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zottel reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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That is what Keith’s post read like to me, that 2024 leaned into epic fantasy moreso than 2014 and to the detriment of everything else... -
zottel reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Keith is allowed to feel that 2024 D&D is too bright and big and high powered for him. His mistake, IMO, is in insisting that it marks...
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zottel reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I mean, he may be exaggerating, but I do not disagree with “One of the things I love—and I speak in the present tense—about 5E14 is...
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zottel reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I love this, from the article, because it hits on the same pain points I have with the new edition. Especially low level, especially...
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zottel reacted to bedir than's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
This isn't what his product line does, at all. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of The Monsters Know What They Are Doing (which takes...
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zottel reacted to Steady Vane's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
His reticence on the 2024 rules reminds me a lot of A Knight At The Opera, another 5e blog that found themselves not liking the new...
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zottel reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
2014 was already borderline to me, 2024 just pushed a little farther, but that and the consequence free features of everything just...
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zottel reacted to bedir than's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
"knee jerk" isn't writing this post after playing and writing for the rule set for well over a year "lack of familiarity with other...
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zottel reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
wasn’t it the other way around? It supported a wider variety in 2014 than it does in 2024, and that is what he is complaining about
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zottel reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
“One of the things I love—and I speak in the present tense—about 5E14 is, even as it substantially streamlined D&D’s rules and options...
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zottel reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Do you think it's fair to call it knee-jerk? But I understand how you say you expected something more "thoughtful," that's part of what...
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zottel reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
A very surprising post by Keith Ammann of TMKWTD. I'm passingly familiar with the blog, I check it out every now and again and I've...
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zottel reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General Chromatic Dragons and Elemental Planes with Like.
One of the new bits of 5e lore that I like is that dragons are, effectively, the "outsiders" of the material plane (insiders?); they are...
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zottel reacted to Cordwainer Fish's post in the thread Lucasfilm wins bid to throw out UK lawsuit over 'resurrection' of 'Star Wars' character with Like.
From the subject line, I thought it would be a class action suit over 'somehow Palpatine came back' and wanted to know how to join the...
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