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Minigiant reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting with
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the argument isn’t that D&D does cover a given genre just as well as games specifically designed for it, but that you need to create the... -
Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.Lowest Common Denominator. The concern was less on simplicity and more onboarding. Similar but not identical Base 5e is Heroic...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.The way you'd do that is to either have a Death Phase/Round or only have deaths happen on end of turn. I have a simple 5e based War...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.One idea I'd love to see as a 5.5e setting is a a Mythic Fantasy where every major Dragon, Giant, Celestial, and Fiend are unique. There...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.Nah I think they would. There are plenty of space for charts and table most people don't use. A table or box above warriors or...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.It's less KISS and more LCD. You can have simple creatures and have optional complex variant rules. Like giving a bunch of minor...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.I agree. D&D for the most part wants to minimize most of nature to under level 6 to its detriment. The issue to me is the D&D wants to...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.That is the source of my uncertainty with a pure S&S setting. Beasts and humaniods would have to be able to be scaled up to be...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.And really that's how I do it Just have 5E heroic fantasy painted in sword and sorcery. Half naked barbarians, warlock cults...
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Minigiant reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting with Like.
Again, that's what something like Primeval Thule does. It has elves and dwarves and clerics and sorcerers but it paints them with S&S...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.Point is that is extra work and less satisfying because the rules fight the way you want to play. But that's the thing. Traditional...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.I'm not saying I think that way. I'm saying WOTC oversampled people who think that way. WOTC oversampled people who think open...
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Minigiant reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting with
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Of course, the problem is making that all work under the context of a power-scaling group dynamic Game. Aspects like localized baddies... -
Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.I mean... I guess I have to use harsher language.. It was Empowerment for selfish GMs. They didn't want advice, guidance, or even...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Preferences in a New Official 5.5e Specific Setting.Point is the game is built that way. So you have to adjust. BUT There are not enough strong or interesting humaniod monsters in the...