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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Tuning big single creatures into multi-part-creatures..I could see that AoE effects can indeed hit all parts, but they inflict only half damage. So if you have 3 or 4 parts, AoEs are still in... -
Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to tetrasodium'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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Nah, from what I've been reading "acting intelligently" means that everything in the dungeon is an advanced telepathic hivemind that can... -
Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered?.Well, they are going to look for hints of activity, what kind of opposition to expect, what kind of patrol or watches exist. They don't...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Call of Cthulhu General Thread [+] with Like.
One of my first experiences running CoC was "The Haunting," a classic adventure included in the core book for many editions. My players...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General The thunder blessing - 2 generations later.I don't remember this, sounds like a cool story idea. Is your assumption we're basically 50 years after the "boomer" phase so we get a...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered?.The patrol still needs to figure out what they are seeing, they can't just go back: "We saw something we couldn't identify and didn't...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!? with Like.
The Dragonstar setting needs to be updated for 5e. :)
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered?.No, there is a difference. Because now it's just a patrol finding them and investigating what they found: They probably want to report...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered?.I am not sure why the assumption is that the tiny hut is always placed in the middle of the dungeon for every denizen of that dungeon to...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
But doesn't this undercut your own argument? Expertise is worse than your claim of the +10 over 20 levels being a problem, because...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Ahh, victim-blaming. A classic. "It's your fault for getting bored when you literally cannot participate with the game!" And notice, I...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread GURPS 4th Edition Revised Announced.That's definitively a concern of mine, because I actually experienced that already in other games. It can improve with experience with...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?.There have been some attempts at it in the d20 Sphere of games. The one I remember was the wounds/vitality point system that I think...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
It exposed to me a whole bunch of issues I was only vaguely aware of. The disparity between good and bad save tracks. Disjunction as a...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
And I say a game which is designed to make this happen even a tenth of the time is a badly-designed game. Like it is literally...