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Silam replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book.Well… if you were the DM of a game with such multi-ethnic character creation rules, and you thought it was too powerful, or cheesy, or... -
Silam replied to the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?.Keying some abilities off of being bloodied in 4e was a neat way to do that… though I haven’t come across this yet in 5e (are there any...
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Silam reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles? with
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You are just bringing up something else that 5e relentlessly broke though. "Encounters 4+" is really a 5e-ism", 2-4 encounter... -
Silam reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles? with Like.
Here's the core challenge of the rest model. The game, as designed, is based on challenging the party through resource attrition. If...
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Silam reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles? with Like.
The newer editions' method also takes away the choice on the second day as to whether to carry on when only partially recovered or to...
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Silam replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book.Since 5e 2024 moves most benefits from race/species to backgrounds (which I don’t mind… it’s fine…) it would actually have been somewhat...
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Silam replied to the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?.Good points. When I mentioned the phenomenon of "resting fully in two days, the first of which is dedicated to spending slots on...
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Fun fact, when 5e came out I got my old group together for a session zero to create characters. My wife was excited to play an "Accident...
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Silam replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book.Throwing a hot take out there… I find that eliminating the half-races / half-breeds / half-species / whatever you want to call it, from...
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Silam reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book with Like.
I don't think every setting needs to hold every option. A curated list can be very empowering to the imagination.
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Silam reacted to briggart's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book with Like.
Assuming you are reply to me: in what context? In setting, definitely not. The real world inspiration for "Mul" has little impact on...
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Silam replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book.I think the restrictions were important… the world had no orcs, gnomes and many other race/species for a very specific reason. Look it...
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Silam reacted to Phantom_Miria's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book with Like.
Yeah, I think the origin of the name owes a lot more to the animal, to signal "hybrid of two different animals that's sexually sterile"...
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Silam reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book with Like.
Presumably he's referring to the fact that, for most of history, slavery hasn't been seen as an inherent ethnic trait, but rather...
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Silam reacted to briggart's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book with Like.
I think the natural parallel here is that they are a sterile offspring of two different species, typically bred in captivity. "Mulatto"...
