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    J. L. Brown reacted to DigrizJB's post in the thread Excel Ship Designer v2026.01.22 with Like Like.
    There are a couple of reference errors in cells, probably linking to local data. Can you share what these are supposed to reference...
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    J. L. Brown reacted to Endie's post in the thread Pirates of Drinax - GMs thread with Like Like.
    I cannot tell you how much I would love you to expand on some of these! Especially as I have a party launching into Islands in the Rift...
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    J. L. Brown reacted to Hootenheimer's post in the thread Pirates of Drinax - GMs thread with Like Like.
    I've made the joke in this thread or elsewhere that I'm playing the Small Business Associations United of Drinax rather than Pirates...
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    J. L. Brown replied to the thread Traveller 5E.
    I could define Traveller as 'Published by Marc Miller and GDW', but that seems unhelpful. I will point out that, despite wildly...
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    J. L. Brown reacted to Vormaerin's post in the thread Traveller 5E with Like Like.
    They like western fantasy, but D&D fumbled the ball hard in Japan and their localization and sales are substandard. I don't have...
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    J. L. Brown replied to the thread Pirates of Drinax - GMs thread.
    You are quite welcome, but I cannot take credit -- those ideas are mostly things I have encountered in various 'after action' discussions.
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    J. L. Brown reacted to Vormaerin's post in the thread Traveller 5E with Like Like.
    We don't have world wide sales data. Sandy Peterson has said that Call of Cthulhu is the most popular TTRPG in Japan. I know that there...
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    J. L. Brown reacted to Arkathan's post in the thread Traveller 5E with Like Like.
    I cannot see Iron Crown Enterprises without chuckling over their Arms Law fumble chart: "Stumble over an unseen imaginary deceased...
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    J. L. Brown replied to the thread Pirates of Drinax - GMs thread.
    It sounds a bit like you are running something quite close (and probably superior) to 'Flatlined'. I would love to hear all about it...
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    J. L. Brown reacted to DeHammer's post in the thread Pirates of Drinax - GMs thread with Like Like.
    Amazing info! Thank you. I'm currently running a session 0 tutorial where I started the players in low berths on a crashed Far Trader...
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    J. L. Brown reacted to DeHammer's post in the thread Pirates of Drinax - GMs thread with Like Like.
    Awesome advice, thank you! I might pick up the Borderlands book and maybe explore that before we get into PoD. Right now we're doing my...
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    J. L. Brown replied to the thread Traveller 5E.
    And you keep coming back to 'Here is a platform which is completely designed around d20 as a measure for how popular a non-d20 game is'...
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    J. L. Brown reacted to actionman's post in the thread Traveller 5E with Like Like.
    This is profoundly true, and it is a product of level based D20 type game mechanics, regardless of genre. Compare Traveller and 5e/D20...
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    J. L. Brown replied to the thread Traveller 5E.
    Your Google-fu may be misleading you. 'Widely estimated to be over 50%' is hardly definitive; and sales dollars is potentially deeply...
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    J. L. Brown reacted to actionman's post in the thread Traveller 5E with Like Like.
    People can do what they want, but 5e is the second worst version of D&D, exceeded in horridness only by 4th edition D&D. We already had...
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