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el-remmen reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with
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I can understand the desire or want to have more / different NPC statblocks, and there's nothing wrong with that desire. But I... -
el-remmen reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I liked this post and quoted it for truth. I wish I could praise it more.
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el-remmen reacted to nevin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Works just fine. 8 just make notes of what he did that session and if we meet him again he gets a bit better fleshed out with each...
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el-remmen reacted to Swarmkeeper's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I’m unclear why people want to create more work for themselves by building NPCs like PCs. Need a Nth level wizard? Use the Mage stat...
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el-remmen reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Creating a 6th level wizard is mostly just giving that wizard spells based on that level and adjusting HP. And that’s it unless you want...
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el-remmen reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
We are talking about how NPC rules are written in general. Of course we are talking about multiple NPCs. I mean there is rather...
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el-remmen replied to the thread D&D General Thoughts on HD and Blood Magic.Honestly when I have done similar effects, I have the player/creature roll the hit die sacrificed and that is the bonus or penalty (or...
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el-remmen replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.I am in agreement. There are plenty of 3PP products if you don’t feel like making it up your self and plenty of room to make it up...
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el-remmen reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I dont like debating online, cause nuance is lost in text. But I will give it one last try. Y'all are taking about failure state in...
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el-remmen reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Planescape Exploded city map of Sigil on Inkarnate with Like.
A carefully measured and known population and geography seem against the weird spirit of Sigil. "Lots" and "big and confusing" seem to...
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el-remmen replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.The vast majority of NPCs don’t even need stats. For a good number I will just note something like Wiz6/LN. And that is all the info i...
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el-remmen reacted to HaroldTheHobbit's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with
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Current D&D isn’t a delicate machine that will fall apart if you touch it. Make some sh*t up and adjust and adapt in the moment if... -
el-remmen reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with
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No,literally, if the game doesn't give you guidelines, it fails. There can be no assumption that the user will go find answers in... -
el-remmen reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I agree with this as well. I've said many times that CR is a joke.
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el-remmen reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
How about instead of wildly making up numbers, you look at existing creatures of an appropriate challenge and compare? We've (the...