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    D&D General Reincarnate is and has always been, weird.

    My druid PC should threaten their enemies with a fate worse than death; body dysmorphia.
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    D&D General So WOTC is doing Milf's Guide to Greyhawk...

    Like a MILF, you need to give the humor a little time to mature.
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    D&D General So WOTC is doing Milf's Guide to Greyhawk...

    The first thing I'd do with a ouija board is ask the spirit of professor Tolkien whether the plural of milf is "milfs" or "milves"
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    WotC D&D Beyond Launches Its Character Quickbuilder

    Beyond wasn't made by WotC, which is why it can break the curse. It was made by an external company (after a first attempt, called "dungeonscape" IIRC), then bought by a company called Curse, then bought by WotC.
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    D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?

    A stupid chaotic evil thinks might makes right means physical power. A smart chaotic evil understands might makes right refers to monopolies of violence imposing totalitarian standards of morality.
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    D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode

    My brother in Kayfabe, you're describing pro wrestling. EDIT: RIP I realize I'm not the first person to introduce that analogy here
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    D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode

    The major difference is that the players can affect the outcome of a sport, they're, well, players, but the players of a "theatrical" D&D game aren't players in the narrative; they're the audience. In games as a sport, you can lose and the narrative has to deal with that. In games as theater...
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    D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?

    Would you say New Vegas' Caesar, with all of his Hegelian Dialectics, is chaotic evil? Or is there a "ceiling" of competence for most raider chiefs and "only" more lawful evil can rise to the tippy top?
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    D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?

    Looking at successful serial killers with long confirmed lists, or who went a long time without being caught, is a good starting point. One of the popular images of serial killers, that they're cool, calm, collected Patrick Bateman style narcissists, doesn't really bear out; they're often barely...
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    D&D General 'War Wizard' Is A New Dragonlance Novel From Weis & Hickman

    I'm not a Dragonlance fan but I got added to Richard Knaak's mailing list ages ago and hasn't he been writing a novel about Huma every two or three years?
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    D&D General Did you realize The Forgotten Realms is the most written fantasy world ever?

    This is the reason I have such a love-hate relationship with it. Individually, I think most FR products are horrid-to-mediocre and I can name only a few dozen I would hold up as "good art." But even the MANY examples of bad art form a cohesive whole that is impressive in its size and relative...
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    D&D 5E (2024) An idea for a new Paragon Celestial Species for Arborea.

    I had a writeup of muses as the chaotic good replacements for celestial eladrin (with the nine classical muses being different "species" of muse), maybe I should post that sometime
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    Melf's Guide to Greyhawk Cover by Jeff Easley Revealed at Gary Con

    Unless melf is a blade singer, under 5.5e rules, I don't think he would have rapier or longbow proficiency; so maybe there's a way to give elves there historical weapon proficiencies back in this book
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    Tobacco, Hookah, Incense, and Magic

    One of the PCs in my spelljammer game is a drunken master monk, alchemist and "entheogen evangelist" and she's basically turned the party into the Merry Pranksters because half of our sidequests involve dosing their enemies.
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