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So it looks like the hoped-for assignment is a "right now" kind of situation. I guess it is a positive to have the decision taken out of...
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Its a complicated answer. I think folks have moved from old school survival sim where death is just a likely outcome of any particular...
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Some people do. Some people want what you want. Not everyone does. Please speak for yourself.
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You might feel like you cant do any of those things or that WotC must do them for you, but I certainly dont. I think its time for you to...
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I was gonna say the same thing.
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While I agree with much of what you've said here, this is a pretty bad misrepresentation of storytelling games. Most of the time in...
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Key word is eventually. You think its tomorrow but its really 20-30 years from now.
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It isnt a game day, its an adventuring day. It's not a simple game mechanism for deciding outcomes, its a series of systems that can...
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This is an sssumption that your preferences are what folks want in D&D I wouldn’t be so sure of. Lotta folks trying to do the talking...
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I mean, per Jeremy Crawford some tike ago, the people filling out the surveys (and playing the game in general) had started with 5E. If...
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How can they be millenials? They own a house.
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Yeah, they do in the very first mirror universe episode. It is... well it definitely doesn't disappoint.
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That’s a very odd game play mechanism to model a “game day” and not be a simulation.
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You're missing a major part of the 5e market, young people. When my son was in 7th grade (about 6 years ago) he joined the D&D club, it...
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