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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
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Many tables in the early days mooshed together original with Advanced. Many rules in Advanced were dropped or not noticed. Gary... -
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.
is it? to me it is about being less powerful characters, less hard rules and more actual descriptions of what you do vs rolling against...
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Distracted DM replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.Have to be careful though, because if the name gets TOO popularized/generic then you risk losing your trademark 😂
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Distracted DM reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
One thing I learned getting an MBA was that the #1 predictor of success in a market was being first in the market. Another thing I...
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Distracted DM replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.In fact, thanks to The Elusive Shift (which was incredibly well-researched), we know that there wasn't uniformity in playstyle. edit...
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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.
You said yourself, groups were siloed. That makes it pretty much impossible that there was any uniformity in play style. In effect there...
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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 Like.
Polyhedron had some I think.
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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...