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  1. RobJN

    D&D General D&D 3E Style Guide Peeks Behind The Scenes

    Much like the potted petunia from HHG: "Oh no, not again"
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    D&D 5E How the Flumph made it into 5e!

    I figured Mearls lost a bet or something....
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    D&D 5E Defeating intangible creatures w/non-magical weapons

    Wouldn't ghosts "bleed" ectoplasm, which, in turn, diminishes their overall essence? If too much of their ethereal "matter" is gooped into the Prime Plane, the ghost can't hold itself together.
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    D&D 5E Which played-out D&D trope needs to die?

    So.. you're saying you just woke up and don't know how you got there?
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    D&D 5E A Peek At Witchlight's WARDUKE!

    He had begun all his duels left-handed lately. It was good practice for him, and although he was the only living wizard in the world with his regular hand, the right, still, he was more than worthy with his left.
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    D&D 5E Dungeons and Dragons WotC survey August 9th, 2021

    You got to 78%? I only made it to 46......
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    D&D 5E WotC Is Designing Adventures With Shorter Content Chunks

    And now you, too, can read the slush pile!
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    D&D 5E PC races that a DM has specifically excluded from their campaign and why

    I'm running a Mystara play-by-post of my expansion to the Basic Set's Castle Mistamere adventure, mostly limited to just the 5e Basic Rules. Four classes, four races. though I've allowed the Human Variant, mainly because I'm not at all fond of "+1 TO ALL OF THE SCORES!" rule for human PCs. The...
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    TSR Just when you thought it was all over.... now there’s a fourth TSR!

    Oh, sweet Jesus. An apostrophe for a plural? Really?
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    TSR Just when you thought it was all over.... now there’s a fourth TSR!

    How long till they sack the guy responsible for sacking the guy who ran the Twitter account(s)?
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    UK Games Expo Going Ahead With Reduced Covid Measures

    Here I thought only Americans could be this irresponsible.
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    Favorite Non-HP Health/Damage System?

    I rather liked the durability tracks in Alternity (the old one, not the new one). Stun and Wound tracks based on your hero's CON score, Mortal and Fatigue tracks half that. I like that durability was grounded in your hero's stats, rather than decided by career choice, and then further modified...
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    D&D General Endless Quest books, remember them?

    Read the you-know-what outta these when I was a kid.
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    WOIN Sleeping condition - just fluff or true evil?

    Ah, yes. The "third tier" was introduced in EONS article 129: Extreme Conditions. The WOINRPG site includes a Condition cheat sheet in the resources section.
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    D&D 5E Do We Really Need a Lot of Gold? (D&D 5th Edition)

    You've got to spend gold to find a worthy smith, and then pay that smith for his work. He'll probably insist on using Really Good Sword materials, so either you have to pay for those (if the smith has them), or quest for them if he doesn't. Fighting or bribing entire clans/tribes of dwarves/orcs...
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    WOIN Sleeping condition - just fluff or true evil?

    Yup. NEW, NOW, and OLD all have the truncated second tier for "Sleeping." And the WRRD has three-tiered conditions.....
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    D&D General Win The Title of D&D's Best DM

    You'll have to send it to the winner of this thing.
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    D&D 5E Why do guns do so much damage?

    Going in, maybe. Coming out? It could be quite a bit larger. If you're lucky, you'll get a through-and-through. If not, the bullet will tumble, ricochet off bone, splinter, ricochet some more, and then exit. If its had to punch through armor? Well, not only is it now massively deformed, but that...
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    D&D 5E Best out of combat class features?

    Surely they've made this a cantrip for bards by now. And if they haven't, why not??
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