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AAlViking reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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If we go by this thread, all GMing would be bad, and the bar for good GMing would have to be somewhere near Superman’s home planet. In... -
AAlViking replied to the thread D&D (2024) Just realized Sentinel is heavily nerfed! No longer works with PAM, no longer works on most enemies who Disengage..I'd consider a house rule for sentinel and change the "within 5 feet" to "within reach of a melee weapon or unarmed attack" but I'd do...
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AAlViking reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D (2024) Just realized Sentinel is heavily nerfed! No longer works with PAM, no longer works on most enemies who Disengage. with Like.
I don't know. I think it is unfair to bend RAW to suit one player and to make that decision in the middle of a campaign.
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D (2024) Just realized Sentinel is heavily nerfed! No longer works with PAM, no longer works on most enemies who Disengage..They've been quite clear on what they meant. The only way to not have any difference would have been to not make any change.
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Multiple people have stated that if the players do not have full knowledge of the situation they can't possibly make an informed...
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AAlViking reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
When the table I'm using is written out on paper, "not having rules at all" no longer applies. I've never watched Matt Colville run a...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..One more note on fail forward - some people do define or use it differently than an immediate cost because we can't have common...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The examples here an in the blog post I quoted made it clear that the dead friend and the screaming cook did not exist before the roll...
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AAlViking reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
By not being stupid, mostly. And because my players don't have "murder ALL the creatures!" as their primary impulse. It's amazing what...
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AAlViking reacted to aco175's post in the thread D&D General Liquids in Bag of Holding or Portable Hole? with Like.
So it is a bit like a big bucket itself. If I fill it by opening it in a lake and then I want to dump it on the ground- I can just pour...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D (2024) Just realized Sentinel is heavily nerfed! No longer works with PAM, no longer works on most enemies who Disengage..The recommendation is to use the new version of a rule if it's been overridden so I don't see what the issue is (other than just...
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AAlViking reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D (2024) Just realized Sentinel is heavily nerfed! No longer works with PAM, no longer works on most enemies who Disengage. with Like.
I don't think one should stop the player from switching feats in a case like this, but there is a bit of a RTFM situation happening...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Another note - if you're referring to the rules from BW you should say so, many games take ideas from The Forge but put different spins...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General Liquids in Bag of Holding or Portable Hole?.My ruling would be that it's very likely to spill and make a mess in a bag of holding, because it's just a big container full of junk...
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AAlViking reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Right. It’s not so much that experts aren’t useful. It’s that experts can be wrong. Which is why appeal to authority is a fallacy in the...