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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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It's good to know what your own requirements are so no one's time is wasted: not everyone is going to be a fit for every table. TTRPGs... -
Pvt. Winslow reacted to dave2008's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I agree with most of your post except this bit: I think the beauty of a narrow setting can be that it strongly pushes a game you're...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Xenolith234's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
DMing now is an act of creativity, collaboration, and although some do it for pay, most don’t. I don’t give up hours and hours of my...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Xenolith234's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Unfortunately the opposite has become true, going off of one of the previous comments in this thread. Players bludgeon DMs into...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Entitlement much? PCs always had cool powers and abilities built into the base classes/kits//PrCs/etc. I was talking about how the old...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
For the record, my position is and has consistently been that the sorts of bad GMs being discussed did exist, still exist, and can most...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I don't have any comments about how much you saw it. I dispute that hobby-wide it was common in the past but not now. There are people...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yeah, this idea that in the dark old days GMs tended to be bad and understanding how to run a good game is some kind of new discovery...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Blue's post in the thread Looking for Draw Steel extended play review with
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Those are all great examples of "I really wanted this $MechanicalThing can I use it and say xyz so it fits?". It's so much cleaner and...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Haha.
I just feel fortunate as a millennial born in the '80s that what I grew up liking will just be repeatedly created over and over by the...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Xenolith234's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
That sounds amazing! Restriction breeds creativity. I’m not opposed to low-magic, medium-magic, high-magic, what have you; I just want...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Haha.
I can see this is a serious discussion.
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Says who? Anecdotally, my friends and I have done this and had a good time. And it’s not because we were STUBBORNLY worshipping the...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Yes I ran an ancient greek bronze age campaign. All humans. Limited classes. We used 5e, but I relied heavily on Age of Heroes. We had a...