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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with
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My assertion is that, all too often, they don't. Because the GM assumed that that was part of the "social contract" and thus beneath... -
Deekin reacted to RoughCoronet0's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
I feel like this topic is just one of many examples of different people having different expectations/preferences to how the...
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Deekin reacted to Epic Meepo's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
I'll concede I may have misinterpreted your prior posts and been ungenerous as a result. I got the impression you were referring to...
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Deekin reacted to WanderingMystic's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
I only have 2 horror stories between the DM and his players, one in d&d and one on Warhammer. On Warhammer the DM put us in a tomb with...
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Deekin reacted to VHawkwinter's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
When the Warlock was introduced in 3e, IIRC it was that the Patron gave you a minor spark of magic and made you like, an...
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Deekin reacted to fuindordm's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Weapon spec is so good that in my campaign I felt the need to give single-classes clerics, thieves and MUs their own forms of...
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Deekin reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Strict application of the training rules would also act as a disincentive to exploration. It would be hard to go hex-crawling over the...
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Deekin reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
I have never come across an explanation for why crossbows were so weak in AD&D, when IRL they were super effective. When I first got...
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Deekin reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
I think the bottom line is that 1e was much better balanced RAW than people give it credit. However, those rules were complex and very...
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Deekin reacted to Lord Shark's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Magic gear as a power add is fine. Magic everything is silly, and a major contributor to making magic feel uninteresting (especially if...
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Deekin reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
I've never understood some people's aversion to magic gear as a power add. It has plenty of precedent in modern fiction and mythology...
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Deekin reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Okay, but by the same token, one of the rules of the game was also that before you even got to the training, the DM had to grade your...
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Deekin reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Yeah, we never did this. We just leveled when the XP was reached, but only when the current adventure was concluded, and the party had...
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Deekin reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
It's almost like all these rules that favored fighters (spell interruption, initiative, speed factors, HP bonuses, leveling rules...
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Deekin reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
I think the larger point or takeaway (at least for me) is that the base qualities of the fighter like more hit points, extra attacks...