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Fast Play and Slow Combat

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Some recent posts by me and others have touched on combat pacing. On the one hand, we have a situation where the frantic pace of blows given and received strikes some as unreasonable for certain situations. It doesn’t properly match some one-on-one combats, and even when it does, one has to invoke pretty extreme rules…

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Nosphryc Azurecoat – 5th Level D&D5 Fighter

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Figured I’d post the character I wound up making before my second session, tomorrow. I went with “simple.” That being said, given the rolls I got, I think a Monk or Paladin would be a fun second character. Granted, can’t expect the same thing a second time, but those two seem to benefit a lot…

Apropos of Nothing: Umarex Walther PPQ vs the real thing

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My wife will don a Black Widow costume this year for Halloween, and so I’ve been prop hunting. I looked for the Glock 26 that Agent Romanov uses in the Avengers movie, but Glock got medieval on replica and airsoft gun makers (in fairness, it’s their right to do so, and if you don’t protect…

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Variant D&D Rule: Spend HP for extra damage

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This is a repeat of an idea I put into a few other posts, such as my comment about Marcus the Paladin’s fighting ability as well as the Barbarian. I want to be able to refer/link to it independently. The gist of it is: going toe to toe with a melee expert should be a bad…

Costume Shop: There’s no [censored] like Cuirass

Costume Shop: There’s no [censored] like Cuirass

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I had this wild notion that the clothes-hangar trick that I figured out for The Lorica Project would work for larger pieces. As I was driving home the other day – and that’s when crazy thoughts occur to me – I wondered if I could make a simple but awesome breastplate/cuirass that would retain it’s shape….

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  1. Really looking forward to the last. I struggle with my own demand for realism in my gaming, when most of my gamer friends are not remotely interested.

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