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According to the game designers the game isn't balanced around PC numbers at all. It's balanced around what their powers do. -
Deekin reacted to Minigiant'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 just feel fortunate as a millennial born in the '80s that what I grew up liking will just be repeatedly created over and over by the... -
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 can play Doom on a TI-83 graphing calculator. That doesn't make it a gaming console nor the best way to experience Doom. But humans...
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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 would care if someone said "let's play Axis and Allies and then busts out a Clue board, Monopoly tokens and the Pop-O-Matic™️ bubble...
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Deekin reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I always go by the belief "The DM can make any setting they want with any kind of race, class, or spell restrictions. But the DM...
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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.
My problem is that D&D was never as modular as people thought it was (it's nearly impossible to change the magic system without...
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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.
And I will be completely honest as to why I dont have orcs (or halflings) in my campaign. Playing in the 80s, I didnt want anyone to...
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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 mean, if you got buy in from your players, you could limit character options to only Lawful Good human fighters and say you are...
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Deekin reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
If a DM wants to run a strongly themed campaign that restricts or bans some of the familiar PC options, I would expect that they would...
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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 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...
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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.
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...