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Remathilis reacted to Cergorach's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E with
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Adding skills and classes would be against the OPs 'rules' imho, use the investigation skill for computer use and hacking at a very... -
Remathilis reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E with Like.
Sure, but just like with supers settings, the tropes ad constraints of the genre over rule any "logical conclusions". Otherwise, like...
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Remathilis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.No, but the minute you have teleportation circles, you have the same effect Star Trek transporters have. You start to lose the "world...
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Remathilis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.Honestly, I think its looking like you could not just do a "contemporary D&D setting" without sci-fi bleeding in on the edges. Its the...
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Remathilis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.Except in the areas of cybernetics, medicine, and internet interface. We still don't have fully functional prosthetics, for example, and...
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Remathilis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.Shadowrun is cyberpunk, not modernistic technology. I'm assuming that the op wanted D&D but the world resembles our modern level of...
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Remathilis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.Mercers gunslinger is a fighter subclass. Your mixing it up with Mage Hand Press base class. And I'm not suggesting Mercer's subclass...
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Remathilis replied to the thread Wes Schneider is the product lead for Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.Yeah, Madam Eva was invoking a long line of stereotypes common in the 20th century and earlier. And if Madam Eva was a one-off...
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Remathilis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.Why don't they? A marksman isn't that different that Matt Mercer's gunslinger (adjusting for firearm technology differences) and a...
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Remathilis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.Huh, the Greyhawk wiki has an article on Greyhawk 2000 https://greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/Greyhawk_2000 Its a little more sci-fi...
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Remathilis replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.You reach a point where even holding the property is a hot potato. Do anything new with it and people will complain about the changes...
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Remathilis replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.At that point, you've stopped making a D&D setting and started make a 5e-compatible RPG. For me, two important questions needs to be...
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Remathilis replied to the thread Wes Schneider is the product lead for Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.I would argue to the extent that they had any influence post I6 and I8, the Hickman elements were added by other people who interpreted...
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Remathilis reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting with Like.
At least in the Forgotten Realms thanks to what happened during the Second Sundering. Now there is just the Dragonborn Diaspora.
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Remathilis replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.Well, that's the age old question in all media, isn't it? Lots of iconic characters resonate with today's youth because they are...