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This reflects my experience as well. As a kid, I certainly had issues with people building ridiculous overpowered characters and... -
Mannahnin reacted to DLIMedia's post in the thread TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR with
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I'm less interested in specific terminology than I am just making it clear that MOST optimizers are decent people who share the...
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Yes. This is why games where optimization is barely a viable thing (like default CoC) or where the range of potential optimization is...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread Optimization and optimizers....Wut? I'm revising history, Stalin-style, if I suggest that people who think "optimizer" is a pejorative might be doing so due to...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread Optimization and optimizers....It may help to note that historically (to my recollection), "munchkin" originated in the early 80s as a pejorative nickname to refer...
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Mannahnin reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with
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I... completely misread the post I quoted. So, uh, yeah, what @Ruin Explorer said. -
Mannahnin reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with Like.
Is it?! Genuine question, because it sounds exactly right to me, but maybe I'm missing something? D&D has odd number of odd tropes that...
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Mannahnin reacted to Gorgon Zee's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with Like.
Mechanical Characteristics of D&D: Class & Level Progression Six(-ish) Ability Scores Hit Points - Damage chips away at a single pool...
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Mannahnin reacted to Koloth's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with Like.
My views roughly align with Snarf's. Except that I consider PF2 a variant. The ORC version is a direct result of Paizo wanting to...
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Mannahnin reacted to NN's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with Like.
Rolemaster isnt D&D, but its not because its got 10 stats or d100 resolution. Its because its combat engine makes D&D style adventuring...
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Mannahnin reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with Like.
This is a fairly interesting question... honestly, "What is D&D?" carries as much philosophical weight as the Ship of Theseus. I've...
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Mannahnin reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with Like.
I would quibble and say it goes the other way: Shadowdark is an old school style game that employs some 5E-isms in order to streamline...
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Mannahnin reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with Like.
Basically this for me. I'd personally also add significant HP escalation, at least over the first nine or ten levels. If the game...
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Mannahnin reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you? with Like.
Another thing that would make a TTRPG into a variant of D&D is compatibility. If you can use something from an RPG such as ToV or A5e in...