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    D&D (2024) Kobold Press posts 2024 DMG Hit Piece

    Do you have any recommendations?
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    D&D (2024) Kobold Press posts 2024 DMG Hit Piece

    Stuff like that is the reason I have not bought any TotV stuff as of now. I hear it's pretty good, especially on the GM side, but it does not stand out enough to make me spend money on it. It's not like there is a dearth of great systems to try.
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    Gate Pass Gazette November's Sneak Peek

    That art is really something. What article does it correlate to?
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    Is There a Better Way to Illustrate Water on a Dungeon Map Than This?

    You could try to use the wave symbol, but shorter and scattered around the body of water.
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    D&D 5E Favorite 3rd party Adventure Anthology book?

    I can highly recommend the 'Fantastic' Books by @SlyFlourish Ran some from Fantastic Lairs and Fantastic Adventures and had no trouble running them as a relatively new DM for groups of mixed experience. Will try to get to run some from Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot as soon as...
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    D&D (2024) Creature Stat Blocks in 2024 Player's Handbook

    As there is no new information added, I don't see how it is more usable in a meaningful way. And you can call my dislike of visual clutter an aesthetic preference if you wish, but it slows down lookups, making the stat block less usable for me. Look, I won't argue with you any further. If it...
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    D&D (2024) Creature Stat Blocks in 2024 Player's Handbook

    If usability is aesthetics for you, sure, I guess. Reducing it to aesthetic preference and stat block size is a false dichotomy, though.
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    D&D (2024) Creature Stat Blocks in 2024 Player's Handbook

    Still adds to the visual clutter. For me, it's not only about the size of the stat block. The reason it should be smaller is so it is easier and faster to use. You could reduce the size in any number of ways, but the main goal needs to be usability, which for me would be increased by removing...
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    This Effin' GM Reviews: Pirate Borg

    Is this out yet? Because I do want that!
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    Best John Williams themes! Go!

    Obviouslyy Dr. Jones!
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    WotBS War of the burning sky andventure path down?

    As of right now I no longer get the error. Almost two weeks ago, I tested it with a VPN from all around the world and got the same error. €: now I am having the same error again. What I noticed is that it happened after clicking on 'hardcover'. The last time it was the same way, the site worked...
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    D&D General Millennial D&D (+)

    The generations coming after us hate us? :(
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    WotBS War of the burning sky andventure path down?

    I tested from all over the World with a VPN and got a down message. I suspect "isitdownrightnow" does not recognize the message from the site as down, as it get's a valid response. Pure speculation though. For the people that can access the site, maybe they have it cached or smth? Does anybody...
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    WotBS War of the burning sky andventure path down?

    It's down for me as well, for I'd say about a week or so. Was working fine the first I loaded it, though.
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    D&D 5E Speeding Up Feat Progression

    A thought that just occurred to me: Replace +2ASI/Feat with +1ASI and Feats. That should allow for a quicker progression, PCs can get +2 when they are supposed to with the benefit of a free half-feat, or +1 and a full feat.
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    D&D 5E Vecna prequel Nest of the Eldritch Eye for $4.99 after Eve of Ruin drops on May 21!

    Then they got exactly what they want. Practices like this are why I am fundamentally against preordering pretty much anything.
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    D&D (2024) How excited are you for the new 2024 edition d&d?

    2, not very excited. There is a good chance I will buy them eventually, if they are not terrible, but I have a huge backlog of great stuff to work through right now, and what I already have helps me run great sessions already.
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    D&D 5E Approaches to Magic Item Crafting

    The dungeon Dudes have a system for crafting in the works that sounds interesting and thought out. They talked about it in a recent video: Our New Rules for Crafting Magic Items in D&D 5e May be worth a watch! AFAIR you need to get recipes, then gather ingredients, whose rarity and number...
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    Playing in the Blank Spaces of the System

    I stumbled upon this video recently, and that way of thinking hit home for me. It's not that I can handle social encounters super well that puts me off mechanics for them, it is that those mechanics often kill the verisimilitude for me, making it obvious that it's a game mechanic. For combat...
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