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Edgar Ironpelt replied to the thread D&D 3E/3.5 3rd Edition Revisited - Better play with the power of hindsight?.No, it's a house-rule thing. 3e RAW implicitly assumes much lower incomes for NPCs. -
Edgar Ironpelt replied to the thread D&D 3E/3.5 3rd Edition Revisited - Better play with the power of hindsight?.Sure, a PC can always choose to spend only enough to live a modest or even an ascetic life. What they can't do is live that modest life...
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Edgar Ironpelt reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I think there is another key difference here. The goal in a fixed world sandbox isn't just to construct a world that has verisimilitude... -
Edgar Ironpelt replied to the thread D&D 3E/3.5 3rd Edition Revisited - Better play with the power of hindsight?.But I don't accept that as given: See below. The assumptions I'm making are: 1. The median income for characters of Nth level is...
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Edgar Ironpelt replied to the thread D&D 3E/3.5 3rd Edition Revisited - Better play with the power of hindsight?.It depends on what standards one considers 'reasonable.' There's a tricky non-intuitive difference between "wealth" and "income" and I...
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Edgar Ironpelt replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..An assumption here is that the PC failed to bribe the guard because the guard wasn't corrupt. But that's not the only way to interpret a...
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Edgar Ironpelt reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D 3E/3.5 3rd Edition Revisited - Better play with the power of hindsight? with Like.
I personally like "carousing" rules, where it's not the treasure that the PCs take home that counts for XP, but the money they spend on...
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Edgar Ironpelt replied to the thread How Fantastical Do You Like Your Fantasy World?.Another fine line is between magic that's expensive enough to rule out common mundane use and magic that's cheap enough to completely...
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Edgar Ironpelt reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread How Fantastical Do You Like Your Fantasy World? with Like.
I prefer the world to be both explainable and comprehensible. While I love weird, and for example think that Nitro Ferguson's idea of...
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Edgar Ironpelt reacted to Bohandas's post in the thread D&D (2024) Eye Tyrant. Who Died and Made You Gygax?? Design Your Own D&D 2024X3. with Like.
3.5e mixed with best ideas from pathfinder 1, 5e, and osr, and furthermore also somehow tweaked to achieve the following: *Order that...
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Edgar Ironpelt reacted to Bohandas's post in the thread Computer games and the save checkpoint system with Like.
I despise when a game has any limitations on saving. Checkpoints are a bother, and so is being unable to save to a new file in the...
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Edgar Ironpelt reacted to Argyle King's post in the thread How Fantastical Do You Like Your Fantasy World? with Like.
I'm less concerned with the level of fantasy and more concerned about internal-consistency and in-world plausibility. By default, I...
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Edgar Ironpelt replied to the thread How Fantastical Do You Like Your Fantasy World?.That's a point of difference between us. For me, a major reason to have fantastic elements is to cater to the escapist fantasy of a more...
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Edgar Ironpelt reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread How Fantastical Do You Like Your Fantasy World? with Like.
What I prefer is what I call "grounded weirdness." There are weird and fantastic things, but I try to present them as believable part of...
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Edgar Ironpelt reacted to Silvercat Moonpaw's post in the thread How Fantastical Do You Like Your Fantasy World? with Like.
I like it as fantastical as possible.....except for how people act. I can have a hard time comprehending real human behavior, so I need...