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Laurefindel reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread A Deep Dive into Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun with
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Gods can manifest as whatever gender they want. Sure, you can have multiple gods of the same thing, that’s been the case at least since... -
Laurefindel replied to the thread A Deep Dive into Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun.Regarding gods (and goddesses), I was a bit taken aback at first to see that the book never mentions the word goddess, and to a lesser...
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Laurefindel reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Adventuring is dangerous profession defined by the precarity of its workforce. It is precisely the kind of work that would attract...
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Laurefindel reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Its harder to encounter the 'weird and interesting' when to your left is Bob the Green Ooze Sorcerer, and to your right is Frank the Orc...
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Laurefindel reacted to Sorcerers Apprentice's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I see the appeal of playing an oddball character, but when everybody is odd, nobody is odd.
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Laurefindel reacted to Eyes of Nine's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
While I used to play in d20 rolling games that a 1 was auto-fail; I've pulled back on that. In my 5e games, 20 is auto-success; and if...
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Laurefindel reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
I’ve kept 1s as auto-fails because I have found that spectacular failures often produce spectacular story moments. At worst they add a...
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I got a doozy for y'all. Its Battletech but I dont care because the story is stone cold hilarious. The set up; Battletech is crunchy...
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Laurefindel reacted to billd91's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
We take things fairly easy in our 5e game with the 1s/20s, using them as designed for attack rolls (miss/crit, respectively). But we...
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Laurefindel reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
I run a cinematic pirate-themed campaign setting, where the players do all kinds of zany stunts like swinging from chandeliers, leaping...
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Laurefindel reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
I disagree, though I suppose it depends on the system and the table. In, say, 5e, critical successes/misses on attacks aren't that...
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Laurefindel replied to the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them?.In D&D specifically, I usually treat a nat20 as “you succeed no matter what and look good doing it”, or else gain a small advantage...
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Laurefindel reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
A nat 20 always succeeds where success is a reasonable option. So, for example, if you say that your black ops specialist is going to...
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Laurefindel reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
This is one of the advantages of playing in a game with a DM who takes a more active hand in establishing setting expectations. If they...
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Griffin. Combines the nobility of both lion and eagle. Can rip your face off. Almost certainly loves belly scritches.
