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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment?.Well, I mean of course you won't hear "alignment" used. It's a technical term of art as used in D&D and broadly in RPGs - such as in... -
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You don't have to perfectly create an entirely new perspective, personality and morality in order to create a character with a different... -
Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Tucker's Kobolds: worth using in 5e?.It's actually more subtle than that. The story is told from the perspective of a guest at the table who is encountering the kobolds for...
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Celebrim reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
I live in an imperfect, material world that has somehow seen fit to reward me with a naughty word philosophy degree. I know reality isn't...
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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment?.I think for the most part 3e did a decent job of describing alignment with the exception that the writers didn't understand or make any...
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Celebrim reacted to Sword of Spirit's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
I like alignment because: 1) It expresses the cosmological nature of the Planescape / Great Wheel cosmology which I love. 2) It is...
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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment?.So, I should make it clear if I had not made it clear that by "playing anything but themselves" I was referring solely to the...
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Celebrim reacted to The Sigil's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
There's more truth to this than we'd like to admit, and unfortunately I think in too many instances we see players that want to play...
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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment?.I disagree very strongly. That's not something I see playing out in my game. In my experience, being evil is hugely detrimental and...
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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment?.As an addendum to my prior response, in general there is no social, emotional or mechanical incentive to put "Evil" on your character...
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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment?.I would totally support a "Come to the Shepherd God" moment in a tRPG. Repentance, maturation, wisdom, becoming disillusioned with ones...
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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Tucker's Kobolds: worth using in 5e?.In 3e the average kobold had Craft (trapmaking) +2. In 1e AD&D at the time "Tucker's Kobolds" were created they had "average (low)"...
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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Tucker's Kobolds: worth using in 5e?.https://www.enworld.org/threads/tuckers-kobolds-really-that-tough-a-challenge.248319/page-6#post-4623966
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Celebrim replied to the thread D&D General Tucker's Kobolds: worth using in 5e?.So, several things. Can the Kobolds make things that aren't represented by amount of skill implied by their stat block? In 1e AD&D...
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Celebrim reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Tucker's Kobolds: worth using in 5e? with Like.
So much this. I’ve never liked Tucker’s Kobolds as presented. To me, it’s not really an exercise in making monsters smarter, it’s stage...