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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
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3e? The edition of feat chains and prestige classes? The one where you could build an utterly ineffective character if you didn't plan... -
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.
"If it exists in D&D, it exists in Eberron." Seriously, Eberron is probably one of the worst examples of limitations in D&D and that's...
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Mecheon reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
If I were running it? You could play any of those things. Dragonborn are officially included in Eberron as of 4e (they are native to the...
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Mecheon reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Oh, but some did! There were folks on this forum and others, that I personally spoke with, who swore up and down that because Dragonborn...
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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.
Life's too short to waste on D&D I won't enjoy.
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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.
That depends. Did you tell me that when you invited me or when I showed up at your game to play? If you told me "Remathilis, I am...
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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.
Clever bait and switch. So first off, if you invited me to play D&D 5e and then pulled out the Shadowdark book, I'd probably leave for...
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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.
Limiting the PC options to an extremely low amount of options without gauging the interests of playing is close to sneak writing on a...
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Mecheon reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
There is no universal "D&D social contract" that anyone is beholden to. A social contract is formed by the people at the table actually...
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Mecheon replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.There's a reason there's alternative ancestry options and classes already out there for Shadowdark. If it was 'ideal', people wouldn't...
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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.
See post above. If your vision is too limited to allow 10 species and 12 classes (even if they aren't the exact ones in the PHB) then...
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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.
And yet Gary is taken as The Word when it comes to how D&D should be played. The OSR started as "D&D as Gary intended". We had a whole...
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Mecheon reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Are you familiar with the section of the (IIRC) 1e DMG where it specifically instructs the GM to behave in a passive-aggressive manner...
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Mecheon reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
You said yourself, groups were siloed. That makes it pretty much impossible that there was any uniformity in play style. In effect there...
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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 want to believe you. I'm sure the silent majority of players are completely normal people having completely normal fun. But I'm of the...