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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.In the early days of D&D there was an almost punishing emphasis on DM control of all aspects of game play, especially the campaign... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Lazybones's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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Back in the day I used to run a lot of campaigns in the CRPG Neverwinter Nights, which used the 3e ruleset and had a great toolset for... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Doctor Futurity's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yes, you totally could, and we actually did. The great thing about AD&D 2E in fact was that it provided an entire line of historical...
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Flying Toaster reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I would be fascinated by that and have a lot of questions to ask and probably tell them about all the rules hacks we added to A&A back...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I always go by the belief "The DM can make any setting they want with any kind of race, class, or spell restrictions. But the DM...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Completely agree. The idea that "D&D doesn't do generic fantasy very well" has always struck me as one of those instances where the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) GMs: How long should it usually take to go from level 1 to 4? with Like.
I’ve been thinking about this question in terms of what Tier 1 play actually represents. The poll focuses on how long characters...
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Flying Toaster reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Well, that's the thing, right? If you approached it with that attitude, it was never going to work for you. But if you had buy in from...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.If a DM wants to run a strongly themed campaign that restricts or bans some of the familiar PC options, I would expect that they would...
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Flying Toaster 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.
The AD&D “green books” were evidence of that. Official source books for running D&D in historical Earth settings (eg Age of Heroes’...
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Flying Toaster reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
It doesn't matter. It was mentioned previously that the official setting in question that the particular player i mentioned was trying...
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Flying Toaster reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
This came up because of an official setting that sells well in three and a half editions so far. The setting serves a different purpose...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
There's always a critical word missing in this sort of thing. Good limitations create flavor. Good limitations breed creativity. Good...
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Flying Toaster reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with
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Flying Toaster reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I think we established long ago we play very different games. :) That's never been the case for me, even back as far as OD&D. The...