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I'm A Banana reacted to Lakesidefantasy's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Reverse Time Combat with
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I am going to run a combat encounter in reverse time. Do you have any advice for doing this? I'm going to run initiative order from... -
I'm A Banana reacted to SlyFlourish's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
For ten years I struggled a lot with this stuff and then Doom points from Tales of the Valiant came out. I renamed them "dreadful...
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I'm A Banana reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Oh, nah. For me it's about changing some spells and cutting others. It's not "Tradition is Bad!" it's "Tradition can occasionally lead...
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I'm A Banana reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I'm a fan of the track methods and the like. A solo might escape Force Cage but be slowed, etc. Enough focus fire of hard control should...
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I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.I know "tradition" is a popular scapegoat 'round these parts, but honestly it's just differing priorities. While nuking traditional...
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I'm A Banana reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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In a lot of ways, the job of a game designer works like this: Guess Get it wrong Adjust And you keep doing that until you are more... -
I'm A Banana reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I think this gets to the heart of the matter, and shows why the 5E game works with fairly little friction if the latter approach is used.
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I'm A Banana reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Just wanted to specifically call out that this actually gets to the heart of the matter that Mearls, unfortunately, doesn't actually...
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I'm A Banana reacted to The Sigil's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Just have to echo that this is perhaps the most elegant expression of the tension this old-school DM finds himself in with new-school...
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I'm A Banana reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Love.
Wow, that is the most elegant expression I've ever seen of the core tension in 5e. Having played a lot of AD&D and B/X (via OSE) in the...
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I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.The full take is a lot more nuanced. Specifically: The problem isn't that control spells ruin 5e, it's that they specifically ruin...
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I'm A Banana reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread Purple Dragon Knight Retooled as Banneret in D&D's Heroes of Faerun Book with Like.
You are all proving a very good and important point. Subclasses aren't merely about getting new mechanics. They are about story. Who...
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I'm A Banana reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Purple Dragon Knight Retooled as Banneret in D&D's Heroes of Faerun Book with Like.
Rules for a dragon companion are like the 3.5 Leadership feat but even worse. It isn't something that should simply be an opt-in player...
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I'm A Banana replied to the thread Purple Dragon Knight Retooled as Banneret in D&D's Heroes of Faerun Book.I'd wager that Drakewarden is likely not very popular. For me, I find that it does not fulfill the fantasy of "a frickin' dragon...
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I'm A Banana reacted to mearls's post in the thread Purple Dragon Knight Retooled as Banneret in D&D's Heroes of Faerun Book with Like.
For folks who don't like the new lore, it's a small part of the book. Outside of the PDK entry, it's not (from what I have read so far)...