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cbwjm reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with
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You don't need to base it on actual granular skills, though. In Shadowdark, characters get advantage on anything they might reasonably... -
cbwjm replied to the thread D&D General Faerun '68 (+).This could lead to adventures for the heroes, people are going missing in the underground and the players are investigators (journalists...
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Yes! I can see airships all over the place for local transit, but the equivalent of international airports is public portal hubs. Rich...
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cbwjm replied to the thread D&D General Faerun '68 (+).I was thinking of mass transit, with planes to move the masses around Faerun, but I wonder if a more magical transit system would be a...
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cbwjm replied to the thread D&D General Faerun '68 (+).You could tie Thauma-fuel to FR and say that it is a rediscovery of heavy magic from the age of Netheril. Perhaps cities are powered by...
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cbwjm replied to the thread What are you reading in 2026?.I've recently finished reading through all of the Kull stories by Howard and I've become a little obsessed with how the Thurian...
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cbwjm reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread D&D General D&D Archetypes that spread out to other settings and media with Like.
Der Bremer Roland Statue with his sword and shield Beowulf had an Iron shield specially made so that he could face the dragon and not...
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cbwjm reacted to fuindordm's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
I think we have two camps arguing for two aspects of the game that are not actually in conflict. As a fantasy game system capable of...
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cbwjm reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Multi-classing, dual classing, same basic thing when you're talking about trying to replicate a fictional character. that's been there...
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cbwjm reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Since 2024 launched, Fighters get to add their second wind to failed ability checks now. Gained at 2nd level, before subclass choices...
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cbwjm reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
That’s not what happened. They didn’t suddenly make fighters dumb jocks. Multiclassing to capture fictional archetypes has been there...
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cbwjm replied to the thread D&D General D&D Archetypes that spread out to other settings and media.I swear there was an old dragon magazine which went into the dragonlance gods which called out paladine = Bahamut and Takhisis = Tiamat...
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cbwjm reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Why? Only he called himself that. Well, I guess Willow did too, but not because he actually was, but because Madmartigan was the one to...
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cbwjm reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In? with
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cbwjm replied to the thread What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?.Maybe, I haven't read the books, I just know that the portrayal was enough to raise the hackles of the author's estate.