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DrJawaPhD replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.Rolling stats is dumb and I would never do it. But yeah anyways dumping Intelligence is always the right answer unless you're a Wizard... -
DrJawaPhD replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Both sets of 5e rules are much more superhero/epic fantasy than nitty gritty low fantasy, but I would agree that 2014 rules were more...
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DrJawaPhD reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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Breaking the quote down to respond to point by point. I’m sorry, but this claim is extremely dubious to me. 5.14 has always been... -
DrJawaPhD reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I just wish they could/would make an edition of D&D that is designed to be a toolbox, with a GM (or group collaboratively) mixing and...
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DrJawaPhD reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Also the issue is that many who state that they want to be narrative first then figure out the mechanical balance do it by either not...
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DrJawaPhD reacted to Sulicius's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I have seen some of the frustrations Keith has with the revision on some Discords before, and I understand him. I think he's just left...
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DrJawaPhD replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.That's a really good quote! It is very true. For me this is a great description of why 2024 rules are so much better - because...
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DrJawaPhD reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
That…seems really unfair.
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DrJawaPhD reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
That doesn’t change the fact that casters have access to the ability to simply make things happen and martials don't. Again...
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DrJawaPhD replied to the thread D&D General Rewarding player empathy: restoring an NPC’s wings in a starter adventure (Stormwreck Isle).I do totally agree with this. Just like some people go overboard with verisimilitude at the expense of gameplay, on the opposite end of...
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DrJawaPhD replied to the thread D&D General Rewarding player empathy: restoring an NPC’s wings in a starter adventure (Stormwreck Isle).I have to very strongly disagree with you that some sort of verisimilitude logic should ever get in the way of letting the players do a...
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DrJawaPhD reacted to Aenwyn's post in the thread D&D General Rewarding player empathy: restoring an NPC’s wings in a starter adventure (Stormwreck Isle) with Like.
I understand the point, and I don’t want to forbid my players from choosing violence or revenge. I’ve just realized that I need to...
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DrJawaPhD replied to the thread D&D General Rewarding player empathy: restoring an NPC’s wings in a starter adventure (Stormwreck Isle).The quest giver is an Adult Bronze Dragon in disguise, whose "capabilities go beyond what is presented here" (quote from the module)...
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DrJawaPhD replied to the thread D&D General Rewarding player empathy: restoring an NPC’s wings in a starter adventure (Stormwreck Isle).It seems like the module just says that Myla's wings are "badly injured", not that they're completely decapitated or anything. So I...
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DrJawaPhD replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Cartographer May be Underrated. The Cheerleader A Build..Deryan's Helpful Homunculi is technically not listed as an Artificer spell but that is almost certainly an oversight by WotC seeing as...