Xamnam's latest activity
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Xamnam reacted to Sulicius's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with
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No, it does matter. It's about complexity and choice overload. Why not spread out meaningful choices? I see this happen so much. Some... -
Xamnam reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
Which is perfectly fine! The thing is, a player who is comfortable choosing a subclass from level 1 can still do that, they just won’t...
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Xamnam reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
Also, even if you assign each domain to one specific god, presumably these gods are part of a unified pantheon. It makes sense to me...
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Xamnam reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
It doesn’t even have to be that you didn’t know until level 3. If you start at level 1, and you already know which Domain or which...
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I think we've gone around in circles enough times that this is an agree to disagree situation. As a player I've never had any doubt...
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Well, "it's what my character would do" can be annoying sometimes. If behavior of character kill fun of the game for the other player...
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Oh, good god, no. People make mistakes and learn from them. There's no point in reconning if you're long past that moment. Even Advanced...
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No it isn't, mistakes happen, you just correct and move on. I have never played with someone where, when I've told everyone the error...
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Xamnam reacted to Not a Decepticon's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
That feels more like your personal experience than stepping back to analyze the class from gameplay perspective.
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"those challenges" eh? That's a very vague and open-ended term. What does "challenge" mean? Learning a new game system? Getting better...
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Xamnam reacted to definiteFreakyFishGuy's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
The rewrite is definitely more digestible to me than the original post. The original post made me feel like I was defective for finding...
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So, with respect, I don't find the phrasing to be unalloyed in that approach, as already noted. That getting messaging perfect is hard...
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On the other hand, it can be patronizing and condescending. My sister has intense social anxiety. She's tried DMing many times and...
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Um... maybe you didn't intend it to be, but... "DMing is not that hard. We learned to do it when we were 10," sure doesn't come across...
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Xamnam reacted to definiteFreakyFishGuy's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Hello. I'm one of the supposedly rare specimens that find GM-ing very difficult. I find improv hard. It's very difficult for me to...
