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Eearthsea_wizard replied to the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? +.Hopefully not opening a can of worms- but does everyone still running the realms run their drow and orcs in the traditional sense...
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Eearthsea_wizard replied to the thread D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting.https://www.enworld.org/threads/dungeons-dragons-releases-new-unearthed-arcana-subclasses-strongly-hinting-at-dark-sun.714936/ Well well...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to transmission89's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Do you find alignment useful in any way? with
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Seems it is the season for yet another round of online alignment debates. They fall every few years before a detente is reached yet... -
Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Warpiglet-7's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Do you find alignment useful in any way? with Like.
Yeah. it’s like bonds and flaws and such. It helps to summarize the way the character might express his bonds and flaws. I cannot...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
Here's why I sometimes run in FR rather than a homebrew setting: 1) Easy Lots of adventures are already written so I can just focus on...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I know it well so it’s easy to trot out odd bits of lore. And these days I can’t be bothered with homebrewing a world. Done that. I...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
1. Why It’s a high magic setting that has really well established setting structures - areas, gods, magic system, organisations. These...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
A quick search finds me another thread by the prolific Yora (this time on rpg.net), where he points out the following substantial...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
One thing I love about the realms is that it doesn’t pretend that the wider world doesn’t exist. Hat I mean by that is, in a lot of...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Older Beholder's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I always liked the Forgotten Realms Pantheon. So, there's that. The setting itself is varied enough that you can do anything you want...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
It’s fun, and most of my players have some aspect of the setting they like. My FR continuity pretends 5e didn’t happen, and continues...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I use it for most campaigns because it is familiar with vast lore to draw upon available on a handy wiki, but nobody I play with is...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I dont use FR per se, but its so expansive that I will refer back to its Lore and use its locations, factions and characters and set...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Weird Dave's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I've been running D&D for 30 years now, and while I acquired many of the 2E Forgotten Realms boxed sets and accessories in the 90s, for...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
There are quite a few classic adventures set there, most particularly Lost Mine of Phandelver, and it's a good, fairly generic high...