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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... -
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
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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... -
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...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) The Black Road - Help me flesh out an Adventure idea. with Like.
I've been planning to run an D&D.24 Adventure at my FLGS. There will be a mix of new and old players, of varying ages and backgrounds...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Thommy H-H's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) The Black Road - Help me flesh out an Adventure idea. with Like.
I think one advantage of the premise here is it combines the idea of having a consistent home base (the Town) with the party going on a...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to LordEntrails's post in the thread Let's Talk About Our Year In TTRPGs with Like.
Kicked off the new year (January 2025) with a new campaign running a new system (FrontierSpace) with the same players (mostly, added a...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Well, yes and no. For example, you talk about starting at an FLGS. For lots of us back in the day, that wasn't an option. The FLGS...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard..When I look at the reaction to ads or products framing GMing as “hard,” I see something deeper than a disagreement about difficulty. The...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Is 5E better because of Crawford and Perkins leaving? with
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To pull an example of the opacity in how thing work - a lot of folks think of D&D Essentials as my baby, a project I created for reasons... -
Jacob Lewis reacted to SlyFlourish's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
For me, I separate D&D from WOTC and Hasbro and extend the bubble of "what is D&D" out to other games too. All the eight games I mention...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) GMs: How long should it usually take to go from level 1 to 4?.I’ve been thinking about this question in terms of what Tier 1 play actually represents. The poll focuses on how long characters...
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Been playing since Moldvay Red Box Basic. Excepting a bobble at 4e, which I did learn to enjoy, I've embraced each new edition and...
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I think this is a really good point. What's also important is that gaming has quite a number of neurodivergent folks (trust me, I gamed...
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One barrier to pleasant discourse is that for some, banter and teasing are casual and normal and not intended to be mean-spirited...