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    D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18)

    It's amazing how much better a tabletop experience can be for all involved when people actually read what's in the damned books. There's a certain king of the hill meme that comes to mind here...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18)

    As I said before. What skills are "best" changes wildly on the game your are playing. I don't generally like the concept of saying someone is "a bad DM" or "playing the game wrong", but in the cases listed for DMs ruling Intimidation checks that way? Yes. They are playing the game wrong and...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18)

    Frankly this question is impossible to answer without explicitly knowing what type of play you are specifically doing for your game. At our table? Perception is by no means an "s-tier" skill despite what others in this thread have said. If anything Diplomacy is probably the highest skill. But...
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    Invincible RPG Kickstarter to Launch on September 23rd

    I just want to know what the rules are in this system for disemboweling someone or trying to explode them from the inside.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Miles per day on horseback: how many?

    The key reason why someone would choose to rideon horse back is mostly for comfort amd the ability to carry more supplies, not speed. Saddle sores exist, but are far less detrimental than walking for 8 straight hours. The only real way a party will benefit from speed with a horse is if it is...
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    D&D General D&D Variants Forum

    Likely. Definitely. DnD aside, the sad truth is so many great games are completely overlooked simply because they get lost in the mix, or it just isn't whatever "YetAnotherGygaxDungeonMeatGrinderRPG2EdClone" game is popular this week.
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    D&D General My experience with popular D&D VTT tools

    Because I have to be old school and contrary. :p Maptools What it does well: It doesn't cost you a single dime. Ever. Nor an asinine subscription. This is especially important in a world where every damn battlemap now is a patreon subscription because capitalism has all but killed people...
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    D&D General D&D Variants Forum

    I too would like an answer to this question regarding Daggerheart. While it's probably not (yet) large enough to merit it's own forum, I feel like it would be doing an outright disservice to call it a "DnD Varient". It is a fundamentally different game from the ground up and arguably feels far...
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    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    This entire thread is a prime example of the futility of maintaining a "no politics" rule here and expecting to be able to cover news and updates on the industry of TTRPGs. It's no cooincidence there have been multiple threads here related to increasingly obvious political related subjects. You...
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    New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More

    Here's the thing though. The last version people down voted did do that. They just called it Hexblade's curse and made it part of the hex spell. People were just too kneejerk reacting to losing their precious critical hit at level 3.
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    New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More

    Looking throuh the UA my thoughts are largely that most of them are good. My main concerns are the following: 1) Frankly I think the high level feature, if not a complete replacement/deviation from clerics normally getting domain spells should just be giving Arcana clerics access to the entire...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Psion Class: Green/Yellow/Red?

    If a class feature requires you to multiclass or spend optional feats to be functional, it's a s&%@ class feature and needs to be fixed. Additionally, the features do care. They specifically say "Psion spells", so multiclassing does not work. And again, these are coming at the cost of other...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Psion Class: Green/Yellow/Red?

    I've got a player about to playtest this class in my campaign, so I'll probably have more feedback as time goes on. My biggest issue with the class so far is that the psychic disciplines are all over the place in usefulness, purely due to the class having such a limited spell list. I.e. the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wizards of the Coast promises to release more “CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3” without Larian

    My only question related to the prospect of WotC announcing any games similar to BG 3" is: so how many years of development wll you give the creators and have any of them been working on something already? Folks Baldurs Gate 3 was in development for years before we ever even heard of it...
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    Where’s The Deathstalker RPG? Part 2

    God, that first artwork was clearly drawn by someone who never held a sword before. It's laughably bad. You could photocopy in a baseball bat and it would make more sense.
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