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  1. Professor Murder

    D&D General WizKids Announces New D&D and Critical Role Miniatures for 2024

    Honestly this should just be standard at this price point.
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    D&D General WizKids Announces New D&D and Critical Role Miniatures for 2024

    I really love the look of the classics line, but I can't justify the price.
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    D&D 5E (2024) I'm a longtime player and there really is only one thing that will stop me from switching to 5.X

    I can appreciate this, but honestly it's not something that really gives me much pause, mostly because I put so much of my own work into developing settings to play in, even if they are published ones. Just as I have been easily able to excise objectional materials over the decades, so can I...
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    D&D 5E (2024) I'm a longtime player and there really is only one thing that will stop me from switching to 5.X

    For context, I have been a DnD player since 1e of ADnD, back around 1982 or so by my best guess. I am a DM at heart and I buy a good deal of books overall. I have switched with every edition of ADnD into DnD, including the .5 style material. each time a new edition or demi-edition has come out...
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    D&D General What do you actually like about D&D?

    It gets the job done. Real talk, no game system hits all needs, you will always make compromises.
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    D&D General What do you NOT want systems for?

    Super Spicy/mostly kidding take: Anything over 12th lvl.
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    Unpopular opinions go here

    If anything, if you are most often a GM, remember to restrain your GM impulses when you are a player.
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    D&D General What do you NOT want systems for?

    For DnD specifically: Alignment as a rule system when it should just be RP signposts.
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    Unpopular opinions go here

    Unpopular opinion: If you don't like a game, keep it to yourself unless asked. Instead promote the games you do like.
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    Unpopular opinions go here

    I tried to leave the time consideration squishy. Mainly, I mean people who are going to stick in the hobby, instead of people just passing through. No shade on people who gaming doesn't click with, but for those who get stuck in, I honestly feel you become a better player by being a GM, at the...
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    Unpopular opinions go here

    Everyone who engages with the TTRPG hobby for any reasonable length of time (say, more than 1 year) should feel an obligation to GM at least one game.
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    D&D General What got you to try D&D?

    This cover. I really, really loved monsters and mythology as a kid. I saw it in a Barnes and Noble at 7-8 yrs old and begged my dad to buy it for me. The rest is history.
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    Aliens: Yes Or No?

    The universe is too large for there not to be other examples of consciousness elsewhere. and The universe is too large for any other conscious beings to ever come here. We are in the space boonies. If there were a large number of similar solar systems within striking distance of us, things...
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    D&D General What is player agency to you?

    Thread is already too long so my post here is purely a response to the thread title. Player Agency in a ttrpg for me is that the PCs are the ones called upon to resolve the conflict. They are the protagonists. The events of the story require the PC's presence. They cannot merely be passengers of...
  16. Professor Murder

    What is your gaming white whale?

    I want to get a physical copy of the Leverage TTRPG that isn't hundred of dollars.
  17. Professor Murder

    Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

    So I am curious to see how the factions will work, rules wise. Patrons feels like the most likely setup, since they are not doing feats or backgrounds it seems.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is rolling a death save a valid trigger for contingency?

    Sounds reasonable. It's not game breaking. If anything, I would prefer Contingency trigger by specific game term events to cut down on ambiguity, as that has more potential for abuse.
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