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    WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

    I answered 1 here. What WOTC does with their time, their company, and their own PR...I honestly can't be bothered to care about them and their antics. What they do as a whole doesn't effect how I view D&D as a game that is separate from the company. What they do and say has no bearing on how I...
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    D&D General Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Magic Missile: Why Gygax Still Matters to Me

    Do it yourself then. I didn't wait around for TSR or WOTC to do it for me. I did my own research and when I use these places, I alter what stereotypes I know of and research what I don't. You're just being lazy at this point. You want to complain and whine about not having other settings, but...
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    D&D 5E Rant about Forced Movement

    I'm not really sure how the natural language thing is an issue. "Entering" and "Move into" are the same thing. Definitions will use different words depending on the dictionary, such as "To come or go into..." or "To set foot into...",but they all mean the same thing: the person entering is...
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    D&D General Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Magic Missile: Why Gygax Still Matters to Me

    So..I'm a little lost on what you are after then. I tried reading through your discussion, but it seems like you are upset that we don't have different places to explore culture wise. We use to back in the day. Kara-Tur was the Eastern influence, Maztica was the Aztec and Myan...and I think...
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    D&D General Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Magic Missile: Why Gygax Still Matters to Me

    Good article, as far as always (I have only had the pleasure of reading two so far). I have to agree with it, personally. To be fair, never really "worshipped" Gygax, never really thought much about him outside of just 'the guy who invented DnD'; he was just an author and nothing else growing...
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    D&D General D&D Player's Handbook 2024: The Official Advance Review

    Good review, but still not buying it. When I can get my hands on it at a bookstore, I'll take a bit of time with it and see then, maybe the videos they put out and all the reviews just aren't doing it justice for me to spend that kind of money, but I have a feeling that it's still not going to...
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    D&D General D&D 2024 does not deserve to succeed

    Yes...telling people the thing they enjoy should go die in a fire because YOU think it sucks, but in fact, they should be supporting YOUR product. Yep, totally works for all other retailers and companies, sure... I'm getting my coat on RIGHT NOW!!! and going down to my local game store to camp...
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    D&D 5E Dead In Thay Gates, How Do They Actually Work?!

    Oh wow, thanks for the lore info! I know you said spoiler, but I'm DM so it really doesn't matter. I have taken up the mantle from my father as the forever DM and it is mine now LOL!!! I have a couple ideas now for the Ghosts of Dragonspear castle. If I can link it to the campaign I'm thinking...
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    D&D 5E Dead In Thay Gates, How Do They Actually Work?!

    It might be lol, but still, going to just have distinct ones just to make it easier for me and other players that might have the same problem. I would rather go through the confusion and figure out a way to explain it, rather than just go and have my players confused and then have no fun lol. I...
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    D&D 5E Dead In Thay Gates, How Do They Actually Work?!

    Oh, I see...I mean, I get it now...it just seems so redundant to me. I might make it where there are just white keys and black keys, with the special keys, that way it's easier for me to DM. I'm also starting to realize that I might need to make a note for my players to keep with them so that...
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    D&D 5E Dead In Thay Gates, How Do They Actually Work?!

    So...okay that doesn't make sense to me. I thought I had this down lol. Okay so, do they have separate glyph keys, or not? Also, how would I know if I have a glyph key for that black gate? That might be just me and I'm willing to accept that...I might change that bit around then if it is just...
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    D&D 5E Dead In Thay Gates, How Do They Actually Work?!

    Yeah, I think it would have made things just a little easier to explain it a little better. Like I said, it seems overtly complex for no particular reason. I think I'm going to turn in though, my medicine has kicked in thoroughly and I really don't want to confuse myself anymore, the drowsiness...
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    D&D 5E Dead In Thay Gates, How Do They Actually Work?!

    So...Let me run this by you, because...I THINK I get it. Going to use your example just so we are on the same page if I actually don't have it. - The Abyssal Prisons is the SECTOR - The Fiendish Arena, Temple of Chaos, Abyssal Gate, and Halls of Conditioning are ZONES - The Vampire in The...
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    D&D 5E Dead In Thay Gates, How Do They Actually Work?!

    Hello! So, maybe it's just me being sick, maybe it's just the time it is right now, maybe I really am just that dense; but I can't for the absolute life of me figure out how these damned gates work! I have read and reread the section that explain it. I have watch videos that seem to make it...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    Pen names are still being used though, it wasn't just a 70's or 80's thing, by a lot of current authors. I think it's less of a "I have to hide that I'm a man/woman" but more like, "I want to go by a different name for a different genre." Lemony Snicket is Daniel Handler, saying it was more of...
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    D&D General On Early D&D and Problematic Faves: How to Grapple with the Sins of the Past

    Surprisingly, I did find it interesting playing with the gendered stats cap. My dad absolutely hated it and was completely baffled by why his daughter would ever want to play with it. I only ever did it once, just to see what it was like. I found work-arounds for it and it made RP and...
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    D&D (2024) Could we get a Bloomburrow (Redwall) setting for 5.24?

    I just came here to say thank you for reminding me of a book series I loved as a child and forgot the name to. I plan to reread Redwall now, after all these years lol.
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    D&D General On Early D&D and Problematic Faves: How to Grapple with the Sins of the Past

    I think it's because this is a DnD forum and less of a book forum. In honest I had to look him up because I disn't know who that was. Seeing he wrote books I didn't remember reading any of them, turns out I never did. I recognized one which is Coraline, but that's because of the movie and less...
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    D&D General On Early D&D and Problematic Faves: How to Grapple with the Sins of the Past

    Okay, could have been explained better, that's my fault. What's wrong with people learning from history, be that what was bad and what was good? Again, I will accept it was not explained in the best way, and I was trying to pose the idea of if we are leaning to not repeat bad things from the...
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    D&D General On Early D&D and Problematic Faves: How to Grapple with the Sins of the Past

    I'm...not understanding. I'm sorry, do you want to explain it to me, please?
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