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Distracted DM replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Homunculus Servant, Conjure Constructs, Deryan's Helpful Homunculi have class restrictions that make no sense.Yeah I'm still thinking of artificers as actual item creators, like in 3e where they were just really good at creating real magic items... -
Distracted DM replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Homunculus Servant, Conjure Constructs, Deryan's Helpful Homunculi have class restrictions that make no sense.Regarding "artificers would fit into most settings," is there a magic item creation conflict of identity? A setting may be: magic is...
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Distracted DM reacted to DrJawaPhD's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Homunculus Servant, Conjure Constructs, Deryan's Helpful Homunculi have class restrictions that make no sense with
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Yes there are artificers in Faerun. As noted above, the Deryan's Homunculi spell is named after an Artificer from Faerun who is shown... -
Distracted DM reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Yeah fully agree. I have quite the appreciation for how the tiered system worked in 4e, how the progressive engine catered for that...
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Distracted DM reacted to Blue's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Every time I see it the clickbait nature of this post title of this gets to me. Mearls didn't say that, as the poster admitted in the...
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Distracted DM replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.We can figure out plenty of workarounds to make control spells not "ruin" it, so we know what that looks like, but they're just...
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Distracted DM reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
4e D&D also defined them in terms of what's at stake, and related stuff like what is the scope/field of action for the PCs. It can be...
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Distracted DM reacted to DrJawaPhD's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Homunculus Servant, Conjure Constructs, Deryan's Helpful Homunculi have class restrictions that make no sense with
Wow.
Tasha's had 4th level Summon Construct, which wouldn't be legal at most tables since it was reprinted in the 2024 PHB, but also it was... -
Distracted DM reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It? with Like.
Yes. Exactly. You suggested there was no verisimilitude reason to map,and have now proved there is.
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Distracted DM reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It? with Like.
Points and lines Each location or Area of confict gets a number and lines connecting them to other numbers.
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Distracted DM replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) One Year On. Warlocks How to Build Them?.One player that I had did Warlock 16/Paladin 2, for a super-smite build. It was pretty gross with how much damage it could do...
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No known way. It’s possible Wish might work, but if so that’s not common knowledge. If players want to seek out a genie or something to...
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Distracted DM reacted to Mustrum_Ridcully's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Oh man, i am getting nostalgic for 4E. Epic Destinies were surprisingly simple constructs and yet really worked well to sell their...
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Distracted DM reacted to Mongoose_Matt's post in the thread Traveller 5e coming from World's Largest RPG in cooperation with Mongoose Publishing with Like.
True, except we are not the publishers of this one - it is simply a licence to a company that wants to take a swing at a 5E version...
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Distracted DM reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
A 19th level PC is close to Epic tier. Here's an example of an episode of upper-Paragon play: In AD&D terms, this is in the same general...