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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.You certainly can challenge a party like that. You just need to scale up the encounter difficulty a lot. And we really have no guidance... -
Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Being about as effective in combat than a fighter for free is a big deal! In older editions casters could not do this, to do so did cost...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.But there are now endless cantrips, which scale with levels. In older editions if a caster wanted to do something useful, they had to...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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The thing is, it's not even suboptimal. If the goal is to rescue the princess, stopping to rest and let her die is about the least... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Like.
No kidding. I have long wished that there weren't so many "sly winks" in games like D&D, where you're pretty sure you know what they...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with
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Maybe there's a support group. I would set one up, but that's too much prep. :) -
Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Like.
Honestly, I wish more trad games had that level of advice and degree of intentionality. It's nothing but a good in RPG design IMO.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Haha.
I deduce it was Colonel Mustard, in South America, with the 12 armies.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Haha.
Four people sit down to play a nice game of Clue. Everyone picks their characters, the cards are shuffled, the murderer, murder weapon...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Like.
In my experience, a lot of people have a hard time playing an RPG exclusively in author stance, where the only goal us to make an...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Like.
I think that is in fact where it leads you. And that's ok.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Emerikol's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Like.
Those who like the Daggerheart approach are the ones talking about engagement and not immersion from my perspective on those words...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to payn's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Like.
Quoted these takes for being excellent examples of personal immersion to show its absolutely not a useless term. To the contrary of...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Haha.
They should consider putting that on the front cover.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T with Like.
With Daggerheart, since more of the storytelling and worldbuilding are offloaded to the players, does it run the risk of suffering from...