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Deekin reacted to Mind of tempest's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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that runs into the problems of either using tropes badly, using tropes that are just bad and endless overuse. none of us could really... -
Deekin reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is how long is the character expected to last? My campaigns typically last 1-2 years, so...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Well-said. I would add a small extra though: Tell your prospective players, "Please don't start building a character until we meet up...
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Deekin reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Just to clarify my point. The OP talks about how he finds it jarring that groups do not reflect the campaign setting. My solution to...
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Deekin reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Comparing the depiction of Thrawn in Zahn's novels with his depiction on TV is a good example of this. In the novels, he is generally...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
The difference is, heroes can be in the wrong, some of the time, though they end up more right than wrong, or become so overall over...
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Deekin reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Really, who truly has the perspective of living in a world of magic, should remove that from the game.
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Deekin reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I know a couple of humans like that. However, when I played an elf, I did it like this: They had been married to a human and lived in a...
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Deekin reacted to Mecheon's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
"Species" is a term with no real fixed definition that changes often and often includes stuff that frankly shouldn't be included. Keep...
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Deekin reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I guess I misunderstood. When writing my response, I viewed it as the same. Your quote from TVTropes, seems to view them as the same...
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Deekin reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Nope. They could lean into the tropes that used to define the other species instead of reduce them all to funny hats.
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Deekin reacted to W'rkncacnter's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
have you considered the half orc and half elf are the problem? like, seriously, what are we doing here? are we actually gonna pretend...
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Deekin reacted to Mind of tempest's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
it would have been more honest if they all just worshipped Asmodius, now interesting I do not know nor care
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
There is a big, big difference between "there are heroes and villains" (which I am in favor of!) and "full-on black and white morality"...
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Deekin reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
It was always supposed to be that demihumans had benefits but drawbacks. The biggest one was supposed to be level limits and class...