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Old 09-14-2019, 06:17 PM   #881
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getting back on track...this came up on my FB feed from 8 yrs ago :

508.I don't care how high your journalist's skills are or what code of honor he has, the most important thing at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse is not to print retractions for all those obituaries.
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Old 09-18-2019, 04:03 PM   #882
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508.I don't care how high your journalist's skills are or what code of honor he has, the most important thing at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse is not to print retractions for all those obituaries.
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Old 09-24-2019, 04:51 PM   #883
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getting back on track...this came up on my FB feed from 8 yrs ago :

508.I don't care how high your journalist's skills are or what code of honor he has, the most important thing at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse is not to print retractions for all those obituaries.
I might just use this when someone croaks and comes back...
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Old 09-25-2019, 04:18 PM   #884
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I might just use this when someone croaks and comes back...
I prefer the Starling City tradition: Come back from the dead, get a party. :)
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Old 10-15-2019, 07:36 PM   #885
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509) I am no longer allowed to base an entire campaign out of a silly hentai concept taken and treated seriously and realistically.
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Old 11-20-2019, 04:33 PM   #886
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510. Sadly, no longer permitted to use background sight gags as a GM. The players will latch onto them as a plot point.
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Old 11-21-2019, 05:44 PM   #887
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509) I am no longer allowed to base an entire campaign out of a silly hentai concept taken and treated seriously and realistically.
Um, why not?

Some of the best campaign concepts I've ever seen derived from revamped crap melodrama. :)
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Old 11-22-2019, 12:11 AM   #888
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Um, why not?

Some of the best campaign concepts I've ever seen derived from revamped crap melodrama. :)
I'm forced to agree. There are some golden ideas you can fish out of really bad media.
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Old 10-23-2021, 12:39 PM   #889
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511: My Dwarf Knight is not to be based off Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes.
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1000) Not allowed to use base 8 at the table.
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