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GobHag
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D&D 5E (2014)
Let's Talk About Guns in 5E
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Why should mages consider guns a threat? You know who can get access to relatively large amount of fearless fighting force /and/ known...
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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I'd surprisingly argue that it's orthogonal but most dice light are also power light. CaT wants cool prompts and powers because they can...
Apr 3, 2026
GobHag
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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The reason why it's called Combat As X is because DnD has a lot of rules about combat, the PC abilities are mostly combat(esp as edition...
Apr 2, 2026
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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The defining advice for War is to play at the world, for Combat it's the Challenge Rating, for Theatrical it's to shoot the monk
Apr 1, 2026
GobHag
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I would also like to suggest that thinking that CaT has to reveal characterization or show thematic element is a mistake, the other...
Apr 1, 2026
GobHag
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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I also believe that CaT can be something that's divorced from the fiction, while the term Combat as Performance is seen as negative I...
Mar 30, 2026
GobHag
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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IMO that isn't an important part, like how CaW is about the deadliness of combat and diegetically using the things in the world to reach...
Mar 29, 2026
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This is an expansion of the definition then. Because at no point was mechanical escalation and deflation during and between combats...
Mar 29, 2026
GobHag
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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In CaT, the son 2 more charges of Smite but no Heals in the fight with his dad because he just fought his uncle. Fight's gonna be short...
Mar 29, 2026
GobHag
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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Both are still theatre is my point, I should know because I do both--sometimes a fight is just meant to make the players feel good(shoot...
Mar 29, 2026
GobHag
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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And the most important element for them both is the character expression anyhow--Killing your dad ontop of the crubling castle you once...
Mar 29, 2026
GobHag
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Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode
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Yeah I'm gonna lump that into theatre too. Especially because the most inspirational type of genre--battle shonen-- for Combat as...
Mar 29, 2026
GobHag
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When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?
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Clearly you don't know about Pathfinder 2e enough, we even have a class that's about being burly and tough that isn't a fighter while...
Mar 3, 2026
GobHag
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When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?
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It is the point to be entitled yes, I don't consider this anything wrong though.
Mar 3, 2026
GobHag
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When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?
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They'd be considered quite rude unless one of them chooses to have different specialities.
Mar 3, 2026
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