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  1. TheAlkaizer

    D&D 5E (2014) Planegea: Prehistoric Fantasy

    Stonepunk? Are these prehistoric characters counter-culture? :ROFLMAO:
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    Paizo Paizo Workers Unionize

    The question of salary is not easy. Sometimes employers want to increase salaries, but can't without hindering the lifeline of the company (in startups and generally smaller companies). I wonder if the low salaries at Paizo are due to low margins or money being held at the top.
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    D&D General How many of your 5E D&D books have you used?

    On top of my head I bought... twelve. Player's Handbook Dungeon's Master Guide Monster Manual Volos' Mordekainen' Xanathar's Tasha's Sword Coast Adventure Guide Explorer's Guide to Wildemount Ravenloft Ghost of Salmarsh Yawning Portal I've used extensively the first two and all three "monster"...
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    D&D 5E (2014) An Idea to Revise the Frightened Condition

    Number 2. is closer to just being afraid but sticking around. Maybe something along of the lines of having to move away from the source of fear if possible, and stay at distance if not.
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    Hunter: the Reckoning announced as next to be updated after V5 and W5

    I hope they learned from their mistakes. Vampire 5th edition has plenty of positives, but it has one of the worst editing I've seen in a TTRPG book. I heard newer releases were better.
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    Paizo Paizo Workers Unionize

    I'm not sure how I feel about that. Working in a heavily unionized environment has been some of the worst work experiences I've had, but again unions proved very useful, maybe even necessary in certain industries. It's what they want, I hope they get it!
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    D&D 5E (2014) Respect Mah Authoritah: Thoughts on DM and Player Authority in 5e

    Good article! I've got a question though. I agree that it's kind of expected that players have authority over their characters. But I can't help but think that they don't have authority over some facets of it. For example, what do they character know? It happens very often in my sessions that...
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    D&D 5E (2014) FeeFiFoFum *splat* goes the giants

    That's also my experience. Most players I've DMed for, veterans or newcomers, had no interest in optimizing. They focused on making choices that made sense for the character they had in mind. They are concerned about making bad choices though.
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    The COWBOY BEBOP RPG Is Coming Next Year

    I backed a kickstarter project called Orbital Blue. It gave me a similar vibe and I always felt that the genre of Cowboy Bebop would be excellent for RPGs. Even now I'd probably go with Orbital Blue, as others mentioned, the genre is interesting but I feel like Cowboy Bebop itself doesn't have...
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    D&D 5E (2014) (Poll) I play 5e, and there are X players at the table.

    I won't go lower than three players (except in special circumstances, like a fun impromptu one-shot). My sweet number is four. Six is the max I'll play with.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What's really useful on a DM screen?

    Same with me. I'd add things like lifestyle prices, prices for meals, inns and stuff like that. I generally always have them on a sheet of paper somewhere.
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    D&D 5E (2014) FeeFiFoFum *splat* goes the giants

    It was relevant as a response to something @Ancalagon wrote. It was not an argument for or against the encounter building rules. Because your level 4 players did not defeat two ancient dragons. That's an hyperbole.
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    D&D 5E (2014) FeeFiFoFum *splat* goes the giants

    How is this even relevant to what anyone said? You're just throwing hyperboles. Nobody mentioned anything of the sort here. I don't know why that's being brought up.
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    D&D 5E (2014) FeeFiFoFum *splat* goes the giants

    What you quoted wasn't an argument as to the encounter rules being good or bad. It was simply to tell Ancalagon that I don't think three giants against a level 7 party will be much of a challenge when two of them were defeated by a party of level 4.
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    D&D 5E (2014) FeeFiFoFum *splat* goes the giants

    The encounter building works pretty well at lower levels. But it completely falls apart at later levels when monsters start to get increasingly powerful abilities, and your players start dishing out exponentially more damage while the monsters HP are not as high. Barely a few hours my party of...
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    D&D General Do you prefer more or less Skills?

    Compared to 5E, I'd say a few more. I miss skills like Culture, and Streetwise from 4E. But I would absolutely not explode Athletics into Running, Jumping and swimming. On a side note, it blew my mind how Symbaroum doesn't have skills. It's one of the pieces I took for granted because of the...
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    In Defence of Chickens - DCC RPG (OOC)

    I don't mind. Here are the characters.
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    In Defence of Chickens - DCC RPG (OOC)

    Sorry, but I'm gonna have to sit this one out. Things are pretty crazy at work and I can't check these boards on a regular schedule. It'll probably be back to normal in a couple of weeks.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Handling player-found books

    Hi! This is something that came up is almost, if not all of my campaigns, and I never quite found a satisfactory way to approach it. What happens is that, either because it fits the character, the story or the environment in which they are, a player will ask to look around for interesting book...
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