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  1. Warpiglet-7

    D&D General Did 5e 2024 Not meet the economic goals set, and if not, why not?

    If people did not talk about their unverified theories, what would a forum do? I have been reading about 2024 here and elsewhere for a long time. My brother joined a new group and found they are playing the 2024 version. He grabbed a PHB and I got to peruse it. For established players, I...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    1/10th of that effort in having fun… Pages and pages…the investment in misery is staggering. Not everyone sucks. No conspiracies. Make a character and go play something.
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    D&D General Optimistic Thoughts on Optimizing

    Why play the game? There is a wargame potential. We want to be challenged in solving a problem….or we want to roleplay and pretend to be something else… All of this is on a continuum I think. I do not like playing, dm ing or being in anprty with characters that are in the tails. Weak and a...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Pounding coors light playing gears of war with son and buddies!
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    D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all?

    My wife rolled with it. Now our children play games with Dad along with friends of decades. My wife has zero interest but accepts my glass cabinets full of toys…she can watch her shows which hold mom interest to me. We can watch LOTR or Dune movies together though. You dodged a bullet, sir...
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    D&D General Prep is Not Play. . . Or is it?

    I try to stay “in the game” and terrain, drawing, mini collecting helps curb the urge to play when I cannot. Today I found images for character representation…and have a bunch of terrain to dry brush…
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    D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly

    I am a big Gygax fan generally. But am so glad D&D survived to the present. Like 5e…but am most grateful it is not “the end.” It might be the end for me, but the game lives on. But make no mistake the game lives! I have been playing about 4 decades and now my kids play (they only know...
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    D&D 5E (2024) It Is 2025 And Save Or Suck Spells Still Suck (the fun out of the game)

    Yeah. Good for goose, good for gander. The game is and is always an arms race if you want challenges. The problem with magic being too powerful is best handled I think with making it dangerous. Clearly that is not how the game has trended and may not be what a majority wants. 🤷‍♂️ Just...
  9. Warpiglet-7

    D&D 5E (2024) It Is 2025 And Save Or Suck Spells Still Suck (the fun out of the game)

    I feel you but with some recent games we had player death and did not capture or kill the main target. I think all things being equal, yes, the game leans into players showing off toys. Because they have too many! And I don’t men variety but rather number of uses. Combine spells and domain...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    You have never been to St. Louis… You will be rolling for initiative But you hesitate to say city
  11. Warpiglet-7

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Ok. You got The answers. You get people to go with your way…the better way. The way you like. Congrats.
  12. Warpiglet-7

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    If the group does not communicate or get along, no other recommendation matters much: in which case imploring people to find matters little. I am saying find the guns nd group you like. If you do, you will avoid poor communication and dashed expectations. Find your fun. Find your group...
  13. Warpiglet-7

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    May not apply to you…but read the formula broadly and I suspect you will see what I am talking about.
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    D&D General Satanic Panic at the Disco- Did Beelzebubba Cause D&D's First Crash, Y'all?

    I lived it as a kid and had to be a closet player for a while. It caused me genuine anxiety and negative vibes from a babysitter. I ultimately came clean…and my concerned parent saw I was a kind sensitive kid that did not spontaneously combust if taken to church and protected and nurtured...
  15. Warpiglet-7

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    As a simple test of logic…(don’t got all philosophy 101 on me…please, for Pelor’s sake)… A lot of people seem to have fun playing D&D. And many of them play things differently. By what standard are they wrong? For me this is a space to talk about how you do it—-what your group likes… How...
  16. Warpiglet-7

    Aging and Gaming

    It is brutal. I have the space…and a game table. I have lots of minis. I have most of the books. I have a room full of boardgames… But I am so tired after work. The dogs need to be fed. Gotta take the kids to sports…home maintenance…family stuff- aged parents. Damn time to work again...
  17. Warpiglet-7

    D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly

    Not sure how people miss it… It’s not selling out unless you are making something that is subpar, internationally for the sake of profit. Foibles and all, if you can’t support a shoe salesman moving up due to entrepreneurship you are just too legit to quit. And that is what I most...
  18. Warpiglet-7

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I don’t “know you” but that bothers me man. I am sorry to hear it. I HATE careless cruelty almost as much as pre planned nonsense. Someone recently threw their door open and scraped brown paint in my white care. For 9 years I have kept the sides clean. Then spend 2500 to discussed the...
  19. Warpiglet-7

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I was feeling done with the internet in general and rpg related stuff online. Probably at the tail end of a depressive episode. But I played D&D with pals and it kept going. Called home “I gotta finish this battle.” But it ended up being a series of battles…and a chase…and a character got...
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