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Vael reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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I find it the opposite. "You're all part of a Thieves' Guild" is right up there with "you all meet in a tavern" unless you put some... -
Vael reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Exactly! Joining the circus doesn't make you a "freak", but if you are already a "freak", joining the circus is a natural choice!
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Vael replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Let's Write A High Level Adventure.IME, modules are generally run stand alone ... ie, unless we're talking a series of adventures designed to link together in a campaign...
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Vael reacted to MichaelSomething's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Let's Write A High Level Adventure with Like.
Can we have a fight against a dozen T-Rexes? I want a fight against a dozen T-Rexes.
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Vael replied to the thread D&D General Highest level PC you've achieved..3.5 ... 3rd, maybe 5th level? 4e ... This is an odd one, we had a rotating DMing group and after a TPK we created new PCs at the next...
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Vael replied to the thread D&D General XP: How Do You Like To Earn It?.Since we don't track XP, only milestones notable enough to cause a level up are noted. I generally don't care to track XP granularly...
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They may not know exactly where it is in the narrative structure, but in many cases, it's pretty easy to predict the story beat and when...
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Vael reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General XP: How Do You Like To Earn It? with Like.
Here’s a question (that might be better as its own thread) but for those of you who do milestone advancement, do the players know what...
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I guess that is one of the inherent benefits of xp for gold or other concrete, non-combat rewards. If it is worthwhile for players to...
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Vael reacted to DammitVictor's post in the thread D&D General XP: How Do You Like To Earn It? with Like.
HARP does it best: the players choose group objectives together, and gain shared XP for making progress toward them, and then PC...
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Vael reacted to Stormonu's post in the thread D&D General XP: How Do You Like To Earn It? with Like.
I prefer getting XP by doing things (of import). Combat, story completion, influencing, evading/surviving traps - that sort of thing...
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Yeap, I had players that took xp fishing to ridiculous levels. When I finally scrapped it there was some whining but after about 2...
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Vael reacted to Olgar Shiverstone's post in the thread D&D General XP: How Do You Like To Earn It? with Like.
Yes.
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XP is so 80s. I count the number of encounters until the next level. XP is irrelevant.
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Vael reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
I think you missed my point. All of my examples were based on reasons from the 5e books. There are book reasons for Dragonborn to be in...