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Paul Farquhar reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Spell Fire Flare? with
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Vampires, Shadows, radiants>fire unless youre fighting angels. Scorching ray not so good vvs anything red. -
Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Spell Fire Flare?.Zombies.
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.It’s not murder to kill a lynch mob in self defence. In my experience it’s quite common for PCs to be fugitives from the authorities...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still....I don’t think horror needs to remove agency from its protagonists. At the end of Dracula, the party piece together the clues, hunt down...
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Paul Farquhar reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still... with Like.
Personally, I think Curse of Strahd is at its best as heroic fantasy with horror trappings. And this is why. I agree that the sense of...
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Paul Farquhar reacted to Chaltab's post in the thread D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still... with Like.
Yeah. There's a sliding scale of tension vs apathy. If the players feel like they're one mistake away from death, you're golden. But if...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still....Whether or not it’s scary really comes down to the descriptive powers of the DM. There is nothing inherently horror about D&D being...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.About the same threat as any other opponents the PCs face.
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Powerful racist NPCs are called villains. PCs have plenty of practice fighting them. Sure, but what I just suggested is a compromise...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Any attempt at lynching a PC is likely to result in a massacre of the village, so it's not like it poses any real threat. Bottom line...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Given that rhakshasha are shapechangers, isn't the last thing they are likely to look like a cat? But a feline PC (who might be an...
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Paul Farquhar reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I think it’s perfectly OK to phrase “this behavior indicates this GM and I will clash” as a “red flag”. After all, a red flag isn’t a...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still....Maybe, if you know you need to avoid spoilers. But if you didn't know you were likely to be playing it then it was mentioned in most...
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Paul Farquhar reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still... with Like.
The original Ravenloft module was published in 1983. Spoiler bans don't last 40+ years.
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still....This was spoiled pretty much everywhere as soon as it came out. The problem is with how the adventure itself is structured. Better...