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Charlaquin reacted to MNblockhead's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with
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Yeah, that was how I thought about it, but before making my post I looked it up. "In the U.S., the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan... -
Charlaquin reacted to Seramus's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with Like.
When you're on the fringes like mid 40s, I find it usually comes down to how you were raised. Attentive and caring parents who might be...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread WizKids to Release Adult Blue Dragon Figure Based on Dragon Delves.Pretty disappointed this is Ancient sized instead of Adult. I was looking forward to building a full set of the new designs as they...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Snarf's Complete Two Weapon Fighting and Grappling Guide.It seems that way in the abstract, but it’s mostly not that great compared to other options. Smaller damage dice, very limited selection...
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Charlaquin reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Snarf's Complete Two Weapon Fighting and Grappling Guide with Like.
Hello! My name is Troy McClure. You may remember me from such scintillating dives into the rules of AD&D as Item Saving Throws: How Evil...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D..This is accurate, but @DarkCrisis did say they invited these people to play at their FLGS, so probably not a factor here.
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D..“Folks in their early to mid 40s” are older millennials. The youngest of gen X are in their late 40s now, and “people in their 20s” are...
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Charlaquin reacted to MNblockhead's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with Like.
Age and industry make a difference. Generation X and older will tend to hold more negative connotations about TTRPGs than younger...
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Charlaquin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with Like.
I definitely think younger generations are more open to this than Gen X and older folks are. The millennials and Gen Z folks at my work...
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Charlaquin reacted to bergec's post in the thread New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More with Like.
Given that the two UAs have been themed (Forgotten Realms, Horror, and now Arcane), I'm leaning against an single book updating Tasha's...
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Charlaquin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More with Like.
Yeah, I think the contemporary necromancer fantasy is the Diablo necromancer, with an army of skeletons. Summoning in one or two...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More.Or use the horde rules, but yeah, something to abstract a large number of minions into a more manageable set of stats makes sense.
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Charlaquin reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More with Like.
The obvious answer is to summon a single swarm NPC that can get bigger over time. Start with a large swarm of skeletons and scale up to...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More.I think the trouble with Conjurer, and this is shared by the Necromancer, is that conceptually they want to be summoning/animating large...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Armor as THP?.Does it need to be?