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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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yeah, pretty sure some did, I just don’t think it was anywhere near as ubiquitous as some make it sound… I basically went with ‘I would... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Sure, that's perfectly reasonable. It's not exactly my interpretation, but I'm not crazy far from that either. But my point was that...
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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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And yet Gary is taken as The Word when it comes to how D&D should be played. The OSR started as "D&D as Gary intended". We had a whole... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Are you familiar with the section of the (IIRC) 1e DMG where it specifically instructs the GM to behave in a passive-aggressive manner...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
In fact, thanks to The Elusive Shift (which was incredibly well-researched), we know that there wasn't uniformity in playstyle. edit...
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Nah, it's just something a lot of people are coy about wanting. I agree with the position that it's the intersection of stats and class...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.As a follow-up to my previous post: For me, not-balanced is boring. Because an unbalanced game does one of two things. Either it makes...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Yep. This is why balance is aspirational - unless you tightly constrain the play space, there's no real way to know for sure your...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
True, but balancing asymmetrical options is WAY harder.
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EzekielRaiden reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Love.
things don't need to be the same to be balanced.
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.I missed this post on first reading, so I'd like to ask a question. How do you define "balance"? You've said it's a myth, but what is...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Love.
Since its been bemoaned to some extent for half a century, I'm not holding my breath on the latter.
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Was it "driven by design"? Or was the design driven by player preference? Because that seems to be the root of the disagreement here...
