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For my high level 5e character I had to create my own 'cheat sheet' character sheet because I had so many fiddly little options from...
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The core game is in 3 books totalling over 1000 pages. There are certainly much crunchier games, and 5E opted for very elegant...
Monday at 3:11 AM
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What view do you think I have expressed?
Monday at 2:08 AM
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I like your bossiness, I can see how you came to run a billion dollar company. I've never seen even a second of Critical Role or any...
Monday at 1:58 AM
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You would never do that!
Monday at 1:45 AM
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Please don't put tongue and passage into the same sentence again.
Monday at 1:27 AM
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I think 5E certainly is complex and crunchy. I appreciate that bound accuracy and advantage/disadvantage do reduce some of the in-game...
Monday at 1:26 AM
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By what standard...? It's not GURPS or Pathfinde 2E, no, but 5E is not a rules-light game either. It is, at least. "Medium Crunch"...
Monday at 1:24 AM
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So when you said changing an encounter you meant changing a future encounter? The GM had planned a big battle, but you subverted it by...
Monday at 1:07 AM
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A lot of "open world" play remains very GM-driven: it is the GM who decides the significant content of the presented scenes, and the...
Monday at 1:00 AM
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Ah yes, I definitely consider myself a colleague and partner of someone when they decide the entire premise of what we do and have a...
Monday at 1:00 AM
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D&D is a gritty survival of the smartest no molly-coddling world simulator physics engine that needs an auteur GM to curate everything...
Sunday at 11:12 PM
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The premise of the thread?
Sunday at 8:50 PM
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I mean, that's just bog-standard play to me. If you can't even flip a combat scenario to non-combat through use of the resolution...
Sunday at 8:38 PM
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That isn't 'changing an encounter'! That's responding to an encounter in an unexpected way.
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