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payn reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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I like to hold up the PHB and DMG before a new group and say, "I haven't read these. Why are you? Let's play to find out what happens!"... -
payn reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem. with
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Nobody "voted" for them. They were design changes made by the game designers. Each edition continues to be played to this day... -
payn reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem. with Like.
None of those are really hex crawls. Check out Odyssey of the Dragonlords for an example of a good 5e hexcrawl IMO (by Modiphius). I...
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payn reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem. with Like.
Okay, but good by what standard? Good by the standards of 2e or 3e? Or good by the standards of 5e? The time limit in Tomb of...
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payn reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem. with Like.
Okay, they're different systems. You have to adjust your expectations to each system. It's not that you can't do a hex crawl in 5e, it's...
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payn reacted to Birmy's post in the thread Gaming Journalist Rob Wieland Passes At Age 48 with Like.
As a local, Rob was pretty much at every convention in the southeastern Wisconsin area, so I got to play with him a few times over the...
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payn reacted to Stalker0's post in the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem. with Like.
Funny enough....I don't see your point. I think this was in response to some other critiques in another thread, but removing the answer...
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payn reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread Streaming Movies and Power Rankings: A Reverie on Max's A24 and Netflix's Rebel Ridge with Like.
For various sorts of deep-diving geeks, Tubi is the essential companion to one or more of the major services. It has weirdly deep...
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payn reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem. with Like.
What problem? You’re kind of waving your hands in the air and saying “all of this” but different people have different problems.
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payn reacted to TerraDave's post in the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem. with Like.
Ok let’s try to figure this out: the point may be that 5e damage and hp inflation are natural outcomes of core assumptions and...
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payn reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Only difference is, in 3e, leveling by xp was kind of still norm. In 5e, people switched to milestones for the most part. When you level...
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payn replied to the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem..So, we start talking about +x to hit, but then quickly forget it, so that we can make some point about HP numbers and rest recovery not...
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payn reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Refresher Course D&D Edition Numbers. AKA Modern D&D Is a Self Inflicted Problem. with Love.
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payn replied to the thread Streaming Movies and Power Rankings: A Reverie on Max's A24 and Netflix's Rebel Ridge.Well, you've made it pretty clear your interests do really lie in HBO programming anyways.
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I think culturally, much of the US at least is in the process of a shift in what words are taboo. People are much more comfortable with...