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    D&D 5E (2014) All Spells *At Will*??? (+)

    As far as healing goes, you could take the concept of system strain from Worlds Without Number. A body can only handle so much rapid healing or change before the magic or process ceases to work.
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    D&D General Tech in DnD; What should be included and how much is too much? (+)

    My tech is roughly early 17th Century with some additions and subtractions. There are firearms, "runelocks", that use bluepowder rather than blackpowder. The main difference being that it doesn't support its own combustion, so grenades are the biggest bang you can get. No cannons or bombs...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Questions to ask when developing a campaign setting as a group

    Questions that come to mind- "What do you want to do?" How common is magic? Items, casters, and high level casters? Are there enough 12th level casters to cause societal change, and are they interested in doing so? How common are high level characters? What level would the local Cincinnatus...
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    D&D 5E (2014) All Spells *At Will*??? (+)

    This is the original concept for the warlock, IIRC. The main limitation is that you can only have one spell active at a time. The rest of the design flows from that. So, half-baked at the moment but similar tubers that others had.
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    D&D 5E (2014) A Power Dial Separate From Level

    For 5e: Ability Scores, number of bonus feats, potency and quantity of magic items, access to Inspiration, use of feats for "multiclassing" just for other class abilities. Stats aren't that important in older editions, but near critical in 5e.
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    D&D 5E (2014) A Power Dial Separate From Level

    Never heard of that before. Some assumptions I quibble with, but an interesting reference.
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    D&D General How many pages of info do you have for your homebrew setting? (+)

    Hmm... Let's say 26-50 pages for the section that sees the most attention. 10-25 pages for the rest of the world, where there's a page for each section, geographic or political. Easily a third or less of the former section. About a page campaign intro, which translates to "Welcome to...
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    D&D General What did D&D teach you?

    "Quaff", which my grandmother wouldn't let me use when we played Scrabble. She never heard of it and it wasn't in the pocket dictionary. Communication, both with scenes and interpersonally. Much practice lead to better friendships.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can you cast flame blade and then make an improvised weapon attack with the flame blade?

    Well, an arcane trickster could use a damaging single target spell with sneak attack, right?
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    Ways to annoy my players in a semi-post-apoc city

    When I lived in Florida, a thunderstorm would roll in amazingly predictably at 1445 every afternoon in August. In this place, some weather phenomena rolls in at nearly the same time every day disrupting travel, errands, and commerce. A powerful dust storm, heavy rain, tarantula migration...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can you cast flame blade and then make an improvised weapon attack with the flame blade?

    Or it is an object that has a temporary reality. If someone had Capo Ferro 2 (+1 AC if armed with an appropriate weapon in the off hand) would the flame blade count? Would shadow blade? Could you disarm someone wielding a flame blade however temporarily? This seems to be an overall question...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Mr. LaNasa's lawyer filed a motion requesting to amend the complaint removing Tenkar's mom from the suit, and stating that he acknowledges that he was convicted of a misdemeanor 20 years ago. This is in response to a suggestion from the judge to come to some "agreement of terms" with Tenkar else...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can you cast flame blade and then make an improvised weapon attack with the flame blade?

    So, according to the wording of the spell you can't use flame blade as an extra attack weapon. But, you can use shadow blade thusly? How much damage or other effects does shadow blade do? Are they equivalent? If they are, and one is explicitly permissive in this tactic and the other is...
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    D&D General Tell Us About Your Gnolls! [+]

    For me, the gnolls were the first creation of Orlanda the Sorceress. Dissatisfied with the result, she discarded them and worked on uplifting other races. Shocked and disoriented in being raised to sentience and then thrown away, the gnolls reacted violently. This drew the attention of Yeenoghu...
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    Titan Boardgame - David Trampier Artwork T-Shirts

    Truth! I think I came to love the idea of the game more than the game itself. I enjoyed playing it in my youth, but not sure I would have the patience for it now. I still have my copy...
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    D&D General Bringing out the big guns - Low Level PCs with High Level antagonist NPCs? (And/Or high power items)

    With grossly powered opponents, they aren't meant to fight them at that point. Any conflict would be indirect, such as court maneuvering or seeing them from afar. Sometimes when the PCs decide they want to FAFO then they will need teamwork. For grossly powered magic items, that can be fun if...
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    D&D General Why I love Point Buy or Array when creating a PC

    If I'm playing B/X or AD&D, I'll roll because stat bonuses aren't going to be too important beyond fifth level or so. If I'm playing 5e, I'll pick because stat bonuses are going to equal or exceed level bonuses most of the character's life. If I don't know what I'm going to play, I prefer...
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    Planescape Manual of the Planes for 5e on DMSGuild

    I'll see what I can dig up. Interesting about licensing, all the adventures were work for hire so I wouldn't think that would be complicated. But, I am not wise nor learned enough to understand such arcane mysteries.
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    Planescape Manual of the Planes for 5e on DMSGuild

    😁 Sort of- It was in the High Level Extraplanar Campaign for the Living City Campaign. It's in the "canon", but the exposure is pretty low and I don't know how much of the lore was incorporated. I wrote the story bible, 12 chapter synopsis, and the first three adventures. The main lore I think...
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