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EzekielRaiden reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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But metaphorically, if it’s a PC species, it is. “Human” in this context, denotes personhood, not Homo sapiens sapiens. -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.Perhaps. I find it more useful to not spread the term too thinly. Agreed. The bigger problem is that in the race to the...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Can you point me to an example of this from WotC's adventures? I get what you're saying, but, I'm really struggling to think of a...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
If a player was goofing around on their phone for two hours rather than being actively engaged with your game it sounds like your game...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.Er... You do realize that that was the way things were done...back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, right? That's not "political correctness"...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Not really sure why it doesn't compare. And sure, there are multiple approaches, one of which is to slash levels or the like. But there...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Except that it was still high level play. That's part of the problem here. Folks reject certain things as being "not high level play"...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.You did not ask me, but--at least if I were the one writing it--I would expect that at the level you lose access to Animate Dead, you...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
But this isn't simple. You're describing fairly complicated PC build rules. I can see what you're trying to do. But I'm not persuaded...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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I've GMed a lot of, and played a bit of, high level FRPGing - AD&D, Rolemaster, 4e D&D. 4e D&D worked well, and to me it seemed pretty... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to MichaelSomething's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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Gygaxian naturalism in action! May the best play style win! -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
There are principals for how to run high level play. There are a few right ways and a lot of wrong ways. Folks need guidance, not to...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
It's not this simple. If you don't teach people how to run and play high level, they are not going to do it or probably do it badly and...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Example of "session zero" guidance in published adventures?.If they do, I can't really see it as being more than a very limited sense. Otherwise, every setting gazetteer or the equivalent would...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.More importantly the "political correctness" thing is often used to guise over some...I mean pretty not-great positions? Sapient beings...