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    "Promising hints of life on distant planet"

    New million dollar idea. Space rockets with baby seats. Or, is everyone going the Ted Williams (a famous American baseball player) route and be cytogenetically frozen for 'someday'.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dynamic Combat Movement houserules

    Initial thought is that anything to make the grid combat better is cool, but adding another step for the player and DM might make things slower. Maybe if the attacker chooses the movement it speeds things up over slowing them down. I.E. the PC hits and the player moves both minis so the DM...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Introducing the COUNTDOWN DICE Mechanic!

    @Ruynarety welcome and think you for bringing back this thread. I have an upcoming game with a couple places where undead break down the gate and a wizard sets something off with bad things happening. The book says 5 rounds, so it looks like I only need 2d6 and it might go a little longer...
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    How do you like to handle dungeon mapping?

    I do not even do this nowadays. I just put out the tiles for an encounter and describe the rest. If we use a large dungeon, I may have the PCs make a group check to find their way out without a random encounter.
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    What Mundane Details Are Important In Your Fantastical Game/World?

    I could use a website that does this and allows me to print it out and make notes. I might use it if it is simple for me.
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    D&D 3.x Homebrew Content

    @John98GR welcome to the site. There are still many here that still play 3e so thankyou. Wondering why all the casters have d4 for hit points though?
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    What Mundane Details Are Important In Your Fantastical Game/World?

    I tried using Forgotten Realms (FR) names for months and 10-day weeks for tracking things back in 2e/3e days. I added moon cycles and holidays and made up things for different gods and had local founder days and such. Problem was that the players did not care. They thought it was cool and...
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    D&D General A thread celebrating The Superior Playstyle

    You surely mean 5e with flanking and several modified 4e things thrown in. Right, right.
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    D&D General To multiclass or not to multiclass

    In 5e, I see multiclassing more as trying to gain an advantage and min/maxing over trying to get a concept you want. There are so many subclasses now that one should not have to think MCing is the way to get a cool concept.
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    Five Takeaways From the 2025 Monster Manual

    I cannot help myself.
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    Five Takeaways From the 2025 Monster Manual

    I was just looking at the wight or specter and noticed that their life drain ability auto hits now and the PC just makes a saving throw to not have STR drain. I thought this was a good update. Not a fan of the NPC stats being open to all races and I need to update each when I need a orc scout...
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    The problem is that 90% of people do not know what a blood diamond is and only see the necklace as cheaper than the others, or worse the whole industry is pushing against it, or trying to tell you that there is no blood diamond.
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    I'm guessing we already have some stuff with AI in it. In 5 years will we be able to tell?
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    D&D General Cities are theme parks!

    The ideas in the video sound like they could work and make things easier to work with when dealing with cities. I've always been hesitant to have the PCs go to cities since there are so many places things can go off the rails so to speak. A lot of things get made up on the fly and then need to...
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Jay North who played Denis the Menace back in the 50s died at 73 years old.
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    Worlds of Design: Here Be Monsters

    I sometimes have a dungeon room that has a balcony from another level open into it. The players will know that there is another level that way, but it also open the opportunity to climb up to it to use as a way to explore that direction. Sometimes it works, but sometimes the players just want...
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    What Is A Superhero?

    Are you saying that a blood-soaked, white t-shirt is not a costume! ;)
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    What Is A Superhero?

    In a loosely defined term for superhero, I would say yes. A bit like John McClane from Die Hard, who can certainly take an unimaginable beating and keep coming. Not like Superman who has powers kids pretend to have, but can never attain, like being able to fly.
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