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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    I'm running a campaign right now for a handful of twenty-somethings where all of their characters have been transformed into anthropomorphic forest animals trapped in a land of myrth and whimsy. Some of them have professed a love of the Redwall series.
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    D&D General Snails: Threat or Menace? (in Dungeons and Dragons)

    In the before-times, long before the Great Cutification of all things, there was Conan of Cimmeria who fought/ran away from a giant snail haunting an ancient abandoned city. It was a very big snail (or was it a slug?) that was very fast. Not cute at all. Viscous. Where's my Holy Hand Grenade.
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    Ernie Gygax Has Passed Away

    Thanks for everything.
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    D&D 5E What could 5E do to make wealth worthwhile?

    I think This works in Shadowdark because it is so quick and simple: you decide how much guild your going to spend on carousing then you roll on a table for the results. I would suggest keeping it simple in the execution but complex in the setup to support system masters who enjoy that feeling...
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    D&D 5E What could 5E do to make wealth worthwhile?

    Well, if people want to develop their characters through "safe" downtime activities rather than adventuring, so be it. To each their own. Let's not assume that 17 levels of adventuring can't take place in a few months of in-world time. (Speaking from experience. What I'm suggesting here is...
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    D&D 5E What could 5E do to make wealth worthwhile?

    THINK BIGGER! (but not too big) Before you come in with the suggestion that wizards could make a little money by selling potions and scrolls, that would be for the guild artisan background.
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    D&D 5E What could 5E do to make wealth worthwhile?

    I think one thing that Dungeons and Dragons could do to make wealth more useful is to create downtime activities that cost money but give you things like experience points (or even whole levels if you don't use experience points), contacts, new abilities, boons, etc. Shadowdark does this with...
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    D&D 5E Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    I would say we rarely see high level play because most players seem to think that you have to start at a low level and work your way up to high level. However; the vast majority of high-level games I've seen (which aren't many because they're rare) were played with characters created at high...
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    D&D 5E Lesser Vorpal Sword

    Update: The sword, called Llyselyn, rolled a 20 on the first attack, confirmed the attack, and decapitated the barbarian. Unfortunately, the barbarian is,...was being played by our new player in her sixth ever session of Dungeons and Dragons. I feel I need to make amends.
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    D&D 5E Invisible+Gaseous Form+Stealth---How would you run it?

    Well how did you know I was asking what happened to post #11? Also, you're probably ignoring someone else in this thread because they don't seem to be able to see #11 either.
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    Second person plural pronoun

    Oh, my sincerest apologies then.
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    Second person plural pronoun

    Agreed. What if we changed it to "you folks". I also think "the lot of you" is equally offensive.
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    Second person plural pronoun

    "The lot of you." "You people."
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    D&D 5E Invisible+Gaseous Form+Stealth---How would you run it?

    Off the cuff here. 1. Sure, go for it. 2. I would just not even ask for stealth checks if his pursuers aren't looking specifically for an invisible cloud. If they are, then no. 3. Yes, if they are looking for an invisible cloud of gas, otherwise no. 4. Full speed 10'.
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    D&D (2024) Quotes from the Monster Manual

    Puritans! At the beginning of this thread I wasn't sure how bad the word was, so I wasn't sure how to react. I thought it may be 'naughty word', or 'naughty word', or maybe even 'naughty word' (that one would be really bad). I wasn't really expecting it to be 'naughty word' or 'naughty word'. I mean, nobody would write that where...
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    D&D (2024) Quotes from the Monster Manual

    My apologies to the board for writing the word 'naughty word'. 🙃
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