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    Worlds of Design: Is Combat Now Passe?

    35%? Wow, that is tough. I tend to make my encounters pretty hard, but it may be 1 or 2 pc in the dead saves , but not fatalities outright. Usually someone tosses a heal or lends an inspiration when everything else fails.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Mythological Figures: John "Jack" Broughton

    Prolly stuff flying into the ring e.g. rotten tomatoes, empty beverage containers etc.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Making the classes more generic

    Try out DSA Das schwarze Auge (The black eye) Although it has "pregenerated" packages (e.g. Soldier or Black Mage), you can play everything you want to (e.g. a hatchet expert who is mainly butcher or a musician or an architect) Not tonly is this system classless, it is levelless also.
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    And Interesting aspects, and maybe an option. What I like especially about it is that sorcerers do not need spellbooks, which are a nuisance in DS. With DS you have to think about individual spellbook style for a wizard, and it most often will not resemble a book. It might be tattoos, or hair...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Spiritual Weapon and Sneak Attack

    I would not allow it. If you want a caster rogue, play an arcane trickster, or a MC. As others wrote above: spiritual weapon is a bonus action, it is already strong and a MC cleric/rogue could profit vastly from the synergy.
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    Well technically it does not matter, you could do a monster writeup for Templars, and eventually this is the best way to go to make them effective mobs. Simply give them some stats and some fighting abilities and add the spells you want them to have. Explain it is divine magic given to them by...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Light VS Dancing Lights

    But that does not answer the question of them all: Is it colder outside than at night and how many cups fit into a closet? Also: Does it rain sometimes when swimming, and is your car awake?
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    I guess I would go with the Templar=warlock for my campaign, I would add some curative spells and redact the spell list so it mainly contains spells for crowd control troup buff debuff and utility to help you in administration. The explanation how the SK does it to give the Templars spells would...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    The problem with barbarians is they get DR also in addition to their unarmored defense. With monks the same, you do not need a monk class to be an unarmed fighter, the fighter class is sufficient. With weapons the only reasonable approach is to make nonmetal weapons the standard and increase...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    Well you could redefine the source for Templar Warlock as "divine" or "sorcerer king", maybe their power comes from their medallions imbued by the SK. The pact is simply an oath of allegiance to the SK in this case, or being selected by the SK. If you argue their source be divine aka priestly...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    Why? I mean, i'm on your boat with Templars being NPCs unless you play an all evil campaign, but what is the problem to make them warlocks, give them some cleric spells for their list so they can cast healing also if you want that? Is it somehow canon that they have control over undead like...
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    D&D 5E (2014) DMG: hard rules or just DM advice?

    There is no hard rule but rule zero (at least in my games) I try to make as little house rules as possible though, because some of my players do not like them to much. The DMG is a bit of a compilation of what had books on their own in former editions, e.g. 2e campaign and catacomb guide or...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    All of this (No barbarians or monks because of the AC (and DR!) gimmicks , and of course no arcane casters except of wizards), and the only warlock pact that makes sense in 5e Darksun is a pact of the medallion with the according sorcerer king/queen as a patron for Templars. In fact that is...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is there a secret lore book WotC is hiding?

    Still they do not know what the "rock'n'roll"- feeling is, and this makes me sad sometimes, since I do not know if they have something similar.
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    So with the various suggestions of how to design a pantheon, everything monotheistic should be banned because it might offend a muslim or christian? Oh wait, what about hindus then? They got a polytheistic pantheon and might be offended also, so lets ban clerics from the game outright. Ah i...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    Did you read something in my post i did not write? Rethink what i tried to criticize on your theory. You do not want any flavor when it comes to divine, unless it is related to some RL problems. I got colored family, and i tell you the RL racism they experience has nothing to do, with whether...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Quick! Give me a jungle random encounter

    Tarzan and Jane and some apes which are in reality Balguras, accompanied by some invisible yugoloth illusionist (who made the lifelike realistic illusion of Tarzan and Jane) Give the party some surprised moments, and then the delayed blast fireball ignites.
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    D&D 5E (2014) How would you wish WOTC to do Dark Sun

    So on one hand the cosmology aspect best not mentioned to be neutral otoh some ruling to cater to those people who cannot distinguish between a game and real life?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Rime of the Frostmaiden Previews Include a Scroll of Tarrasque Summoning

    it is prolly enworlds autocorrect, lets try, helmless , ah no it does not mark it up, odd.
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    Unearthed Arcana Balancing Mind Sliver

    This change suggested by you should be made. The d4 reduction is like a single target 1 round (1 save) bane, so not overpowered for a cantrip. Do not forget, that psychic damage is very rarely resisted on the mob side.
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