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You don't "need" any particular class, concept or archetype for most RPGs. Well, I suppose if your game is "Wizards & Warriors" you... -
To @Reynard 's point, the existence of a Thief/Rogue as a dedicated "profession" is a vestigial relic of D&D being a level + class based...
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In general I would say it's because some people enjoy playing a sneaky character and it's a good idea to support popular archetypes...
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rmcoen reacted to Kobold Stew's post in the thread D&D General 5E species with further choices and differences with
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Welcome to the boards! There is not. The best resource for species right now is Monsters of the Multiverse, which came out pre-2024... -
rmcoen reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Circle Casting is gonna break a lot of games with Like.
Upon first reading, I had really liked Circle Casting - probably the first time I've really liked a mechanical "subsystem" of 5e. Every...
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It takes an awful lot more time to run and adventure than to read it. Therefore, the market for easy-to-read adventures is larger than...
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I hate, hate, hate reviews of scenarios made by those who haven't actually run through them as either a GM or a player. What comes to...
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As an aside, the “meant to be read” phenomena isn’t restricted to modern trends. Was reading D&D, Runequest and WFRP modules in a 1982...
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I feel like sometimes the author had an interesting idea for a story and they got so wrapped up in the telling of it that they almost...
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rmcoen reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread Modules: Made to Read vs Made to Run? with Like.
Well the market leader is WotC, who seemingly have a suitable marketing budget to promote about three "big dumb campaign" type books a...
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rmcoen replied to the thread GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?.I'd say my prep time averages about 1 hour for a 3.5 hour session, but what tends to actually happen to make that average is several...
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I find this impossible to answer. My prep is very staggered. Some days I can work for 20 minutes, others for 2 hours. I also like prep...
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I generally spend like fifteen minutes per session, prepping for D&D 5e/ToV sessions that average about three and a half hours...
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Typically speaking, how much time do you prep for any given unit of time you actually play? For example, when I run convention games, I...
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rmcoen replied to the thread What was your 2nd RPG?.Wow, OP, that was a long time ago! I think D&D was "8yrs old" through "went to college" (BECMI, then AD&D), since there just wasn't...