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Cap'n Kobold
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That is just nonsense. Pretending the disparities in design in D&D don't matter because nobody cares about that in play is disingenuous...
Nov 22, 2025
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Cap'n Kobold
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Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition
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This line of reasoning really only holds up when dealing with something where your level of expertise and familiarity with a weapon does...
Nov 22, 2025
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Cap'n Kobold
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Yes. They aren't casting 1st level Magic missiles or Mage Armor anymore. They could, but the lowest slot they might have is, say, 3rd...
Nov 22, 2025
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That is actually really sad. I think some of your players frequent these boards - Would any of the players in Hussar's current or...
Nov 22, 2025
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You know, it's funny I've never heard about these entitled snowflake players until maybe the last few years and almost always in the...
Nov 22, 2025
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The dates for the wild west era and larger-scale Japanese immigration actually check out, or do you mean strictly "Spaghetti Western"...
Nov 21, 2025
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Cap'n Kobold
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I ran a modified Curse of Strahd game (I basically blew up the adventure and turned it into my own), and the players came to the table...
Nov 21, 2025
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The thing is, not all players are interested in settings, backstories, lore and roleplay. Some just want to have a laugh and kill some...
Nov 21, 2025
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Cap'n Kobold
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This is going to be some armchair psychoanalysis, but I think this is due to a heavy an element of traditionalism stemming from design...
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Cap'n Kobold
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Well, consider this: The players are naturally othered from the setting. The don't know anything about the world unless told. They...
Nov 21, 2025
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Good point, and worth highlighting the bit I, er, highlighted. From further comments on others here, it seems that often it may...
Nov 21, 2025
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I don't like that your argument is ultimately about the motivations of the players, and in a distinctly disparaging way ("crown of...
Nov 21, 2025
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how is a tiefling that odd? Some legends of merlin, one of the archetypal wizards, have him as being that happens when you baptise a...
Nov 20, 2025
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We're going into a lot of extremes here. There's clearly a middle ground between "fascist control freak DM bans too many character...
Nov 20, 2025
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DM's pick essentially everything about the world, portray virtually every NPC, so for me it is a huge red flag when they cant relinquish...
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