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Flying Toaster reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with
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We used to joke about "Death by Gotcha", a method of DMing where things that would be painfully obvious to a real person but not to a... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
Kinda missing the point though. I've been saying all the way along that the sword has been given the prime real estate in the game...
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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
In 2e, the Great Spear in the Complete Fighter's Handbook was one of the better weapons around, and I made a Fighter who used one when I...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
This has long been a bugaboo of mine in the game. But, you smack right into the romanticism of the sword. Spears just aren't sexy...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Dragon Reflections #98 with Like.
I believe they said somewhere that subdual rules were used for PCs setting up their own personal fiefdoms and dungeons that other...
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Flying Toaster reacted to DrJawaPhD's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
The "right amount of complexity" is inherently good. "Too simple" is boring, and "too complex" is overwhelming/frustrating. Everyone...
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Flying Toaster reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
This topic is always fun. I'm sure this will go over wonderfully. Why must we always frame it as "complexity = good?" Game design isn't...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread Dragon Reflections #98.I had a few more late “staircase thoughts” about those weird dragon subdual rules from the 1E Monster Manual, and about efforts to buff...
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Flying Toaster reacted to DrJawaPhD's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
You cannot solve the "problems" you describe without increasing class complexity. It is fundamentally not possible (which you imply in...
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Flying Toaster reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
One time during a particularly nasty battle, when half the party was unconscious and the battle could swing either way, I rolled a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General What's your view on a pirate-driven campaign? with Like.
Another way to go about this is to consider Piracy just another extension of warfare. The PC's are patriots working for some nominally...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General What's your view on a pirate-driven campaign? with Like.
For a good guy/heroic pirate campaign have a bad guy nation/organization for them to raid. I played a good viking pirate in a campaign...
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Flying Toaster reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General What's your view on a pirate-driven campaign? with Like.
Aargh, pirates are a scurvy lot of no-good scum who deserve to walk the plank or hang from the yardarm! ;) A true pirate is going to be...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) The Great Wizard Extinction. with Like.
Talking like Doctor Strange is a core wizard ability.
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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) The Great Wizard Extinction. with Like.
Well as was pointed out, apparently some Wizards do get an ability like this. Though I was mostly responding to a poster who thought...