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Older Beholder reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread with
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It definitely walks the line of "holy crap, that was horrifying" and "holy crap, that was hilarious." And it winks at the audience a... -
Older Beholder replied to the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill".The real skill in OS play was in how consistently someone could roll an 18 on a 3d6 when rolling stats, compared to players using the...
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Older Beholder replied to the thread Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread.Barbarian is so good. For me there were too many hilarious moments to be really disturbed by it. I watched Weapons yesterday, (by the...
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Older Beholder reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread with Like.
I liked this episode, but it was more horror-themed than horrific, in my opinion. (I just watched Barbarian over the weekend, so...
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I find this notion of OS players needing to be creative and clever while modern players just spam widgets to be a bunch of grognards...
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Older Beholder reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread King Kubrick: Ranking Stanley's Best Films with Like.
Every now and then, I like to rank the films of directors. Fincher. Lynch. Tarantino. The Andersons (not Mr. Anderson, but Paul Tomas...
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Older Beholder reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
You know what, the more I consider it, the more I think ‘Poverty’ is such a poor choice of words to describe any of the Core Books. They...
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Older Beholder reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Yeah, but so what? So they come here and complain about it. That's what places like this are here for. Nothing wrong with complaining...
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Older Beholder reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I disagree. Because I do not think in this day and age we can assume new players are that stupid. First of all... I do not think most...
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Older Beholder reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Serious question: why? I started creating custom monsters long ago before there were any rules for making them, or if there were any I...
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Older Beholder replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..How this thread feels as someone that never played 4E (I'm not really having a go at anyone, just amazed at the lack of Minion gifs...
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Older Beholder reacted to Hriston's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards? with Like.
As others have pointed out, you don't have to do much of anything. It's the player's character, so you could let them make the patron as...
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Older Beholder replied to the thread (Netflix) K-POP DEMON HUNTERS.I read that K-pop Demon Hunters was the first movie (soundtrack) to have 3 songs on the Billboard top 100 at the same time, since Grease...
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Older Beholder replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.The idea that a book not telling you explicitly to do something means it can’t be done in an RPG like DnD seems baffling to me. A new...
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Older Beholder reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
The vast majority of NPCs don’t even need stats. For a good number I will just note something like Wiz6/LN. And that is all the info i...