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Parmandur replied to the thread D&D General 6E But A + Thread.Well, yeah, that's the thing: unleash people to imagine any replacement for 5E they want, it's not likely to be a radical shift. -
Similar ideas to others, but here is what I would want. Same basic mathematic foundation as 5e (use 5e adventures with little...
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Parmandur replied to the thread D&D General 6E But A + Thread.It is interesting that the Plotweaver system Brotherwise Games has built for the Cosmere RPG does all of these things: Investiture is a...
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Parmandur reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with
Haha.
That was the whole point of Warhammer, 40 years ago. Now the whole point of Warhammer is, “Miniature wargaming figures and paints are... -
Parmandur reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with
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I think D&D owns the fantasy genre for TTRPGs. Period. Everyone else is fighting for its scraps, for the reasons that you cite. It's a... -
Parmandur reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
I point out that according to Hasbro's reports to investors (so, pretty reliable unless they want to go to prison), MtG dwarfs D&D in...
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Parmandur reacted to Nathaniel Lee's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
This. One of my work friends on the other side of the country had always expressed interest in me running a game in the past when I...
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Parmandur reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
I just watched the Fireside Chat with Mercer and Mulligan, and they talk a fair bit about having the main architects of D&D on their...
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Parmandur reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
Bingo! Totally agree. Most people, regular people/casual gamers, care about games because they want to have fun. That's the only goal...
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Parmandur reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
I think that it is mostly DM types (i.e. 90%+ of the people on this forum, I suspect) that are driven to try out different TTRPGs and...
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Parmandur reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. For a brief moment I was interested in making iPhone video games and getting them in the Apple App...
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Parmandur reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
Or to my point: should these other games even care if D&D is sitting on top of the heap? If your mission is to find (or create) fun...
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Parmandur reacted to occam's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
I think the narrative (that arcane magic always defiled, even if you tried your best to minimize that) was so compelling, that over time...
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Parmandur replied to the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players.This is what I think the Cosmere RPG did that is massively clever: it is a very different game from 5E D&D I key ways, but it very much...
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Parmandur reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
Hm, good point. When that happened, folks in my area just kept playing the old BECM or AD&D game, and would scour the used bookstores...