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ProfessorDetective reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest with
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These are really interesting. If these are for the Ravenloft book, there's not much time for changes to be made. Maybe this is for a... -
ProfessorDetective reacted to Christian Hoffer's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest with Like.
Wizards of the Coast has released a new playtest featuring four new "villainous" subclasses, along with two more feat paths designed to...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Indagare Nogitsune's post in the thread D&D General A Setting with Only Small Races/Species? with Like.
I imagined such a setting once with the races being 'imports' from other worlds. They weren't necessarily from established settings but...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Dragonhelm's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
I wanted to tell you about my old college group's use of Dark Matter. First, some backstory. I began playing D&D when I was in college...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to TrippyHippy's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
The enthusiasm for Traveller 5E is simply that there is a big market under the 5E brand to be tapped into. Personally, I am happy with...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Sketchpad's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
If only WotC had a setting that they could use for sci-fi that they've already done some 5e work for... >coughStarFrontierscough<...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
For a one shot, I would probably jump one more level away from Dungeons & Dragons, and go with DarkSpace, which is based on Shadowdark...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
When I finally got a PDF copy of 1974's OD&D I was surprised to see the sci-fi that was there from the beginning. OD&D Supplement II...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
Not that I want to turn this into a D&D thread, but I'm with @SlyFlourish and view 5E as the broader ruleset/system, and D&D as WotC's...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to djotaku's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
Expedition to Barrier Peaks is also available for 5e in one of the anthologies I own. I want to say it's in Infinite Staircase, but I'm...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to djotaku's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
Did a quick look at the GM Core PDF. On page 147: Perhaps the strangest of the Broken Lands lie near its heart. The rugged hills and...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General Is D&D-powered sci-fi having a moment? with Like.
Going back as far as 1980's Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, science fiction and D&D have always had a connection. Barrier Peaks was a...
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I feel like the editing has been bad since SR4, which had so many micro-revisions that its almost impossible to find two people with...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowrun deserves better with
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Without a major effort to revive it -- meaning at least a big a splash as the World of Darkness is getting nowadays, which means real... -
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We played so much 1e and 2e in the 90s. But the game was always a little broken and the bloat just got to be too much that I skipped 3e...