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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General Why is the multi-classing spell slot math so weird?.Wasn't it a bit more complicated than that - yes, a spell scaled with caster level -but the DC was based on spell level and caster... -
Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General How do you handle Astral travel?.It seems the directional awareness still allows for travel, you aren't instantly there. But you aren't searching for it, you know the...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Bonus Action Conversion.It should be noted that Swift Action came very late in the 3rd Edition life-cycle, and I think it was mostly relegated to spells, that...
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They were trying. "Minor" action wasn't enough to inherently induce readers' brains to think that it wasn't something they HAD to be... -
Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?.Not every story has a clock running, though. If we get the job to secure an artifact from a dungeon, there might be no time table at...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?.The 5 minute adventuring day is in practice often not a 5 minute adventuring day. It's a one or two combats per day adventuring day...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General Pick your PHB (Ancestries).I think the niches of "artificial being" or "mechanical lifeform" or "android" and also "outside observer on humanoid foibles" or...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread].This episode was great. The solution to the problem was predictable in the good way - of course, if you want to give Klingons a gift...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+].Nothing in the D&D rules suggests that Dragonblood has such power. If in your campaign they have, maybe then the Dragonborns are just a...
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X-card subjects like torture and slavery, versus ancestries like tortles and centaurs are wildly differing topics; conflating the two...
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A notion I somewhat like for species/subspecies design is to have some part which is a common baseline, something distinctive, and then...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E Do you think 1st or 2nd edition is more complicated?.I am not that familiar with Pathfinder 1E, but I have played D&D 3e a lot, and PF1 is closely based on that, IIRC, so I'll compare that...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread D&D General Pick your PHB (Ancestries).Human Dwarf Elf Tiefling Dragonborn Halfling Gnome Goblin Kobolds Golilath Warforged (maybe: Soulforged) Subraces don't exist directly...
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Items Damage Types This section will list the support for and why you might want each type of damage. Item slots I recommend going to...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Draw Steel General Thread [+].I love D&D 4 combat, but I agree that I would hate using it for the multi-encounter dungeon crawls, which is what many of the adventures...