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Thomas Shey reacted to Aeson's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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I get that people want things a certain way. I work with a guy that loses his 💩when he doesn't get his stuff first. He was there first... -
As a player, we're a few games past our 52nd session of 5e2024 on Mondays. (I made most but not all of them since it started a bit over...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Let's Talk About Our Year In TTRPGs.Out of curiosity, was the Raspberry Pi necessary for some reason? I'm curious in case I ever decide to leave Maptool, Foundry would...
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As someone who works in IT, I usually hate doing anything IT related by the time my workday is done but I finally got around to looking...
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Thomas Shey reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
You'd have to use the PB from 3e but that would work. On the other hand I doubt that would give the claimed benefit of "variety" which...
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Thomas Shey reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
You can get more variety by creating a number of arrays from point buy and roll for which array you use. Some will start with a 15 as a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.I've done things somewhat like that; it only really works when the point buy system is actually in the same scope as the random gen...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.The problem is that only works as long as the range of impact is limited. If you're doing the build end of it and someone else isn't...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Oh, you meant the opposite of my reading of your post. Apologies. Sure. The problem with the game I was referencing was the...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Tell your overdue Kickstarter story.The poster you responded to was out of touch about it (in the sense that somehow they'd missed when this happened, not the derogatory...
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Thomas Shey reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I seriously don’t know what the hell is with this notion of creating threads and then dictating to others how they are supposed to post...
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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.
Yeah, it's the mirror to DM entitlement and neither should be part of the larger culture, but I feel a small part of it is a course...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Unfortunately also many DMs are bad Worldbuilders for RPGs. I always go "For everything you ban, you ought to add something to entice"...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.This appears to be very much the problem that happened with the Dragon Age RPG and that haunted the AGE system for more than a little...
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Thomas Shey reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Absolutely. I don't think deliberate abuse is more than like, MAYBE 25% of issues? And that's being quite generous--I'd expect it's...