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    D&D 5E Why does 5E SUCK?

    It's better to let it walk than to hear unfocused moans. ;) I see people talking about "why does 5E suck?" in many threads either way - here it would be just all together and under a proper title. Now that more people had time to try it, they have something to chime in. Conversely, the...
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    D&D 5E Low Level Wizards Really Do Suck in 5E

    They always did, except maybe in 3.x. Just not this much. It's not the only choice, but always was one of the best, yes. What are average values? That's the sort of thing you could look up or just ask DM before the game. Yeah, 5e Hold and other such spells became almost useless. Was this...
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    WotC's Nathan Stewart: "Story, Story, Story"; and IS D&D a Tabletop Game?

    Thanks for linking this. Nothing unexpected, but it does confirm a lot. Yes, it's very noticeable. The current approach is that The Big Thing Of The Month drops in the middle and everything is about it. Giant, dragons, copycats, whatnot. If you don't visit Candlekeep, FR fans have a term for...
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    D&D 5E Why Has D&D, and 5e in Particular, Gone Down the Road of Ubiquitous Magic?

    1) Trying to appeal to MMO crowd. 2) Trying to cover failures in the rest of the system, which otherwise could break the game. I doubt many of those were tested at all for such an incomprehensibly extreme case as an all-Warrior party. 3) In 3e that was just the unhinged skill system dragging...
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    D&D 5E Why does 5E SUCK?

    3e sucks. Not even starting on the whole blatant meaningless padding thing, just the game itself. With its blatantly Hack&Slash / MMO grinding oriented nature (starting with creature XP only, and what it did to cantrips), skill system so ludicrous that most attempts to fix threw out as...
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    Default Avatars Removed

    Yet rather that having this line and link in the relevant profile page, the option is enabled, but doesn't work. There's milking for trifles, and then there's a woodpecker hammering at a concrete lamppost.
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    Recovering lost threads

    This one is lost - there are outside links to it, but it's not in Google cache or web.archive.org: http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?3600-Sasquatch-Game-Studio-Brings-Alternity-Out-Of-Stasis#.V5pS9WgrJaQ
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    Mike Mearls on D&D Psionics: Should Psionic Flavor Be Altered?

    I frankly don't understand the question. "Altered" implies that there already is something to speak of that may be used as is or changed. And what would that be? D&D3 psionics? Not even funny. Let me summarize: it's a mess of basic principles that didn't fit into lore of existing settings...
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    [UPDATED] The Archmage (aka Ed Greenwood) Returns to the Forgotten Realms

    We don't even know the era in which he will write it. But Cormyr is more or less an eternal clusterfluffle with variations on the same themes. Border Kingdoms is the opposite - a sink for any sort of mess that didn't quite fit anywhere else. Which is why there's not much point to write...
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    WotC's Chris Perkins Talks About... Everything! Upcoming Storylines, Products, Staffing, Other World

    Indeed, a call for user content is strong. Or in context: after gutting, it's down to "Let it be a community project, but we will be paid for it - and decide what goes and what doesn't!" business model. But while this may work for sandbox websites hijacked by some or other google-blessed...
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    WotC's Chris Perkins Talks About... Everything! Upcoming Storylines, Products, Staffing, Other World

    Not necessarily. They may run with "Monster Compendium, vol. 1 - 99" structure, whether sorted by actual campaign settings or just thematic.
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    WotC's Chris Perkins Talks About... Everything! Upcoming Storylines, Products, Staffing, Other World

    That's one way to say it, yes... = "The damage is done, but we'll try to keep the worst hacks from using FR as their trash can... before it completely turned into a sad joke"? = "It's more dead than alive. Don't expect it to get off life-support any time soon." = "By now, it's a place for the...
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    TSR TSR's Lawrence Schick on the Development of The Known World

    As to the process - well, figures. But it's cool thing to see. ...and this opened the furry floodgate. I mean, they didn't stop until Tortles, at least. Oh, and Dragondex says there was an article "Rakasta of Mystara" from Bruce Heard that introduced 16 specific breeds. Talk about copycats...
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    "Tabletop D&D Has Lost Its Way" Says Pathfinder Video Game Exec

    This article is a thing of beauty. No objections on the general principle, but... how to put it delicately... No. I cannot. Let me just use links to webcomics to illustrate concepts. Anyhow, glad he noticed this.. Wait, this comes from someone from the crew that once upon a time released...
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    What Edition to use? (Forked Thread: When did I stop being WotC's target audience?)

    Quick answer: Use walkthrough, because such a silly situation can appear only in CRPG. :D Serious answer: Encounter including poetry contest would not look completely crazy in some settings, e.g. vaguely Japan or Arabian, or places where bard class is used widely. But if you run such a setting...
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    External avatar - failed

    I entered this image's URL: I see it. Do you ? But forum engine don't accept it. As you can see in properties - it's 64x64 and less than 2 kb. And it's merely GIF.
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    PHP error when posting

    First few times i clicked on 'Preview' or 'Submit' button while writing new message (but not when i edit old) it leads to page (URL http://www.enworld.org/newthread.php) with 15 identical lines of error messages: Right after click, i see the same messages, then preview appears below. Sent...
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    The Official Welcome Thread

    Hello Hello, i'm chtonic and arthropodic animal. Recently stumbled upon "Bride of Portable Hole" free download on RPGNow... ;)
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