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    D&D (2024) Shapechange Spell a bit OP now?

    Fair point, but things can do a lot of damage at those levels--critical hits and other big attacks still have a solid chance of forcing a save your caster wouldn't be able to make.
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    D&D (2024) Shapechange Spell a bit OP now?

    Yep! I opened the thread half expecting someone to have posted that "always was" astronaut's meme. (This feels like an apropos time to link to my favorite character optimization document ever.) But, yeah, getting a ton of temporary hit points doesn't in itself seem especially overpowered for a...
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    Pathfinder Resurrects Two First Edition Classes as Second Edition Archetypes

    Thanks for the interesting & thoughtful reply. fwiw, I interpreted Paizo's motivation as I did because it was described as an aim to "move away from the real-world negative historical connotations of the inquisitor," rather than just to capture a wider range of concepts. But that might've been...
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    Pathfinder Resurrects Two First Edition Classes as Second Edition Archetypes

    Okay, hardly an original objection, but: what harm would keeping "inquisitor" have done? Does anyone seriously think that Paizo is implicitly endorsing any of the historical Inquisitions by using the name, or feel personally distressed when they see it? It's not a big deal, of course, but I'm...
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    D&D General Elephants are cheaper than Warhorses

    depressingly realistic! :(
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    D&D General D&D 2024 does not deserve to succeed

    I knew everything, too! Shame I forgot it.
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    D&D General D&D 2024 does not deserve to succeed

    Well, it's a forum created as part of a site dedicated to giving news about the then-in-development 3e. The 2024 revision of 5e is no more "our" game than any other descendant of D&D is.
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    D&D (2024) D&D 2024 Player's Handbook Reviews

    This one isn't. Which one should D&D encounters feel more like?
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    D&D General The Resurrection of Mike Mearls Games.

    After all these years, I continue to hold out hope that at least one of those projects involves FIGHT BATTLE!!!
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    Wizards Goes Big with Vecna: Eve of Ruin

    (warning: this is also spoilery!) It might seem like a nitpick, but I think it's indicative of the adventure's guiding philosophy that it uses Vecna's new & controversial statblock (which greatly reduces his spellcasting in favor of simple, spammable damage and recovery abilities). If you like...
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    D&D General D&D Red Box: Who Is The Warrior?

    But there are some sane posters!
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    D&D General Hasbro Is Looking For Partners For Baldur's Gate 4

    So they keep the same engine, but use it to produce an infinity of new content? (I spent five minutes trying to devise a corresponding "Gold Box" pun, but came up short. In any case, this strategy has certainly worked for D&D computer games before!)
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    Doppel Is A Physical Digital Miniature!

    At this risk of piling on, this raises a more general point that I don't think gets made enough: dismissing criticism like this as (objectionable) "negativity" or (as I've seen elsewhere) "commerce-shaming" is a way of siding with business interests against consumers. It undercuts our collective...
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    D&D General Anyone Know an Adventure that Features an Eclipse?

    Well, I CAN think of a story, though it's kind of a downer...
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2023 AD

    A.S. Byatt, Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, The Children's Book, and the Frederica Potter novels, died yesterday at 87.
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    D&D 5E The Fighter Extra Feat Fallacy

    ok, since we're playing the pedantry game: 1. It sounds like you're assuming we're all adult males. Why? 2. Does anyone ever break balls with strangers? Over the internet? On discussion forums about D&D? I mean, what would be the point? It's not like we're doing male bonding rituals or...
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    Games Workshop And Cubicle 7 Announce Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play 4th Edition

    "Our team have a huge breadth of experience with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and I’m excited to be able to bring the Cubicle 7 approach to the Old World" This means the OLD world, not the Age of Sigmar world, right? It damn well better, anyway.
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    D&D 5E Wandering Monsters- playable monsters

    The implication behind the questions is that if I don't think monster PCs are always and everywhere a bad idea ("monsters are for slaying, not for playing"), I should want rules for monster PCs in the game. I think this implication is dumb. Sometimes the best way to handle rules for something...
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    D&D 5E D&D Next Blog - The Fighter

    I just want them to keep something like the slayer/weaponmaster distinction of late 4e. This also seems to be what they're going to do. The default fighter's basically the slayer. Every fighter has the same set of abilities, which mainly consist in universal attack and damage bonuses, and is...
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