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    3 Most Underrated Traits for Gamesmasters

    Patience. oh, right. thennnnn, I guess, some Creativity and Organizational skills.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What are your (up to) three favorite character classes?

    hmmm... let's see... Ranger: Fear my specialized damage-dealing might! Quake before my infallible wilderness prowess and hunter's skills honed from the very stone of years of recurring battle and hard-learned lore. <cue thunder. lightning. howling winds.>...all of which I know how to avoid with...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What are your (up to) three favorite character classes?

    1. Wizard: Feel my arcane might! Quake before the occult powers I command that you could never hope to comprehend!! <cue thunder. lightning. howling winds.> 2. Druid: Feel the wrath of my elemental might! Quake before the forces of Nature that bend to my bidding, with which I am entwined in...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 9th level NPC wizard, what is your "Minimum Personal Security" suite?

    Well, I mean...not to generate a long tangent on this or anything...but if you have Magic/Sorcery to work with, why wouldn't/shouldn't a decently intelligent magic-maker, in a magical world, be able to enchant themselves protective clothing that is more effective than a rogue's armor?
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    What tropes do you want to see more of in fantasy RPGs?

    Apparent objective GOOD triumphing over apparent and objective EVIL. GOOD guys who are GOOD guys. Villains who are BAD, knowingly EVIL, and NOT to be admired or emulated. Protagonists who are HEROES with admirable qualities. NOT everyone being a misunderstood broody anti-hero...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 9th level NPC wizard, what is your "Minimum Personal Security" suite?

    This is THEIR tower/library facility? Where they live and work? EVERY door is permanently Wizard Locked. Only the wizard and any apprentices would be allowed to freely move from room-to-room, floor-to-floor. There are permanent Alarms on all access points...including, as any decent wizard...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can you use misty step to arrest a fall?

    Of course, if you had yourself "spit out" sideways -along the ground- you could roll or potentially catch yourself "running with" your momentum. I might minimize as much as to say Dex save/check (to catch yourself properly/move with your momentum). Success takes no damage. Failure takes a d6 for...
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    How do you pronounce 'EN World'?

    Enworld. I know the whole Eric Noah history thing and that the "E.N." stand for him. But I have only and ever call it "enworld" or, if you like, "N world."
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    OD&D Are there unofficial BECMI Errata?

    <shrug> Guess there's not a lot -or a lot of interest in- that needs errata-ing from BECMI.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why do Monks only have d8 HP instead of d10 HP?

    My initial thought/presumption would be that in either an implicit "nostalgia"/traditions of the game kind of way and an explicit feature of the class concept, that people -both in the game's origins and for 5e's design team- more closely associate the Monk in concept and flavor to a Cleric (who...
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    OD&D Are there unofficial BECMI Errata?

    ...and, apparently, a simple google search will suffice.
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    OD&D Are there unofficial BECMI Errata?

    My understanding has always been that the Rules Cyclopedia IS the combined collation of the BECMI rules. No? So if there is "unofficial errata" (and I have no concept of what that is supposed to mean...if it is not official from the publisher/author...in what way is it "errata?") for the RC...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Would Your Perfect 50th PHB Class List Be?

    I rather like the idea of splitting up some, or even most, spell specialties to the different arcane classes... I mean, if it were up to me, there wouldn't be so many to begin with, but that's never going to happen, now. So, here we are. Wizards[Mages] are the masters of magic. They can figure...
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    D&D General Class or Subclass importance

    My homebrew system basically spreads things out across all three -as you term them here- Parent/Child/Grandchild. For my system that would be be [Class] Category/Class[Archetype]/[Subclass]Specialist. Each level has their own features which they grant to the character, at various levels of...
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    D&D General Which classes fill in this chart?

    Ok, I'll play. But I'm not going to use 5e's list of full casters. To engage in this sort of thought exercise, you need to determine the set of types of magics/casters you are intending to use. Then work "down" from there. Conversely -if one prefers a warrior kind of character- you can select...
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    D&D General Which classes fill in this chart?

    Move Bard and Warlock into Half-Caster. Move Ranger into Non-caster. Then you may be getting close/on to something.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Would Your Perfect 50th PHB Class List Be?

    WOOHOO! Claaaaaassezzzz... PHB 6e Class List The Fighter - default Warrior: all weapons, all armors, d12 --The Cavalier - specialist "Knightly" Fighter that excels in hitting and defense, horsemanship, attack and save boons for self and allies. Prefers heavy armor. Prefers certain weaponry...
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    D&D General What makes a good setting book?

    Well, that's the whole ballgame, isn't it? The quality and style of the writing is going to have a huuuuge impact on what people reading it think. Editing helps. Art helps (definitely). All of that. But what is the meat and bones of the whole thing? The writing. Is it evocative? Is it clear or...
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