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mamba reacted to SlyFlourish's post in the thread D&D General Initial Thoughts on the Two 2025 Forgotten Realms books with
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I'm gathering my notes together for a talk with Morrus tomorrow and for a segment on my Lazy RPG Talk Show digging into the two new... -
mamba reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
What I mean ia, failing in UA meant they would be vetoed,but passing UA was not a guarantee of inclusion. It is a filter go winnow...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..I don’t think I was bashing the designers, I certainly did not say they do not know what they are doing. From my perspective I did three...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..no, they did not say which ones, only that some made it but were dropped regardless if it made it past the UA threshold, it was not a...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..yes, but every option they presented was already compatible enough or it would not have been included in the playtest, and yet they...
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mamba reacted to bedir than's post in the thread 2024 D&D Core Rulebooks Off to "Strongest-Ever" Start for D&D Books with Like.
I wouldn't bother reading into what Roll for Combat is sharing regarding sales ever. The massive error when suggesting that only 3k...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..they said that anything they presented in the playtests were things that could make it into the new game, not just some wild test...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..well, you were the one saying it does not at all and I replied to that, so yeah, that was the topic at hand, not the OP did you read...
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mamba reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Wow, that is the most elegant expression I've ever seen of the core tension in 5e. Having played a lot of AD&D and B/X (via OSE) in the...
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mamba reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I reckon it's like racing. There's definitely a lot of skill involved, both on the part of the drivers and the pit crews. But if you...
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mamba reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I still like the 13th Age solution: hp thresholds for crowd control spells. There is some of this in 5e with sleep and color spray, but...
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mamba reacted to DrJawaPhD's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I basically agree with the title, and use a homebrew rule that any enemy that I would deem a "boss" enemy gets infinite legendary...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..agreed, but the question was does D&D innovate I pointed to what imo was the biggest / most obvious innovation as I assumed that you...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..it’s not about liking it or not, it’s about whether it is considered a big change in comparison to what came before it, all the way back...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..if this were accurate, no… No matter what you think qualifies as a big change, the most recent one must at a minimum be 4e, or newer...