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jmartkdr2 replied to the thread D&D General Belts of Giant Strength?.This does make building around the item (eg dumping strength and expecting the belt to cover the difference) impossible, which I think... -
jmartkdr2 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien with
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I would assume the amount of people who have LotR as a formative influence on their fantasy roleplay decreases with each generation; I... -
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I started playing D&D when I was 8 or so. I did not try to read the LotR books until I was in high school and then only got through the...
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jmartkdr2 replied to the thread D&D General Discworld alignments.Brother Brutha is the epitome of Neutral Good. Om is chaotic neutral by instinct (much like all gods) but accepts some law is better...
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I think Death is Lawful. He doesn't like a lot of the rules but he seems intrinsically unable to actually break them
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jmartkdr2 replied to the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs.Draconians and especially kolbolds fill different fantasy niches - kolbolds would be a bad fit for a genneral "dragon-person" race...
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Also I'm adding in death moves that lead to Ghost and Revenant (or whatever they called it). And re:Solos, taking the endgame dragon as...
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The thing here is that the most popular TTRPG in human history is D&D 5e. The benchmark isn't some hypothetical RPG: it's an existing...
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TTRPG books are massively undervalued. The profit margins are non-existent, and creators get paid less than minimum wage for a book...
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jmartkdr2 replied to the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs.In practice they're the fourth most popular race, behind humans, elves, and tieflings. (If half-elves are counted as a separate race...
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jmartkdr2 reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with
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is an adventuring group made up with all of them called a salad? :unsure: -
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i can't believe 5e still doesn't have a proper playable dryad option, plant people are, well, while not a favourite concept exactly are...
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I have long advocated for the DMG (and possibly the PHB too) to include, rather than the infuriating "true exotics" blather and...
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The idea of "monsters" who are heroes is not actually a new thing though amongst the Roundtable Knights there were at least one mayb 2...
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jmartkdr2 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with
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As much as I would love to recommend Wandering Inn to people, I can't, simply because it's much too big of a series to recommend to all...