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  1. Edgar Ironpelt

    D&D General Languages in D&D Are Weird, Let's Get Rid of Them.

    I've done both. It depends on the game-world. In games using D&D I stick to the D&D languages or a lightly modified version. (Dwarvish and Gnome are a single language with two different accents. "Dialect" is a new language, spoken by humans, that abstracts all the variant human dialects and...
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    Setting the method for rolling ability scores

    I like point-buy systems - outside of D&D. For D&D, the system I use in the games I run is to roll 3d6 for each ability score, in order, to set the minimum scores. Characters can then increase those scores until the total of the six reach a campaign-specific value (85 for my Brotherhood of...
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    looking for ideas of Monster fruit and vegetables ideas for a young kids game

    In my 3.5e "Brotherhood of Rangers" game, I had an encounter with generic "vicious vegetables" grown by ogres. Vicious Vegetables Large Plant – Neutral Hit Dice: 4d8+12 (30 hp) – CR 3 Senses: Blindsight 20 ft, scent, spot +1, listen -- Languages: none Initiative: -1 Speed: none (no movement)...
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    D&D 3.x Barbarian Rage House Rules

    Does anyone have alternative / house rules for Barbarian Rage that give an "at will" ability to do something rage-like, or at least one that doesn't require the player to do careful resource management? ("Do I expend a precious Rage use now, or do I save it for when I might need it worse...
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    WTF is "cold iron", and why's it so special?

    Yes, it's folklore. But by the time it reached gaming, "cold iron" had developed a number of different origin-stories. My preferred origin-story is that gold, silver, copper, and lead can be hammered into shapes while "cold" (room temperature) but iron was a "new metal" that had to heated up...
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    The 5 Stages of New Edition Grief

    I have been known to buy RPG rulebooks when I have no intention of either playing or running the game, just to see "how other people do things." But I won't buy a new edition I don't like just to "keep up" with playing or running.
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    OSR If you were going to commit to one clone of older edition D&D going forward, what would it be?

    If sticking to true pre-3e Old School, none of the above. There is a reason why I changed my then-main campaign to The Fantasy Trip once Advanced Melee/Advanced Wizard/In The Labyrinth came out. Otherwise 3.5e, with my insistence as a DM on carving away anything that doesn't look like the...
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    D&D General Poll: I’ve played or run a campaign in the following settings?

    Pretty much all my DMing has been with homebrew settings.
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    OD&D How are your original dice holding up?

    I bought my first dice in the fall of 1978, along with the 1e PHB and MM (but not the DMG because it hadn't come out yet). These were "crayon/ink the numbers yourself" dice, and they're still in active use. In particular, I have clear & colorless d20s marked 0-9 twice, that I've inked half with...
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    D&D 3.x Arrow of sleighing

    Phantom Steed, Fabricate, and the creator must have the bardic music class feature.
  11. Edgar Ironpelt

    RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: Kids on Bikes

    Yes I was, but I'm a Bearded Elder One, so my "kid on a bike" days were back between the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. This was before I started to play D&D (although I did play chess in those days).
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    D&D General Tell us about the Races/Species of your world?

    In my "Brotherhood of Rangers" game, the player-character races are the standard 3.5e PC races without any special variations. Notable NPC & "bad guy" races include orcs, hobgoblins, trolls, an evil variant of formians (ant creatures), various intelligent plant creatures, ogres, ogres shrunken...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Invisibility

    1. I agree with Jeremy Crawford's answer. Pick up an object after you turn invisible, and the object remains visible. Conceal the object in your clothing and it becomes invisible. 2. I remember on old USENET debate in the d&d group (Rec.games.frp.dnd) where the issue was "If you cast...
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    D&D General Why Do People Hate Gnomes?

    One can easily justify going in either direction with world building. Isolationist/nationalist/exclusionist societies were very common historically (and still are, one could argue), and that's without the large, real, and undeniable biological differences seen in D&D Land, or the even larger...
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    D&D General Why Do People Hate Gnomes?

    This. On the DM side of the table (where I usually sit) I prefer to have gnomes be the dwarves-who-can-use-arcane-magic. They're biologically the same species as dwarves - gnome parents can have dwarven children and vice versa - but a different one for magic purposes. And dwarves who take a...
  16. Edgar Ironpelt

    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Thump the mecha-naga, again
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    Which Edition for a Megadungeon Campaign? Why?

    Based on the success of my "Brotherhood of Rangers" wilderness campaign, I'd use 3.5e with gestalt characters and with lots of material rule-zeroed out. Maybe have all the characters be gestalt-rogues (Fighter-rogue, cleric-rogue, wizard-rogue, etc.) and hand out high starting ability scores for...
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    D&D General Does anyone else use a silver standard in their DND game?

    I've played tricks to make gold etc. more valuable in D&D while keeping nominal prices for most things the same. The effect is much like going to a silver standard in terms of the physical weight of gold (or silver) needed to buy an item, but without the need to do a mental shift of gp -> sp all...
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    D&D 3.x Arrow of sleighing

    As a variant on the original idea: When the arrow is drawn it transforms into a one-horse sleigh, and the bow needs to make a Fortitude save (DC 25) to avoid being destroyed. However if drawn with a Bow that has the Holy special ability (a "Bow of Holy"), the transformation does not take place...
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    D&D General Dungeon Master or Referee?

    To me, the old use of "referee" instead of "Dungeon Master" implies the style of play where the monsters are being run by another player. DM or GM is someone who both runs the monsters and adjudicates the rules (among other things). As for giving the monsters an even break, I strongly prefer...
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