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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?.To be blunt, all this proves is someone read the game fiction there before hitting the game. But I roll to disbelieve that's the common... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Anticipatory Grief (...and transitions) with
Sad.
It is with a heaviest of hearts that I have to report that we had to say goodbye to our little fluff a little less than an hour ago... -
Thomas Shey reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with
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Until you can explain what you gain from rolling that you can't get from somen variation of point buy other than 3 minutes of gambling... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.I'd say the real answer is there is no useful compromise within a single play group. The desires are simply incompatible. Now within a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Eh. People have been used to D&D forcing combat to one degree or another on every character for decades. I don't see it as...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Tell your overdue Kickstarter story.While I'm not going to deny its a virtue to have software support there, I think (at least generically, how it is for you is of course...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Though there were absolutely games outside the D&D sphere that still had pretty high mortality. The BRP sphere was (and to some extent...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I don't think people were saying it was the norm, but I think its fair to say that is was more common in decades past and there was a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Honestly, it didn't matter as much back then depending on where the bad stats landed. A cruddy Int on a Fighting-Man or Thief was...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Mad_Jack's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
Wow.
I almost just decided I was willing to pay more to have food delivered than the food itself cost... But then I thankfully realized I... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Oddly enough, as a good home cook, I sometimes have to go through that very process, albeit in minutes or hours, not days. Here’s “Five...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Ulorian - Agent of Chaos's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
You're not picking up what I'm laying down. No one, especially me, is telling you what your fun should look like. What folks are telling...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Honestly, the usual solution was vaguely analogous to the "character funnel" idea. You went through a lot of low level PCs until some...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.There's a couple problems here. 1. "Antagonist and unfun." Many of the people involved in this did not feel those two terms went...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.The problem is that this is not one of those cases where if the wants are strong, you can have it both ways. If the game system...