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    D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D.

    I've never had this experience - I always see people excited about the idea of playing, seem serious about putting a group together, but then everyone is only available on the 37th of Febtober (leap years only) so everything breaks down after a session or two. I'm not actually sure which...
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    New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More

    I dunno man, Comet tattoo looks overpowered to me
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    D&D 5E (2024) Any ideas for Avatar of Bane? Lvl 10 PCs?

    You are correct but the differences seem rather minor to me. Both versions are all about tyranny and control, the only big difference is the Forgotten Realms version having the backstory of being in a group of former mortals who ascended to godhood together
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    D&D 5E (2024) Any ideas for Avatar of Bane? Lvl 10 PCs?

    Godly Grimoire third party content by Echidna Design has stat blocks for Avatars of each deity in the Dawn War pantheon, including Bane. They have scaling options at CR13, CR19, and CR23. The book is really cool but I haven't used any of the stat blocks in combat before so I couldn't speak...
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    Spelljammer Could this mutiny have been handled better?

    Were you sad and uncomfortable because you as a real-life player weren't ok with torture / execution being included in the game? Or was it more your character was forced to be involved in something he was not ok with? Both are completely valid reasons to be uncomfortable, but the path forward...
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    RPG Evolution: Craft Everything

    I love crafting in DnD! I think it's inevitable that official crafting rules will always lag behind, with every DM implementing their own house rules for crafting (including no crafting available). Crafting is so tied to loot distribution which is always 100% controlled by the DM, that any...
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    D&D General The joys of playing a PC with low stats

    I love this list! I've always preferred to rely on roleplaying traits like these, regardless of what your character stats are. Most players hate having any low stats on their character but are perfectly fine roleplaying multiple of the "flaws" listed above, whether it aligns with their...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Feedback on a Feat for Blind PCs -- Sightless Warrior

    That is extremely powerful for an Origin Feat. At level 1 it's already the Observant feat plus a buffed version of Blind Fighting. And then it scales to basically be Boon of Truesight epic feat. Does that make it "too overpowered"? Only you and your table can answer that. Will other...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How balanced would be this feat?

    I would say it is balanced fine, leaning towards too weak to ever be used. You're basically adding +1 average damage per attack compared to what can typically be achieved, which is really weak compared to many other feats available, although this is set up to be more widely versatile than...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How's the adoption of the new Goliath types going?

    Goliaths seem popular now, particularly Fire for extra damage and Frost for the slow effect. Stone is also popular for the classic damage reduction. On paper, Hill is really good for melee builds, but I haven't seen anyone actually play one yet. As far as how they fit into the gaming world...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Hunter's Mark, Hex, and the illusive balance

    Divine Favor at 1d4 per hit is weak enough to not require Concentration, but then Hunter's Mark at 1d6 per hit is too powerful to stack with other damage Concentration spells. There's nothing contradictory here but 1 extra damage per hit seems like an awfully small delta to confidently draw the...
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    D&D General Would You Play High Level (12-15);Wiith Pre Generated Characters? Mostly 5.0/5.5 but theoretically any edition.

    I've never heard of anyone playing those games in America. This has nothing to do with country of origin, your only shot at ever finding people to play obscure TTRPGs with would be online, which everyone can access
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    D&D General Would You Play High Level (12-15);Wiith Pre Generated Characters? Mostly 5.0/5.5 but theoretically any edition.

    It's pretty simple logic really. DnD is the best TTRPG gaming system because it has by far the most players, and then because the system itself is decent enough. After some tailoring by the DM, DnD works pretty well (but definitely not perfectly) for just about any campaign type you could ever...
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    D&D General Would You Play High Level (12-15);Wiith Pre Generated Characters? Mostly 5.0/5.5 but theoretically any edition.

    Yes, obviously you were insulting others when you were telling them they are playing the game wrong and that they should play video games instead.
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    D&D General Would You Play High Level (12-15);Wiith Pre Generated Characters? Mostly 5.0/5.5 but theoretically any edition.

    Yes it is the default. That does not make it "the way the game is intended to be played", and worthy of insulting others to go play video games instead if they dare to not use the default rules.
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