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AAlViking reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with
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All the PHB Species have named NPCs in the Gazateer, and there isn't really any need explanation: dragons, Giants, fiends, and... -
AAlViking replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting.You could but there's nothing saying that you couldn't before. Having a cultural tendencies but they're just tendencies not dictates of...
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AAlViking reacted to bedir than's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
this would also mean Forgotten Realms wasn't new from TSR, nor was Greyhawk, in fact few official settings were directly new to the game...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting.Aren't all official setting informed by the mechanics of the game? I would say that Eberron took the core concepts and stretched them...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting.In my setting different people have different beliefs and traditions. I have a main pantheon I cobbled together over the years that I...
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AAlViking reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
By my reckoning, WotC released something like 10 Settings over the past decade, fully half of which were new to D&D (Ravnica, Theros...
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AAlViking reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Yeah, Ptolus, Waterdeep, Sharn, Sigil - all of those are urban environments where conceivably the entirety of the campaign can take...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting.Not commenting on whether there should be a setting because I always do homebrew, but not sure why you think it couldn't be an urban...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.I don't want to run a game for murder-hoboes, so I don't. Other groups should do what they have fun with. True, but I don't think PCs...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.In our modern day "civilized" world we make a lot of assumptions about thing like ... prisons which for the most part are a pretty...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General 'Playing D&D' (Without Playing D&D).Holy thread necromancy Batman! ;) I have to admit I have a bit of an addiction to Heroforge as well. I like painting so now I...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.That may be true in your D&D campaigns, it's not true in every D&D campaign. My campaign world is more violent than the modern world...
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AAlViking reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"? with
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Me: (makes a terrible strategy decision) Other Players: :mad: Me: (pointing at my dump stat, Intelligence) ¯\ (ツ) /¯ Other Players... -
Athat depends on how you played back then, we already did not like / tried to avoid character death in the early 80s when we started...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.It is the approach some old school gamers, and current games, take. That the character is more of an avatar than anything. Doesn't...