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Deekin reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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Yeah, we've had similar. But its rarer than long rest interruptions. (statistically this makes sense, longer you stay in one place etc...) -
Deekin reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
They also upcast spells a lot. I'm not a fan of upcasting lower level spells. The small extra increases end up being less than if you...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
It has, yes. Had a TPK* because of one, for example, because the GM jumped us with a bandit attack while we were taking a short rest to...
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Deekin reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Connecting the Hickman Revolutionaries to the Forge in the way you seem to here is, in my opinion, a significant misread of the Forge...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
So, just so we're absolutely clear: Wizards literally have no idea when their spells become available. It just happens, spontaneously...
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Deekin reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
“Game time is of utmost importance. Failure to keep careful track of time expenditure by player characters will result in many anomalies...
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Deekin reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Edition Experience - Updated Survey Results (Updated October 2025) with Like.
Kinda poisons the data well doesn’t it?
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Deekin reacted to GreyLord's post in the thread D&D General Edition Experience - Updated Survey Results (Updated October 2025) with Like.
Unless it's Pathfinder 2e, but then it seems, even with how very similar some ideas are between 4e and PF2e, the PF2e fans want to...
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Deekin reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Edition Experience - Updated Survey Results (Updated October 2025) with Like.
I gotta admit it utterly baffles me. I mean, good grief, 4e's been dead and buried for over ten years now. Who cares? I LIKE 4e and I...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Edition Experience - Updated Survey Results (Updated October 2025) with Like.
Yep. I would absolutely, positively love to have civilized discussions about 4e. Even about some of its flaws--because it has flaws...
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Deekin reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
"Modern" is anything brought into existence since the futuristic year 2000. "Traditional" is anything that a boomer did twice...
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Deekin reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think "modernity" of mechanics is mostly about presentation: how the rules are laid out in the rulebook, whether there are keywords...
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Deekin reacted to Agamon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
The modernity comes from the innovation in these mechanisms. Yes, most mechanisms used today were born in the 19th century, but they've...
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Deekin reacted to Voidmoji's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
A subset of narrativism that I find to be particularly modern is more hardcoded genre emulation. Mutants & Masterminds generally...
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Deekin reacted to soviet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I would normally think of 'modern mechanics' as those coming after the forge and 'system matters'. So, not necessarily narrativist...