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DEFCON 1 reacted to TaranTheWanderer's post in the thread D&D General Perception vs Investigation with
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While I think it's supposed to be used in this way, In my experience, this never happens. How I've always seen it played out is, "You... -
I like having investigation be useful against traps specifically because rogues tend to have decent intelligence and often dump wisdom...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D General Perception vs Investigation.Because I always found 5E's Perception skill too overused in the beginning, I made a very switch very early on in all my campaigns that...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to TaranTheWanderer's post in the thread D&D General Perception vs Investigation with Like.
Every published adventure I’ve read uses perception to notice traps. In my opinion, that makes perception too much of a catch-all...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Did Vampires just become more of a problem?.It's up to each DM. No DM is forced to make things vampires or not make them vampires, doesn't matter what the books say. The books...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to LuisCarlos17f's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Did Vampires just become more of a problem? with Like.
In my homemade setting almost all the vampire gnolls were terminated when the halflings from the Happy Valley asked help to the Rose of...
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Making an economy work in the real world is hard enough. Think how magic mixes things up.🤔
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?.Look, we're talking about a teenage girl who stepped up to Dungeon Master for the very first time, running a game for a bunch of adults...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Wild Shape: Inefficient or Useless? with Like.
Wildshape is an exploration features unless your subclass makes it a combat or social feature. It's basically a 1st level utility spell.
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes? with Like.
And how are we supposed to find the forest with all these trees in the way? The idea that TTRPGs are exempt from social contracts is so...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
Seems a little antagonistic. I don't run into this problem often at my table, but I have seen it in the past many times and have no...
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DEFCON 1 replied to the thread Critical Role Professor DM interviews Critical Role Cast.Are you actually looking to have a productive conversation with me? Cause you have ignored quite a bit of my points to try and get your...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
Like I said, I think maybe I just don't like noir, because you're right about all of this.
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
I get that, but again, in this scenario we are dealing with real people who make decisions based on their real experience as gamers...
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DEFCON 1 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
I think @DEFCON 1 's point is that in real life we don't regularly worry that the grocery store is going to betray us for its own...