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    D&D General RP style Problem solver?

    You want to run World of Warcraft. They want to play Second Life. Not compatible game styles, but I'm certainly happy you stayed friends. It's not worth losing good people from your life over Jerk Bards and Troublesome Beavers.* ... *Adds to list of band names.
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    D&D 5E Realism and Simulationism in 5e: Is D&D Supposed to be Realistic?

    Promising article, but regrettably I am deducting two stars for insufficient Don Henley commentary.
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    How do you handle evil?

    Villains - in fiction, unfortunately not in the real world - are narratively supposed to lose. Why would you want to play the losing side? And if you DO want to always play the losing side...welcome to the DM'ing club!
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    Willpower vs Alchemy

    That is to orange Vermont!
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    RPG Evolution: The Half-Edition Shuffle

    I'm betting it will be released as "Dungeons & Dragons: The 50th Anniversary Edition" and they will be cheerfully ignoring the question of whether it is 5th, 5.5 or 6th. Why fight an Edition War you can avoid? If they genuinely cared about "backward compatibility" they would also release a...
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    D&D General What's Bardier than a Bard?

    "Bard" is a surprisingly controversial term. I think we should replace it with something that unites people instead of dividing them. That's why my vote is for "Warlord".
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    Worlds of Design: Doing it All Over Again

    I "apologize" for using the "wrong words" "You're" using quotation "marks" wrong.
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    Worlds of Design: Doing it All Over Again

    "Groundhog Day D&D! The players keep repeating the same brutal day over and over again, and must struggle to find a way to break the time-loop and go on with their lives!" This is actually the ideal way to play "Tomb of Horrors".
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    D&D General Why are there Good Monsters in the Monster Manual?

    "how often do you actually use the stats of Good Monsters, rather than just the lore?" When the players say "F' it, let's do him!" So ... more often than you might think. This is one of the reasons I think the current kerfuffle over monster alignment is overblown. All you have to do is switch...
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    D&D General D&D made the 2022 Doorway to Demonic Possession list!

    CONTENT WARNING: Self harm and sub-par DM'ing Lest we forget the terrible terrible price of our evil hobby... CONTENT WARNING: Self harm and I mean...still worth it though!
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    Worlds of Design: Barbarians at the Gates – Part 2

    "despite the examples we have of Conan, Fafhrd, Éowyn the Shieldmaiden of Rohan, Khal Drogo, Asterix the Gaul, Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Thundarr and He-Man." I'm not sure I would classify child-marrying brother-in-law murdering Khal Drogo as a "heroic protagonist". And don't even get me...
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    What to run when you are done with D&D?

    Have you considered sports?
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    D&D 5E List of All 33 Races in Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse

    Had Mike Godwin been primarily a D&D player, Godwin's Law would read: "As any D&D discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a complaint about 4E or Warlords approaches 1."
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    D&D General Suggested executions for when your dice commit capital offenses

    The first dice? It just gets retired. The second, third, forth, et al? They get super-glued to the first one, into a terrifying Katamari Dice-macy ball to be rolled for damage by mind-bending Far Realm Abominations.
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    D&D General How am I a D&D outlier? How are you one?

    Against current common wisdom, I think there actually IS a right way to play D&D. And I'm not telling you.
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    D&D 5E List of All 33 Races in Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse

    "WotC won't want to rock the D&D boar anymore than Hasbro does Monopoly." I know it's just a typo. But it's one of those typos that is somehow even MORE accurate. Like "Assimar".
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