plan on trying it out.

My son and I are heading that way soon.

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I have played this game a couple times at conventions. I thought it was a decent rules lite, low fantasy RPG. The stance system worked good for the of theatre of the mind combat. I personally like the Dragonbane mechanics better and wished they had used that.

After 8 years of playing D&D nonstop, I’ve finally tried its biggest alternative This is what I learned from playing Dungeon Crawl Classics

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Love it. Thanks for posting.

Dragonbane is a well thought out basic fantasy RPG. I ran it for about a month and liked it as a Game Master. It wasn’t as popular with my gaming crew. They prefer the larger systems that offer many more character options.

Knights of the Dinner Table: CODEX OF MANY TALES A massive tome that crams the strips from the first 25 issues of Knights of the Dinner Table into one book.

Our kickstarter is live. I would consider it a persona favor if you helped share the link and spread the word. Thanks all! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ken...

Happy birthday

I don’t run #DnD, but I do run similar TTRPGs. I rarely use tables or specific mechanics. During downtime I have the players describe what they want to do, I assign an appropriate skill roll, and then I narrate the result.

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YouTube video by Jolly Blackburn Knights of the Dinner Table: Codex of Many Tales

The pre-launch page for the Codex of Many Things is now up. We suck at promotion. Anyone willing to share the news and get the word out (to groups far and wide across social media, you have my personal gratitude. www.youtube.com/watch?v=25cD...

Ran Savage Worlds on Saturday.

Looks like Free League listened to this for the updated Alien RPG.

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Obviously, the GM put the fire there for a reason. You should stay and see what happens.

Yeah, the only time I ever get to play as a player is at conventions.

Cool map. Do you have any more details about it posted online?