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PPamphylian reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with
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Yes, we lived in a very small town and went to a fairly small school, so our groups were schoolmates and friends. D&D was our main... -
PPamphylian reacted to earthsea_wizard's post in the thread D&D General Who else was resistant to Eberron for awhile before falling for it? with Like.
I remember conversations like this around the time it came out and for years after. I'm one of those people whose first interaction with...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment?.Having Good and Evil as tangible forces is a fun, flavorful, gameable thing. You can detect it, of course, but I think its at is most...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D.I am seeing two options here: 1) The rules exist but are nonfunctional and those who despise can ignore it and those who are used to it...
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PDepends on the focus of the Tolkien fantasy. I think modern folks want to focus more on being bad ass elves and dwarves running into...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D.I mostly complain (though this was only partially my intent) because I play 5e and like many aspects of it, but think some could be...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D.I suppose I don't actually know what constitutes modern heroic fantasy if even Tolkien (including the films) is outside of it! I can...
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PYeah... folks have been there done that and have an entire closet full of the t-shirts. Dungeons and Dragons has grown beyond sword and...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D.Well put. I pick on 5e because I have the most experience with it and no experience with 2e-4e. The difference between 5e and earlier...
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PPamphylian reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with Like.
@Pamphylian I think you’ve put your finger on a real throughline in D&D design, not just a quirk of 5e. From the very beginning, the...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model.In an ideal world, I can imagine the franchise model allowing them to be more magnanimous with their IP and material in the TTRPG arena...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D.I'll be taking a look!
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PPamphylian reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with Like.
EN Publishing just finished a Kickstarter for a new A5e book explicitly dealing with those parts of the game. Pets & Sidekicks.
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PMy "favourite" iteration of the vision-impairment rules is fog cloud, where everyone is basically attacking each other blind, and the...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D.I have, it's great - my table of players/DMs does like the slightly chunkier character builds of 5e though. I think the ideal would be...