Benjamin Olson's latest activity
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General What Does New Coke Tell Us About Designing for D&D with
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I want to note that even little changes can be enough to put you off a product, especially since we're not going to run out of Classic... -
Benjamin Olson replied to the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? (+thread).Given that, fundamentally, it is designed to be a violence game, having at least some enemies be readily identifiable as inescapably...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Plaguescarred's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? (+thread) with Like.
Alignment is a great reference tool to me as long as it's not trying to shoehorn anything in a restrictive way but remain a passive...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? (+thread) with Like.
I found moral alignment useful as a guide in portraying a monster or NPC. Just a possible hook to riff off of. So CE 3e orcs were...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? (+thread) with Like.
I think as a shorthand for an NPC’s personality or view of the world, it was a useful tool. It was much less useful and active source of...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread D&D General Mixed Background.My charitable theory for why its inflexible (by default) in 2024 is that they got it into their heads that ability score bonuses should...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Indagare Nogitsune's post in the thread D&D General Mixed Background with Like.
I hadn't seen the customization in the default 2014 rules (I wouldn't have asked otherwise). I don't really understand 2024 being...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to sevenbastard's post in the thread Other D&D Variant Domain play, what, if anything, do you use? with Like.
I built a whole system of homebrew domain play for my characters in a 5e campaign and my party was not interested at all in the idea...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Yup. It's no mistake that slavery didn't really persist in Europe into the Middle ages even though it was common in the Roman era and...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Chaltab's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
It doesn't have to be a moral choice. The economics of slavery aren't what they're cracked up to be, especially in an ecosystem like...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Afroconan's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
Darrington Press: Releases 2 playtest packages of new content. Announces new projects, streams and third party content at GenCon. CR...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past | Official Trailer.They got Jaxxon!
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players.Well it would be like that, if Apple had historically been most well known for creating apps for Samsung phones, if tech industry...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
People that are going to turn 180 and abandon DH because CR isn't using it were never actually interested in the game as a game anyway.
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What I Learned Switching to Reddit For A Bit with Like.
As some folks may know, I feel the need to take little breaks from EN World every once in a while. It is a "It's not you, it's me"...