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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Right. This idea simply seems not to be based on facts. -
Crimson Longinus reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with
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But a dropped PC never stays dropped. Healing Word and bonus action poitons of healing basically ensures that even if they don't have... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Are you doing side initiative? What one PC has the damage to drop another PC reliably in one round, and why do they keep always going first?
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Perhaps it would be actually challenging and interesting compared to punching boring HP sacks that cannot harm you.
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Oh, so either PCS have too low defence and too high offence, or the exact opposite! This seems like obvious bollocks to me. If they can...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.This seems pretty nonsensical to me and leads to gameplay where the rules cease to be connected to the fiction, in which case I don't...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Too squishy or wimpy for what? Who cares about CR, it is meaningless nonsense anyway, and as monster creation rules do not even exist in...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to pawsplay's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I don't expect PCs and NPCs to all have identical abilities, but I do expect PC classes to have some reflection in the game world. Like...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Except aren't the game mechanics there to abstract and reflect that universe as best they can? Isn't that their job? If so, then if...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
None if that reads as unique to me, just rare. It's certainly not IMO a good reason to restrict any ability to PC or NPC based on the...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Jfdlsjfd's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
Sacrificing to the god is exactly what casting a clerical spell (well, except that I didn't check and wall of fire isn't on the cleric...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Jfdlsjfd's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
I'd say it may make them more religious. People participated in civic worship because they felt it would protect their city, even in the...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.I have been told in many threads how it is the PCs that are the super special and unique people, but apparently now it is the other way...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Enough for what? And if both their offence and defence are lacking for your purposes, then just make them higher level!
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.It's a good example of a NPC that annoyingly does stuff no PC bard can.