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Retros_x reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with
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Retros_x reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with Like.
Disagree. Generic means “typical of its genre,” and it is a useful term. It means conventional, uncreative, not pushing boundaries, not...
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Retros_x reacted to TheSword's post in the thread What videogames are you playing in 2025? with Like.
Quite enjoying Alan Wake 2. Thoroughly enjoyed the original and love how the sequel riffs off the original. Frankly the graphics, story...
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Retros_x reacted to Gradine's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with Like.
I can understand not liking the art style being shown here, taste is subjective, yadda yadda. But calling it "generic"? Without a point...
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Retros_x reacted to Von Ether's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with Like.
That's oversimplifying what an artistic movement is.
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Retros_x reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with Like.
How dare you take a reasonable and balanced position, in clear violation of the sacred traditions of the fandom.
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Retros_x replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer.So you forbid armor in your Eberron game? Or flavor the chainmal as a trenchcoat that can catch bullets? Players with armor are...
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Retros_x reacted to Bolares's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with Like.
To be fair, we haven't seen any image outside of Sharn yet, so the 1920's style can be still reflecting the city and not the entire setting
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Retros_x reacted to pukunui's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with Like.
As I already said above, I'm fine with there being 1920s-ish elements in the setting ... but I feel like some people are aruging that...
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Retros_x reacted to Von Ether's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with Like.
For my two cents, D&D has had a long standing tradition of using the aesthetics from one genre and the vibe from another. The classic...
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Retros_x reacted to pukunui's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer with Like.
Exactly. The name “The Last War” invokes “The War to End All Wars” epithet, but the details are more from the Hundred Years’ War, which...
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Retros_x replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Aerial combat in 5e.Because 99,5% of all combats will not be airborne in 5e. You definitely will need 3rd party supplements for that. IMO i would go for...
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Retros_x reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED] with Like.
No, we did not normalize tolerance of bigotry. We just became ineffective. The landscape changed, and we didn't adapt to it. Every...
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Retros_x reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Do Shorter Lists Make Players/GMs More Creative? with Like.
Yes, absolutely. I posted about this a while ago in another thread so I won't repost that all here. This also applies to the rules of...
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Retros_x replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer.Its a fantasy setting so we easily can just grab aesthetics and world building elements and mix them wildly. As you say it has 1920...