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    Dungeons & Dragons SRD 5.2 Is Officially Live

    I sometimes include pregens with adventures, so I appreciate having a wider selection of backgrounds and feats.
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    What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

    Yeah. I doubt that the creator of the video was thinking of it that way. They are probably a Ghibli fan. I hope in the future they can educate themselves on how creators would feel having their work used like this before they spend their time doing something like this.
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    D&D 5E Adventures In the Astral Sea?

    If I can plug my own product, my company published a book called Graveyard of the Gods. It's an anthology of site-based adventures, with each one set on the corpse of a different dead god floating in the Astral Sea. There's two in the book that are around your level: The Crushing Hand – Years...
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    D&D 1E Holy Symbol Spell Purpose?

    It sounds like you're looking at 1st edition through the lens of modern gaming. This is like comparing video games from the 1970s to the ones we've got today. They we're still figuring stuff out in those days, and yeah there's a lot of things that seem weird or "bad design" today, but they...
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    Mainstream News Discovers D&D's Species Terminology Change

    It wasn't my original post but... Here's the problem. Throughout human history, people have long history of saying that people of certain ethnicities, "races," genders, etc are less than human, and therefore it's okay to kill them, enslave them, take their lands, etc guilt free. This is not...
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    D&D 5E Player wants to be a Death Knight but will use official rules: Build Help

    Don't play WoW, but is it possible they could also be paladin spells or smites? Straight paladin might also be a fine way to go.
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    D&D 5E Subclass feature vs. feat -- Which is "worth" more?

    Voted for subclass features being more powerful. Not all of them are, but many are and I certainly wouldn't just say "go ahead and swap that feat for a subclass feature." For an easy apples to apples comparison, take a look at Magic Initiate vs. Eldritch Knight's spellcasting. Even at 3rd level...
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    Arms companies in gaming

    Yes it does. On the other hand a new player automatically knows what "heavy pistol" means, while an "Ares Preditor" could be just about anything. On possible compromise might list guns by generic type and then have a sidebar with manufactures and models. To have that level of granularity only...
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    NASA finds hidden base under arctic ice

    Man I was really hoping there was a star gate in it.
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    Trailer Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* | D23 Brazil Special Look

    CGI was disappointing, but otherwise I was a fan of She Hulk. How can you not love the show that brought us Madisynn.
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    Trailer Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* | D23 Brazil Special Look

    Yeah, I mean it's true that America is big. Just Texas is bigger European country other than Russia. But Russia is even bigger. Trailer looked fun overall. I'm glad to see that Yelena seems to be the main character, because she's great.
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    Blades in the Dark Gets First Official Expansion

    Yeah, when I played I frequently traded position effect and doing desperate action pretty frequently. As a player I was pretty happy the pace of advancement previously.
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    Spoilers Agatha All Along discussion

    And Kamala Khan was not part of the the Young Avengers in the comics, but it sure seems like she's going to be in the MCU. The roster isn't going to be the same.
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