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PPamphylian reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with
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The OP points out nicely the (IMO rather sad) change in items over the editions. Worth noting the same type of chage has occurred with... -
PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items.Yes! One of my very rough metrics for myself as a DM is something like "number of deranged schemes/out-of-the-box creative...
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PPamphylian reacted to bsss's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
I love the depth of these comparisons in the OP. In particular, I could read 1e magic item descriptions all day, and think about all the...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items.I mainly skipped 3e and 4e for lack of familiarity. So I'm basically interpolating a story from 1e (and presumably 2e) to 5e to 5.5e...
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PPamphylian reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
It's true that the magic items in D&D have generally simplified in how they work and most of the 'gotcha' items are gone or much...
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PPamphylian reacted to aco175's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
I notice that the old items had/needed a lot of DM input or judgement. The new items are more player facing in that they are not left...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode.Seems like a very useful distinction in terms of goals. I do wonder what mechanics scaffold this mode of combat best? For combat as war...
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PPamphylian reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with Like.
I’ve seen the “Combat as War vs. Combat as Sport” framework come up a lot in TTRPG discussions, and I think it’s a very useful...
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PPamphylian replied to the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items.Yeah, it's interesting to think about the relationship of ttrpg design with video games over time. There are some substitutes like you...
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PPamphylian reacted to Stormonu's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
Heh, I use d4's for Masterwork versions (1d4 to 3d4). I used d6's for magic swords because it's easier to group it all together (I...
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PPamphylian reacted to ZeshinX's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
Aaaaand gonna yoink that idea for my game. Much obliged (though going to tinker it down to 1d4 per plus....since I like to save d6's...
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PPamphylian reacted to Stormonu's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
Similar - in 5E I rarely hand out straight-forward magic items but flavor them up in some way. Also, when it comes to (plain) magic...
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PPamphylian reacted to Xenolith234's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
I maintain that while the 5e magic items are streamlined, they ended up fairly lame as a result. Can’t have any lingering impact on the...
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PPamphylian reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
This post helps to explain why nearly all magical items in my 5E games are bespoke and frequently split the difference between their...
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PPamphylian reacted to Stormonu's post in the thread D&D General Edition Design Philosophies as Seen Through Magic Items with Like.
I can't speak for OD&D, but my years of playing 1E - 3E was more striving towards Simulation than D&D just being a game. 3E was the...