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Mecheon reacted to jdrakeh's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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I've seen plenty of (countless?) instances of that in WoD games, as a direct result of the power paradigm that I called out. Including... -
Mecheon reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Dispute it all you want, but I know how commonly I saw it in the 70's, and the answer was "a lot". And one of the reasons it was so...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
It certainly was more wide spread than the community was willing to admit. And a phenomenon not limited to D&D. The worst GM I've ever...
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Mecheon replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Not just Dragon, but if you read a lot of older RPGs from the time there's a lot of "The DM's word is LAW! Murder your player's...
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Mecheon replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.A non-zero amount of OSR games have plenty of room for totally-not-Runequest ducks, so. It just comes with the community (completely...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
People make that reference as if it's a gotcha. TMNT was a small indie comic when tortles first appeared. Their popularity exploded with...
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Mecheon reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah it's a shockingly shallow and rather unevidenced take from this blog. The idea that 5E14 was "internally consistent" but 5E24...
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Mecheon replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.My go to remains asking what they're wanting thematically from the character concept. You can't have flat out Jedi, sure, but what is it...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
You can play Doom on a TI-83 graphing calculator. That doesn't make it a gaming console nor the best way to experience Doom. But humans...
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Mecheon replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.A lok'tar-less world. Tragic A DM's job is to facilitate the world for the players to run around in. They can provide alternatives...
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Mecheon reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I always go by the belief "The DM can make any setting they want with any kind of race, class, or spell restrictions. But the DM...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
My problem is that D&D was never as modular as people thought it was (it's nearly impossible to change the magic system without...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
You ever Play a green book campaign? A campaign where everyone (player and NPC) is essentially a human fighter? You might get a Thief...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I brought up how old TSR settings can include mechanics that were intentionally designed to screw over players. Somehow that morphed...
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Mecheon reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
This is too focused on the races D&D was poor for low power fantasy because of the classes. 90% of the creep of higher fantasy of D&D...