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    D&D General Does Earth (or at least a fantasy version of it) have a crystal sphere and exist in the D&D Cosmology?

    logically proving a negative would be quite the rewrite of logic.
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    D&D General Does Earth (or at least a fantasy version of it) have a crystal sphere and exist in the D&D Cosmology?

    AThas Athas 2nd edition was not connected to the Ethereal Plane. It was in some way out of phase and totally unreachable from the greater DND cosmology and gods. Why was never explained. It may just be that's where it was created or it may have been moved there by the great civilization of...
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    D&D General Does Earth (or at least a fantasy version of it) have a crystal sphere and exist in the D&D Cosmology?

    Dont forget Barrier Peaks in Greyhawk. There is a crashed high tech spaceship there. Expedition to Barrier Peaks was the module. It had some really viscous charts for figuring out things like Grenades. You could roll badly and pull the pin and watch it blow up in your hand.
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    D&D General Does Earth (or at least a fantasy version of it) have a crystal sphere and exist in the D&D Cosmology?

    technically Gamma World was an alternate earth and the egyption civilization in forgotten realms came from earth so probably. I can't imagine they'd ever do a supplement of it but there are some easy to miss references that hint that Forgotten realms is connected to earth somehow.
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    D&D General Let's make the upper planes playable!

    or evil demons have infiltrated the Happy hunting grounds working thier way towards Valhall trying to steal Odin's spear to use it on Asmodeus. Hercules falls in love with a valkary and Odin and Zues go to war over who gets to keep him. basic motivations are the same out there you just lose...
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    D&D General Let's make the upper planes playable!

    every zone of the upper planes is full of people living the afterlife from each era. I wonder how well the Vikings get along with the English they warred with in the 13th century in the plane of CG? Lot's of shorthand there if you step back and remember the entire reason for the plane is to...
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    Darkvision Ruins Dungeon-Crawling

    I don't know where 5e rules are on switching vision but I do still enforce blindness for a round or two if you are using darkvision and someone lights the area up. I don't know of any animal that can see in the dark that isn't jacked up by bright light so I'll always do the same as DM if...
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    Darkvision Ruins Dungeon-Crawling

    you can hide or stealth against darkvision. (leaving invisibility out entirely here). No reason you can't scout even if you dont' have darkvision and they do. Rolls would suck but you could very quietly and slowly slip past someone with dark vision. They can still be distracted, sleepy,or...
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    D&D General Alignments in a sentence/phrase/whatever

    My take: (note in my experience CG can be just as scary an alignment as CE or CN. Doing the right thing without regard for other people's reality is quite disruptive even when good is the intent. and LE played intelligently is very often taken for a G alignment. While LN played harshly is...
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    D&D General Let's make the upper planes playable!

    So if you look at what is in the upper planes. You have less than 1% of it mapped out. Nothing says it's full of Angels who span the entire plane, (or devils, etc, etc depending on plane). you can take nearly any animal or monster out of the books and apply an appropriate template and boom...
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    ToV Sell Me on Tales of the Valiant

    I don't think it's enough different for it to be a problem for DM or Player. It's like a game with well crafted table rules.
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    Darkvision Ruins Dungeon-Crawling

    on both sides DM and player.....
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    Darkvision Ruins Dungeon-Crawling

    I agree to a point. Dark vision doesn't let you see past the limit of it's vision. Unlike your normal vision. imagine the world if everything at 30ft, 60ft or 90ft was just hidden behind a black inky wall. If you couldn't see more than two or three houses down your street, or even driving...
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    ToV Sell Me on Tales of the Valiant

    If I understand rituals non casters can do them as well if they choose to spend thier resources on them
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    D&D 5E (2014) Aspurgers/autism effects?

    Every time you play you play with your syndrome. my son has Aspergers, problem is the variation is as wide as humanity. I know several people with aspergers and none of them have the same interests or exact same habits. And all behaviors that could be attributed to Aspergers can be...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Aspurgers/autism effects?

    Someone with aspergers autism could have any skill set just like any other person. they can be low int, ave int, high int or same with any other ability. it would be more of a roleplaying exercise than a character building exercise. There i no one size fits all methodology
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    D&D General Modrons invented Rune Magic?

    In our world. not necessarily in a fantasy worl
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    AD&D 1E What was the reason for Demihuman level and class limits in AD&D?

    not as unbalanced as now. though now the imbalances are classes and spells.
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