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Sure, but that is like most things. No all fans of the Orphan Black tv show know there had been a short run comic book connected to the...
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It was something that you could do very easy with just Book of Vile Darkness, and likely as much a reason why this book was banned at...
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No, it wasn't. I'll refer you to this article about the "ivory tower design" of 3E.
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That is decesively untrue and the fact Muscle Wizard and Pun Pun exist, who both could easily attain infinite attributes, proves it.
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Maybe you just cannot design good adventures and encounters in this system and that's why you think it's too easy?
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Intended or not, it was there from the get go. From the very beginning there were great options and trap options, and both were...
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Also, taking a caster dip, just to hope that you can use your action to hold concentration for another character? I just don’t see...
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Citation needed Putting "trap" options into the book, that punish the player who picks it, is inherently rewarding system mastery to...
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No, it was deliberately designed to reward system mastery and punish lack of system mastery.
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You’re assuming Range is synonymous with Area. They aren’t. Earth Tremor’s radius is its area of effect because it emanates from you...
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The thing is, this IS a thing in the lore and a big one, this is pretty much what Elven High Magic was, wasn't it? They wanted to give...
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I actually fundamentally disagree that 3e was designed for new players, since that game always felt like only catering to the very crowd...
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Do you have proof of this assumption on dev's side at all? Because unless they said this somewhere, this is armchair psychology and...
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Then it didn't exist as written. There was time Gods did not need worship to sustain them, Ao implemented that at the end of time of...
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The lore of Realms never made sense with how magic eorks in the game
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