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    WotC What is the last WotC adventure you played in or DM'd?

    Probably one of the Chaos Scar adventures from Dungeon.
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2E Gurus teach me! +

    Yes, healing between combats is important. Also, if you're used to PF1E/3E, be aware that attacks of opportunity are much rarer; among the core classes, only fighters automatically get the ability to make attacks of opportunity, and only some monsters can make them.
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    Paizo How will OGL 1.1 affect Pazio, PF1 and P2?

    While I agree with your larger point, this isn't correct. The PF2E playtest was free. They did print and sell some hardcover copies of the playtest rules, but those were aimed at collectors and completists; you didn't have to buy one to participate in the playtest. I seriously doubt they sold...
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    D&D General have we had a player race of undead?

    Pathfinder 2E's Book of the Dead includes a skeleton ancestry, plus feats for various other kinds of undead.
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    D&D General Why are we fighting?

    If you want morale rules to work, there has to be an incentive for the players to not just continue every fight to the death. If enemies who run away alert everyone for miles around and come back with massive reinforcements, then of course players are going to want to fight to the death...
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    Which adventure was your first? Ever itch to play/DM it again?

    Keep on the Borderlands. Zero interest in running or playing it again.
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    D&D General So which 2e adventures are beloved?

    I think Night Below is probably one of the most influential 2E adventures in that it's an entire campaign in one box; I can see it as paving the road for future adventure paths. The Tomes adventures (particularly Rod of Seven Parts and Return to the Tomb of Horrors) were pretty good too.
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    Dragon Reflections #61

    Tarl Cabot is the main protagonist of the infamous BDSM-fantasy Gor novels. This write-up inspired a running argument in the Dragon letters page because it gave Tarl an evil alignment. Dossouye is interesting because she's an African warrior woman inspired by the historical Dahomey Amazons...
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    I Am Your Father! The Spoiler Spoiler Thread -- What are the biggest ever spoilers? [spoilers]

    Angier is committing suicide every time he performs the water tank "escape."
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    What are the must-read fantasy and science fiction novels of the 21st century?

    The Malazan Books of the Fallen? Gardens of the Moon came out in 1999 but the rest are 21st-century. Agreed on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and the Southern Reach trilogy. Also, I don't think anyone's mentioned The Martian yet. Does Cloud Atlas count as SF? A couple of the stories in it...
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    "Appendix N" for Steampunk & Weird West?

    K. W. Jeter's Infernal Devices was steampunk before the term was coined. Cherie Priest's Boneshaker and its sequels. Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World is a particularly unique weird Western. Chris Wooding's Ketty Jay books (Revelation Falls et al). Michael Moorcock's Oswald Bastable...
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    D&D General How many books/authors of the original AD&D Bibliography have you read? Do you feel you see D&D differently than people who have not read any?

    I've read most of them. I haven't read any Brackett or St. Clair or much of Burroughs, Saberhagen, Williamson, or Fox (whose novels were mostly Conan knockoffs anyway). In any case, as good as most of the Appendix N books may be individually, most of them are not standing the test of time...
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    D&D 5E (2014) [+]What does your "complex fighter" look like?

    One of the things that made the 4E fighter stand out for me was that weapon choice actually mattered because of the feats and powers associated with each weapon type. Axes were less accurate but got bigger crits, spears and polearms were better for tripping and forced movement, swords were more...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Context Switching Paralysis, or Why we Will Always Have the Thief Debate

    Sorry, I'm not hearing what harm it does other than it's not to your taste. And you're not at my table, so you don't get a vote. To me, that doesn't look like punishing the player for trying the stunt, it is punishing the player for trying the stunt. Especially depending on how high you set...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Context Switching Paralysis, or Why we Will Always Have the Thief Debate

    And I see it as "What does it harm to let Legolas do this, other than possibly offending Celebrim's sensibilities?" See, it's not my scene the player is trying to "cheese" with "unnecessary showboating." It is, or should be, all of ours at the table. If Legolas is trying to get around the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Context Switching Paralysis, or Why we Will Always Have the Thief Debate

    Uh huh. This is why in the pre-3E era (at least in my experience), you never, eeeeeever saw a fighter try to trip, or disarm, or try any swashbuckling tricks. Most DMs who tried to adjudicate those sorts of actions fell back on the called shot rules, so the player ended up eating a stiff penalty...
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    D&D General "I have played in or run a D&D campaign set in Greyhawk." (a poll)

    Not unless you count the original Against the Giants campaign, which was only vaguely Greyhawk-ish.
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    D&D General "I have Played in or Run a Campaign Set in the Forgotten Realms" (a poll)

    Never played it. I just don't find it very interesting as fantasy worlds go.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Has D&D spoiled you on other RPGs?

    No. I have zero interest in 5E. If I want to play D&D-style fantasy, I'd be more likely to reach for 13th Age, PF2, or Beyond the Wall first.
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    D&D General Did You "Return" because of some Edition of D&D?

    I have never stopped gaming, but I stopped playing D&D during late 3.5E, came back with 4E, and left again with 5E.
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