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Mort reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Is 5E better because of Crawford and Perkins leaving? with
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To pull an example of the opacity in how thing work - a lot of folks think of D&D Essentials as my baby, a project I created for reasons... -
Mort reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Time travel doesn't exist because time travel wiped out the timelines where it did with Like.
AI doesn't "understand" anything. Whatever else one might think about AI, none of the models we have today are anywhere near "thinking"...
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Mort replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.2024 HAS the bloodied condition, right in the Players Handbook. And there are monsters in the 2024 MM that use it (like the boar and...
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Mort reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
I'm not convinced by the argument that 5E "needs" one. The fact that despite not having one, the fact that it's the most successful...
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Mort reacted to Stalker0's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
No. Letting the players break up their movement and attacks was one of the greatest changes 5e made. It’s more intuitive, it creates...
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that depends on how you played back then, we already did not like / tried to avoid character death in the early 80s when we started...
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Mort reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
@Remathilis, in their post about the climactic fight against the arch-lich, was talking about the design and the play of the game. I...
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Mort replied to the thread Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster.Very insightful, thanks! Seems particularly true for the first several episodes of campaign 4 because the DM was VERY focused on...
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Mort reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster with Like.
I think the basic shift that happened, starting with the final arc of Campaign 2, was the shift from themes being driven by the players...
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One of the reasons I like D&D is that we can make the game our own. Even back in the day when other people were using 10 ft poles to...
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Mort reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered? with
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Just need to figure out how to convince the giant to cooperate ... . -
IDK, we play 5e pretty much the same way we played 1e 40 years ago. For me, as the DM, it is a lot easier to run a 5e game than a 1e...
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Mort replied to the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me.I've found Maps on Beyond much easier than Roll20 which I had been using previously. It's a simple yet very useful VTT. As I said in a...
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Mort replied to the thread D&D General Explain 5(.5)e to me.I'm 51 and the second youngest in my group (Youngest is a spry 49), they all REALLY love 5e. It seems to hit the 2e nostalgic vibe they...
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Mort replied to the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered?.Trying to get the hut off during combat is a pretty big task - 10 rounds of doing nothing else, so also 10 rounds without the arcane...