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  1. stevelabny

    In Praise of Dice

    I don't know how your players feel, but I would personally HATE this, and you might want to ask what they think. As a player, I am controlling only my ONE character, so I am very well aware of my hit points at all times and so is any player with the least bit of investment. If you think I...
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    In Praise of Dice

    As a DM: I prefer to roll combat rolls and as many rolls as possible - open, in public. So players 1> know I'm not fudging in favor of the monsters because some of them have had horror stories and 2> player's know I'm not fudging in favor of the players either, which makes every combat suddenly...
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    Complete Divine: WASTRI god of bigotry AND AMPHIBIANS???

    A 12 year necromancy and I don't even REMEMBER this thread at all.
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    D&D 5E Rcvd Monster Manual today from Amazon - Ink Smeared Pages (Gargoyle/Genie)

    Had my replacement Monster Manual delivered today and gave the UPS driver the return. No problems.
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    D&D 5E Rcvd Monster Manual today from Amazon - Ink Smeared Pages (Gargoyle/Genie)

    Oops. I missed that post and tried to do a quick search beforehand but it didn't come up. And its not a big deal, since I ordered from Amazon.
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    D&D 5E Rcvd Monster Manual today from Amazon - Ink Smeared Pages (Gargoyle/Genie)

    Anyone else get their copy from Amazon and have this problem? Ink is smeared horizontally the entire width of the two page spread. Makes the pages almost illegible. Figured I should check before I contact Amazon.
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    Cooperative Games

    Most of the pure co-ops have already been mentioned. Sentinels of the Multiverse, Robinson Crusoe, Arkham Horror, Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game, Pandemic. So here's three more and some special cases. Forbidden Island - the Gateway to cop-op games. Its light and quick but I like it. I...
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    D&D 5E Help Me Pick My Minotaur

    I also just noticed that you're in Brooklyn. Where/when is this 5E Dragonlance game with minotaur bards happening and is the group already full? I just made a new board game buddy on BGG, maybe I should find a 5E group too.
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    D&D 5E Unfortunate Wording

    I just saw this thread. I was all happy at the thought of using Arcana to mimic a wizard the same way you can use Thieves' Tools to mimic a rogue. It made perfect sense, and hey, the "Use Magic Device" skill got rolled into "Knowledge: Arcane" to form "Arcana" the same way other skills have...
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    D&D 5E Help Me Pick My Minotaur

    I feel the Free Range-r pun is worth it alone. But from his description, he needs an eyepatch and maybe a parrot. But I'm also partial to the cowbell bard. But only if he dresses impeccably.
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    D&D 5E Lost Mine of Phandelver - Non-spoiler Thoughts?

    To sum up my thoughts in the spoiler thread without spoilers. I like the non-linearity of the entire adventure. Every location has multiple ways around and you can pretty much do them in any order too. (with the usual problems from jumping too far ahead) There's a few potential TPKs based on...
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    How to find a lost warforged?

    How to find a lost warforged? MAGNETS!
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    D&D 5E Lost Mine of Phandelver - comments and complaints after read-through (spoilers)

    I like that philosophy in general. My problem here is specifically - the folk hero has "get rid of the dragon" as his personal goal. If we're giving inspiration as a game mechanic for players role-playing, the folk hero isn't going to want to NOT go after the dragon. The druid first tries to...
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    D&D 5E Lost Mine of Phandelver - comments and complaints after read-through (spoilers)

    I've been liking what I've seen of 5E so far and was thinking at the very least, it would be a great introductory RPG. So, just in case, I delved into the Lost Mine. My comments are going to be a little all-over the place but are hopefully going to be rules-light and focus on the adventure...
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    D&D 5E Overchanneling and Cantrips

    Yay new editions and missing things. Ok, well reading each cantrip the 40 points from firebolt past 17th level seems like highest number (or 30 when you get overchannel). And that's still a ranged attack. I don't know if its as broken as people fear by that high of a level. But I guess some...
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    D&D 5E Why no 16-18s allowed in Point Buy?

    Which is why it should be more like "point buy or roll. If you roll a character with less than a +5 total bonus you can point buy to a +4 bonus - with possibly diminishing rerolls." There's no "be happy playing" because as we see from OP, some people aren't happy that they have a human with...
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    D&D 5E Overchanneling and Cantrips

    And just like that, this "problem" goes away. Casting a cantrip in a higher slot makes it a higher level spell which makes you take necrotic damage. Cantrips are only free to overchannel as 0 levels.
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    D&D 5E Is a +3 weapon needed...when it boosts damage by 53%?

    Aren't these rules counting on a dearth of spells though? Unless I'm missing something, (which is very possible, I didn't follow the playtest all the way through and I only read most of the PDF once) at 14th level a wizard would have 7 less spell slots in 5E than 3.5E PLUS all the bonus spell...
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    D&D 5E Overchanneling and Cantrips

    "Starting at 14th level, you can increase the power of your simpler spells. When you cast a wizard spell of 5th level or lower that deals damage, you can deal maximum damage with that spell." First, I read that as saying you definitely can't use a slot higher than 5th level. But I guess the...
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