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Cadence reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands with
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This is a starter set. Why would you assume it has more advanced options? The rest of the D&D line is for more advanced players. -
Cadence reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, absolutely - and that narratively powerful entities would often still be modeled with a single hitpoint Oh, my 1st level commoner...
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Cadence reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Isn't this effectively the origin of hit points? Both the concept and the terminology? It's part of the evolution of D&D from its... -
Cadence reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Right, the alternative way to look at this is that most things should be minions and that having hit points is the unusual factor. Take... -
Cadence reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
My warlock player -- who remade his wizard into a warlock as far back as 3E -- actually came to me with a bunch of ideas of how I could...
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Cadence reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
A whole lot of the warlock, cleric, and paladin class fiction is dependent on serving a higher power. It’s weird and “a-fictional” to...
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Cadence reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
This feels extremely hypothetical at this point. AD&D had a whole lot of ways to "back up" or DM-proof spellbooks for a reason. But the...
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Cadence reacted to Wolfram stout's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
I think a lot of player concern/pushback comes from online people seemingly licking their chops at playing "gotcha"with the warlock...
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Cadence reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
My feeling is, if you don’t want the possibility of that kind of story (where the fiction of the pact matters) don’t play a warlock. At...
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Cadence reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
Yes historic witches and warlocks got their powers from CONSORTING with devils, they involved themselves in elaborate rituals - dancing...
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Cadence reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
That actually varies in fiction. In some tales, sure, no problem. In others, the witches or warlocks are “marked” in some way...
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Cadence reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
All of this should be discussed during character creation of course. But I strongly feel that everyone is sorely missing out if they...
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Cadence reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think it's likely more that armor training isn't as hard as the game makes it out to be, and that many armor restrictions and...
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Cadence reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Yeah, I found as the game went on, we were either steamrolling encounters pretty easily or we were in for the fight of our lives...
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Cadence reacted to gban007's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I enjoy dnd, and the type of games you look to like to play, so dont get me wrong, but ones we've tended to accept in past that look to...