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AAK81 reacted to dave2008's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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IDK. We have 1 page of houserules (which I have shared on these forums several times). That is the least amount of houserules we have... -
AAK81 reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
oh yeah, of course they are, 2024 is too abstract and too ‘random’ for me however. I can see the benefits too, a generic Rend lets you...
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AAK81 reacted to BenjaminPey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I am this guy. Though I did read the DMG, multiple times. In my book, streamlining this kind of things is 100 % beneficial to the game...
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AAK81 reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Not to be overly flippant, but both are highly abstract mathematical models to use in a wargame scenario, that some flavor can be hung...
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AAK81 reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
It might also be that many changes are circumstantial. They’re to a specific spell or subclass ability. In some cases it even depends...
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AAK81 reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah that's fair, though I guess at least one person noticed you moved over to new rules, the ranger 😆 But I guess it depends on the...
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AAK81 reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
oh, of course they were, but in the past I could see the creature behind the stat block and saw the stat block as a representation of...
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AAK81 reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I never tracked torches or food either, but the current iteration just does not feel grounded to me. In their effort to file off any...
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AAK81 reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Exactly. Keith is writing a 2024 monster update book. He's not happy with 5.5 but unsure what his next steps will be so threw the...
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AAK81 reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah, people keep missing that his audience wasn't D&D fans on ENWorld, but the audience for his blog and his books, for whom "MOAR"...
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AAK81 reacted to Sword of Spirit's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I would like to see a little more respect for people who share his point of view (I agree with all of his points and more). I'm not an...
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AAK81 reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
these changes are clearly changes they don’t like. That is someone stating their opinion, not a statement of fact. At no point did they...
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AAK81 reacted to the Jester's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Little differences in the rule set can lead to huge differences in play. That said, I think there are pretty massive differences...
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AAK81 reacted to Lazybones's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Ammann might not have said those exact words, but they seem to be implied in his original post with language like, "MOAR POWER,"...
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AAK81 reacted to kigmatzomat's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Fun fact: the CR4 guard captain doesn't add PB to ANY saving throws. Zero impact. But why would it? Its a bounded set of mechanics...