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Distracted DM reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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Distracted DM reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
as far as the blog goes, it sounds more like the change is the issue rather than 5e getting long in the tooth. Not sure 6e would have...
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Distracted DM reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Where Are All The New Books In 2026 (D&Dfans article) with Like.
The speculation here is based on evidence. Evidence: Chris Perkins, Jeremy Crawford, and Jess Lanzio have all left WotC recently, and...
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Distracted DM reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
There was also the 'zine scene. All of these debates about how to run/play D&D from adversarial (even extremely so) to far more...
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Distracted DM replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Yeah, zines like Different Worlds, and Alarums and Excursions, had this kind of discourse and advice in them- people writing to...
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Distracted DM reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Memory isn’t that good, but there was stuff in White Dwarf, along with non-D&D RPGs, such as Traveller (and Travellers’ Journal). Bunch...
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Distracted DM reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
An Adversarial game of D&D is a very specific thing, and if everyone is on board with it it’s a perfectly fine way to play. A...
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Distracted DM reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Again, that is not what an adversarial game is. The DM tries to kill the PCs. They don't care about plot or NPCs. See The Temple of...
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Distracted DM reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Sure, there was lots of different advice given then, just as there is now. None of it is "right" or "wrong" you just have to get with a...
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Distracted DM reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
There were people giving that advice, at least by the early 1980s. It was TSR that was still driving adversarial gaming - as mentioned...
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Distracted DM reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I doubt it. Keith is writing a blog, not doing You Tube videos, as far as I know. His readers are 5e fans, buying his books in order to...
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Distracted DM reacted to plecostomus's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
The 2024 PHB lore text for Warlocks and Clerics, fwiw. Warlock Warlock additionally has under the Pact Magic feature: I don't see a...
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Distracted DM reacted to payn's post in the thread Dungeon Crawl Classics What is cool to you from a player perspective? with Like.
Cant disagree with any of that. I do enjoy the funnel but the first several games of DCC I did was straight to level 3. So, I dont think...
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Distracted DM reacted to Lakesidefantasy's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with Like.
Cool! I've been doing this for years. I also do it for ceiling heights. I put a line under the number to indicate differences in...
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That’s how you get a million dollar Kickstarter! The idea is to push the average ledge level up as high as possible. Only two TTRPG...