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Hhaakon1 reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party with
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I think the benefit is indirect. Not that one wants disparate levels for their own sake, but one might want to be able to bring in new... -
Hhaakon1 reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party with Like.
Yup, another thing I don't like: worrying about "level appropriate encounters."
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Hhaakon1 reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party with Like.
I run a high-level 5e game (10th-15th) which sees disparity in levels for a time, until the stragglers (for various reasons, usually...
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Hhaakon1 replied to the thread D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party.Different levels exist in 2 of the 3 3.5e campaigns I’m in (DM 2, play 1). It’s “natural” because it’s caused by players joining at...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Burnside's post in the thread D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party with Like.
I think the mixed-level party is an inevitability in 1E. The idea of "balance" as we think about it today wasn't as prevalent in that...
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HTrue, but unless you work for Hasbro it's unlikely anyone in the RPG industry is either. So why worry unless you're making official D&D...
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Hhaakon1 replied to the thread D&D General Kara Tur 5e.Hmm, I wonder what languages D&D is in? Copilot says: French, German, Italian (seen that for 3e), Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese...
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HI'd associate Macau with T'u Lung as a former pirate enclave which has developed Trade Networks with foreign Rakshasa merchants. The...
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Hhaakon1 reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General D&D Releases New Japanese Campaign 'Oni’s Right Hand' with Like.
It was the 1e Oriental Adventures. The 1e Kara Tur boxed set just looks like a list of TSR people in the credits though I do not...
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HEvery time someone brings up "but what about the PRC, we can't include anything Chinese because of that" I see it as an excuse to...
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HPeople's Republic of China.
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HHmm, I’d have to strongly disagree. Elves and dwarves are very distinctly Western, the D&D versions of Tolkien archetypes and European...
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HWhat I might like to see: A developed honor system organized broadly around concepts like 面 (~one's image in public ), 臉, (~one's...
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Hhaakon1 replied to the thread D&D General Kara Tur 5e.Why are you yelling? The 3e OA setting was Rokugan. It’s about Legend of the Five Rings, not Japan or the original OA. Seems more...
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Hhaakon1 replied to the thread D&D General Kara Tur 5e.My wishlist: Return to the spirit of the 1985 book. 1) Focus on Japan, not all of Asia. Most of the original OA was on Japanese...
