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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like?.I tried this, then realized while sorting out the pantheons that all these deities needed (preferably off-world) places to live and call... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like?.In principle this sounds surprisingly similar to what I do, only instead of your five great forces it's all driven and held together by...
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Lanefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like? with
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In the TwoSix-verse, all of my D&D and D&D-adjacent games are connected in one vast multiverse, which expands in dimensions not even the... -
Lanefan replied to the thread Homebrew Do people in your game world put cheese on their apple pies??.I've been running homebrew or mostly-homebrew settings for 42 years and can honestly say this question has never arisen. If and when it...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".It's exclusion if the choice is made for you, even if unintentionally. I can choose, as a hypothetical example, to not read any threads...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+].Laptops are overkill, and a nuisance. Tablets are fine, as are phones. And the files are online, on a webpage, meaning they can be...
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Lanefan reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I think you’re missing an option… That the level of detail increases the higher the result. Knowledge doesn’t have to be binary.
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Lanefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Come on, man, making the assumption that they're doing this blind without any information about the risk/reward factor is at best...
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Lanefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
For me, the simulation and setting logic of the circumstance is the good stuff.
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.First off, simulationism for some IS the game. Second off, if the adventure requires them to get to an island then one of the obvious...
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Lanefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
This assumes they aren't making an informed decision. People in a game without the aforementioned broad-skill-pulpy approach who do...
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Lanefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Bluntly, the can very well capsize and drown. Sailboats and rowboats are vastly different beasts. Trying to operate a sailing boat in...
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Lanefan reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with
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I 100% agree....and it's a preferred playstyle, not a rule. I want to acknowledge that others here have valid preferences. Yes, even... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.The key words there is "almost". Most of the time it's pointless and then just that key once, it isn't; which makes all the other times...
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Lanefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
You're assuming larger parties include larger groups of players. There's nothing stopping people from playing more than one character...