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    D&D General Friday Nonsense: Add One Stat To D&D (For PCs)

    Contacts. Stat Bonus times per level (or per session for some play styles) a character can just declare that "I know a guy." Characters have great powers but sometimes they're out of their areas of expertise and they could use the help of a specialist (Crime Lord, Sewer worker, Lute-Maker...
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    Diamond Distributors Asks Bankruptcy Court For Ownership of Publishers' Consignment Inventory [UPDATED]

    If this even happens then one small publisher could go and maybe take notes from another small publisher "Bob Doe of XYZ Publishing can pick up all our stuff." - Jane Doe, President, ABC Publishing.
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    Tell me about the RPG section of your local game store

    As a reminder from a person who makes their living ordering games for our store - sometimes the game we do not have is the one that sold out and is unavailable from distribution and is either unavailable from the publisher, or is from a publisher whose minimum order size is too large for us to...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Traps, dragon & servants, trouble!
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    Should traps have tells?

    You can do both IF the tells are hard to spot. Most people don't notice them, and they work as planned; but some people (some PC's) are good enough, or lucky enough (i.e. they roll well enough) to spot them. Maybe making spotting traps an average of about +5DC over neutralizing those traps, once...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Predict WotC's 2026 D&D releases

    Apparently I called this one first.
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    Traveller 5e coming from World's Largest RPG in cooperation with Mongoose Publishing

    Or they are trying to sell it to existing Traveller fans who, probably correctly, assume that they will have a much easier time getting players if they use the system from the most popular RPG in the world. RPG's, like computer software, have network effects - the more people play your game/use...
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    D&D General Gargoyles need to be redone.

    If it was me I would say that Gargoyles are Warforged, and decide what, if anything, to take away from them so the flight speed doesn't make them too strong. Maybe a "Winged Warforged" subspecies would cover them both?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Eldritch Knight

    Of course they provoke it, you just decide not to take it (unless you are a Tabaxi)....
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    Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Auction at Christie's

    No, most of that money goes to your estate after you're too dead to enjoy it, but you do get a fair amount by college professor standards.
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    D&D General How much does Shattered Obelisk need Phandelver?

    As far as a hook goes, If you skip Lost Mine and start the party at Level 5 the hook could be "These are the people who are giving you the land for your Bastions. If you want them, then you have to live there."
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    New Unearthed Arcana Brings Back Five Subclasses

    Darth Maul? Is that you? Give in to your anger!
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    No Initiative Order: How Do You Do It?

    Clockwise. Then counterclockwise the next time.
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    D&D 5E (2024) [+] What does a non-spellcaster Psion need/look like?

    They look a lot like Warlocks but with no spells and many more Invocations. Then there needs to be a Feat anyone can take that gets them one of those Invocations so they can also be Psionic as a side-hustle.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Thoughts on bonus action potions?

    The rules say that potions weigh 0.5 lb. Does it really seem likely that it is 1 oz of fluid in a 7 ounce bottle? Does it seem likely that they're so much thicker than water that 1 fluid ounce weighs much more than one ounce? They seem to be in the four to seven fluid ounce range.
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