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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
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Back in the day I used to run a lot of campaigns in the CRPG Neverwinter Nights, which used the 3e ruleset and had a great toolset for... -
AAK81 reacted to saviirkad's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
This is what we've done more than once, and each was successful in terms of maintaining setting tone and such. Like we did an all-human...
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AAK81 reacted to Doctor Futurity's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yes, you totally could, and we actually did. The great thing about AD&D 2E in fact was that it provided an entire line of historical...
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AAK81 reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yes I ran an ancient greek bronze age campaign. All humans. Limited classes. We used 5e, but I relied heavily on Age of Heroes. We had a...
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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.
To be fair, that question comes up for just about every modification of DnD rules, and the answer is almost always “because we want to...
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AAK81 reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
If a DM wants to run a strongly themed campaign that restricts or bans some of the familiar PC options, I would expect that they would...
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AAK81 reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Well, that's the thing, right? If you approached it with that attitude, it was never going to work for you. But if you had buy in from...
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AAK81 reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I ran the module that they gave in the box set and got the above results. Today I'd rather run something like Stokerverse than try to...
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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 know Rust monsters and flumphs are not playable species. Tortles are exotic in the sense that they are rarely being played, just...
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AAK81 reacted to Nightfly's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I generally won't allow warforged into the games I run (unless I'm actually running Eberron, obviously). I just really dislike having...
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AAK81 reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
This came up because of an official setting that sells well in three and a half editions so far. The setting serves a different purpose...
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AAK81 reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Well now you're into the toolbox vs. self-contained genre option. Personally, I would much prefer a game that is internally consistent...
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AAK81 reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I think you're catastrophizing a little here. There's usually a little more going on, particularly in a gaming situation where setting...
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AAK81 reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Notice how your choice of language here is absolutist, rather than being an opinion statement. Well I don't know what "people" you...
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AAK81 reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
That's how I always looked at it, that restrictions helped to create favor, because when every setting puts every choice on the table...