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    § Sections category on a US keyboard

    On Linux it's CTRL+SHIFT+U and the Unicode number
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    Theme song for a new campaign

    And ... you can mine their backstories to make mission patches and other memorabilia. Great way to kick off a new game!
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    LEGACY CL and Campaign TableTop Shutting Down

    Now I feel bad about putting in feature requests for CTT ...
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    Tips for Single-Player Games

    For single-player or solo play - there are three things to consider trying with the combats: Option 1 - "Don't have one" - Zozer Games' "Solo" has an interesting system where you get into a situation where combat would decide the outcome - then you decide the "risk level" of the plan and the...
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    Introductions

    Welcome to the fray, DoomSparrow! GURPS is an amazing toolkit and it is *very* easy to hurt yourself trying to use every tool in the box too quickly. There is a fantastic GURPS "lite" 32 page PDF available on the SJ site - master that and you should be more than good to go adding in as much as...
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    Openness/Closedness of a World in ALIEN RPG

    Sorry to have to edit your post - but I've been on Free League's ALIEN RPG forum for a long while and this post followed the exact same pattern as a advertising / LLM-generated spammer uses there. The pattern goes like this: Sign up. Make an initial "harmless" post - usually to most recent...
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    Hero Points and other Reward Currencies for 5E (and non-level based system)

    Interesting blends of ideas in here - XP and milestones and point-buy. It's good to have some caps built in as well. Going to have to noodle on this some.
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    Generator: Social Roles

    One of the details in crafting 3 line NPCs ... Social Role { "name": "Social Roles", "explanation": "A social role is a set of expectations, responsibilities and norms that are placed on an individual in a society. ", "path": "", "categories": [ "@ NPCs" ]...
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    Alien Scenarios without the Aliens - the Scooby Doo mystery as GM tool

    On the Free League ALIEN RPG forum, Angelman asks: "how do you have ALIEN RPG scenarios without the aliens?" I offered a bunch of stuff that got handwaved and Angelman basically implied they were after something else. So ... I whipped up a Scooby Doo mystery adventure outline set in the ALIEN...
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    List of Digital GM Tools

    Here's a bookmark list (as dropmark tiles) of ~140 RPG digitial tools ... https://radulu.dropmark.com/162480
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    Zorgon

    With GPT-5 getting close to reveal - I expect some of the word salad was fallout from some of the backend upgrades to the hardware and infrastructure. And, I don't talk about Zorgon much personally because I tend to do all my experimentation using my own OpenAI account. For my personal RPG...
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    Generators from CSV Quick-and-Dirty How-To

    A question about how to use Comma-Seperated Values (CSV) files to create generators came up on the RPT Discord (you are on the Discord right?) I had need of a quick generator so I took some nodes while building it to share with you. First, review the change log notes about CSV for generators...
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    Zorgon word salad?

    Fundamentally, all Zorgon knows is the absence or presence of voltage. Combining voltage patterns on inputs with combinational logic based on transistor physics which the input voltage patterns into different output voltage patterns. That is what Zorgon "knows" and how it "thinks". What...
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    Zorgon word salad?

    Looks like ChatGPT had a short-lived code error that got updated https://status.openai.com/incidents/ssg8fh7sfyz3
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    Mass Combat Questions

    I recently had to wrestle with this in the design of my personal TTRPG ruleset. There are a couple of approaches going back to things like BattleSystem for AD&D. But my fun isn't in the top-down map of all the squads and such with the entire group of players driving one of the many units. That...
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