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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Lazybones's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with
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I haven't seen a barbarian or bard yet in my current 2024 game, so I don't have any in-game experience with those classes other than... -
Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
Also, even if you assign each domain to one specific god, presumably these gods are part of a unified pantheon. It makes sense to me...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
It doesn’t even have to be that you didn’t know until level 3. If you start at level 1, and you already know which Domain or which...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Sulicius's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
This is just as massively overblown. Yes, monsters deal a lot more energy type damage, but it has never been easier to get energy type...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I want to believe you. I'm sure the silent majority of players are completely normal people having completely normal fun. But I'm of the...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Exactly. I think sometimes people forget that “serious D&D table” is an oxymoron.
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah it's a shockingly shallow and rather unevidenced take from this blog. The idea that 5E14 was "internally consistent" but 5E24...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
You can play Doom on a TI-83 graphing calculator. That doesn't make it a gaming console nor the best way to experience Doom. But humans...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Mecheon's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
How detailed are things that you can't just fit "Here's Tortuga. Its off the coast. Tortles live there, also probably pirates" into some...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
There's always a critical word missing in this sort of thing. Good limitations create flavor. Good limitations breed creativity. Good...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to BenjaminPey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I am this guy. Though I did read the DMG, multiple times. In my book, streamlining this kind of things is 100 % beneficial to the game...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Not to be overly flippant, but both are highly abstract mathematical models to use in a wargame scenario, that some flavor can be hung...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
My issue with a lot of reactions to 2024 is that I transitioned mid-campaign and my players didn't even notice right away. For that...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I find it fascinating that relatively minor changes, often to just a few classes, evoke such antipathy. I’m really struggling to...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah, people keep missing that his audience wasn't D&D fans on ENWorld, but the audience for his blog and his books, for whom "MOAR"...