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    It’s LAUNCH DAY For The Pathfinder 2 Playtest!

    Initial impressions: 3 actions and one reaction per turn. Attacking is an action...casting a spell, walking, jumping up and down. All actions. Everyone gets them. So, if you stay still, do you get three attacks? Looking deeper to see if I can get some clarity here... I'm not sure about using...
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    It’s LAUNCH DAY For The Pathfinder 2 Playtest!

    The download is slow...just to warn you. I'm questioning some of their design choices, but reserving judgement until I've completed perusing the content.
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    D&D 5E (2014) [SPOILERS] Enhancing Tomb of Annihilation

    I'm having an issue. My group is now in the Fane of the Night Serpent. So far, they've just dipped their toes in and have only explored a small area (they used Water Walk to skirt the eastern side of the map). They've encountered the Hydra and Ras Nsi. Right now, they are fairly close to 7th...
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    DISCUSSION: Have you ever had to boot somebody from a game?

    Three times... First time was waaaay back in the early 90's. Had a guy who was a DM...the kind of DM who greatly enjoys killing off characters, taking glee when he does something to "outsmart" the players, etc. Not a fun guy to play with. Well, I gave him a chance to play in one of my games...
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    Survivor D&D Computer Games- Baldur's Gate WINS!

    Yeah, I did notice one or two missing games. Menzoberanzan and Ravenloft are both missing.
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    Survivor D&D Computer Games- Baldur's Gate WINS!

    AD&D: Cloudy Mountain 21 Baldur's Gate 21 Baldur's Gate II 20 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Series 18 Chronicles of Mystara 20 Dungeons & Dragons Online 20 Eye of the Beholder Series 22 Gold Box: Pool of Radiance Series 20 Gold Box: Dragonlance Series 20 Gold Box: Savage Frontier Series 20 Gold...
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    Best D&D Novels- Of All TIme

    Yo, Zardnaar, I'ma let you finish, but Dragonlance Legends was one of the best D&D trilogies of all time! Of all time!!!
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    Why I feel so abysmally let down by the "Ravnica" news...

    So, let's talk about Ravnica then. Those of you who are fans of the setting...sell it to us who don't know much about it. What makes it unique? What makes it interesting? Why would those of us who are grognards want to play campaigns set in this setting? This is really what I think was missing...
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    Why I feel so abysmally let down by the "Ravnica" news...

    So, I have really mixed feelings about this. I'll start with Eberron. I never got into Eberron, but I was ok with the concept; Steampunk and Magic. That doesn't bother me so much...it's just a genre I never was interested in. Now...Ravnica. Tie in to MtG (which I never liked). Strike one...
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    DDAL Jasper runs Tomb of Annihilation. season 7

    So, yesterday, my group finally encountered Ras Nsi. A little background. There are six members of my party, and they are VERY cleric heavy. The group consists of an Elven Hexblade Warlock/Shadow Sorcerer, a Fire Genasi Diviner Wizard, a Tabaxi Scout Rogue, a dwarven Ranger/Forge Cleric, an...
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    what songs do monsters sing.

    A Beholder would likely sing "Hungry Eyes" by Eric Carmen. Then again, they could sing about Betty Davis eyes...like literally having them, I suppose... "I Only Have Eyes For You?"
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    D&D 5E (2014) Bladesinger - a criticism of its design

    I had a Bladesinger in my Out of the Abyss campaign...I can see some of the criticisms around this class and how it can be construed as over-powered or over-shadowing the melee classes. However, I would like to explain how I was able to overcome this. First of all, their damage does not scale...
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    A level 20 Wizard of each school vs each other in combat

    Divination. I see that "Whoever wins initiative" has the most votes. Well, with a diviner, it's likely that one of their portents will allow them to win initiative. On top of that, it's likely that one of their portents will allow the Diviner to inflict a failed save on one of their spells...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Bladesinger vs. Valor Bard vs. Bladelock

    Of note is Armor of Agathys for the Bladelock. In my Tomb of Annihilation game, our bladelock uses this spell (only able to cast 2 spells at 5th level, which is often Armor of Agathys and Hex or Hellish Rebuke depending on the situation) to devastating effect when fighting mobs with either...
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    Dragonlance Dragonlance adaptation to D&D 5th Edition

    Let's say I'm a 6th level wizard. My moon's in High Sanction. I now count as a 7th level wizard for the purposes of spell-casting. I don't get to learn any new 4th level spells, but I do get the extra spell slots associated with a higher level spellcaster, and I can cast my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd...
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    Dragonlance Dragonlance adaptation to D&D 5th Edition

    Might I make a suggestion regarding Moon Magic? Instead of increasing the DC of the caster's spells, allow them to cast those spells as if they were of a higher caster level. That, or allow the casters to count as a level higher (like they were in previous editions). While this doesn't allow...
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    Dragonlance Dragonlance adaptation to D&D 5th Edition

    When 5e first game out, I updated Draconians to 5e for my game and posted them in the Downloads section as well. A couple of your Draconians are very similar to mine. Good to see someone is interested as well. I do like that you made them into playable races as well; I never got that far into it.
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    Everybody Cheats?

    With apologies to REM... Well, everybody cheats sometimes Everybody lies And everybody cheats sometimes And everybody cheats sometimes So, roll on, roll on And now, you shall have that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. My work here is done...
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    Time Travel in yourgame?

    I've had several campaigns where time travel played a prominent role, but the PCs were very rarely directly involved. In one D&D campaign (set in Dragonlance), I had the main villain travel back in time to before the War of the Lance and convince Verminaard to attack the city of Solace with his...
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    Love/Hate - Magic Items!

    Oh, I love magic items in general, even the ones that seem fairly useless. One thing I like to do in my campaigns is give my magic items quirks or personalities. For example, in my Storm King Thunder's game, the party has acquired a Bag of Devouring. However, this bag is an extraplanar entity...
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