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    GM fiat - an illustration

    Interestingly 5e had a fantastic murder mystery module, Murder in Baldur's Gate, where the actions of the PCs determined who the final villain would be. So, it wasn't your traditional all-planned out mystery and there was no possibility of a dead-end in the investigation which required further...
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    GM fiat - an illustration

    If I've understood you correctly, I think you're looking at this all incredibly wrong. If the lights went out due to the burglar, it may point to more than 1 burglar involved in the heist. It may point to the burglar having the necessary skills to know which wires to cut and where one cuts them...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    This is how I feel too. I think I do the 2e modules better justice now than if I had run them back when they were first published. I'm older, wiser and more experienced. The game has evolved, there are a lot more things I can use mechanically to create tension and offer decision points. I have...
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    Necessity of a Social Negotiation System? – When Should It Be Relevant?

    One should apply the same metric they use for combat. Is every combat necessary? Does every combat drive the story forward? What is the purpose of the combat if not to drive the story forward? Answer those questions for the social negotiation you wish to implement. Also, in the same way one...
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    One innovation per edition

    1e Level Drain 2e THACO 3e Feat Trees 4e AEDU Structure 5e Hit Point Bloat
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    GM fiat - an illustration

    They are not trying to learn what the GM has imagined or written down. They are trying to solve the mystery based on the clues they have uncovered, which should make sense in the fiction. We do not say we are watching a mystery/thriller movie to learn what the script writer/director has imagined...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Hal Jordan also took him out in front of the Justice League including Guy's girl at the time (Ice) in GL #25, I believe, in the 90's run.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Discounting the new ones (and I'm not talking of Kyle Rayner) sure. I'd say the pecking order is Hal Jordan John Stewart/Kyle Rayner Alan Scott/Jade Guy Gardner But if you go beyond Earth, there are plenty GL's that would fall under 1-punch
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    There is a lot of versatility with 5e - not weighted down by 3.x, more polished than 2e, less in-your-face gamey than 4e, easy to tinker with, lots of 3pp compatible content, and with the ability to inject or use mechanics from other play styles, particularly with the half-baked Traits, Bonds...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Weird, weird. I confess, I've tried them all bar 1 (and I like them). I haven't tried anchovies (yet).
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    What I have learnt is that some people view complaints as demands within the same post. How dare the fan base complain? Pesky resistance fighters.
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    GM fiat - an illustration

    I'll admit, like others have done on both sides of the argument, the discussion regarding the word solve is not an interesting one. When I provide the PCs a riddle, I can ask them to solve it. When I provide a word, I do not ask them to solve it, I ask them to create/establish the riddle that...
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    GM fiat - an illustration

    Cool, I do that with 5e's Traits, Ideals, Bonds and Flaws, but I offer XPs (valuable in our game) for them to lean into those when they conflict with their goals. i.e. PC was trying to shield their mind from a Detect Thoughts spell. Character has the Personality Trait I can barely keep a secret...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is Combat Tedious on Purpose?

    This thread has some wonderful ideas to pull from, when I have time I'm going to make a doc of the best ideas. Love this kind of thread (idea pooling/sharing).
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    GM fiat - an illustration

    Hey could you expand on that please, just in terms of how that information is helpful in the players solving the mystery?
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    What Brought You to EN World Today?

    Excuse me, aren't we forgetting the Cooking and Sandwich thread? ;)
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    GM fiat - an illustration

    I just saw Christie's Black Coffee at the theatre this weekend. ;)
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    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    I see two solutions... * Make Cantrips 1st level spells, 1st level spells become 2nd level, 2nd level become 3rd...etc Optional Rule: You increase the damage done by the new 2nd level spells onwards by 1 die. In other words magic missile becomes 1d6 as opposed to 1d4, fireball becomes 1d8 as...
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    GM fiat - an illustration

    It is funny, these days when prepping for the next session, I continuously scour the players' character sheets (we use Obsidian Portal) for interesting details to use - Ideals, Bonds, Flaws, Traits, Items, Backgrounds, interesting tidbits they have recorded about established fiction, to either...
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    GM fiat - an illustration

    The entire party is made of street-rats with not even a Mending cantrip between them.
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