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DEFCON 1 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with
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Why do they need to show you statistics to prove their argument but you don't? What makes your opinion above verification or support? -
DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.I'm saying you can't speak for other people as though what you say on their behalf is in fact true. Because that isn't "discussing"...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?.Best case scenario with things like Warlock patrons is that the player works with the DM to find ones appropriate for the setting the DM...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to TorgoTheWhite's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards? with Like.
I think the DM should have agency to call world-building, history, cultures: "MY story" all the framework to the game. Though I have let...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to sevenbastard's post in the thread Approaching writing adventures for home games? with Like.
Writing for home play is much diffrent than writting for someone else to run. I can run three, 6 hour sessions on three pages of typed...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Well, if you can only go off the experience you've had... why do you keep trying to speak for every other DM out there? This is what...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I disagree. I've had players hand me player-facing 3pp stuff, and ended up using it. But in any case my compilation document is pretty...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Worrying about balance is overrated. Make an NPC. If the party decides to attack said NPC for whatever reason, then the NPC might die...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards? with Like.
Level Up has a number of lesser schools of magic where you could, for instance, be an Air Wizard by simply collecting a number of spells...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?.You've had two entire 5E playtests to try and get WotC to make you wanted and they didn't do it, and then you have had over 10 years to...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?.In the PF game I'm playing in, one of the players has a pair of human Sorcerers... a draconic and a fey. And their PCs have evolved...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?.What kind of help do you need? Help from people to get WotC to actually do what you want? That's not going to happen. If you want...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards? with Like.
Pathfinder 1st Edition really went into this with its' Sorcerous Bloodlines. Maybe a little too much as just about any highly magical...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?.I agree with you on this. The original 5E14 Sorcerer made it seem like one got sorcery from two different ways... either they had the...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards? with Like.
Sorcerer makes much more sense thematically if all those bolded points didn't work, and it was more explicitly ancestral.