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    D&D 5E Short Rest Poll

    As a DM that is not fun for me. I can't stand having to bend over backwards to save players from their stupidity brought on by a sense of entitlement that they are special because they are PCs. As a DM I would never punish players because they forgot something or TPK them because the dice is...
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    Costs of Being Treated (My Ambulance Ride Cost Over $2,800)

    From what I have read some emergency services run in the red and some in the black. Hospitals over charge for everything. I used to work in the NICU and the formula we bought cost 3 times for a case than if you bought it at the store. The only difference was ours came with nipples attached. I...
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    Costs of Being Treated (My Ambulance Ride Cost Over $2,800)

    Most ambulances services are either private or county/city run. The hospital has very little to do with what they charge. One reason accidents victims are encouraged to take an ambulance if they are hurt is that this helps if it comes time to make the car insurance injury protection pay for the...
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    D&D 5E Short Rest Poll

    But players need to play smart too. If you know that halfway through a battle one of the NPCs fled you don't finish the battle, hang around and loot then announce you are going to take a rest in the same room and not expected that just maybe they went to get reinforcements. That is the kind of...
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    D&D 5E Magic Item Creation: Which book should contain rules for magic item creation?

    I would like to see it in a separate book on magic. Barring that I think it belongs in the DMG. The reason for this is not that players don't have access to DMGs but it sends the subtle message that this is DM territory. I have run into an issue, and I know several other DMs who have to, with...
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    D&D 5E More Interesting Cantrips

    I have a problem with hypnosis. Not with the caster getting to control him up to a reasonable amount. The victim should not be able to be forced to do something he normally would not do. I don't play 4E but in 3E you can't make a person under a charm spell do things against his nature and the...
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    Pathfinder 1E Reigning in casters

    I can understand this viewpoint. I personally like paladins as a class of righteous warriors and I don't don't think every god should have them. I also like the idea of a paladin not being affiliated with a specific god but more a champion of justice and smiting evil. I often use a prestige...
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    Pathfinder 1E Reigning in casters

    Other classes get abilities not linked to feats like paladins get lay on hands or smite. So I would like to see fighters get some special abilities as they level as well as well as the extra feats. I give fighter extra skill points too plus we dd away with cross class skills. I know Pathfinder...
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    D&D 5E Short Rest Poll

    I only have to go on what he told me. And that was he based it on where they rested, if it was possible others heard the combat, random encounter rolls. I played with him as a DM in a 3.5 game and this sounds like how he ran that. Sometimes depending on all of this our rest was interrupted and...
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    Pathfinder 1E Hercules the legendary journeys as a pathfinder campaign?

    I came up with this idea several years ago after a marathon of Hercules and Xena. I liked the idea of heroes exploring the ancient world without it being to serious. I bought a d20 book called Olympus. It did not have the exact feel I was looking for especially with the gods so I never ran the...
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    D&D 5E Short Rest Poll

    I don't like the idea of five minutes and you get hit points back. I would prefer a longer period based on how many hit points you get back. Part of the game is to play tactically wise knowing when to keep going and when to stop. I don't like the idea that you have to be at full hit points every...
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    Pathfinder 1E Reigning in casters

    I really like your further explanation of the cookie analogy. It has been over 30 years since I read Jack Vance's work so I don't remember exactly how it works but I do remember when I first played DnD I thought cool this is very similar to the magic in Vance's world. Not allowing clerics to...
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    Pathfinder 1E How do you keep spellcasting slaves from casting spells?

    I didn't see this thread when it was first around. First of all why do people think every group of gamers are carbon copies and will feel railroaded and resent the DM for enslaving them? As a player I don't have an issue with it and I have used it as a DM. Things I have seen that worked the...
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    Pathfinder 1E Reigning in casters

    To me having fighting abilities you can only use once per encounter or once a day is to gamey for me. What you forgot the rest of the day how to that maneuver. The whole I shout at you and you are healed hate that. But then part of that is the whole weird disconnect of just what hit points are...
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    Pathfinder 1E Reigning in casters

    Another way is to have an enemy spellcaster counter spell the caster. There are times that I have had my NPC caster do this because they have been studying the party and their tactics and are prepared. I found sorcerers are great at this. Another tactic I like is have a rogue or a monk target...
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    Pathfinder 1E Reigning in casters

    That is one to look at I suppose though in my thirty years of playing I have never had any player say that about their characters unless the DM was totally inadequate about making well rounded encounters and engaging the character in the world. Well see since I am playing a specialist wizard...
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    Dragonlance Dragonlance Lives

    That is something easily handled at the table. I DM 3.5 and there are no rules that limit being able to multiclass by the RAW. Yet there are at my table. I can guarantee that coming to me and saying I just took a level in barbarian when you are city born and bred and never spent any time with a...
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    Pathfinder 1E Reigning in casters

    I have never understood this attitude that holding off the bad guys while another class does that actual killing is such a problem. In my opinion they are a team and they worked together to save the day. If only a few classes at the table always get the glory this is a DM problem. Last night in...
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    Dungeons?

    I voted 0 to 10 percent because my players don't really like dungeon crawls. It may be a little more depending on the game but they are brief and usually take no more than one or two sessions.
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    Pathfinder 1E Reigning in casters

    Didn't say that I said that I have never had encounters for my party that didn't need my tweaking. I understand some people have issues with wizards just because I don't doesn't change their experience but you know the opposite is true too there are plenty of gamers who don't find wizards to be...
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