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Flying Toaster reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Critical Role Critical Role Season 4 DM says encounters will not be balanced. with
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I think this is to be expected with a West Marches campaign. Though, I think an element of good sandbox design is setting up different... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Echohawk's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 2: Settings with Like.
This is the second in a series of articles attempting to answer the question: How much D&D stuff is there anyway? In the previous...
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Flying Toaster reacted to humble minion's post in the thread Best RPG for Arabian adventures with Like.
While I confess I have not watched the 18 hours of this analysis, in defense of a setting I am extremely fond of, I should point out...
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Tales of the Caliphate Nights is quite detailed, and it does introduce a number of non-combat minigames and subsystems to encourage...
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Tales of the Caliphate Nights is a setting which I'd rate as excellent. IMO next to Shadows of Cthulhu, it's among the best settings...
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Flying Toaster reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Best RPG for Arabian adventures with Like.
That's in my infinitely-long TBR pile. It does sound fantastic. Can't wait to finally read it. For the pirate angle, there's always...
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Flying Toaster reacted to ReshiIRE's post in the thread Pathfinder 2E What is needed in a non-Golarion setting? with Like.
There is, but a lot of that really is flavour based. The requirements for some backgrounds are based in Golarian, so if you wanted...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
Are you using the RAW as written in 1979 or are you including UA and-or Dragon-article amendments and additions thereafter? I ask...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
As I played the game, this is correct. A M-U in melee combat could not cast a spell. In 3e D&D terms trying to cast a spell in melee...
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Flying Toaster reacted to fuindordm's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
I don't think I ever played RAW. As a teenager, we didn't master the rules, ignored things we didn't understand fully or that were too...
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Flying Toaster reacted to fuindordm's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
My interpretation of p.65 is that if a spellcaster begins a combat round adjacent to a melee combatant then they should not even attempt...
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Flying Toaster reacted to John Dallman's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
The groups I played in at college generally reckoned that the 1e initiative system didn't make sense, and used simpler homebrew methods...
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Flying Toaster reacted to John Dallman's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
One group I knew found a way to make it work: they had large tables on their character sheets of armour class vs armour type, with each...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Voadam's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
That is the way 2e does it using their d10 initiative, roll a d10, add modifiers for individual actions (casting time, weapon speed)...
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Flying Toaster reacted to SlyFlourish's post in the thread ToV Other than "It's not made by WotC", what's the elevator pitch for Tales of the Valiant? with Like.
In fairness, I wrote parts of the TOV GMG. They also have the Monster Vault 2 which just came out and has a bunch of other cool stuff...