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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Why doesn't D&D have fire arrows?.Because D&D is allergic to actually taking seriously the technology and social structures of early-Renaissance Europe. It wants... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread D&D General Oh Please give me some Happy Backgrounds!! with
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La Maupin had a very comfortable life and I am absolutely certain in a D&D world she would have been an adventurer. She had no reason... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18) with
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This is part of what makes me very suspicious of the D&D skill system. How your character is defined and how they interact with the... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18) with Like.
I mean, it really depends what your DM tends to call for. I don’t really know how anyone who plays with more than a group or two can...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18).Then you are, frankly, being willfully blind to the exact issue and then accusing the non-GMs of being the cause of the problem. The...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Yes--but my point is that there are (many) ways to get folks on board with the new thing.... ...and that that's actually one of the...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.And yet what do we so often actually see? Incredibly cookie-cutter worlds, incredibly cookie-cutter player options, incredibly...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.I do, yes. Because I genuinely believe that a competently-designed game can actually deliver on the real, practical version of the...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Of course, as I said back when it was still the incredibly stupidly-named "One D&D" playtest, 5.5e won't have the longevity 5.0 had...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Yaarel's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) [+] What does a non-spellcaster Psion need/look like? with Like.
For a noncaster psionic class, the Dispel Magic spell is effective against the psionic effects. But the Counterspell would fail against...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Statistical testing isn't any more expensive then the incredibly time-wasteful process they went through with 5.0. "D&D Next" wasted...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.People will like it or hate it completely without regard to how you've designed it, so I see little point in caring about that part.
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EzekielRaiden reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) "You Can Do 3 Things" - My Nephew's D&D Houserule with Love.
I think the biggest impact of 3 actions/reactions per turn doesn't really have anything to do with the shape of a turn itself: it's the...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.TL;DR: Mearls and other design team members were doing a game (recorded for a livestream or podcast, can't remember which) as a promo...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.I'm afraid I can't see whomever you quoted, @payn. But my point was that, for all the effort they poured into (allegedly) making the...