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EzekielRaiden reacted to DammitVictor's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with
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This is true, and people say it a lot, but it's not true in the sense that people say it. Character flaws make characters interesting... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Hence my aforementioned, in not quite so many words, "wow...feeling like you're getting snubbed for loving simulationism....must be so...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed.Aha, fair enough. If I had to pick twelve, probably... Alchemist Assassin Avenger Barbarian Monk Paladin Psion Shaman Sorcerer Summoner...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Your Core Classes if The Core 4 Aren't Allowed.Well, my full list of 24 (not 25 as I had previously said) class-concepts starts from the existing 13 of 5e, and adds, in no particular...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.If I may ask a possibly insensitive question: What, if anything, would change if you learned that that wasn't the design process, and...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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Punish also meant punish. As in, cripple PCs abilities and limit their options. Ravenloft weakened turn undead and most spells to make... -
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.
agreed, it is as magical. They keep adding more effects that can only be explained by magic rather than anything that is distinctly for...
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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 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...