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If you like DCC, check out the 5E products that Goodman produces. Especially their Original Adventures Reincarnated line. Also Frog God... -
GothmogIV replied to the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me.I wonder too if breaking out of WotC's orbit isn't a way to approach thinking about 5e. As I said...somewhere in this long (and very...
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GothmogIV replied to the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me.That's what I did last time I ran it. Slow level progression, gritty realism for healing, removed some spells that made it too easy. It...
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GothmogIV replied to the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me.That's all very well said, thank you. I am realizing it's a mindset issue, not a quality issue. If I do run 5e again, I have to think...
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GothmogIV replied to the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me.I am leaning toward giving 5e another whirl (2014 edition...I'm not ready for 2024). This has all been helpful to me in re-framing what...
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I've been playing some version of D&D since the 80s, and I've always adhered to Moldvay's "no rule is inviolate" tagline to get through...
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I think that is the culture now. But being old school in some ways, I go in knowing I could die. And that is fine. I want risk or...
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I’ve heard it said before that PCs in older editions are nobodies who might, if they’re very lucky, live to become heroes. Whereas PCs...
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Yep! When I run OSR games for modern players for the first time, I have to brace them up front: "This is more like a roguelike video... -
I agree, but my players are still okay with their characters dying. On the other hand I also talk about it before we start playing and...
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Yes, absolutely! That’s a very astute observation, and to me it’s such a given, I wouldn’t have even thought of this as something to...
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GothmogIV replied to the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me.It seems like--and perhaps I am reading into what people have written--character longevity and development is much more of a focus now...
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There's an old saying in the Science Fiction fan community that "The Golden Age of Science Fiction is 14."
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One of the reasons I like D&D is that we can make the game our own. Even back in the day when other people were using 10 ft poles to...
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I’ll approach your question a bit differently than others. I started playing D&D about three years ago. The starter box intrigued me at...