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XXetheral reacted to Kannik's post in the thread D&D General The Alexandrian’s Insights In a Nutshell [+] with
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As someone who occasionally teaches storytelling, I will say that discussing things can be downright difficult as so many of these terms... -
XXetheral reacted to Malmuria's post in the thread D&D General The Alexandrian’s Insights In a Nutshell [+] with Like.
The complete phrase is "don't prep plots, prep situations." It does feel that your view is that what JA would call a "situation,"...
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XXetheral reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D 5E Apprentice Wizard- Arcane Burst power with Like.
Hold The Line is real close to the Sentinel feat, and fills the same functionality, so I'd be interested in why that feat doesn't work...
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XXetheral reacted to MarkB's post in the thread D&D 5E Apprentice Wizard- Arcane Burst power with Like.
There is a tension here between the game's mechanics and the game's fiction, because regardless of NPCs being mechanically built...
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XXetheral reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D 5E Apprentice Wizard- Arcane Burst power with Like.
This isn't a custom spell. It's a spell (or effect or attack or something) that already exists in the game, it's just not in the...
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XXetheral reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D 5E Apprentice Wizard- Arcane Burst power with Like.
I'm not a fan, because the first thing the mage PC is going to ask is "how do I learn that spell?" and "you can't" is a lousy response...
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XXetheral reacted to Quickleaf's post in the thread D&D 5E Apprentice Wizard- Arcane Burst power with Like.
I understand the big picture that they're trying to streamline stat blocks, but I really disagree with design choices here... for 3...
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XXetheral reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D 5E Would you require a roll for this? with Like.
Traps for the most part are narrative story-points-- things that make the adventure interesting and which require the players to think...
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XXetheral reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E Would you require a roll for this? with Love.
Exactly. Although, I wouldn’t frame it as a reward for being clever, so much as it’s the clear outcome of the action they declared. In...
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XXetheral reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D 5E Would you require a roll for this? with Like.
He's not disarming it, he's cleverly circumventing it. The salient roll was to detect the trap, and it turned out to be a trap that...
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XXetheral replied to the thread D&D 5E Dumb question about vampires.Now I really want to include in my game a vampire nicknamed "Bubbles" who is trapped in a flooded, spinning torroid in some kind of...
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XXetheral replied to the thread D&D 5E Dumb question about vampires.I entirely agree. :) Fortunately I don't think anyone is quibbling on that point. I had just misremembered the phrasing of the...
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XXetheral replied to the thread D&D 5E Dumb question about vampires.Good point. The Specifc-Beats-General rule on PHB 7 talks about "rules", rather than about "abilities" like I'd suggested. So it's...
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XIf you really want to go into textual interpretation, you would look at it as follows: Text- "If the vampire isn't in sunlight or...
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XSolid analysis. I was assuming this alternative approach you mentioned here, and had not even considered the interpretation you present...