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Recent content by Stephan Hornick

  1. Stephan Hornick

    D&D WotC OGL Discussion

    I‘m not much following D&D news lately (as I‘m currently running my own homebrew GURPS game). But I heard of sth. like Matt Mercer having to pay for using D&D in his critical role game? So, could one of you please shortly summarize to me, what this is all about with the OGL, open game license I...
  2. Stephan Hornick

    Introductions

    @BoramereWrath : Happy Birthday! I hope you will have a wonderful year. My best wishes!
  3. Stephan Hornick

    NPC Essentials

    In this order: goals, background, demeanor, appearance. The latter seems to me always be based on the former.
  4. Stephan Hornick

    NPC Essentials

    I‘m looking forward to your next rethinking cycle. I have this all the time btw. First there is NPC A version 1, sometimes there are several iterations before I‘m happy with it.
  5. Stephan Hornick

    Introductions

    O my little elven skull, Tell me, what will next year bring to me? Will I be an orcish thrall? Or will I be like a rabbit free? Happy New Year ! Happy Rabbit Year! (Be careful of foxes!) My best wishes from Japan!
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    NPC Essentials

    Reading it once more, I notice some harsh phrases. Please forgive my tone. I only mean to juggle some frank thought and options and don‘t want to criticize or order or say what is right or wrong (if there is anything like this at all).
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    NPC Essentials

    Thank you for your post, @GamingE93. I read your request as a question on how to make your villain look cooler and more memorable. On the memorable part, I posted here already: https://campaign-community.com/index.php?threads/most-popular-npcs.883/ Looking at your current villain profile, I...
  8. Stephan Hornick

    Introductions

    Hi Steve! Nice to have you. What‘s the reason you don‘t run? Time and general life, not finding a group, or do you mean you play but not GM yourself?
  9. Stephan Hornick

    Introductions

    Happy Birthday, Kevin! I hope you have / had a wonderful day!
  10. Stephan Hornick

    7 Point Story Structure

    I have a friend who is a fantasy novels author. We know each other for a long time and even played TTRPGs together (I GMed). Recently, he introduced me to his common novel structure and what he had learned over the years. Although the medium is different, how we think about story structure is...
  11. Stephan Hornick

    Introductions

    Happy Birthday, @Ken Gole ! I hope you found what you were looking for.
  12. Stephan Hornick

    Introductions

    Happy birthday, @darkmatter99! How is your Eberron campaign going, Nick? I‘d love to hear how you used campaign logger now for a year. And I‘m curious about how you introduced this hobby to your kids (and made them stick with it).
  13. Stephan Hornick

    Introductions

    Happy birthday, @ELF!
  14. Stephan Hornick

    Screen Time versus Roleplaying

    Perfect timing. You‘re right. Last time we ended the session on the party rescuing one party member from being chomped down and swallowed by a huge ogre in its cave, a new effect that appeared with the magic sword of the bard and on finding the many wonderful loot that the ogre family had...
  15. Stephan Hornick

    Introductions

    Happy Birthday, Amelia! How have you been the last year? What was for you the most valuable lesson as a GM?
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