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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.For many folks, artful railroading is no better than clumsy railroading. It’s the railroading itself that is the issue… not how well... -
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The area feature does too much for such little cost. Powerful buffs and damage. It bloats its turns as well. -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I GM and/or play with two groups. The first consists of friends I’ve had for decades, and we’ve been playing RPGs together since we were...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
You seem to be asking how does being heroic increase the player's chance of "winning"? But I think the idea is that what "promotes"...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.There's a big difference between a house rule that's adopted to better fit the needs of the group, or to fill a gap in the rules that...
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hawkeyefan reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Yeah, I mean if you're going into the game with the attitude, "I am happy to contribute to the utter destruction of the environment...
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hawkeyefan reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
"What is and isn't Real Role-playing" sounds like an argument about semantics to me, and those tend to go nowhere. I don't find a...
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hawkeyefan reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Yes, but it's not only about story. Trying a difficult combat encounter several times until you win by the skin of your teeth is fun...
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hawkeyefan reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Sorry if I'm just rehashing some of the last 53 pages of, hrrmmmm, fluffy material, my interest waned at page 4... I think this is...
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hawkeyefan reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Disagree. Besides death there are a number of loss conditions to be explored...fictional and mechanical. There is an entire line on...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun.Oh I think it’s a lot more sword and sorcery than Greyhawk. Or at least, the S&S is a lot harder to avoid in Dark Sun. Is the tone...
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hawkeyefan reacted to mamba's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
the knowledge that you are doing the right thing yes, I would. In the real world I may not be less or more powerful based on what I...
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hawkeyefan reacted to mamba's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
nothing, but if you need external punishment for your deeds to stay on the good path, how good of a person are you to begin with… There...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Chaltab's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
I find this a strange take. Why play a good guy in any setting if you can get more stuff being a bastard? That implies that getting...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
I do think that Athas is probably the D&D setting that most leans the most into Sword & Sorcery as a genre, even more so than Greyhawk...