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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    The fact that Iron Man is not top-flight as you say and that they went with him as the spear point of the Marvel Universe is not a case against hardcore fans. In the spirit of this thread, particularly the OP, I feel that much like grognards were analysed, one could do the same with hardcore...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 2024 D&D is 2014 D&D with 4E sprinkled on top

    I do not think the argument is lost. I believe the design space is there to accommodate both styles of play it just hasn't been officially explored in a satisfactory manner IMO. I thought that 4e's Tier-based play and 5e's Epic Boons were ideas in the right direction. Besides satisfying the...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Yeah that's a strawman. So by that metric Ramey should have not done Spidey as there were was a Spidey movie prior. We are in the era of remakes, alternate timelines, reboots. And it is not just in Marvel...we are constantly remaking/rebooting old movies. Do you really want to compare the...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Thank you, someone actually got it. Women are not minorities! But hey it is much easier for some posters to bring up Hitler, -ists and talk about Cavill being woke or anti-woke than actually acknowledge what many of these shows suffered from.... @Ruin Explorer, why is it you feel the need to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    Regarding asking fundamentally new questions This is why I enjoy Planescape and specifically Sigil before the Faction War for higher level play...because while the lesser questions of theology are answered in the Prime, the Sigil factions provide a whole new set of competing ideologies which...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    The reason I'm not engaging with you in the details is because you misrepresented facts which means I'm not going to have a fruitful discussion with you going forward. As a first example, your idea as to what happened to the Witcher series ?!! You clearly live in another reality to mine.
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Not playing your game. I've explained myself clearly enough as have you.
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    That's actually dogwhistling when you're alluding to someone being an "-ist" when we're talking about hardcore fandom. Also can we just try and keep Hitler from entering every discussion, I'm not sure why people need to go there continually. Let's take James Bond for example. If they change It...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Witcher died. She-Hulk died. Willow died. Do I need to bother with Disney Star Wars? Amazon's LotR? Phase 4-5 Marvel, Star Trek Disovery, Indiana Jones... They didn't appease their hardcore fans, they went off script, appeased casual minority audiences, trashed the lore, trashed the hardcore...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    I realise there are a lot of factors at play but movie franchises and comics prove you wrong.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    @Umbran and @billd91 My reply to @Smackpixi was stating the obvious about these curious races who are (his words) "all a-holes" and "annoying people", were but a representation of ourselves. i.e. he had an issue with people being people. I'm a huge fan of DS9 - the characters, the...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Sounds like it was a show about humans.
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    GMs: Where and When Do You Run Games

    My house almost exclusively.
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    Spoilers Cobra Kai Final Episodes

    Ah man. :( As I suspected
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    D&D 5E (2024) Why are you still playing D&D?

    To have a campaign that has caught fire with the players and then to only play once or twice a year I imagine must be painful for those on fire.
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    Spoilers Cobra Kai Final Episodes

    We never got the Hillary Swank cameo :(, I actually thought she'd be doing the revelation of Miyagi's past... but otherwise I was content with the wrapping up of the series - pretty decent ending actually.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Why are you still playing D&D?

    Committed to finish our 5e campaign...all the way to level 20.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dungeoncraft Interview with Mike Mearls

    Out of interest were your table playing the monsters without any DM improvements (on the part of the monsters or the characters)? I have had to significantly change the monsters for our higher level game, but my data is unusable because we have added much homebrew into the mix on the part of...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dungeoncraft Interview with Mike Mearls

    4e combat is tactical with heavy grid reliance (not that you cannot play TotM before anyone needs to post that). EDIT: But this raises an interesting question as to what do we ascribe as tactical - geometrical areas of affect? turn based combat?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dungeoncraft Interview with Mike Mearls

    Give us a percentage you're comfortable with...because all I see you doing is trying to dilute the association Mearls is making between 4e and WoW. Why is it so hard to accept the fact that WoW influenced the game in a massive way - and that those that were saying so at the time were right? Why...
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