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    D&D 5E Is 5e the Least-Challenging Edition of D&D?

    I would disagree. To use your metaphor, it’s more like the video game trope of sheltering behind cover to heal up. If you let yourself get battered enough, you’ll definitely die. I’d also argue it is easy to make things harder with a simple adjustment than it is to make things easier. Don’t like...
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    D&D 5E Is 5e the Least-Challenging Edition of D&D?

    I would say that is intentionally set BY DEFAULT to be difficult to kill a player, because the game was designed to remove a lot of the elements that suck about general D&D: dying, level drains requiring you to rebuild the character, disparity in leveling XP, XP spending for magic item creation...
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    Longtime gamer and sometime blogger

    Longtime gamer and sometime blogger
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    D&D 5E Quintessential Starting Campaign for a group of new, young players.

    Palace of the Silver Princess really is something you can't go back and play after you've done a more advanced module, like B2 (which is the second most introductory module out there). Palace reads like a choose your own adventure book, limiting options for the players. Good for a novice GM if...
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    Stan! Talks "Life After Wizards (Again)"

    Common in the US As many have said, it's quite common in the US for this sort of restriction to exist for creatives. They go through a lot of material that has great potential but is discarded, wisely or not, by management. You pay a guy to sit around and think of good ideas all day, he'll...
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    Paizo Blog: NPC Codex Q&A

    Reviewed Codez We reviewed the codex and were most impressed. See here: http://skylandgames.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/npc-codex-review/
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    Fighting Fantasy series resurrected for 30th anniversary

    Coinkydink Just bought the Titan book the other day out of a sense of Nostalgia. Love these.
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    Online 4e - Thursday 7PM EST Maptools

    Decadent, If you've got the space, I'd like to get in. I've been doing to Maptool play of the Second Darkness path using Pathfinder, but am chomping at the bit to do some 4E. It sounds like you're going LFR compatible. Are you submitting through the RPGA for this event? That's great, if so...
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