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occam reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with
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Note that Dark Sun, as settings go, is really small. This is the approximate size of the original DS box set map superimposed on a map... -
occam reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with
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Please keep in mind this inquiry came from Steampunkette's idea that preserving should be precipitously weaker than defiling with no... -
occam reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with
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occam reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
That's simple. Don't buy it. Pretend like the book doesn't exist. Then your precious ideas about how Dark Sun should be can be...
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occam reacted to Jensaarai's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast's Archetype Entertainment to Publish Exodus TTRPG Based on Upcoming Exodus Video Game with Like.
All the Awakened are sentient and usually fit into some sort of role in society; bears are often battlefield medics and rescue. The bees...
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occam reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast's Archetype Entertainment to Publish Exodus TTRPG Based on Upcoming Exodus Video Game with Love.
Some photos from Reddit:
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That's what I think is so clever about this product - giving the deluxe treatment to classic modules means I can use stuff like maps and...
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occam reacted to humble minion's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Yep. Your resolution is actually really nicely poetic in a lot of ways and I do like it. The devil would be in the buildup though. If...
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occam reacted to Mirrorrorrim's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Starter Set 2025 unboxing with Like.
And Carlos the Dwarf.
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occam reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Yep. It’s all over the place. The novels disagree with the OG box. The novels are where the idea of preserving taking longer comes from...
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occam reacted to humble minion's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Pre-Cerulean Storm, there was a nice balance-of-terror/mutually-assured-destruciton dynamic between the sorcerer-kings that I actually...
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occam reacted to MonsterEnvy's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
I think 4e did it pretty well in setting it after the death of the Sorcerer King of Tyr, but before anything else like the death of the...
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occam replied to the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun.I get what you're saying, wanting to align narrative and mechanics. But my point was that players already felt the narrative, to the...
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occam replied to the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun.Except that, as demonstrated by numerous posts in this thread, it clearly did. The Dark Sun mechanical baseline, i.e. the thing that...
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occam replied to the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun.I think the narrative (that arcane magic always defiled, even if you tried your best to minimize that) was so compelling, that over time...