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    Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

    Well, not so many any more... ;( I actually wouldn't mind a Sam Witwer live action Darth Maul, but animation could be fun, too. The chances however are not that good, so we'll see. Or at least some will, and then I can decide whether to watch it. Mustrum "Too soon" Ridcully
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    D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?

    I voted 1. We rarely have multiple combat encounters per day, and often have some overland travel. In our D&D 5 Eberron campaign, we regularly were off on lightning rail or airship and travel for a while (a lot less then if we would be on foot or horse) providing easy opportunity for resting...
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    D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+]

    Interestingly, 4E NPCs, despite being differently derived then PCs, actually usually share the race's special ability. And I think it's often what made a group of NPCs of a race (like Goblins or Kobolds) feel more uniquely that race than in any other edition I played. I am surprised they didn't...
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    D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+]

    But "once per day" is already a "cooldown", so maybe they didn't see the forest for the trees, and though they had found something new when it was already there all along, contained in every D&D edition, and stolen by WoW and other MMORPGs? Maybe WoWs influence is more that they really thought...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How I would do 6E.

    Alternatively, the cost of the counterspell/disruption is lowered. Losing your action and the spell slot is a pretty significant setback. Maybe instead of losing a spell slot and the action, you can choose to keep casting another turn, or switch to casting a cantrip as reaction (retaining the...
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    D&D General The 3.5 Binder was a really cool class

    Maybe with a meta-mechanic like compels in some games I've read about on EN World? You stat with 1 "Wild Flow" point at session start. When you use something involving wild magic, the GM can say: "Hey, I'd like to give you some bad wild result. If you agree, you'll get a wild flow point." or...
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    D&D General Hypothetical: D&D without ability scores (or bonuses)

    I think that any negative modifier is already something that makes things more complex, because always adding stuff is easier than sometimes subtracting and sometimes adding (and subtracting is always a bit more difficult than adding). So giving a general +4 is preferable to giving a general -4.
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    D&D General Hypothetical: D&D without ability scores (or bonuses)

    You "need" a +4 to hit because you want something to say "you're good at hitting stuff with X". Sorcerors get +4 to hit with spells, +2 to with Daggers, +0 to hit with anything else, and Wizards get +4 to hit with spells, +2 to with Staffs and +0 with anything else. Barbarians get +4 to hit...
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    D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+]

    I like(d) the move to having all character classes use a similar resource recovery schedule in 4E, and disliked losing that in 5E, it solved so many problems in balance and pacing I used to experience in 3E, and it enabled a relatively flexible way to run my campaigns. I like Warls, e.g...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    But, well, you don't need to do that. Just like you don't need every adventure to 100 % enforce that the player characters run 8-12 encounters before they can take a long rest, and force that the 8th or 12th encounter is a life or death struggle while the rest were kinda boring, unexciting...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    The advice the DMG probably actually needs to provide is this: The classes are balanced around the idea that they can handle a certain number encounters per day. If they do more, they will struggle and run out spells, hit points and similar resources. If they do less, particularly classes that...
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    D&D General [+] For (hypothetical) 6e: Which arcane caster class should be the "simple" one?

    One thing to keep in mind is that a "simple caster" does not need to have the breadth of options a complex caster has. In fact, that would be counter-productive, the breadth is part of the complexity. The goal is to have a way to play the narrative role of someone that uses magic for his...
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    D&D Announces Collaboration with Fortnite

    I don't play Fortnite, but I sometimes watch a Twitch Streamer that is sometimes playing it, especially during special events. They can be fun to watch, if you're into that kind of thing. It's kinda crazy what kind of effort goes into those. THough this doesn't seem to be an event with a grant...
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    Deanna was an Empath (but she could communicate telepathically with other Betazoids, and her Imzadi, aka Riker.), because she was a Half-Betazoid. Lwaxana Troi was reading thoughts casually from the people around her. Tam Elbrun couldn't block out thoughts like most Betazoids, and was a very...
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