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    D&D 5E Can Sending Be Used to Speak with the Soul of a Dead Character?

    A dead creature is no longer a creature. It is an object. The spirit/soul might be a creature but isn't the same as the original fleshly being; it's only part of it.
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    D&D 5E There Will Be No More Hydro74 Alternate D&D Covers

    I would be very surprised if this happened anytime soon.
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    D&D General Professor DM from Dungeon Craft has a special message…

    Yes- one of my (male) friends has had breast cancer.
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    Keep on the Borderland and no healing...?

    What's wrong with resting up for a few days or a week?
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    D&D 5E Help Me Plan an Adventure Path!

    Oooh, I've always wanted to run Maure Castle. I wonder how many of those Dungeon issues I have? Maybe I can track down the ones I'm missing.
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    D&D General the elemental planes are trash

    What? How do you figure that? What law does this? More importantly, what does the law have to do with the Elemental Planes as presented in a game where we pretend to be elves and dragon-people? Lightning, in D&D lore, is where the Plane of Air and the Positive Energy Plane intersect. This is a...
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    D&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D

    A few monsters adjusted the difficulty of saves, especially when it involved poison. Giant centipedes gave you a +4 bonus to save against their relatively weak poison, I seem to recall a whole chart for random types of giant snake poisons in the MM2, etc. But you're right that it was the...
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    D&D General The Greyhawk Pantheon: How Greyhawk Approaches Deities (& Demigods)

    I love how the Greyhawk pantheon is actually several cultural pantheons that overlap in interesting ways. I do the same thing in my campaign.
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    D&D (2024) Spells versus Rituals

    You can have rituals that aren't spells already- in fact, there are a number of them in published 5e adventures, such as the yuan-ti ritual to create histachii in Tomb of Annihilation. But allowing certain spells to be rituals as well as being available for casting on the spot with spell slots...
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    Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words.

    Last session was disappointingly short, with the pcs basically finishing a big fight that started the session before and calling it a night. They were crossing a jungle, near some bubbling hot mud pits, and a group of mudmen (converted from 2e) rose up to attack. After a couple of rounds, a...
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    D&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D

    The real effect was on class selection. If you didn't have high enough scores you couldn't play some (many) classes, with the paladin's "let's start with a 17 Cha and add a few more tough requirements" being the hardest to qualify for.
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    D&D General The Greyhawk Pantheon: How Greyhawk Approaches Deities (& Demigods)

    Wastri's entry mentions the "Sacred Polystery". Does anyone know what a polystery is? I can't find a definition.
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    Spoilers TV Shows with Great Endings

    It's likely already been mentioned, but Star Trek: The Next Generation had an incredible finale. Especially given that it was before tv shows were so... serialized, I guess? where the episodes connect to a through plot that runs through the season and so forth... anyway, for being from before...
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    D&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D

    You really should have poked him with the pummeling, grappling, and overbearing rules in the DMG.
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    D&D (2024) Playstyle Changes from 5E to 5.5E?

    Well, there looks to be significant power creep for martial characters. Depending on exactly what happens to full casters, this might end up being basically rebalancing the two pc types against one another or it could be just straight up power creep overall. That said, making martial...
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    D&D (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal #4: "New Barbarian"

    I argued for this hard in my feedback to all the early playtests. The later ones all seemed to lean into short rests.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Won battle, ended super early.
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    AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    Right- "creature type" isn't a thing until 3e.
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    AD&D- Overpowered Magic Items

    Has anyone mentioned the 1e incarnation of the cube of force yet?
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    D&D 5E My Paladin's Party's Big Exploit (Suddenly We Are Cavalry)

    Actually... I am a paladin/wizard.
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