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  1. Ancalagon

    D&D 5E Are some Fighting Styles worthless, and how could they be fixed?

    Dueling style is needed to be as strong as it is to make the sword and shield style viable IMO.
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    D&D 5E Are some Fighting Styles worthless, and how could they be fixed?

    In my games, I allow characters to chuck thrown weapon without too much consideration of the weapon hands, so the thrown weapon fighting style is never taken. If someone wanted to have a specialist in that style (a knife throwing master)... I would make the style give a bonus to both range and...
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    D&D 5E Are some Fighting Styles worthless, and how could they be fixed?

    My math for it was +0.83 dmg per attack, but now I want to re-check. 1d6 average, instead of being (1+2+3+4+5+6)/6, becomes (3.5+2+3+4+5+6)/6 (the 1 is rerolled for a d6, which has an average of 3.5). So 3.916666. Do - 3.5, x2 for the 2d6 of a greatsword and... yeah, not good. It's...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Is this the same that was posted on Tuesday, or different?
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    D&D General Industry Veteran Jennell Jaquays Passes

    oh FFS. Even in death she endures transphobia :(
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    D&D General Industry Veteran Jennell Jaquays Passes

    I didn't know she did that, and it truly is a great cover. A+
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    D&D General Does a multiclassed fighter still get the Action Surge Boost at level 17?

    I'll also note that increased cantrip damage is a part of the spell, not a class feature, another evidence that "increasing with character level" is the exception, not the general rule.
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    D&D 5E Dragons that can polymorph into humanoids...

    It "forces" evil dragons to have minions/lackeys to stuff for them, and this is an possible avenue to adventure? Mind you, this limit seems to be thrown out the window even by WotC when it "fits the plot". See a certain adventure path... (not naming it re spoilers)
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    The number of... worse... things on the internet that got more views than that is not small, alas. Train wrecks and all that.
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    D&D General Industry Veteran Jennell Jaquays Passes

    What sad news. Condolences to her loved ones.
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    D&D General "I'd like to run (or play in) an all ___________ campaign." (+)

    doesn't the SRD have subclasses? Only one per class but it's still "there".... on the origin of dwarves, I refer you to Troika!
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    D&D General "I'd like to run (or play in) an all ___________ campaign." (+)

    Personally, an all dwarf or all warlock campaign could be interesting. I also think a "looser" version of "all X" can help sell the idea to the player. You could have an all "rogue" campaign - where a dex fighter with the criminal background "counts" as a rogue. An all gish party might be...
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    D&D General "I'd like to run (or play in) an all ___________ campaign." (+)

    we almost have that in a Drakkenheim campaign. A halfling, a goblin, a dwarf, a very short half elf and... one towering 6'4" gith.
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    D&D 5E Length of Combat & Time Taken per Round (collecting data from my games - updated 3/13 with an hour 30 minute 11 round battle!)

    This definitely is worth doing. It would be interesting to see if others have similar results. My "gut feeling" is that 5e fights are usually 2-5 rounds, but that "factors" can make them stretch longer (like a PC ahead of the others, a boss fight, reinforcements). This is after years of...
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    D&D 5E A playthrough of The Shattered Obelisk (spoilers)

    I hope this campaign will start again in the new year? :)
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    D&D 5E Warlock Pact of the Talisman--What Am I Missing?

    I too found it to be rather underwhelming... edit: From reading it. Playtest is the best way to tell, and I haven't playtested it.
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    D&D 5E Do we need a Fifth Edition Revival (5ER)?

    I'm pretty sure the DMG has suggestions for stuff like this...
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    D&D 5E Build-A-Bar(barian) Workshop: Seeking advice for my next PC

    Ok, I'm coming in hot with the dark horse option. What if, instead of being a "mere" barbarian, you were some kind of alchemist type, say an apothecary, and you had found a formula that transformed you into a raging monster? If the notion of being an int-based support caster outside of combat...
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    D&D General Arcane trickster vs soulknife

    you know, a psi fighter/soulknife combo would be preetty cool
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    D&D 5E 5E economics -The Peasants are revolting!

    You know, you can use the "income/day" as a "spherical cow" and go quite far with it. Of course it won't bear super close scrutiny, but you can make it work https://slugsandsilver.blogspot.com/2018/08/reasonable-rewards.html
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