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For what it's worth, I allow 33 classes in my typical ACKS/BX (race-as-class) games. My upcoming Rolemaster game has 39 available...
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Some players care. One of the things that makes D&D so popular is it caters to a wide audience. If you don't care about the...
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The main-gauche is a cultural (European) weapon. Being a cultural weapon, it doesn't have a table listing its specific attributes. The...
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We should be able to laugh emoji and heart emoji a post!
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The original was unique, until Spelljammer revealed there was a whole planet of them, where they rule the surface, and the underground...
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You just need to use a better tarrasque. https://a5e.tools/node/1799
Aug 13, 2025
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Yup- people can change their minds! Or be inconsistent based on how they're feeling 😆 I'm no Tolkien, but a lot of my ttrpg setting...
Aug 13, 2025
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::: waves arms at the who supposedly wrote the Hobbit and LotR in universe, as well as at copies of The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales...
Aug 13, 2025
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i'm aware, but i've only seen the movie version of that scene, i could not slog my way through the books, i tried.
Aug 13, 2025
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Hobbits are free from desires of wealth and ambition. Also, here are some greedy greedy hobbitses with the ambition to take over Frodo's...
Aug 13, 2025
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This seems to call for an experiment of giving the ring to Otho and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins for a while...
Aug 13, 2025
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I think in the end it depends on whether you consider "hobbits are free of the things that the ring preys on, that is its power of...
Aug 13, 2025
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Yeah iirc they had an effect, but they didn't work as Sauron wanted- they didn't become servants, they just became extra...
Aug 13, 2025
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To be fair, dwarves were explicitly designed by the Valar Aule to be resistant to the works of the Enemy. That's why Sauron couldn't use...
Aug 13, 2025
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I'll go with the Lord of the Rings books where it was said over your reference that wasn't written by Tolkien, thank you. Hobbits were...
Aug 13, 2025
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