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    D&D 5E Your one best piece of GM/DM advice?

    Bonus points if its your younger brother.
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    D&D Movie/TV New D&D Movie: July 23rd 2021

    Cinemascore is done on the Friday night of a new release. Its a snapshot of one point in time. Rotten Tomatoes can be voted on all through the time a movie is out, so people that waited until the film was out for a week may have a different opinion than the people that viewed the film on the...
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    D&D 5E Which parts of D&D came from Tolkien?

    A couple of things here 1. There is a book "Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy. Tales That Inspired the Author of Lord of the Rings" edited by Douglas A. Anderson that is a good read. Also, the Annotated Hobbit is good. Tales Before Tolkien leans towards many of these ideas...
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    D&D 5E Telegraph This

    You could drop hints through NPCs (an NPC they meet complains about having to bribe the Duergar). A dropped/found scroll contains instructions in dwarven for commanding the options (an instruction manual). Wall paintings illustrate a dwarf commanding the objects.
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    D&D 5E What else to I need to consider for a 5e realism hard mode?

    Its not sad at all. We've been going on 3 years with the same core books and only small mechanical expansions. Unlike say 2e, 3e, 4e, and Pathfinder which gave us new books all the time, this edition is about making our own way. Wanting to try new things and new settings with the 5e rules is...
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    D&D 5E What else to I need to consider for a 5e realism hard mode?

    There are many posts on this forum praising 5th edition's flexibility. Its flexible enough for this, too.
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    D&D 5E Printing/Laminating the Map of Faerun

    You can print a 4 ft x6 ft poster at Walmart for $30
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    D&D 5E What else to I need to consider for a 5e realism hard mode?

    Sounds like fun. As someone that has done this before, here are some things that came up: 1) Ranged attacks might become too prominent, so think about firing into combat rules and how effective you want ranged combat to be. 2) Alliance-building becomes far more important. Henchman and follower...
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    D&D 5E Damage Types Are Lame

    One thing you could do is have the environment damage all combatants equally-such as molten hot brass floors that do damage to everyone in range. Or a necrotic damage pulse that issues from an ancient sarcophagus until its covered (and the PCs are fighting ghouls). Or traps that randomly go off...
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    D&D 5E Challenge, Optimization and Optional Rules

    1. Multiclassing 2. Feats 3. Magic Items Choose 2 of the 3
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    D&D 5E What to do about flakes?!

    I usually set a time limit for a campaign-say 4 to 8 sessions and wrap everything up at the end. People tend to stick around until everything is finished because an end is in sight. Some people leave or return for later campaigns. Sort of the "train stop" method of campaign planning.
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    #RPGaDAY Day 26: Which RPG provides the most useful resources?

    Stars Without Number and all the Sin Nomine stuff are excellent resources I flip through to plan other games I play. Hidden Gem: Murphy's World by Kevin Davies has some good resources as well.
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    D&D 5E [5e] Feats, what gives?

    So is this about feats or is it about a certain few feats, such as Sharpshooter?
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    D&D 5E [5e] Feats, what gives?

    Some people just want to play different styles of the game. I played with feats last time, now I don't want to play with them this campaign. Maybe next campaign I want to add them back in.
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    D&D 5E To use or not to use feats

    You don't have to play the same campaign all the time. Try a few games without feats and a few games with feats and see what you think. The advantage of feats is that you can rush through lots of monsters and by 8th level you can handle pretty much everything in the Monster Manual, which lowers...
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    D&D 5E Survivor Campaign Settings II: Blackmoor Wins!

    Birthright 19 Blackmoor 21 Council of Wyrms 18 Dark Sun 20 Dragon Fist 16 Dragonlance 18 Eberron 22 Forgotten Realms 13 Ghostwalk 20 Greyhawk 21 Jakandor 21 I've got a bunch of these books and I hope Jakandor winning will raise the value so I can sell them on ebay. Kingdoms of Kalamar 20...
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    Should the DMG suggest improv and acting classes?

    A DM with a double major in Improv and World Languages, hell thats the perfect weapon.
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    D&D 5E What character sheet do you use?

    I also use an index card and then put it in a plastic holder. I track hit points with a wet erase marker on the plastic holder.
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    D&D 5E Survivor Iconic Greyhawk Characters: MORDENKAINEN WINS!

    The Wish spell does not cure baldness.
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