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Lakesidefantasy reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) How can I do a Charisma-Investigation (or a Strength/Dexterity-Investigation if I can't use Charisma) to find a secret door? with
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If you can just use any stat you want for any task you want, you might as well just dump the lot and give everyone a single, fixed... -
Lakesidefantasy reacted to Sulicius's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) How can I do a Charisma-Investigation (or a Strength/Dexterity-Investigation if I can't use Charisma) to find a secret door? with Like.
You're asking us to find a way to convince your DM to use CHA to find secret doors? Maybe just accept you have a party of dum-dums and...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) How can I do a Charisma-Investigation (or a Strength/Dexterity-Investigation if I can't use Charisma) to find a secret door? with Like.
Strength works to find secret doors, holes, or passages by pushing on everything, but gives you Disadvantage on any saves against traps...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Thourne's post in the thread D&D General What is your favorite d&d world's one unique thing. with Like.
Gully dwarves. I really can't say why. I just latched onto them when they appeared and loved them since.
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
As a player, it's not my jam. I don't mind visiting it in a campaign, but I definitely don't want an entire campaign there. As far as a...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 1: Editions with Like.
Great article - it is really striking to see the difference in how TSR (relying on Random House advances) and WotC have approached the...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
I think Eberron is a really cool and very original setting with very impressive world building. And I would probably never run a...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-].Modern magic. Magic as a substitute/parastitute/branch for technology and science is a big turn-off for me. I like magic to be...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to jolt's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
Nowadays, I prefer homebrew which is easier to tweak for me. At the time, I was a little irked about the whole 'open setting design...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-] with Like.
1. I only run homebrew settings, so avoiding it is not specifically about Eberron. 2. I am just not into magitech, artificing, warforged...
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D&D causes a lot of "sometimes I wonder" moments. Sometimes I wonder how I can hit a charging enemy dead-on with my longbow and still...
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Once they did away with the Bastard Sword and basically made the Long Sword of 5e the same thing as the Bastard Sword from earlier...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The rapier in D&D with Like.
It was meant to let people play as swashbucklers, scientifically proven to be the sexiest of all melee combatants. It should probably...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D General The rapier in D&D with
Haha.
I prefer to call it the canolier. -
Sometimes I wonder at one point it was decided that a rapier was a suitable weapon for fighting dragons.