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Deekin reacted to Belen's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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Deekin reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
And the point I'm making is that building a setting that isn't anchored in a group of players' interests and choices is a waste of time...
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Deekin reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Players still don’t care about lore. They might care about lore if the game is a licensed property they’re familiar with. Or if you...
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Deekin reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Given that rhakshasha are shapechangers, isn't the last thing they are likely to look like a cat? But a feline PC (who might be an...
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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.
Returning to the non-compromise of "literally just a human with the name 'Dragonborn' applied somewhere", the reason I don't see that as...
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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.
My 'introduction to D&D' path starts in Warcraft 3. So you can imagine the shock when I come over the D&D side and people say "Orcs...
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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.
Why is working out a mutually-acceptable compromise always "the DM's fun hav[ing] to take a back seat"? You are creating an us-vs-them...
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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.
I presented several possibilities for how it could be done without causing any external ripple effects on world-building. It's not the...
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Deekin reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I'm running an all mostly dwarven campaign right now using the LotR 5E rules. It's not something I imposed on the players, I simply gave...
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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.
I don't choose to play CoC. Why do you think that might be? Even ignoring my dislike of eldritch horror, the fact the setting is so...
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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.
@soviet responded more or less how I would, but more politely, so I won't say that. I see this so-called "compromise" as an open slap...
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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.
The art of compromise is to.get other people to agree with you and feel good about it. I never got an actual answer to my question: if...
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Deekin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
And to the people wanting to play one who want a specific look and feel "Here, play this other thing that seems close enough to me" is...
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Deekin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I'd say if some of the suggestions ("Let's come out with a way to have one as a stranger from Somewhere Else") is "demanding...
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Deekin reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Mod Note: tl;dr "I figured the three other warnings in this thread didn't mean I also had to be respectful, so I got removed from the...