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Thagdal reacted to humble minion's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with
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Pre-Cerulean Storm, there was a nice balance-of-terror/mutually-assured-destruciton dynamic between the sorcerer-kings that I actually... -
Thagdal reacted to humble minion's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
I’d push back a little on this idea that defiling was written as consequences-free. The problem was that mechanically the consequences...
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Thagdal reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
I mean, my design goal isn’t to encourage players to use preserving. It’s to encourage them to use defiling. I want defiling to be the...
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Thagdal reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
D&D is basically the buffet table of gaming. It's primarily a "fantasy" game, but it can be stretched to include just about any kind of...
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Thagdal reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Tolkien was like 100 times more popular than D&D in the US in the 70s. It just wasn't comparable. LotR was a cultural phenomena, D&D was...
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1E had monks because karate and ninja stuff was a big craze in the U.S. in the 1970s. It had spaceships and laser guns because some...
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Its not Steampunk, but its not '70s grim fantasy anymore either. D&D has always been about a decade behind on what influences it, so...
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Thagdal reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Others have discussed the appropriateness of the term steampunk. Others have discussed medieval. I am going to address the 'no longer'...
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Thagdal reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
There's barely any punk in the default D&D assumption. The presence of steam does not make punk. Most large organizations like nations...
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Thagdal reacted to TheAlkaizer's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
It's not Steampunk. But it borrows elements from it like from every other genres in existence. It's melting pot of cultural references...
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That fix is so weird. I also saw another person pointing out that if you could make two separate pledges: one for the physical pack...
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Aaaand nope. That goes for pretty much anyone, too.
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It was Anthony Huso's blog (and modules) that got me interested in AD&D - I had sort of ignored 1e, coming from a background of 5e and...
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Thagdal reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
Lethality was one of those things that saw a lot of the house rules. If you didn't play with henchmen (or large parties in general)...
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Never played it, but I heard Solasta is good. https://www.solasta-game.com/
