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Micah Sweet reacted to Pamphylian's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with
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Agreed, and this is my biggest issue with it. Plenty of people like this style, nothing objectively wrong with it (except maybe that any... -
Micah Sweet reacted to TaranTheWanderer's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with
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Diseases and environmental effects. The former are…well, I guess they don’t exist anymore. It’s the poisoned condition and they are... -
Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D.You know, I really wish you would stop presenting your personal subjective opinio so as if they were unassailable facts. This reads as...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Pamphylian's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with
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Very true! But I don't think it was acquired until Tier 2 Play! The films (been too long since I have read RotK) also have Gollum... -
Micah Sweet reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
I thought DMs were Chaotic Evil? Always changing things on a whim with no logic or explanation. They cackle in glee as they ignore the...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with
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I think the answer to the thread title's question's has now emerged: Q: Why do people like alignment? A: So they can assign Neutral... -
Micah Sweet reacted to Necropolitan's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
That doesn't mean the DM can't tell you "No." It's not 'tyrannical' to tell you "No." Forcing DMs to run campaigns they don't want to...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Pamphylian's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with Like.
I totally buy that what you call the “survivalist skin” was always subservient to the combat gameplay loop at most tables most of the...
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Micah Sweet reacted to pawsplay's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
1e and 2e used PC rules for NPCs. Even those MM elves were led by NPCs of higher character level. Up until 3e, NPC meant "a character...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
Personally, me/I/personal, if a Paladin breaks their Oath, thats just end of the line as a Paladin. Everything about a Paladin is their...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts.Hence the intentionally silly example. It could just as easily be, "spellbound burned, have to make/get a new one" or "animal companion...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Or, just make on-the-fly in-combat healing not a thing; or something done only at very great risk to both the caster and the recipient...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
No protection? They can wear the best armor in the game. I'd posit a single cleric wrecked havoc on PCs across the decades and...
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Micah Sweet reacted to TorgoTheWhite's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
I think "growing pains" are a great narrative device for character evolution. Narration-wise, it feels like a missed opportunity, if...
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Micah Sweet reacted to haakon1's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Am I incorrect in reading that some folks mean players would refuse to play characters who risk themselves to save others? In the real...