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  1. Distracted DM

    Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized

    Why do you think he’s lying?
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    General DCC RPG thread

    One could also look at it as a balancing factor, to give some detriment to what is otherwise the best armor. But it's a bit of a heavy penalty.. donno.
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    How do you handle jewelry and valuable art as a GM?

    Appreciate this share! One of my favorites for finding a hoard of treasure is Frog God's The Mother of All Treasure Tables. As for various art pieces like paintings, sculpture, etc. I keep it relatively simple while maintaining some level of verisimilitude: if the piece is worth a lot, they...
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    Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E

    I was curious if someone already has and…. https://www.enworld.org/resources/adventures-in-middle-earth-5e-journey-cheat-sheet.1467/
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    D&D General Rangers should be built on a primary and secondary stat

    Yeah using dex for hit AND damage with finesse weapons was definitely an early version of it.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Any ideas for Avatar of Bane? Lvl 10 PCs?

    Did you give it legendaries, or was it a RAW death knight? I can see a RAW death knight getting murk'd by 6 PCs lvl9. 6 PCs is a lot.
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    D&D General Rangers should be built on a primary and secondary stat

    "Make weapon attacks with your spellcasting stat" was one of the worst directions to head with 5e IMO. IIRC it started with Hexblade in Xanathar's, and spread from there throughout the design space.
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    D&D General Categories of foes

    For inspiration, you can always look at 3.Xe's creature types and subtypes... they had more creature types/subtypes than 5e has. I often look to 3e for inspiration and guidance when I look for stuff like that (deity domains for example- so many domains!).
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    D&D 5E (2024) Anyone else surprised they didn't do a Forgotten Realms Feats, Spells, and Circle Casting UA?

    The designers were on there often enough as well. I remember when Star Wars Saga Edition was alive and kicking, you could get some very interesting convos there with said designers, learn a lot of reasoning etc behind design choices. Shame it's all gone now :(
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    D&D General Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition Is Coming in July.

    Mask of the Betrayer is widely renowned, you can google some reviews for it but it's very creative, has some stronghold stuff in it, great characters, etc.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Any ideas for Avatar of Bane? Lvl 10 PCs?

    Level 10 PCs... you're probably looking at, what, something CR 17-20? Maybe lower the numbers a tad on and reskin the A5E Solar Counselor? It has a lot of I COMMAND THEE powers. It also has some Legendaries and it's an Elite. Elites in A5E are supposed to count as two monsters of their CR. I'd...
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    Spelljammer Could this mutiny have been handled better?

    Interesting, I wonder if this was carried forward to 5e. They did just copy+paste some stuff straight out of the 2e books, but they left a lot out as well. But I also remember there being Spelljammer ?magic?item? that preserve you in a wood-like substance in space, to keep you alive. I guess...
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    D&D 5E (2024) It Is 2025 And Save Or Suck Spells Still Suck (the fun out of the game)

    It's not saying "the standard encounter will be a party of 4 PCs, who will fight 1 monster." It's just explaining how CR works.
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    D&D 5E (2024) It Is 2025 And Save Or Suck Spells Still Suck (the fun out of the game)

    The question was whether there was a big shift on how available advantage was in 5e24 vs 14. Adding this every-attack to knockdown feature would qualify as a "Yes, it's even more available."
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    D&D 5E (2024) It Is 2025 And Save Or Suck Spells Still Suck (the fun out of the game)

    Well.. weapon masteries changed it a lot, right? Forcing a save vs knockdown as part of every hit with your attack is pretty big.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wizards of the Coast promises to release more “CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3” without Larian

    Obviously you'll get failures if you try, and one can hope that they'd have learned from failures... but WotC doesn't have a good track record in this. There was a good game inside of their attempt to make a Dark Alliance sequel, but it was shoved out of development too quickly. Half-baked as...
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