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Micah Sweet reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with
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Being able to breathe air/water and being able to resist the environmental conditions that far below the ocean's surface would be... -
Micah Sweet reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Yep. 1000 meters. Kuo-toans lived on the surface, but retreated to the depths of the ocean and the underdark. They adapted to their...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Homebrew Reading about Class/Subclass Creation, Balance, and Conversion? with Like.
Knacks were all originally called Exploration Knacks. Late in the design process each class got its own name for them as people in...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General With Alien: Earth About To Hit Our Screens Here For Free Are A5E's 'Xenid' Monster Stats with Like.
Alien: Earth is a new show about to hit our TV screens this week. To celebrate the latest addition to the Alien franchise, we thought...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Micah Sweet reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The 4e minion rules literally say that they are for use when the DM wants to throw a lot of monsters at the PCs without it becoming a...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Mustrum_Ridcully's post in the thread Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2 with Like.
But there are countless of planets with resources, and blowing up a planet also gives you access to plenty of resources, stuff hidden in...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, just last night in a game with my kids my daughter decided to test her Sleight of Hand skills by stealing her brother's money...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The bolded is far too deep in metagame-side thinking for my liking. If memory serves (this was 17 years ago!) the trap did something...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So it would seem. Still doesn't make it right. But I can - and will - take a game mechanic that doesn't make any in-fiction sense and...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
A creature's statblock can change over the long term as it ages and deteriorates, or learns and develops new skills, or whatever; but as...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Disagree. Toughness and resilience are very real things, and hit points are their abstraction. A typical horse has more toughness and...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think people introduced to 4e (but with knowledge of other editions) had a reasonable expectation that it was still D&D as they...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
As perceived, sure. But perception isn't what matters here. In reality that cat (let's assume the 3-year-old and the 15-year old are...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Not literally, but it has the encounter building guidelines which basically amount to that. 🤷