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    Level Up (A5E) How is Bounding Strike combat maneuver supposed to work?

    Yes, it does taper off. Luckily, you can replace a maneuver with another of the same Degree when you gain more maneuvers. Berserker's gain an additional maneuver at 5th level so they can swap it out when they get an additional attack. Heck, I'd be tempted to allow a PC to spend 2 points and...
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    Level Up (A5E) How is Bounding Strike combat maneuver supposed to work?

    Also, right in that Tradition, is Springing Stance. That gives you expertise on Acrobatics checks and checks to jump.
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    Level Up (A5E) How is Bounding Strike combat maneuver supposed to work?

    I've started a A5e campaign with people brand new to RPGs. I think they're having fun. Next session the Berserker will reach level 2 and gain combat maneuvers. He might choose Bounding Strike as it looks like it'll get him into melee faster by boosting his movement. It says "Move 15 feet in a...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Using AI for Your Home Game

    How much energy does it take to generate one image? Compare whatever you get to the energy I expend in a week riding a bike. I've got a power meter accurate to within +/- 1%. I can output 200W through the pedals in an hour and I'll do that for about 10 hours per week. Humans are 20-25%...
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    D&D General The D&D Multiverse: Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die

    I love Mystara/The Known World. When it started getting fleshed out in 1987 (along with the Forgotten Realms) The Known World kept the weirdness. Just before the first Gazetteer was produced TSR had issued the DA series of modules and grafted on Blackmoor to it. Mystara was like a last gasp of...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Appendix N Equivalent?

    D&D is so self-referential now that an "Inspiration" section is just other D&D rulebooks at this point.
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    Monstrous Menagerie II: Hordes & Heroes is now live!

    Backed! I gotta keep my streak of faux leather covers going.
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    Dungeons & Dragons May Not Come Back to Greyhawk After 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

    He isn't complaining. He thinks the inclusion is a good thing, in general. That's all well and good. He does complain that they took one of the more interesting female rulers that already exists and make her less interesting.
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D Cartoon Character Stats & Magic Items

    I think what the stats of the items highlights is "does interesting things" is almost as important, if not more so, than "does powerful things".
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    D&D General Help Me with My Pathological Aversion to Third Party D&D Products

    I just remembered I must have been a Kickstarter backer right from the start as I have the fancy leatherette covers with built-in bookmarks. I own Adventurer's Guide, Trials & Treasures, Dungeon Delver's Guide, To Save a Kingdom, Adventures in Zeitgeist, Gate Pass 2022 & 2023, Memories of...
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    D&D General Help Me with My Pathological Aversion to Third Party D&D Products

    I was not involved in A5E in any way. I followed none of the threads on it, did no testing, gave no feedback. I did order it as soon as it was available as a purely blind purchase to support this website. I was incredibly impressed. It added options and complexity (which can be good or bad...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Real Character Generation in 2024 PHB

    Early on in a 5e campaign that began in 2017 one of the players seemed upset I didn't have the NPCs react a certain way and said "but I'm a Pirate". I immediately changed the reaction of the NPCs and I think it added a lot without it being mechanically powerful. Just something for the players to...
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    TSR How Did I Survive AD&D? Fudging and Railroads, Apparently

    Have you looked at the current version? It's absolutely massive and includes bizarre but completely true things like the fact that Peru's national drink was created, in its modern form, by a Mormon who moved to Peru from Utah. And you can have that very drink, the pisco sour, in his bar. The...
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    D&D General 50 years, 50 publications - the poll

    The main story is probably difficult to divorce from the Known World setting of Karmeikos. But it does have a lot of side quests that make the world feel lived in. I found its structure to be outstanding in that it perfectly does what it attempts to do - bridge the gap between Basic and Expert...
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    D&D General 50 years, 50 publications - the poll

    I picked up the Whole Realms Guide, the Arms & Equipment Guide, and the 4 magic item compendiums on Ebay in 2014-15 and they are the only old non-module supplements I've actually used in my 5e games out of the few dozen books I picked up at the time. It's very easy to hand any of these to the...
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