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  1. Morte

    D&D 5E Fighting Style - Archery

    The pilum is a thing unto itself. I wouldn't call it a javelin, maybe a "heavy javelin" (as wikipedia calls it) if you really want. The latin for a regular javelin is iaculum and it's smaller than a pilum and purely for throwing. Romans used iacula extensively on their lighter troops...
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    D&D 5E Fighting Style - Archery

    Strange that the PHB calls javelins melee weapons. I don't think I've heard of anybody (willingly) using one for melee in history.
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    D&D 5E If you aren't buying magic items, where will you spend your gold?

    Copying spell(book)s seems pretty expensive for a wizard, at least in the lower levels.
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    D&D 5E Favorite change and thing you like better before

    Like: The general streamlining of play and rules. Dislike: One spell per day at higher spell levels. If I'm a level 20 wizard, deadlier than quite a lot of dragons (per CR), I want to unload. Intrigued that nobody is mentioning: Inspiration, which nudges D&D a bit towards them new-fangled...
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    D&D 5E I have the DMG!

    Does the DMG have an answer to: if I'm starting a campaign at level 5, how much starting gold do I give the players to buy gear?
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    D&D 5E Published Adventures: Yea or Nay?

    I remember an ENWorld thread many years ago, I think it was started by a publisher, which was called something like "why don't you buy published adventures?" And by far the most common response was "because I can't fit them into my campaign". Published adventures, at least if you read that...
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    D&D 5E If you aren't buying magic items, where will you spend your gold?

    And in D&D we can have magical authentication of credit. Sendings to validate that IOU, and so on. Surely this is a perfect business for the church of Waukeen, or whoever has that porfolio.
  8. Morte

    Eclipse Phase: This Mortal Coil

    I am enjoying this, and will instruct my muse to keep me appraised of developments.
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    Aeon (updated 10/9/14)

    I am waiting for Mostin to gate in on Eadric + Shomai at an awkward moment, deploy disjunctions and a Gu, and then say "oh, er, sorry, I didn't realise you were, err, umm..."
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    Sagiro's Story Hour: The FINAL Adventures of Abernathy's Company (FINISHED 7/3/14)

    Will this constant "who?" stuff turn Dranko into Priggle? Enquiring minds want to know.
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    Sagiro's Story Hour: The FINAL Adventures of Abernathy's Company (FINISHED 7/3/14)

    Same here. I also wondered if it might be his collection of souvenirs. The actual answer was much better.
  12. Morte

    What traditional pulp adventure RPGs are out there?

    If you don't mind drinking two fingers of whiskey and squinting, you might just about squeeze GURPS Cliffhangers plus the free lite rules in under that. After all, if you get the free PDF version of the lite rules, it's only one book. ;) [But I must admit that I don't think the Lite rules work...
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    Did you change your Forgotten Realms?

    I bought a book like FRCS specifically to save me the work of making stuff up. Why would I go changing it? If I wanted to create setting details for myself, I'd use Greyhawk.
  14. Morte

    Best single volume RPG?

    FATE 2.0 Probably FATE 3.0 when they get around to it.
  15. Morte

    The Liberation of Tenh (updated April 24)

    * prods (contact) with stick again *
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    Sacred Cows You Hope Die?

    Alignment as a thing so concrete it has on/off mechanics (e.g. magic circle against evil). The WIS ability, rather than the wisdom of the player. To hell with acting idiotic in the name of roleplaying unless I'm a divine caster. Let 'em use CHA. Armour that makes you hard to hit, instead of...
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    What would Ryan Dancey do?

    Those should have been the key points of 3.5e, never mind 4e. I refuse to waste time on PnP D&D while it involves so much paperwork. As somebody said: "twenty minutes of fun, packed into four hours". Oh, add another four hours homework for the GM. [Even Piratecat, possibly the most famous D&D GM...
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    Will Levels be taken out and shot?

    It seems to me that D&D's meat and drink is "kill things, take their stuff, and level up so you can kill bigger things and take bigger stuff, then repeat". I don't think they'll ditch levels unless they ditch that.
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    Info Request: City of Westgate in the FR

    ...and Westgate must be over the Dragonmere from Thunderstone. Well, I hope this might turn into a sequel for "Wyvern Crown of Cormyr".
  20. Morte

    What should the default setting be for 4th edition?

    I'd like it to be setting neutral. But if there's going to be a deity list in the PHB, which I think is a good idea, then "no implied setting" is not an option. But Greyhawk seems to come as close as reasonably possible to not having a setting.
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