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Lanefan reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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Then it's not a Stun. That's the whole issue. There was an uproar after WOTC changed to allow you to have movement while you're Stunned. -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Then invent that condition and give it a name other than 'stun' which can then continue to mean what it already does: that you're...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.This actually came up in our game a year or two back: the party had to very carefully disassemble a valuable tapestry in order to access...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.Oh, sure. What's different, perhaps, between my view and that of the general community is that I'm usually fine with so-called...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.They should be. Part of the point of playing is to be able to laugh at the crazy things the characters do, even if-when it's to each...
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Lanefan replied to the thread AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?.I don't have an "intended outcome" and simply don't look at it that way. IME most party-vs-party combats are when the two parties are...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.Someone gets it! Someone finally gets it!!! What happens in character stays in character. Separation of self and character is the key...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.A lot of this might come down to the (expected or perceived) lethality of the campaign, and thus playing in survival-first mode. As for...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.Yes, and if that's what the other characters would have done then IMO they should bloody well have done it long since. Just because a...
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Lanefan reacted to Richards's post in the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"? with Like.
I ran a low-Intelligence lizardfolk fighter/barbarian PC who'd been raised his whole life in a drow slave camp. As a result, he had a...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?.For me, the answer is in the question: I have my character do what it would do because it's what the character would do. And yes, that...
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Lanefan replied to the thread AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?.Anything at and over 3rd Cleric would be major spell use for me: Silence and Hold Person can change an entire combat; and at 5th level...
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Lanefan replied to the thread AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?.For NPCs like that I always convert them to having levels of Fighter, therefore the Lieutenants here would be 4th-level Fighters. In...
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Lanefan replied to the thread AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?.Might be as simple as his gaining access to a proper word processor by 1978 as opposed to his manual typewriter. I suspect the page-85...
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Lanefan replied to the thread AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?.So in short, if a paralysis-hold-stun-etc. effect renders* the victim completely unable to fight or defend it's an EAXPB but if it...