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    How do you create an adventure when it can be about "anything?"

    For an adventure on Anything, I would just begin with usual stuff. PCs are Witness or required to interact with a single event. May be an attack, a murder, a missing person, a robbery, a strange phenomena. Then I let the wheel roll. The adventure will build itself using the dice, myself, players...
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    D&D General How many air-blown waterskins are needed, if wearing metal armors, to prevent sinking in water?

    if you paint the armor Gold you can have a Yellow submarine and sing the song while swimming!
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    D&D General Has anyone run a PHB only table?

    Long Time ago I been in an adventure PHB, no feat, no MC. It’s quite ok, you have more time to focus and the game rather than on your build!
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    OSR [Shadowdark] What's missing from the 3.5 SRD that is worth converting?

    Kelsey follow an old school advice : ”feel free to adapt the game to fit your needs”. she do it to the point that she made an entire new game! But we can feel the call to make this game our own. My self I have a lot of fun rewriting the spell mishap table. The game has basic rules, it is quite...
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    OSR [Shadowdark] What's missing from the 3.5 SRD that is worth converting?

    The spell system can be adapted to make martial or monkish stunt. Roll an ability check, you may have mishap or sone kind of penance if you crit fail. Then apply damage or effects. the game dont care much on conditions but that can be adjusted. Since casting don’t use V,S,M it can blend into...
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    D&D (2024) How to reign in full casters for 1D&D? Maybe remove 6th to 9th level spells as a Variant rule.

    Don’t force some players to play martial. Let's have all full casters party.
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    D&D (2024) How to balance the shield spell?

    I think the OP version is even more broken than the actual spell. we are getting out of the problem!
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    OSR [Shadowdark] What's missing from the 3.5 SRD that is worth converting?

    Race seem easy to create. but choosing a single features is not so obvious to define an ancestry. Items are easy. Lore on monsters, gods, races and planes from any edition can be used in SD. Iconic classes can be created, but specialist or subclasses won’t be easy If not simply impossible...
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    D&D General You thought the Mercer Effect was bad...

    Wotc invest millions to bring new players to the game, maybe they should make a dedicated training video to DM, how to welcome new players that just see the movie! otherwise I ask myself, can my session can be as fun and crazy as the movie?
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    OSR Let's make Shadowdark classes!

    Do smite, lay hand and divine favor == mastery and grit? I think he need more attack punch.
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    OSR [Shadowdark] How would you make a gnome?

    Adding new ancestry won’t be easy. We got a limited pool a features to use. A luck token is not a perfect niche, since the DM can allow them, the Bless spell too, but it’s an honest take for home brewer.
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    OSR [Shadowdark] How would you make a gnome?

    Easy going: after you complete a rest you gain a Luck token.
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    OSR [Shadowdark] How would you make a gnome?

    A unique ancestry Fast thinker: You get advantage on initiative check.
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    OSR Let's make Shadowdark classes!

    2th Level choice look very Wizard, so I would include Bless and augury and remove Invis. Levitate. 4 spells per level seem few, maybe 4 priest spells and two wizard spells.
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    D&D 5E How do you set DCs?

    My 3 steps. Does it look like an auto success? Does it look like an impossible task? Then, how hard, easy, hard, in between, or crazy? 5,10,15,20 or 25.
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    D&D (2024) Sorcery Incarnate - Is it time for unlimited concentration?

    That could be cool. First additional spell you concentrate makes you unable to move and use reaction. Second and other additional spell makes you restrained.
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    D&D 5E Strength Monk Ideas

    Original Monk was dex, Wis and str. « To be a monk a character must have the following minimum ability scores: strength 15, wisdom 15, dexterity 15, and constitution 11. »
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    D&D (2024) Weapon mastery on non-standard weapons

    Swiss knife is Flex. Throwing your beer or any liquid is Graze Pillow would be Push Any sharp blade aiming the eyes is Vex Big objet that you drop on feet is Sap Butter knife is surely Topple Any flexible, long and light shaft you can swing easily is Cleave
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    OSR Let's make Shadowdark classes!

    Speaking of « free » action, do anybody have hint on how to handle halfling invisibility feature?
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    Why do RPGs have rules?

    Dont freak out, DM authority is regarding the game, his ability to provide a setting he like and want to share, and adjust rules to fit it and to make fun session.
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