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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
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It's not a false equivalence. You've already explicitly said that if it looks like a turtle-person but doesn't have tortle mechanics... -
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.
How? There is a creature which is sapient and turtle-shaped. That's not everything there is to being "a tortle". Just like how being a...
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Deekin reacted to Justice and Rule's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I'm sorry, but there isn't any sort of "clarification" from Baker attempting to "correct" anything. He says "if we didn't include it...
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Deekin reacted to Justice and Rule's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah, but Eberron also specifically says it takes multitudes and you can fit in whatever you like, so it's not using its length as an...
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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.
When the player requests this And you offer this. If you can't see why some people would not take that seriously, I don't know what...
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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.
So again, everything except the part the actually cared about. As I said--again--your redline and their point the exercise were...
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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: Guess what? Your insistence on being insulting probably means that your statement won't change a thing, either. So, really...
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Deekin reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I think everyone here is in agreement about having mature conversations instead of being bull headed. The problem is that one side...
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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.
This is the heart of the matter. Do all your players align 100% to your tastes and preferences? Of course not. So what happens when you...
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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 sure what's up with that attachment. I still stand by the core points of what I've said: Player enthusiasm is the single most...
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Deekin reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I have not read the entire thread, so this might have come up before - but the main thing I consider modern is attempt to reduce...
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Deekin reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I have suspicion that what's really being seen here is the tendency of Forge-derived games and their descendants to drill down on a...
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Deekin reacted to Mustrum_Ridcully's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
It might be hard to narrow it down to individual mechanics, because there have been many games and many things tried. I think a...
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Deekin reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I tend to agree that examples of most types of game mechanics can be found in earlier games that wouldn’t be called modern. For me, I...
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Deekin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Exactly. Balance is never perfect, and one should never strive for perfect balance--doing so produces something like tic tac toe, or at...