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  1. Viking Bastard

    [Planescape poll 2] What makes up the elusive Planescape "feel"?

    I don't find this surprising, although the thematics are a bigger pull for me personally. This surprises me a little, though, because the mundanity of the planes in PS are a big draw for me. It's WONDROUS by description but nobody treats it that way in-fiction.
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    D&D 5E (2014) The Multiverse is back....

    Like Hussar*, I've also always seen D&D in those terms, although I also agree with you that D&D has a pretty distinct flavor. My taste is a little less spartan than Hussar's, I think. I like there to be plenty of little morsels of lore peppered throughout--default fallbacks, so to speak--but I...
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    D&D 5E (2014) The Multiverse is back....

    I find that interesting, because I very much associate it with fantasy--but then, I tend to gravitate towards REH and Moorcock and the like, and was breastfed on the Sagas, many of which feature this motif (my favorite saga, Ormstunga, is centered around it).
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    D&D 5E (2014) Aboleth entry in 5e Monster Manual

    Put me down for "Meh." on the reincarnation bit, but I like a variation of the 'genetic memory'--when an Aboleth is defeated, it's memories get transmitted to all Aboleths in range (which is possibly *all* Aboleths), so the race will learn from it's individual members' failures. Until death, an...
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    [Planescape poll 2] What makes up the elusive Planescape "feel"?

    Totally missed this thread! I have voted, with a strong caveat that I don't care about the number of factions, as well as thinking that a few of the factions need a good retooling.
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    D&D 5E (2014) The Multiverse is back....

    It was a great campaign. Definitely among my top 5. I don't think PS has "blowing up the multiverse" as a goal. I blew it up, because, well, I tend to do that. I've never run a setting more than once ("setting" not necessarily meaning "world" in this context), so I feel no need to preserve...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fun with the Monster Manual - Monster-a-Day in your Setting

    Hah, I'm currently doing this very same thing to the PHB--worldbuilding via reskinning. I don't have the MM yet, but I had already entertained the thought of taking it through the same process.
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    D&D 5E (2014) The Multiverse is back....

    I know it's a bit late to add a comment, but I've always thought of PS as *the* dynamic D&D setting. My take has always been that we're presented with a grand cosmic stalemate, with the assumption that if you disrupt any of the established relationships between the greater powers, it will...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Inappropriate breasts on female monsters

    I agree with your disagreement on "logic" not mattering in fantasy--creating a believable fantasy setting, be it in fiction or play, requires heavy amounts of logic. With that said, I don't think logic (especially high fantasy logic) has anything to do with "realism". More than not, I think the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Inappropriate breasts on female monsters

    Heh, the issue of dragonboobs came up at our then-all-female table (except for me, the DM) during a session a while back, when one of the girls decided to make her new character a dragonborn. I brought up, in passing, the debate about dragonboobs. (My position pretty much mirrors delericho...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Called Shots

    I haven't used it in 5e yet, but I used it for good effect in the last ten sessions or so of my 4e game. So far (three sessions in) I've felt 5e combat to play "looser" and we haven't felt the need for it, but that may just be because people aren't used to the new system and haven't formed their...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Raise your hand if your mom...

    My mum gave me my first RPG on my 10th birthday. Previously that fall I'd gotten into D&D through a friend's teenage brother and I'd been "making my own D&D" ever since. My mother had never heard of D&D or RPGs but when she saw that game (it was an Icelandic RPG called Askur Yggdralsis) she...
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    DOCTOR WHO: "Deep Breath" (SPOILERS)

    Or the "Doctor's victims".
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    DOCTOR WHO: "Deep Breath" (SPOILERS)

    In that final scene in "Heaven", I immediately thought of Silence in the Library's database.
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    Any cool homebrewed worlds out there?

    https://www.obsidianportal.com/ is the best resource these days, I think. Overall, people don't seem to post their homebrews as much any more--I think most people with that kinda passion for their 'brews aim for self-publication these days.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Best Online Tools for Coordinating a 5E Group with a Busy Schedule

    We also use a private group on Fb. Pretty happy with it. Everyone in the group is an active user of Facebook, have it on their phone, etc. It doesn't require anything other than people checking their notifications, which they all already do obsessively (as people do).
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    D&D 4E [4E only] What kind of miniatures do you use, if any?

    None of the options fit, even for "what I use most". I guess "tokens" come the closest. Before 4e I never used minis or a grid. For PCs, we use Munchkin figures. I bought a pack of them on sale sometime. I have a handful of Warhammer figures since I flirted with the game in the 90s, both...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e Do How Often Do You Use Skill Checks for ‘Monster Knowledge’

    I'm not too terribly fond of knowledge checks either--I prefer knowledge to be more binary: if you're trained in the skill, I'll just hand out the information. More than anything, I use it as a guide for to what player I'll hand out the information.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e Do How Often Do You Use Skill Checks for ‘Monster Knowledge’

    Before 4e I had never thought of this as a thing to do. I guess it was also an intended feature of 3e, but I don't remember noticing. I tried it for a while, but ultimately my feelings mirror Jester's. I don't really see how this makes for a more enjoyable game for anyone.
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