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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) 5e GMs: Do/Have/Would You Start Above 1st Level? (Note: Cannot change your vote.).More often at Level 1 since the getting to 2 and 3 take like a session or two at most so it essentially feels like players start at 3... -
DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D General The joys of playing a PC with low stats.It's an interesting idea, but I think the real issue is that not all six of the ability score have natural opposites. Sure, STR and DEX...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?.If a person can come up with a distinction between a Psion and a Sorcerer (or a Psion and a Wizard)... and they do, because of all the...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to bloodtide's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards? with
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Each has hugely different role-play. The Wizard is an 'everyperson', who went to magic school, Like Harry Potter. The Sorcerer is born... -
DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) How do you run a game in Ravnica?.Did I say "remove"? No. I said focus on other things. A Dragonlance game that takes place in Krynn but does not focus on the War of...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Kobold Avenger's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
The most Victorian D&D settings are Ravenloft with certain domains and Planescape with specifically how Sigil is (such as The Cant which...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll).Steampunk is an aesthetic borne out of retro-futuristic technology during the Victorian era. As Dungeons & Dragons is by no means...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D General Mixed Background.It doesn't matter how large or how small the number of people were that may or may not have liked the changed. So the "can't please...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) How do you run a game in Ravnica?.Well, it stops being the author's/designer's/publisher's setting at the time the book was written... but it is still (general) your...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) How do you run a game in Ravnica? with Like.
It had some none-KB content in 3rd edition, because of the obsession with metaplot at that time, but the timeline was reset to 10 years...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D General Mixed Background.If you want to give your players a modicum of autonomy, that's perfectly fine! But don't then complain that the book is written in such...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D General Mixed Background.You say that like it's not something players are supposed to be doing anyway. The idea that players can just show up and do and present...
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5.24e's "inflexibility' with Backgrounds is only as inflexible as your DM.
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Not saying the game is perfect, far from it, but I am not surprised that you complaints based on your highly anomalous experience do not...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
That was how things were generally done in those days. And why people who remember those days don't agree - they all created their own...