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Changing the font is easy. It's how the changed font shifts everything around that makes it a lot of extra work. You have to go...
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To a point this is fine, but the obvious risk is crossing the line into advising the GM to lead the players by the nose such that the...
Wednesday at 9:12 PM
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Huh. I've got some modules here that are worth a fair bit of money (relative to their purchase cost) these days in part because I...
Wednesday at 9:06 PM
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So, disposable rather than collectable?
Wednesday at 9:01 PM
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In addition to just cutting down on the verbosity of background/lore, I could see it being useful to group information by how hard it...
Wednesday at 9:00 PM
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Hard, hard no. If I'm paying for a printed module I don't expect to then have to pay again to print or photocopy it, thank you very...
Wednesday at 8:58 PM
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This is a flaw in a lot of modules - they don't deal with any of the obvious "what if"s. The classic example of this: pretty much any...
Wednesday at 8:46 PM
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I've never written a module and most that I've run have not been good from an "running accessibility" standpoint. That said I've thought...
Wednesday at 8:37 PM
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Which is fine for a big outfit like WotC but doesn't do much for a DM banging away in his kitchen at home, which is what I thought this...
Wednesday at 8:34 PM
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Ah, but if one does what D&D has for some inexplicable reason failed to do ever since day one and make casters roll to aim their AoE...
Wednesday at 3:55 AM
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Indeed, though it seems people's results vary on this. I'm with you, in that IME playing online is way slower and less efficient than...
Wednesday at 3:46 AM
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Were I running it I'd want - and expect, going in - the campaign to have a potential lifespan of ten years or more, played weekly (i.e...
Wednesday at 3:43 AM
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Ah, OK. Depends. Are you merely getting the same aggregate number of attacks in fewer rounds (i.e. going through the same total number...
Wednesday at 12:13 AM
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Why are you assuming fumbling only applies to martials? Casters should be able to fumble or mess up their spells as well.
Tuesday at 11:54 PM
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Did not vote as I don't run 5e (or 5.5); were I to, I'd tweak it such that each level took numerous sessions to achieve in order to spin...
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