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TheHand reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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My understanding is that there's a shortage of games. Period. The number of folks who are willing to run games is small compared to... -
TheHand reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
And here is where "D&D's no defined setting" becomes a huge issue. WotC itself currently supports almost a dozen official settings, and...
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TheHand reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Hold on a moment. You’re now painting yourself as the victim, but this is what you originally wrote: In your original description...
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TheHand reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Eh, no. If there's a problem it is in the mismatch - that you and the player want different things. But that doesn't mean that what...
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TheHand reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
The plural of anecdote is not data. But I will point out a trend that I cannot prove, but tends to be the root of most of these horror...
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TheHand reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
The dates for the wild west era and larger-scale Japanese immigration actually check out, or do you mean strictly "Spaghetti Western"...
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TheHand reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Humanoids Handbook is 2E, as are Planescape and Dark Sun. D&D's greatest competition was a system full of vampire and werewolf PCs. This...
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TheHand reacted to BookTenTiger's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I ran a modified Curse of Strahd game (I basically blew up the adventure and turned it into my own), and the players came to the table...
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TheHand reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
But your fanfic is okay? Your tone sounds very antagonistic towards players who dare to have a backstory. Maybe that is what garners...
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TheHand reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Conversely, the way I see this, you're saying "never ever bring me anything but a dead-empty blank slate with slightly less flavor than...
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TheHand reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
This is going to be some armchair psychoanalysis, but I think this is due to a heavy an element of traditionalism stemming from design...
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TheHand reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
That's key here. Communicating with your players about what they want out of your campaign. "Hey player B, I noticed that you made a...
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TheHand reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I don't like that your argument is ultimately about the motivations of the players, and in a distinctly disparaging way ("crown of...
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TheHand reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Honestly, George Lucas didn't do that either. When he created the Mos Eisley cantina, he was going for a vibe. That wretched hive of...
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TheHand reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
That’s because it’s the former that follows from the latter. It’s not that they’re an oddballs because they’re adventurers, it’s that...