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Mannahnin reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with
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This is a pretty individual thing. Lots of players struggle to maintain enthusiasm for the game when their character dies, but many... -
Mannahnin reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
You can, but if you package that as a giant hardcover adventure path, you set players up to end up leaving that arc plot incomplete. If...
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Mannahnin reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
I'm afraid there is, Lanefan. With everyone's investment gone, no one has any enthusiasm to continue playing. Especially when the...
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Mannahnin reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
Haha yeah, a lot of players want to have been playing for years. But relatively few are willing and able to commit the time required to...
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Mannahnin reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
I don’t think Matt is arguing for shorter campaigns. He’s arguing for long campaigns to be made of many small independent adventurers...
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Mannahnin reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General D&D Live Play Dimension 20 At Madison Square Garden with Like.
That’s not a critique. It’s a preference. I don’t want to watch football. Lots of people do. Whether I want to watch football or you...
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Well, if you're someone who makes bespoke monsters every time -- and I do a lot of this, myself -- big premade books of monsters can...
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Mannahnin reacted to rabindranath72's post in the thread D&D 1E Seriously contemplating an attempt at a retro AD&D with Like.
Note that Ariakas was a human, so RAW he cannot multiclass, but he can become a "character with two classes" (start as a Fighter, then...
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Mannahnin reacted to ThrorII's post in the thread D&D 1E Seriously contemplating an attempt at a retro AD&D with Like.
I started way back with the Holmes Basic Set, in 1978 (with chits instead of dice!!). We 'graduated' to AD&D in 1980, because that's...
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Mannahnin reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D 1E Seriously contemplating an attempt at a retro AD&D with Like.
I don't remember anything in the 1e DMG about expectations that characters would retire around name level. As you mention, he noted in...
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Mannahnin reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
Well, most of the open playtesting process was done with Keep on the Borderlands and Isle of Dread. And my in my experience, 6-8...
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Mannahnin reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
Yup. It's a very romantic idea- most people want that, and the promised method is by playing a big ol' adventure book. "Complete THIS...
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Mannahnin reacted to grimmgoose's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
I - as a forever DM - agree with Matt, but I've found that with my players, they generally want an Epic. Both groups have lamented...
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Mannahnin reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
because that is a lot more encounters than most people would run in a day. 3 to 4 is much more reasonable than 6 to 8 imo, and much more...
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Mannahnin reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General Matt Colville on adventure length with Like.
Yes, there are a few threads on the XP curve and how long the 5e designers intended a party to stay in each level- iirc the way it works...