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MerricB reacted to wicked cool's post in the thread D&D (2024) PC Gamer: It's clear Hasbro, the custodians of D&D, have no idea what to do with Baldur's Gate 3's success with
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It’s funny how we criticize Wotc and yet Bg3 is kind of the anomaly. I did a search early today on the best RPGs similar to Bg3 and... -
MerricB reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread D&D (2024) Anyone else dislike the "keyword" style language of 5.24? with Like.
Keywords are great. They should be used to lower word counts in rules' wordings, not extend them. Saying "You are Blinded and Deafened"...
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MerricB reacted to darjr's post in the thread D&D (2024) Anyone else dislike the "keyword" style language of 5.24? with Like.
I don’t like it.
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MerricB reacted to MothMayI's post in the thread D&D (2024) Anyone else dislike the "keyword" style language of 5.24? with Like.
It says something of the design philosophy of 2024 5e that the most successful edition of 5e ever made use of natural language...but the...
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MerricB reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D General Why Were the Dragon and Dungeon Magazines Discontinued? with Like.
Others talked about the realities of magazine publishing, but there's one other thing that popped up. Supporting the 4e, online...
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MerricB reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General Why Were the Dragon and Dungeon Magazines Discontinued? with Like.
Magazines in general have been struggling for the last 20 years. Ad revenues are down, readership is down, everything is down. Same as...
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MerricB replied to the thread D&D General Doing Tragedy in D&D.Macbeth, not Hamlet.
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MerricB replied to the thread D&D 5E Why is no one talking about THE BOOK OF MANY THINGS?.It is a book that is strangely limited by its subject matter. As I was reading it, I was going "this is great!" a lot, but the more I...
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MerricB reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D 5E Why is no one talking about THE BOOK OF MANY THINGS? with Like.
I understand why they organized it the way they did, but in practice, it makes it harder to use as a DM's sourcebook, since you're going...
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MerricB reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D 5E Why is no one talking about THE BOOK OF MANY THINGS? with Like.
I just recently used it in prepping an adventure and decided I was disappointed in it. Not because it is necessarily bad (though I had...
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.I'd forgotten that! (It's max 17 Wisdom for the halfling, in fact - a holdover from 1E). The AD&D half-orc could have a max wisdom of...
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MerricB reacted to Stormonu's post in the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off with Like.
Yeah, recently when I was putting together a one-shot 2E game for my family I used the 2E Core Rules apps to build the characters...
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MerricB replied to the thread D&D General How the heck do you fight a medieval war in winter?.It's worth nothing that many northern European wars take place in late summer and then proceed well into autumn (and beyond). Henry V's...
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil ..!
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Picking up 8 six-sided dice and dropping them into a tray is still one of the most satisfying moments of D&D. It might not do massive...