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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
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Again I think posters are posting past each other. I think we are all agreeing that restricting a few classes or races is fine. There... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.I think at least to me, "yet WotC are the only ones offering a TTRPG within that D&D genre somehow" reads differently than you thought...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Maybe not that they have no right, but are kind of annoyed they did. Like I said, that's clearly be the case of the tone in some cases...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.And there were plenty of GMs who seemed offeneded that players would look at a narrow setting and say "Pass". You don't get to have it...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Resource Management, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Rations and Love Mana with Like.
My takeaway from the Barrow statement and the related references is that the notion is correct -- in the real world. In an elfgame, game...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Resource Management, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Rations and Love Mana.Some people find that the worst of both worlds because it makes the resource exhaustion random (albeit weighted).
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Thomas Shey reacted to Cadence's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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That giant sucking sound on the credit card of renewing four professional societies and scouts for myself and the spawn... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I think it's more about the societies they portray, not the philosophies they espouse. Looking at Corey for example, there's a lot of...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.I'd been interested in Godbound, but I'd heard--and my reading of the rules seemed to support this--that any opposed actions turned on...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.I'll just note I've seen GMs on this very board bemoan when they do. There was a thread about "circus parties" not long ago that was...
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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.
And I disagree. And you shouldn't. But on the other side like I said a player should not be forced to play the character designed by...
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Thomas Shey reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
As I just recently mentioned in the "why do you play games that aren't D&D" thread, I actually think D&D has always done a very poor job...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I think I could name a number of other games that are selling within the genre D&D is; its...
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Wife's been playing Expedition 33. Ive been playing SMAC again. Won the game as Hive on second highest difficulty. Then Gaians...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.I think comparing a single roll in resolution and a roll that you'll carry for the whole game comes across as disingenuous. I'm going...