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AAK81 reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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Yet again I just can't get my head around the games and groups some people have experienced. At 14 years of age, in the 80s, my players... -
AAK81 reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah, this idea that in the dark old days GMs tended to be bad and understanding how to run a good game is some kind of new discovery...
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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.
I doubt it. Keith is writing a blog, not doing You Tube videos, as far as I know. His readers are 5e fans, buying his books in order to...
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AAK81 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah, as one of the old farts of the board, I can say in the '70's that really top-down GMing was treated like it was the expected way...
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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.
Those are all great examples of "I really wanted this $MechanicalThing can I use it and say xyz so it fits?". It's so much cleaner and...
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AAK81 reacted to Chaltab's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I feel like you're stretching a bit here. Even the Full Casters (especially Sorcerers) got more powerful in 2024, if not as much of a...
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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.
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...
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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...