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pukunui reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with
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Small e or big E evil though? Judge Dredd is absolutely small-e evil in most presentations of him, but he's usually contrasted against... -
pukunui replied to the thread Which 80s wargames and adventure games do you still play?.I didn’t discover the existence of such games until I was a bit older in the early 90s. I remember getting a war game that was about...
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pukunui reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread Which 80s wargames and adventure games do you still play? with Like.
I played the same games in the 70s. The games we are talking about were not mass market, they were niche and usually found only at the...
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pukunui reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Yeah, this is annoying. I often end up modifying NPC statblocks to make them more PC-like, and I do not love that the 5.5 design has...
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pukunui reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Yeah, generally when you design a setting you tee up dominos to fall in whatever direction the players decide to push them. Metaplot...
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pukunui reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Infinite Staircase? with Like.
No player map. On a VTT put up some art on the screen. I did something similar for a Faywild excursion. Use real time elapsed (minus...
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pukunui reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Infinite Staircase? with Like.
The original adventure had the lower levels of the ziggurat (octahedron) for that. The city is set up as an urban adventure rather than...
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Great opening sentences, today featuring Peter H. Wilson’s Europe’s Tragedy: The Thirty Years War—
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pukunui replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books.I mean, I’m OK with it if it’s like Vecna or Tasha or even just unnamed Archmage A, but when even a so-called Apprentice Mage gets a...
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pukunui reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
This bugs me so much. Cool for monsters or unique things. Not cool for the NPC "wizards" of the world. (sorcerers, etc.)
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pukunui replied to the thread Which 80s wargames and adventure games do you still play?.Nope! Guess it just wasn't ever on my family's radar when I was growing up. We played things like Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Stratego...
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pukunui reacted to trappedslider's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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pukunui reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
I oscillate between preferring NPCs (as in other humanoid wizards, fighters, paladins, etc) to be built like PCs and to be built like...
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pukunui reacted to OB1's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Infinite Staircase? with Like.
1. I’m pretty sure there is another way up, but adding another clue or removing the skill check for an intelligent character to read...
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pukunui reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Who cares there's a fix somewhere when 3/4 of GMs don't know it's there, 3/4 of those who do will refuse to ever even consider using it...