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  1. MoonSong

    D&D General D&D Variants Forum

    I thought it used d6s? I don't think any D&D variant can renounce the D20 and still be a D&D variant?
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    D&D General D&D Variants Forum

    I was fearing someone had blocked me because I couldn't open any of their threads, then I noticed I couldn't even open them on a private tab. And well, I also noticed this. So I feel better now, but yeah it is still a bother not being able to open many threads.
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    Disney sues Midjourney

    Is OpenAI public? Only public companies can buy other companies through shares. And beyond that, OpenAI needs every penny to remain operational. It's costs are inmense. There's not enough to divert to other stuff like legal costs.
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    Disney sues Midjourney

    More like Gargantuan or Colossal amount n_n.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Psion Class: Green/Yellow/Red?

    "We can have it better by removing these three classes and changing them for still having these three classes but worse."
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    XKCD What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

    Bamboo or aluminium, we need to save the tortoises.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    And then sorcerers had to pay for everybody's sins.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    I was isekai'd to a fantasy world and all I brought with me was a camera.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Could the DnDNext Sorcerer be revived as its own class?

    The spellbook might be a single element, but it is one with huge implications. It means spellcasting is a goal, something voluntary which needs constant work to keep going. It also makes magic something serious and for the learned. It means that education has to be accounted for in your...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Could the DnDNext Sorcerer be revived as its own class?

    You cannot properly merge wizard and sorcerer without losing one of them. Any merger is either erasing the sorcerer with extra steps, or a failure*. Unless you went truly generic like with the microlite20 mage but that is way more free-form than what D&D usually gets. * If at first level you...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Could the DnDNext Sorcerer be revived as its own class?

    At least with fighter it's fully justified. The class truly succeeds at portraying a generic "can be anything" warrior, or mostly at the beginning. Then we had the thief who started to erode at that identity early on. Magic user was always a lousy fit for the "any caster" theme; it has always...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Could the DnDNext Sorcerer be revived as its own class?

    Sadly they completely threw it away for 2024.
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    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    I'm replaying Shantae Half-genie Hero and Pirate's curse in tandem. After I finish one of them, I'll swap in Risky's Revenge. Then I'll have to buy Seven Sirens and that'll be it. I don't have a Switch for the original and Risky's Revolution isn't out for Steam yet.
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    I'm not a fan of big corporations bullying small mom and pop with the law, but paraphrasing a late 19th century historian "big causes aren't won without aligning with big interests".
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    D&D 5E (2024) Chance for a warlord?

    Similar to how it is technically possible to just roleplay what we call now a sorcerer on pre-2e d&d ediitions, but nobody really does (or ever did) It is possible to ignore mechanics, fluff and survivability and struggle to do it. Because "what is a witch but a female magic user?" am I right...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Chance for a warlord?

    To me, they missed the forest for the trees. Changing stat priorities after character creation is but a fraction of the problem, which is, you shouldn't delay character defining choices. (And they sure didn't learn that lesson)
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    D&D 5E (2024) Chance for a warlord?

    And it becomes what I call the "one character problem". After all that effort to reproduce the experience of a class, you are left with only one character without much more room for individuality and further customization. What was a diverse pool of possible characters very different from each...
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    RPG Evolution: Craft Everything

    The problem with this is that it encourages combat as the primary game mode. Nothing wrong with it if it's your thing, but for me it is again something that you could get better and more easily from a videogame. A cool idea still (I'd like wizards having to research/learn spells only from...
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    RPG Evolution: Craft Everything

    I like crafting. I love Minecraft and like crafting sidequests in other videogames. But for pen and paper tabletop, I'm not so sure I want it in. Unlike computers, we need to do the overhead by hand -or need computer assist-. Humans are just not good at bookkeeping, that's why we invented books...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Couple new Ideas, gauging interest

    I just saw this. @Steampunkette I like most of your ideas here. One idea I toyed with when I started to brainstorm my heartbreaker changes to 5e -that I discarded because I went with extreme simplicity instead- was to have wizards (and bards) be consumers of ambient mana, so their ability to do...
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