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    D&D 5E (2014) Why is WOTC so awful at providing digital content?

    Nah. Universities in the States, Europe, Russia, Asia, India churn out grads with business/computer science degrees by the 100s of thousands per year. Its not a trivial development, but its not cutting edge stuff either. The technology and the functionality is well-trodden ground. I'm sure...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Find Familiar essentially "gain Advantage on all skill checks and attacks"?

    Ha, snap! I just made a halfling rogue rog4/bard1 with the same intention except using the owl 120' darkvision. I'm going to get the owl to scout ahead at 1/2 speed using its senses instead of mine, and get someone to lead me around blind-man styles.
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    D&D 5E (2014) How did you handle the Aarakocra?

    I make sure I kill all Aarakocra PCs cruelly and early while I cackle evilly, so they know not to overstep! THEY ARE JUST SCUM PLAYERS WHILE I AM THE ALL POWERFUL DM MUA HA HA HA HA! Not really. I just let them play Aarakocra. They look cool. Also, I let them hover, wingover and any other thing...
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    Chris Perkins: Reintroducing Settings in Ways that Surprise People

    Providing a product I want, providing a product I don't want, not providing a product I want, even not providing a product I don't want and never cared about. All of these things outrage me! Also, why do ducklings die? Why are there never enough red M&Ms? Where are my left socks? Why do people...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why is WOTC so awful at providing digital content?

    Purely comes down to business and commercial acumen (on both sides). I guess you could grossly generalise and say people in creative industries are less likely to have these skills, compared to say, manufacturing or financial services. I certainly know creative types who fit this mold but I also...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why is WOTC so awful at providing digital content?

    I don't think that was the reason it failed though. A significant portion of their market is now older, moved away from their hometowns or meet completely online having never met in person. The proposition still holds up, now more than ever. Apart from the obvious tragedy which was a huge...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why is WOTC so awful at providing digital content?

    It's 2015! We gots expectations and a well-honed sense of entitlement yo! ;-)
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why is WOTC so awful at providing digital content?

    I can understand Hasbro wanting to protect their IP and possible revenue streams, I wish they were organised enough that they understood their overall proposition better and cater their offering to that, rather than dragging their feet on a particular part (software) and then stomping around...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why is WOTC so awful at providing digital content?

    I'm sure there are people at wotc who would read this and say "What?! We release tons of online content on our website, we have a fantastic web presence, we're on twitter. What more do you people want?!" The thing is, and this has been true for years, WotC (and TSR before them) operate in a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) New game for me. Is this acceptable?

    If you're getting a self-loading crossbow (which would be a house rule as it doesn't exist in 5e) and you have no intention of using a second crossbow, theres no point getting the crossbow expertise feat.
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    Chris Perkins: Reintroducing Settings in Ways that Surprise People

    I agree... for a Forgotten Realms Gazetteer. Which this is not. This is an adventure. I don't want 10 pages of setting-story followed by 20 pages of Silmarillion-like background about the Elemental Evils and their relationship to the Dawn Titans before the bloody adventure begins. That's just...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Forgotten Realms and Princes of Apocalypse: Kossuth and Imix?

    Yeah, it does, doesn't it? That's a pretty good solution to an almost unsolvable problem.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Princes of the Apocalypse in Greyhawk

    Change the placenames, maybe change some of the races, boom! Done. What would be nice though is a digital version of the map without placenames so you can plonk your own ones in, so you're not constantly saying "Dessarin Valley" when you meant to say "East Kron Hills" *hint hint Mike*.
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    Chris Perkins: Reintroducing Settings in Ways that Surprise People

    That's kind of the point. People don't just play campaigns in FR and they may want to run it in a different setting. Making it generic-ish gives them the flexibility to set it elsewhere. Besides, people don't specifically need to know that the Elemental Evils were related to the Dawn Titans...
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    D&D 5E (2014) I gave my players too much gold

    Just let them spend it. 12k doesn't actually let them buy too much in terms of items anyway. If you want to take it off them, do so in a way that'll fuel the story. For example, the local king/earl/whatever hears of their recent windfall and asks for a hefty donation. There is some historical...
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    Chris Perkins: Reintroducing Settings in Ways that Surprise People

    I like how wotc are finally perfecting the art of saying stuff without saying much, aka the hype train. Thats a step forward, or a step back depending on how you look at it.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Mage Hand and the No Good, Low Down, Dirty Rotten Arcane Trickster

    The reason you're nerfing this is because you don't like it. Doesn't need to be any more reason than that.
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    D&D 5E (2014) How do I build a max dpr rogue?

    We're not jumping to 20 off the bat, but we might get there eventually. We level quite slowly in this campaign so the urge to multiclass into something novel is strong, even if it looks more logical to stay the course. I'm strongly leaning towards halfling rog15/ftr5 primarily crossbow...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How do I build a max dpr rogue?

    I'm not a mega-expert on rogues in 5e and I don't usually play them but in this campaign, we thought it'd be fun to switch around so everyone gets to play something different. So I got rogue. The first requirement is someone who can do stealthy stuff, scout and spot/disarm traps. Second...
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