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Parmandur reacted to Lord_Blacksteel's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) DnD 5e designer [Mike Mearls] explains how INDIE RPGs are taking over with
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If we're talking about popularity there are several ways you can count that. As mentioned in this thread many people at cons are playing... -
Parmandur reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Like.
Discussion opposite the original question still is talking about the same topic, just in the other direction. You can still learn about...
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Parmandur replied to the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms cover to "Guide to the Dalelands" revealed, book delayed.The whole Setting came because grade school Greenwood was writing Lankhmar fan fiction, Waterdeep is the more core area.
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Parmandur replied to the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms cover to "Guide to the Dalelands" revealed, book delayed.The Sword Coast and the Dalelands are part of the same region, the Heartlands. More specifically, Shadowdale and Waterdeep are the...
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Parmandur replied to the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms cover to "Guide to the Dalelands" revealed, book delayed.Vanilla is not bland, it is just the extremely popular default. The Dalelands is definitely "Standard issue D&D" as it gets...but people...
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Parmandur reacted to Mistwell's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest with Like.
Well it was definitely a named thing in Doom 2 from 1994, and then in Diablo 1 in 1997.
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Parmandur reacted to payn's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Like.
That is the boat that I put 5E in. I think it was designed to be modular, so its easy to hack. I see cyberpunk, sci-fi etc.. reskins and...
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Parmandur replied to the thread Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest.Yeah, I was thinking that they could put these options in with that Astarions material reformatted to match. Along with many less...
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Parmandur reacted to GarrettKP's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest with Like.
Also of note, there’s enough feats in the Astarion product to make a “Vampire” feat path already. Maybe whatever book this is for will...
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Parmandur replied to the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets?.I would agree that it shows that a system does not need to explicitly have universal ambitions to be engineered to do something else.
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Parmandur reacted to payn's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Like.
I was thinking about that and I believe the sheer amount of 5E conversions proves its a flexible, but limited, universal system.
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Parmandur replied to the thread Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest.Yes, some sort of Saint/Demigod Path seems obvious, something Draconic as well...there are some PC derived characters in D&D who have...
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Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest with Like.
Which would make something such as "Champions of Light and Darkness" more likely than Return of the Revenge of the Book of Vile Darkness...
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Parmandur reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Like.
it seems obvious on its face that all universal or generic systems have built in limitations. That hardly seem controversial, and...
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Parmandur replied to the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets?.70s/80s Marvel is more all-encompassing: everything in Star Wars, plus more.