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  1. Distracted DM

    D&D General What Does New Coke Tell Us About Designing for D&D

    I think our miscommunication might be on the "maximize profit" term. I notice that you added "ethically" to your use of term; note that I didn't include "ethically" when referring to "maximize profit" like you did. That's probably the miscommunication. I also didn't say that someone couldn't...
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    D&D General What Does New Coke Tell Us About Designing for D&D

    Yeah, there's the in-between of Running a Successful Business. I guess it's easy to forget that that's an option in today's world? The vast majority of small businesses do it. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your reply; I didn't say they didn't want to get paid.. my sentence was literally: Making a...
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    D&D General What Does New Coke Tell Us About Designing for D&D

    Yup. You can have a business without making "Maximizing Profit" the highest priority; it depends on what the end goal is- sustainable business, making a quick buck, getting rich quick, etc. All different. When you open your company to public trading, that's when you're trading away (some)...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How many times in an adventuring day does your party spellcaster cast a cantrip spell?

    I'm trying to understand my bias against multiclasses like this... because man, I would not enjoy seeing this at one of my tables. It's bad enough when I get one or two PCs that want to level-dip for extra stuff. I'm not saying it's wrong to do, just that I don't like it, and I feel like a...
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    D&D 4E What AI thinks about 4th Edition

    That's the one (and only) thing that I like about Google search's AI summary, is it gives you sources for what it's talking about ... so when you wonder why it's saying something very wrong, you can go to the source that it scraped it from and see that it was because it was sourced from someone...
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    Gen Con Sold Out!

    From my understanding from friends that go most years, it's at once very crowded because there are so many people, but it's so big that it's not impossible to enjoy stuff because there's enough to accommodate everyone :'D
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    D&D 4E What AI thinks about 4th Edition

    That's pretty much what it does, yes. Ofc sometimes it scrapes something incorrect and gives you weird answers, so 🤷‍♂️
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    How do you tabletop these days?

    I think the other thing, now that I've thought more on it, is that most of my friends don't want to use their webcams for the same reason of convenience etc. of playing from their home. If the whole group is using webcams, it does something for me because I can see people. But just voices, that...
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    How do you tabletop these days?

    I believe we're talking about Discord, yes? Is this in a server or a group DM? If it's in a server, you have a list like this (see spoiler images below). You clicked on "saltmarsh voice" to join the voice chat. Then, you click on it AGAIN to enter the "voice channel." That takes you to Image 2...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is a heavy armored monk feasible?

    You lose bonus unarmed strike, martial arts die, dextrous attack, acrobatic movement, and unarmored movement. You can still use Ki abilities though... so you'd be giving up a lot but not everything. I wouldn't do it. Sounds like something a custom subclass could be focused around, though.
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    D&D General What Is D&D Generally Bad At That You Wish It Was Better At?

    The focus also shifted off of magic items as being the focus for your character- a magic item that has a bunch of cool abilities is now almost lost amidst the cool abilities the character gets from their multitude of features. But 2e had a good number of cool abilities for a character as well...
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    RPG Print News – Goodman Games, Metis Creative, and More

    The adventures themselves are great- very tight, easily useable for any drop-in. I use DCC adventures for my DnD games often enough for side stuff etc... so the content is absolutely there, but yeah the editing could use touching up here and there.
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    RPG Print News – Goodman Games, Metis Creative, and More

    I noticed in the original Tome of Adventure that some of the text will refer to page numbers from the original publication. So it'll say something like "see ITEM on page 33," but the adventure started on page 64 and the item is actually on page 71. Same lack of editing, or editing misses.
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    RPG Print News – Goodman Games, Metis Creative, and More

    Wow there's a lot of new Goodman Games stuff, huh? Awesome. I'm not too familiar with their modern 5e content- how's their design? say, monsters from their 5e adventures... Anyone familiar?
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    How do you tabletop these days?

    It's definitely the additional social-friend-hangout that fuels the "in the moment" aspect for me in-person. It's not the same for me online, though... I have to really force myself to pay attention as a player online, and it kills most of the enjoyment for me.
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    D&D 5E (2014) How many times in an adventuring day does your party spellcaster cast a cantrip spell?

    One day perhaps I will enact a limit on utility cantrips...
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    How do you tabletop these days?

    My former in-person group is all online now. They like playing from the convenience of their homes on weeknights. Makes me sad. I couldn't do online as a player, it's not stimulating enough for me to keep paying attention.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Multiclassing and ability score drain?

    2 New spell slot rule- What interaction are you referring to?
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