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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Oh, but some did! There were folks on this forum and others, that I personally spoke with, who swore up and down that because Dragonborn... -
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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It also assumes that the DM was willing to provide that benevolence. A DM was certainly under not obligation to provide cool stuff, and... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to GobHag's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I absolutely do not want my CoolStuff to be by the GM's beneficence, using and getting those CoolStuff is the very reason I play the...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
... This is, I think, an important distinction; as you say, I think I can feel confident that this behavior was widespread; whether...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Exactly. If death happens at the drop of a hat even when you're playing legitimately, it's that much harder to detect when it's done...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Again I think that the Rules from 2000 and earlier were much harder than they are now and this allowed DMs who didn't read the rule...
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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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It was also a rejection of The Hickman Revolution style of story focused play and embrace of The Dungeon as a duel of whits between DM... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.As above, I think the bigger issue is that when we have already controlled for "at least one stat must be 14+, your sum-of-mods must be...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.A bigger issue is that I'd say about a quarter of possible rolled stat arrays, despite being legal, will get written off as being "too"...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.No. It "should" not be any specific thing. It is a design choice. You are conflating "this is how 1e does it" with "this is how all...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Warpiglet-7's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
I was laughing when I typed it I never cheat at any game, ever. Except for when I was 10 and tricked a player into believing cards...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Love.
This appears to be very much the problem that happened with the Dragon Age RPG and that haunted the AGE system for more than a little...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Potential paths of power.I too love dragons, so we are not too different on that front, at least. I find the pinnacle of fantasy is in the variety, what we can...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.As above, I think there is a compromise. "I roll, you don't". Really? People aren't that variable IRL. Like genuinely. There was some...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Eh. People have been used to D&D forcing combat to one degree or another on every character for decades. I don't see it as...