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mamba reacted to Morrus's post in the thread It's Time to VOTE for your MOST ANTICIPATED TTRPG of 2026! with
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As we do every year, it's time to vote for the most anticipated tabletop roleplaying game of the coming year! Here is last year's Top 10... -
mamba replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.it’s the slight changes that push it over the line for me, spectral wings with no downsides, respeccing things on a long rest so you...
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mamba reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I’m sure you aren’t the only one. I do think that’s a great level range for a climax, and the climax is often the most memorable and...
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mamba reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I agree that tier 2 is the sweet spot, but I wouldn’t want to start in the sweet spot, or any growth at all takes you further from the...
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mamba 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.
Well, he's communicating with his blog audience who are there for 5E monster posts and explaining that things may be changing. It was...
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mamba reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Why anyone would want to skip them, I don’t know. The early tiers are the most fun in my opinion, why would you want to shorten the time...
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mamba 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.
I think it's clear he's sincerely realizing that modern D&D isn't for him. That happens all the time, without anyone having a...
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mamba reacted to Mephista's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Amusingly enough, the definition of Elemental from the MM25 is still "hails from the elemental planes." Which is at odds with how...
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mamba reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Honestly, 2014 didn't assume that sort of simulationist landscape either, so it's not even really something I'd consider a change?
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.yes, but it also makes it hard to have a coherent definition for ‘elemental’ - and if you find one it certainly is not one that was used...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.That is what Keith’s post read like to me, that 2024 leaned into epic fantasy moreso than 2014 and to the detriment of everything else...
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mamba replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.that doesn’t really have them make more sense, that just removes the context that allows to compare them to PCs ;)
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mamba reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I was going to say, I kinda agreed with them about the 21 strength for an NPC guard. Most of my npcs are low level, rarely reaching...
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mamba 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.
Keith is allowed to feel that 2024 D&D is too bright and big and high powered for him. His mistake, IMO, is in insisting that it marks...
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mamba reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Well, that's kind of exactly it, isn't it? Fiction as a constrain on design, vs. a tool to explain the design. The problem with D&D's...