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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread D&D 4E What Happens If You Hold A Non-Offhand-Weapon In Your Other Hand?.From Rules Compendium, pg 270: The rules are implicitly telling you that you cannot hold and attack effectively with a weapon while... -
Jacob Lewis replied to the thread Is "finding the right players" a solvable problem, or just luck?.You can't "solve" a probability with infinite and incalculable variables, but you can take some appropriate steps so they may favor you...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread Let's Talk About Core Game Mechanics.Rumor is that it was an orc, but it was pie.
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Cergorach's post in the thread Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments with
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He didn't say that, he said that AI (LLM) could do things as good as certain designers. And I think he's right. But a game idea and/or... -
Jacob Lewis reacted to HatWearingFool's post in the thread Ryan Dancey & AEG Part Ways Following AI Comments with Like.
I think anyone that works in software/tech has been in multiple meetings where they were basically told they will be replaced in the not...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Some Dude's post in the thread We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later with Like.
As someone who thinks D&D being the de facto face of the hobby is a bad thing, I was really hoping the OGL would disappear. And take...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static?.Scenario 1: Two characters walk up to a cliff together. One character is level 1, the other is level 10. The cliff is described as being...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General WotC Continues D&D's Advance To Digital First Brand with Like.
And let's be clear - this has been WotC/Hasbro's goal since 2008. The disastrous "We want to make D&D like WoW" interview in 2008...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General WotC Continues D&D's Advance To Digital First Brand with Like.
Presumably you mean no reason not to use a computer? But that doesn't really follow, because just because someone "has access to" a...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to DammitVictor's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
Oooof. I have got big feels on this subject. I was an ardent fan of D&D through the 90s and most of the 00s, but the mechanical paradigm...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
Big 3 Likes: Actually thinking about game design. D&D was designed by vibes for a long time before anyone thought about the impact...
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As fate would have it, Daggerheart proved to be the solution to many of my issues. I ran a one-shot for a podcast. One of the other...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) A fix for advantage/disadvantage stacking.I think what this discussion keeps circling is less about advantage/disadvantage and more about the limits of the d20 itself. There’s a...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread Tell me about Star Wars: Edge of the Empire with Like.
FFG's Star Wars is one of my favourite RPGs, and I think the proprietary dice get an unfairly bad wrap. It's quite possibly the...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Steady Vane's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
It is a failure of the game design when it no longer caters to the community that used to play it. This is the 4e arguments all over...