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    D&D 5E How would YOU nerf the wizard? +

    if your DM gives you lot's of rests and the wizard runs with effectively unlimited magic yes. If your DM plays a bit more old school and the rests are more spread out fighters will eventually overtake the wizard because the fighter has no limit on damage output. Silvery Barbs was supposed...
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    D&D 5E How would YOU nerf the wizard? +

    IME a wizard can spend 3 games with DM or wizards own bad rolls minimizing output or completely making the wizard useless and no one notices that. but then after 3 full sessions of bad dices rolls one good wall spell or teleport to a big enemy and disintegrate and suddenly the wizard that was...
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    Ken Burnside on how screwed Asmodee is

    pretty common story these days. This is what happens when too much cheap money is available. companies play games like this it turns into hot potato. Eventually interest rates go up and the Last guy holding the company gets to file the bankruptcy. Its what's happening to Red Lobster. All...
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    D&D 5E How would YOU nerf the wizard? +

    first you have to agree what the wizard's places in the game are. I'd start by redoing wizard generalist, then come up with the specialty versions of wizard you want to fill in stuff desired. Generalist should be the standard Utility wizard, the one every one on the forums who hates wizard...
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    D&D 5E The Magical Martial

    Od&D monsters are generally less powerful than modern D&D monsters. an adult white dragon is about a 9th level encounter. A 9th level fighter should be able to kill a stone giant singlehandedly. This power level of a 9th level character has been baked in since the beginning. Now in early...
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    D&D 5E Guns and D&D - are we doing it wrong? An alternative

    no most modern writers tend to use relative morality which means your morals are determined by the situation rather than actually having morals. My point wash didn't do that. Sure you can find lots of things to gripe about conan but trying to pin moral relativity on him doesn't really work.
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    D&D 5E Guns and D&D - are we doing it wrong? An alternative

    No Howard never tried to sugar coat what Conan did and make it out to be some grand good deed. It was just savagery and he embraced it.
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    D&D General What devil would most want to make trouble in the Radiant Citadel?

    have fun with it. Maybe the Devil is actually working against a Demon Lord. Imagine the fun when the devil starts telling his or her patron to help paladins or the like.....Keep em guessing what the hell (lol) is going on.
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms geographic changes.

    pretty much every change starting with the godswar in 2e was senseless.
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    D&D 5E Guns and D&D - are we doing it wrong? An alternative

    I'll give you the argument that writers these days live in a moral swamp and have no idea what morals even are. You want to argue that sneaking in and murdering everyone isn't heroic I'm right there with you. Sneaking in and destroying enemy supplies and stocks and getting out again that's...
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    D&D 5E Guns and D&D - are we doing it wrong? An alternative

    correct. but the deadly max range is usally assumed to be 300 meters. though there are recorded instances of Longbow shots up to 450 yds. As skill wind velocity, direction and strength of bowman all come into play. But still as I said earlier. The longer the range that becomes normal the...
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    D&D General Who “owns” a PC after the player stops using them?

    I feel like when they stop showing up at the game they have abandoned the game and by default the character. It's hard to own something in a world you don't play in. Nothing keeping you from hanging on to your copy of the player and doing other things with it though.
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    D&D General Who “owns” a PC after the player stops using them?

    if you abandon property it can be claimed by others and then it becomes theirs. At least in most countries in the world. I'd argue same thing applies with characters. If you abandon the game then the property (character) can be destroyed or claimed. Doubt we'll ever agree here but int he...
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    D&D 5E Guns and D&D - are we doing it wrong? An alternative

    I don't know. If someone with more resources is the bad guy sneaking onto their ship and exploding their powder would be heroic. Unless heroic is being defined as only face to face combat. In which case you've just defined Wizards, priests and all spell casters as unheroic.
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    D&D 5E Guns and D&D - are we doing it wrong? An alternative

    Thing is if you are staying with muskets and early cannons then they aren't much better than siege weapons and crossbows. In fact they load slower. If we are worried about not doing guns right then longbows have been screwed since 1st edition and a longbow should do the damage a sword does...
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    AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

    From Science Daily. "The people who made LLMs call it "hallucinating" when they make things up; although Chemero says, "it would be better to call it 'bullsh*tting,'" because LLMs just make sentences by repeatedly adding the most statistically likely next word -- and they don't know or care...
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    The Rise And Fall Of Evil Genius Games

    Well the chance of changing their opinion if you don't is exactly zero. Also I don't really understand how you educate people on how to identify the bad stuff if you don't spend the time contradicting it, engaging with people and trying to change it.
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    AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

    so the big issue now is the AI bots (though smart scripting bot's is a better term. they aren't really AI) were all trained using data scraped from the internet using Fair Use Doctrine. Now the issue is the Bots aren't smart enough to not violate copyright law or other intellectual property...
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    AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

    every kind of intellectual property has these kinds of people leeching off the system.
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