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Deekin reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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I ran the module that they gave in the box set and got the above results. Today I'd rather run something like Stokerverse than try to... -
Deekin reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
You ever Play a green book campaign? A campaign where everyone (player and NPC) is essentially a human fighter? You might get a Thief...
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Deekin reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I brought up how old TSR settings can include mechanics that were intentionally designed to screw over players. Somehow that morphed...
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Deekin reacted to Mecheon's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Could you though, really? Like, let's be realistic. If you're making low fantasy you're chopping the wizard, the dwarf, the elf...
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Deekin reacted to Mecheon's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
It does get into the vibe though that D&D is its own setting. D&D isn't a generic fantasy toolbox, its a Dungeons and Dragons toolbox...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
This is a reason to treat all stats this way, not to treat only some. We cannot translate fictional languages. We cannot cast spells...
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Deekin reacted to Mecheon's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Though equally there is a point where people can go "This is a legacy creature that has stats in every edition, why are you even playing...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Not at all. What I'm saying is that people float this idea that limitations breed creativity as though it is a conversation ender, when...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
There's always a critical word missing in this sort of thing. Good limitations create flavor. Good limitations breed creativity. Good...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yes. Yes I do expect that. Because I saw it. For years. People straight up telling me that I was a fool to argue that PHB dragonborn...
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Deekin reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I hear you and agree, but as always it varies; just last night.... Noob characters for a christmas oneshot with DM in training. 1st...
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Deekin reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Stickiness too. I'm tired of being told things like "up your gm game... run more interesting encounters... use tactics... Etc" like...
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Deekin reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
not sure why that is a problem to admit, do you expect everyone to either love 2024 or mindlessly defend 2014 as the ‘perfect edition’...
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Deekin reacted to Teemu's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
"AC and hp and saving throws -- grounded, simulationist, I feel connected to the game world, I love it." "Guard has 18 STR instead of...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Hence my aforementioned, in not quite so many words, "wow...feeling like you're getting snubbed for loving simulationism....must be so...