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EzekielRaiden reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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agreed, it is as magical. They keep adding more effects that can only be explained by magic rather than anything that is distinctly for... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
then D&D isn’t D&D either, instead there were several very different games using that trademark to sell more units
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed.CLASS Swordmage, Avenger, Druid, Ranger (e.g. 4e's Hunter subclass) or Paladin, Monk, Warlord, Sorcerer If, that is, it has to be only...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.And in a meaningful way, you always have been. Otherwise we'd never have heard from Gygax himself that HP can't be meat-points, because...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Not without substantial changes, agreed. Two 3rd party takes on 5e: Adventures in Middle Earth and Brancalonia did "low" fantasy pretty...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.How we express our ideas often matters just as much as what we choose to express. I am as guilty as anyone of failing to remember this...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.I have tried, over the past few years, to look at the design from this perspective: Which direction is easiest to move away from, but...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Writing off an entire book with the phrase, "chosen to fully indulge a decade’s worth of munchkin demands for MOAR POWER!" (exact quote...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) So, what does the Artificer "replace"?.In 2014, I thought 5e was simply wrong-headed on most things. Now? I think it grew from reasonable roots--its success points to that...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) So, what does the Artificer "replace"? with Like.
bounded accuracy is good and all but i don't think the 1/2 level bonus is something to get rid of either, one of the criticisms against...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Being perfectly frank? The blogpost referenced by the OP, and several posters on this very forum, have sounded exactly the same to me...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.It's very clearly presented as a "these changes are bad and wrong". If you don't see that in the word choice and such, I'm not sure what...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Friday Nonsense: Add One Stat To D&D (For PCs).If I had to make D&D have 7 stats, I think I'd either split Wisdom into Perception and Understanding (or Insight, renaming the skill)...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Power creep is not a massive difference, by definition. Like...we call it power "creep" because it's a slow process of small steps. And...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General What You're Missing with Torches in B/X D&D.B/X. "GP weight" is very literal. The weight of N coins of gold is N gp-weight. The B/X text itself, or at least the one I'm looking...
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