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    D&D General Has anyone played in a group where everyone was a member of the same species? (+)

    We had a short campaign where the players was part of a dwarven mining community with the premise that everyone would play a dwarf. 5 out of 6 played a dwarf, the sixth player decided to be a goliath. ... there i always one. We decided that the goliath was a (friendly) hostage exchange where the...
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    D&D (2024) How to import "race" flavor into D&D 2024 inclusively

    Or it is a fantasy world and just a cool weapon that is efficient in that context.
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    D&D 5E House rule for in combat healing and yoyo at 0 HP

    I don't understand in what way it eats the actions of both players. As I see it a PC goes down and usually gets healed (at least in our games) before their next turn. On the downed PCs next turn they have been healed, use their free item interaction action to pick up their dropped weapon, stands...
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    D&D 5E House rule for in combat healing and yoyo at 0 HP

    I missed including that part from my house rules, you do not get the extra temporary HP from healing spells if you are at 0 HP. So in a way conscious creatures gain extra healing, or at least temporary HP.
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    D&D 5E House rule for in combat healing and yoyo at 0 HP

    I have a stable group and I have been the DM/GM for several of the players for close to 40 years. They are well aware of when I (usually) attack downed players and when I don't so they base their tactics on that. Undead lock on a target and keep attacking it until it is dead, Monsters looking...
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    D&D 5E House rule for in combat healing and yoyo at 0 HP

    As a DM for my group I have found that I dislike that my players (understandably) let their characters drop to 0 before doing any healing which causes the yoyo effect. My players (again understandably) think it is really bad action economy to heal someone before they drop. We have introduced two...
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    D&D General When is the last time you played a tabletop RPG?

    Probably close to 30 years since I was a player. I however DM more or less every week.
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    D&D 5E Introducing the COUNTDOWN DICE Mechanic!

    Has anyone done the math on this and can share the result? What is the average amount of rolls with different amount of dice and how does the distribution look? It's been roughly 30 years since I last did this kind of calculations...
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    D&D 5E List the character types and level of your current 5E games

    Our current campaign that I DM is based in a modified Solasta world with restrictions on available options for race and class/sub-class. The characters are level 4: Human Shadow Tamer Ranger Hill Dwarf Lore Master Wizard Hill Dwarf Champion Fighter Sylvan Elf Oblivion Cleric Sylvan Elf Scout...
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    D&D 5E How do you time your level-ups?

    In our current campaign it requires Proficiency Bonus weeks of training to level up and you also need to find and pay for a trainer. Previous campaigns have been everything from XP and potential leveling after every encounter to milestone leveling after missions. It all depends on what I as DM...
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    D&D 5E “Buddy the Elf, what’s your favorite character class?”

    I am a forever DM so I never get to play or make PCs, however I have been looking at a Human Variant Rogue Scout that take Weapon Master as starting Feat to get Whip proficiency. An Indiana Jones variant...
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    D&D General The Grid vs. Theater of the Mind vs. a Mix [a poll & discussion]

    The different groups, and different RPGs, I have played in since early 80s have always used miniatures/tokens. I have however moved away from grid and playing gridless with measuring sticks since a few years back. I do play a lot of different miniature games so I have quite a big collection of...
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    D&D 5E New D&D WotC survey asks if you read ENWORLD!

    My usual problems with these surveys is that they assume that you are playing as a player character at least part of the time. I have been a DM 100% the last 25 years so I have a hard time answering favorite character class, race or how deep backstory my character has. The generic goblin or...
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    D&D General Rolling HPs

    We have always rolled however with some adjustments for the rolls so that you get decent values and survivability at low levels. In our current campaing you get: Lvl 1: get max HP Lvl 2: if roll is below average, get average rounded up Lvl 3: if roll is 2 or below, get3 Lvl 4: if roll is 1, get...
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    D&D 5E Most User-Friendly VTT? (Dice Games In The Time of Covid)

    It is the "just upload the jpeg" I get stuck on. I can't seem to figure out how to do that. It might be that jpeg file is to large since I have drawn a pretty big map of a Catacomb complex with a number of details on it. I should probably have split the map into a number of samller maps, but as...
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