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CreamCloud0 reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with
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Thus my confusion. He's not referencing anything I'm actually talking about and his concerns have nothing to do with the conversation... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
This is definitely just a matter of opinion, yours is perfectly valid, to me this reads as very reductionist. Apologies if I...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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At the end of the day, this is pretty much what you have to do. I used to bemoan the "circus troupe" group. It annoyed the crap out of... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to Xethreau's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I think this is it right here. I've been DMing for about 20 years now, and in my experience and observation, most campaign settings are...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I've been arguing for a while D&D needs a real default setting that defines the place of everything in the setting, like Midguard for...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.yes it's a trope, but my point was more in people using the 'adventurer misfit' mindset to justify throwing reason to the wind and...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.yeah, rereading the OP it sounds more like their issue arises when the characters seem to lack connection to the world and civilization...
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I think this whole topic is very system dependant (obviously). Even if we keep our analysis to games within the OSR not every game has a...
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Doesn't that 100% depend on the design of the game, though? Specifically, what actions are defined such that anybody can use them, and...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.honestly, the 'they're adventurer's, they're already oddballs by the fact they choose to walk into life-threatening danger every day as...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
That's part of the disconnect too. The fellowship was a unique group for Middle-Earth . . . but the baseline for D&D adventuring parties!
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I think the level of fantastical is definitely a factor, because determines how common a specific species is and how integrated they...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Bravesteel25's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I think I tried to address that in my OP. If the majority of the group is representative of the population at large in the...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
As a minor point of order, I don't think what the OP described is necessarily high fantasy, low fantasy, or any specific level of...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Its harder to encounter the 'weird and interesting' when to your left is Bob the Green Ooze Sorcerer, and to your right is Frank the Orc...