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Lanefan reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with
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By default if you didn't roll terrible. Cleric could get similar Defenses as a bad roll Fighter but their offense was trash. Assassin... -
Lanefan reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
One of the topics that comes up (you know, not often or anything ...) on D&D threads is the so-called "LFQW," or as other people like to...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..facepalm.......
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.The PCs are adventurers, but not the only ones in the setting; and it's reasonable to expect or even demand that those NPC adventurers...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Exactly! That's the whole bloody point! PCs are (potentially) exceptional because of what they do, not because of what they are.
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.In my game, death and dying rules work on the same basis for pretty much every living creature.
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Lanefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
My answer is to not give that ability to anyone, PC or NPC, and replace with appropriate abilities/spell either could conceivably acquire.
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Lanefan reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
So balanced but not equal ..... yeah fine, but then all this talk about balancing enemies kind of goes out the window. As long as you...
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Lanefan reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
How is all this more convenient than the NPCs just having the same spells than the PCs in the first place?
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.Were I a player and found the spell in the looted spellbook worked differently than the same spell we'd just had cast at us, I'd raise...
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Lanefan reacted to dave2008's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I am going to second @Micah Sweet on this one. I, as DM, enjoy world building first, time with my friends 2nd, and engaging...
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Lanefan reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Ok. So the PCs defeat this enemy wizard with this unique spell. The wizard of the party takes the enemy wizard's spellbook and wants to...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.IMO the PC rules are for PC-playable species whether they have a player attached or not. A PC Elf is first and foremost an Elf, and the...
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Lanefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Fair enough for you, but I'm not willing to write off any inconsistency as a "game convention" that should be ignored for play. There's...
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Lanefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
That's the issue. The veteran players who feel strongly about what D&D should be, and who do a lot of answering the surveys and talking...