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    Level Up (A5E) Darkmantle grapple

    I suspect this is just an oversight, but the Darkmantle's Crush ability says that "the target is grappled" and "The darkmantle’s speed becomes 0, and it moves with its target." However, the grappled condition sets would set the target's speed to 0, too. So neither of them move. In our game, we...
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    Level Up (A5E) The big difference between A5e and 5e?

    We've been playing an A5e game for several months now and the maneuvers and the wealth of features you get have made a huge difference. As Mike said, there's a lot of "I have a thing for that!" moments outside of combat in particular, which is just amazing. I am intentionally playing a character...
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    Level Up (A5E) Which electronic version of character storage/sheet do you use for A5E characters?

    VTT. In my case, it's Foundry. When they eventually finish the character builder, I will probably also create them there, especially if they have a PDF export option (I like to keep them after the game is over), but since everything is going to be in the SRD, that may not strictly be necessary...
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    Level Up (A5E) What is your experience with Level Up on Foundry?

    Oh hey, the just dropped v 0.9.0 (and 0.9.1), so have at it! They are going for a happy medium between of some useful automation while allowing those official unofficial modules to add in some additional stuff (like calculating if an attack hits, etc). It has been pretty good so far and they...
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    Level Up (A5E) What is your experience with Level Up on Foundry?

    We've been running a game in Foundry for a few months now and for the most part, it's fine. At present, there are a lot of features missing, but version 0.9.0 should be out soon (like probably next couple weeks or sooner) and that will add quite a few of them, with more added throughout the...
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    3PP Release (3rd Party Book Release) Paranormal Power: A Psionics Option for 5e and A5e, written by Steampunkette!

    My wife used to work as an editor and she saw this sort of thing all the time. Something about the conversion process makes it lose the drop case letters, I guess? And then she'd have to grumble at the printers to fix it. She's in your designer's Discord if you want to chat with her about it...
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    3PP Release (3rd Party Book Release) Paranormal Power: A Psionics Option for 5e and A5e, written by Steampunkette!

    They'd make you pay to fix that? Really seems like something the printer ought to fix at their expense. I'm so sorry this happened. If it helps, I'm just happy it's out! Maybe I'll draw my own letters just for fun :)
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    3PP Release (3rd Party Book Release) Paranormal Power: A Psionics Option for 5e and A5e, written by Steampunkette!

    I don't remember if this was mentioned before, but I'm noticing that everywhere a paragraph starts with a graphic letter - for example, the first word on page 4 - that letter is missing. So it says "hat are psionics?" "n a time..." "hile this book" etc. Basically the first letter of every major...
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    Gate Pass Gazette New Project Launched: Level Up: A5E Gate Pass Gazette Annual 2022

    I wonder, if it was $120 for the hardcover, would people still be complaining about the Patreon? Then it would be the same price. I, for one, backed it when it launched because if there weren't enough patrons, it wasn't going to launch at all. The monthly fees, presumably, pay the authors...
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    EN Publishing & The OGL

    If it takes a fundraiser to pay for de-OGLifying, I'll happily back Advanced Not-5e.
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    Gate Pass Gazette January's Gate Pass Gazette Articles

    Cervids, yay! I'm not biased or married to the author or anything... Love the art!
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    Level Up (A5E) Create or destroy Water creates nonpotable water. Does purify food and drink make that water potable?

    The book is outdated, not the tools. It was changed in the errata, as shown here: Errata — Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E). Which suggests that they rather intentionally did not want the spell to create supply.
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    Level Up (A5E) Savants, Exertion Pools, and Multiclassing - A Problem?

    To be fair, most multiclassing has some sort of cost/benefit based on what you choose first. There is almost always one "better" order to do it in, so that's where that "them's the breaks" mentality comes in.
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    Level Up (A5E) A5E has more rules and mechanics for crafting and repairs - How do you make them a bigger part of your game?

    I would just start with the rules on maintenance that are already in the game: Maintenance | Level Up. I think there are also maneuvers that can break things and crits may also have a rule for that. We are about to start a game with a heavy focus on exploration and spending a lot of time out in...
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    Blog (A5E) New Tools On A5E.tools!

    I love how A5e already has more tools available than D&D Beyond does despite them having years and years to actually put something together.
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    Level Up (A5E) Magic Item Pricing Concerns

    Yeah, the haven part is really the main draw IMO. Otherwise you risk trivializing the entire exploration aspect of the game not to mention one of the big reasons to have a ranger in your party in the first place since they can create safe havens. If you don't need a haven, you don't really need...
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    Level Up (A5E) A5e is Backwards Compatible with O5e. What if it wasn’t?

    I've got mixed feelings about it. I think they definitely did the best they could within the constraints, but there are a handful of things that feel kinda clunky as a result of maintaining compatibility. On the other hand, that compatibility is kind of the point and without it, well it would...
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    Gate Pass Gazette Collected Volumes

    I kinda feel like as time goes on, the content in the GPG could probably stand to go through some revisions and a collected edition would be a great way to do that. Unless they just end up adding it into a "proper" book later, kinda like how WotC integrates their smaller releases later.
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