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It's easy to get big publicly traded companies mixed up with smaller private companies. Critical Role is huge but there's no reason to...
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One thing I think is interesting in their decision calculus is that D&D may be familiar but D&D 2024 is not. If they made the decision a...
Sep 26, 2025
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One point: WoTC did not pay them to play D&D 2024.
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What’s the actual mechanic? A death spiral example is like losing points in an ability score like Strength, which causes you to fail...
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This is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and...
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Other than "It's not made by WotC", what's the elevator pitch for Tales of the Valiant?
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I think you’ve got the gist of it. It is an update to the 5e rules, and largely depends on how much you think 5e rules need updating...
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So I have played a TON of D&D 2024. Mostly as a DM, though I would say 1/5th was as a player in a tier 3 game where we transitioned...
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How can I do a Charisma-Investigation (or a Strength/Dexterity-Investigation if I can't use Charisma) to find a secret door?
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carry lots of water and pour it down the walls and see if it drains somewhere in walls or floor, or just take a maul and bash on every...
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Strength works to find secret doors, holes, or passages by pushing on everything, but gives you Disadvantage on any saves against traps...
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You're asking us to find a way to convince your DM to use CHA to find secret doors? Maybe just accept you have a party of dum-dums and...
Sep 25, 2025
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Oh interesting, what mechanics stand out as an improvement to you?
Sep 25, 2025
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Why wouldn't the players like the changes? Most of them make their PCs stronger.
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Since people are giving more specific thoughts: Species should have been Ancestry, but the options are fine. I like that Cthonic and...
Sep 25, 2025
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Normally, I would not argue, but this is the Rate 2024 thread, so I am going to argue: running 2024 now, I have not found a change yet...
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I mean some people absolutely hated Counterspell, so I guess a nerfed to near pointlessness version seems like an improvement to them...
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