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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D General How do you really handle illumination in your games?.Possibly. Depending on cloud cover, tree cover, and moon phase. And, cautious adventurers will generally try to avoid having to be... -
Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D General How do you really handle illumination in your games?.Sounds like a challenging encounter for sure! This does of course require dungeon rooms that are big enough for monsters to be able to...
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Charlaquin reacted to Lazybones's post in the thread D&D General How do you really handle illumination in your games? with
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That last point is an important one; who is carrying a light source can become hugely important in certain circumstances. In a recent... -
Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D General How do you really handle illumination in your games?.I think D&D would benefit from more abstract range categories. • Arm’s Reach for melee attacks and anything else that has a range of...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread D&D General How do you really handle illumination in your games?.In D&D 5e, trying to make light a limited resource is kind of a fool’s errand. Tons of PC species have Darkvision, and every spellcaster...
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Charlaquin reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book with
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I think the real questions we need to ask are whether or not the Epic of Gilgamesh and/or The Fairie Queene are "cozy" fantasy or not... -
Charlaquin reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book with
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As has been stated several times, in this specific context cozy has nothing to do with a vibe and everything to do with how far it gets... -
Charlaquin reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book with Like.
Despite having important romances in their plots, Baldree's books, Legends & Lattes and its two follow-ups, are generally considered...
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Charlaquin reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book with Haha.
That terminology does have a strange charm to it.
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Charlaquin reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book with Haha.
The Cozy keyword in Romantasy 26E should not be confused with the Cozy energy type. While a Cozy Romance may use cozy energy its only...
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Charlaquin reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book with Like.
It’s not even true in regular cosy fantasy. The reader may have meta-knowledge that the protagonists will be fine, but for the...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book.I feel like people are getting confused because a lot of romance novel jargon is homonymous with RPG jargon, but actually means...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book.This just isn’t true in the context we’re talking about here, of a romantasy novel. In this context, cozy is just an antonym for spicy...
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Charlaquin reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General Adventurers a distasteful necessity with Like.
I tend to take The Watchman route thinking there's something fundamentally wrong with people who choose to make a career out of...
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Charlaquin replied to the thread Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book.Sure! But those are problems at an interpersonal scale. I was referring more to the problems of global scale.