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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What do you do for housing?.As a player, for me it depends on the character. One might go for a castle or stronghold, another for a fancy villa in a big city... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table..Which tells me you're ruling the fleeing is uncontrolled, as if in complete mindless panic. As long as that's the basis you've got this...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table..Now that's another interesting, if likely incorrect, interpretation - that the magic is directly causing the feet to move or the wings...
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Lanefan reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table. with
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@ECMO3 I think the point is that examples like the hidden door reveal an intuitive incoherence, for most folks, that arises from taking... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Yep - you gotta take the bad with the good. :) It leaps out that two of those core three questions are completely concerned with...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.The party I'm DMing right now has, of nine characters, three Nature Clerics. And a regular Cleric, multiclassed with Fighter*. The...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table..In fairness, the backup weapons (which I agree would usually be present) aren't likely to be as good as the one being dropped. We can...
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Lanefan reacted to DrJawaPhD's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Changes to the Command spell and its use at the table. with Like.
Why would that be rare though? Literally every martial PC has more than one weapon in their inventory, why wouldn't NPCs be similar?
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) An Optional Counterspell Metagame.I like Counterspell as a spell but came to despise counterspell wars in MtG and never want to see them in D&D. My solution: all spells...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.My Nature Clerics (reworked Druids) aren't far from this. Their fighting is fairly bad, their weapon and armour selections are quite...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.You're coming at this from a completely different direction than I am. :) I'm not thinking (and don't really care) about players...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.I'll try. The whole point, i think, of a class-based system with adventuring groups or parties is that it somewhat encourages or even...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.It works fine IMO in 1e or similar, where there's 12 or so classes, two of which - Cleric and Druid - can heal. I should note, though...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Every party is better with a Cleric, just like every party is also better with each of a Fighter and a Thief and a Mage type. Or maybe...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Ranger should be a forest-based Fighter. Healing is the Cleric's niche, shared with Druid (who IMO are just specialist Clerics anyway)...