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    D&D 5E I don’t really care what rules the players use.

    I'm a firm believer in not having to know what the player rules are as a DM. I run a casual table at a game store and never know what what people will bring to the table. The annoying player-facing rules are those always-on abilities that disclose secrets. I need to know those with some...
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    WotC 2024 D&D Core Rules Will Be Added To SRD In 2025

    There are instructions on how to do it in the CC documentation. Basically you have to replace "this work" with whatever you are licencing.
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    D&D 5E People don't read the 5E DMG for a reason

    Just the way they the sections start in the middle or end of a page for subclasses, etc. Definitely a first-world problem.
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    D&D 5E People don't read the 5E DMG for a reason

    I've been hoping the new layout on the 2024 books will allow me to photocopy the background, race, class & subclass I am using. Resulting in an easy do-it-yourself playbook.
  5. J

    Grade the Forged in the Dark System

    As someone who has Dungeon World on order, tell me more...
  6. J

    You've Created A Bad Character. How, why and whose fault is it?

    I have two thoughts: Synergies It can be hard for new player of a system to understand how options work together. Now some choices are pretty stand alone, but others can either work against each other or fail to keep up with the expected power curve. Lock in Some choices are difficult to undo...
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    WotC WotC partners with Start Playing to connect players and DMs and form tables.

    When I was a teenager, I had all these big plans for GMing D&D and Traveller. They never came to anything. When I was in my forties and started roleplaying again and, when I was ready, I actually managed to do it. By then I was much more practical in what I needed to do. Now, one of my sons in...
  8. J

    D&D General The Alexandrian’s Insights In a Nutshell [+]

    I think there is a certain amount of fluidity in these sorts of definitions used in frameworks. By expanding the definitions, you increase the use cases for the framework and apply them in more situations. (For example, in FATE everything is a character).
  9. J

    WotC Hasbro CEO optimistic about AI in D&D and MTG’s future

    Sly Flourish uses it. I have no idea about anyone else.
  10. J

    Critical Role's 'Daggerheart' Open Playtest Starts In March

    My previous experience with cards from Hero Kids, is that they are fiddly. But, wonder if they solve the problem of paper based character sheets. D&D paper character sheets have the problem of how much of the book you rewrite on your character sheet. Maybe you could layout the cards on a...
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    D&D (2024) What creatures should be relabeled as "beasts"?

    I think that including elements for the moon circle would make sense. But I think that a better question is 'what wouldn't you allow to wild shape or polymorph?' I have a player who is currently searching through the monster manual book and asking about all sorts of creatures. It all seems...
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    Recurring silly comment about Apocalypse World and similar RPGs

    There are a lot of topics on DnD on these forums that are rehashed again and again and again. I think that it is the nature of general forums. On the positive side, people are interested even if they engage for a short time and then walk away forgetting the details. Maybe they will play one...
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    Recurring silly comment about Apocalypse World and similar RPGs

    Thanks for the examples. I really need to see a complete text to get my head around how all the pieces fit together. I'm interested to see how the system pushes forward the story like you mentioned.
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    Recurring silly comment about Apocalypse World and similar RPGs

    Having already ordered DW, are the use of fronts widely used in other PbtA games?
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    Recurring silly comment about Apocalypse World and similar RPGs

    I suspect the AW writing style is infectious, but without context the phrase 'if you do it, you do it' doesn't lead me to the process you have just described. I'm interested in PbtA games, so I have Dungeon World on order from my LFGS. (I know it may not be the best example, but I am also...
  16. J

    D&D 5E Fixing Challenge Rating

    Since parties vary wildly in effectiveness, maybe we should have a way of including that in the process. Acknowledging the different tables will consistently get different results depending on how they utilise the mechanics and work together.
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    D&D 5E Fixing Challenge Rating

    Aah. That makes sense. I was thinking you meant total party level instead of average party level for some reason. That would work assuming the APL doesn't change that much. I really should stop using the mean to calculate the APL and use the median. That would be much easier to calculate in my...
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    D&D 5E Fixing Challenge Rating

    If I'm reading this right, I would need to recalculate each monster point value if the party composition changes? For context, I'm running AL at a LFGS and I never know my exact party composition until the start of the session. And then some may turn up late. So, I would prioritise being able...
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    Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead'

    Or you can release one document and specify which parts you are releasing under CC-BY.
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