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Unless, you know, you followed the guidelines as I discussed and PCs did not get more than intended magic weapons. As discussed, this is not an opinion situation. You can't say that it does not work as an opinion when there is objective proof that it can, does, and has worked well for decades...

Hollywood disagrees with you. There are countless movies where the hero has no weapon that can hurt the monster... but they have to stop it anyways. That is exciting, cinematic and dynamic stuff around which to build a situation. When you reduce the idea to, "I need my weapon to hurt the...

The big criticism of the published adventures was their absolute failure to follow the treasure guidelines. Didn't you stop and think about the situation? If something seems senseless, meaningless or wasted - it is often a great idea to stop and ask yourself if you might be missing something...

You had me until that last sentence - because it contradicts your message. If you want an adventure that captures the feel of a Western (either have a western theme or can be given a western coat of paint) you need to consider the iconic elements of a Western. There is no absolute universal...

You're going out of your way to argue exceptions when I'm talking about a real wide open general idea: THESE TYPES OF ABILITIES ENABLE OPTIONS. Including them gives the DM options to create more dynamic situations. Excluding them doesn't create that opportunity. More options. Not less...

No. It isn't. It is either 0% or 100%. Why? because it isn't random. There is no probably. There is certainty. DMs design adventures. They don't just randomly assemble them. The DM should know when designing an encounter whether the PCs have a magic weapon. Thus the DM knows they...

It wouldn't hurt. My advice: Don't do a D&D Western. Western RPGs are fun, but D&D is not the best system for it. D&D is a game with massive power growth. Your PCs at first level and 10th level are entirely different beasts ... but the core of what makes a good western starts to lose that...

Again, you're entirely missing my point when you jump to this as your first argument. Wolves are pretty pointless foes when your PCs all fly. Does that mean we shouldn't have wolves? No, you just shouldn't rely upon them for a challenge when they are not level appropriate. However - if your...

You didn't catch my point here. The puzzle was not to get a magic weapon. It was how to deal with a foe you couldn't damage when you didn't have one. The challenge presented to a low level party was similar to the challenge protagonists face in horror movies when they fight an invulnerable...

The DMG, in every edition, provides a lot more value than people realize. It is usually the least utilized book in the game. To that end, I think there is a missed opportunity for someone to turn it into DMU - Dungeon Master University. Use the book as a textbook for a university style...

From my perspective, this is a blunder in the new edition. There are creatures that had an iconic element in their ability to be unaffected by nonmagical weapons. The Jackwere, for example, was a creature that could be encountered at low enough levels that PCs had no magic weapons - and that...

Agreed to an extent, but disagreed to an extent as well. Individual mechanics should not be seen as individual, but instead seen in terms of how they contribute to a whole "mechanical picture" that defines the biology of the species/race/heritage. Darkvision is a key example. So many races...

I missed this thread during my 1 year hiatus ... but the underlying question seems to be: If we remove all mechanical differentiation between species/races/heritages, what lore would draw you to a particular species/race/heritage? And would the lack of mechanics be a turn off? In any setting...

Answer 1: Book of Erotic Fantasy (D&D 3.5 - Supplemental) : Valar Projects : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Answer 2: THIS. 100% This! 1000% This. If D&D is just a series of "you're slightly favored in the battle, but there is a chance you all die" it gets stale...

No, not every one - but I run a lot of combats where the heroes of the tale feel heroic and that they are not at risk of dying. A massively underutilized and misunderstood opportunity for improvement with a lot of DMs is the misperception that encounters must meaningfully threaten the lives of...

They hear about a giant shipwreck. They discover that there is a Kraken in the area. They learn that the Locathah that plague the shores are under the control of the Kraken and that it resides in the shipwreck. They discover interesting / powerful magics and learn that they came from the...

We use labels to reduce large concepts to single reference points. When you argue about what a label represents, you're essentially arguing about the right way to organize the concepts. This is usually a waste of time as, at the heart, what we're usually more interested in the concepts...

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Kudzu.

The thread was from 10 years ago - but Flanking for advantage is a fun optional rule - but it drastically changes the math of the game. Many abilities that are otherwise good become redundant as they offer advantage, but flanking makes them redundant. For balance reasons, I do not have...