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Just to understand: If I build a character who spends resources to speak Elven, but I've myself never studied Professor Tolkien's... -
Most things in D&D and other RPGs are a combination of both player and character. Think about combat, where the player contributes the...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Player skill vs character skill? with
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Why should we prevent a player who is not a good Tactician to play a characterr who is a good Tactician or to play a character more...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to AlexofBarbaria's post in the thread Player skill vs character skill? with
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To me there's no question player skill makes for more fun and immersive gameplay, so should be favored where possible. The undercurrent... -
UngainlyTitan reacted to aco175's post in the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It? with Like.
One of my problems might be that I tend to run a bunch of 5-room dungeons and not anything longer than a dozen rooms leaving mapping a...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General Is the SCAG Still Useful? with Like.
It gets a bad rap, but there is a lot of cool stuff in there.
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Player skill vs character skill? with Like.
Do you require a roll if the wrong part of the room is being searched? What happens on a really high roll? In general I find asking...
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Here is how I do it for finding secret doors and hidden objects. Traps would work similarly with some variation for being a trap...
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UngainlyTitan replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.There are lots of reasons to be in a dungeon, other than exploring every nook and cranny, the Fellowship went into Moria, mainly because...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Brotton Goodfellow's post in the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It? with Like.
Hope this thread doesn’t devolve into an argument about what the true meaning of being lost is… Anyway, I’ve always hated mapping both...
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Over the summer I went to play golf at a course I never played before about an hour away. I went online to Google maps and used the...
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Most of the time when I see "player skill" highlighted its in terms of "use your knowledge of tropes and conventions and procedures to...
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UngainlyTitan replied to the thread Player skill vs character skill?.I have a lot of thought on this. In general, I am very much of the opinion that the character should carry much of the weight over the...
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The idea that I as a player have to figure out the trap when my avatar in the world knows more about traps than I ever will has always...