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  1. Distracted DM

    Draw Steel the MCDM RPG!

    Yeah there have been April communications re: development. They're working on two new classes and two starter adventures, one of which is The Delian Tomb :) They're also doing some stuff re: Warfare. It's a huge update, there was A LOT of text that I wasn't going to read :'D Oh and a few days...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    I mean, it's still frequently referenced in stuff like Lower Decks, Shaxs fighting the ghosts of his past "but what will you do against all your victims? All the Cardassian warriors getting their revenge." "they weren't warriors, they were occupiers!" and "Fighting fascism was a full-time job!"...
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    D&D General 1e feel for 5E

    The only pushback I’d see from this is “what about anti magic fields?!” Well, that’s not true, I can see pushback just based on it not being an intrinsic character improvement… but still, that’s a very cool idea.
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    D&D General 1e feel for 5E

    I feel really close to y'all right now.
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    D&D General 1e feel for 5E

    Gritty realism as written can be a pain. Add some flexibility. I run with 1hr short rests and 2+ day Long Rests. Just decoupling long rests from sleep, whether you make it 2 days or 7 or (as I do) variable, will help the one-n-done adventuring day balance issues if you don't want to pack 5+...
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    D&D Errata Nerfs Conjuring Spells, Makes Other Changes

    Can you provide a couple common examples? I didn't really get the gist of your explanation :'(
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    D&D Errata Nerfs Conjuring Spells, Makes Other Changes

    Yeah, "reasonable" wasn't too helpful... a short example would've been useful.
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    Do All of Your RPG Maps Now Belong To Judges Guild? ... and more?

    I bought some stuff from them a few years ago because it was well-regarded, they sent a fun little personalized note-scrap along with it that I kept on my keyboard.. now it feels dirty :cry:
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    Do All of Your RPG Maps Now Belong To Judges Guild? ... and more?

    Appreciate you! That's... quite unfortunate. I wonder if it's just the son, or if it was the father as well. Grappling with the ethics of stuff you like made by people you wouldn't (because they're awful) is always tough.
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    Do All of Your RPG Maps Now Belong To Judges Guild? ... and more?

    I developed a love for isometric from the Infinity Engine games (and other CRPGs like Arcanum), and using them for VTTs isn't too bad (usually the folk that make them professionally know what they're doing, and I also used Infinity Engine game maps for my brief flirtation with running online...
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    Do All of Your RPG Maps Now Belong To Judges Guild? ... and more?

    I am unfortunately ignorant of this- is Judge's Guild run by racist & anti-semitic folk?
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    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    I'm hoping for the same system (leveling, magic, etc), but with better feel+physics, ya know?
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    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    It's a remake though, right? Or it is actually a remaster: just tweaked up graphics and some QOL improvements on the base game? Edit: OK it looks like a remake, not a remaster? That could put quite the kibosh on SkyBlivion :')
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    D&D 5E (2024) When will we get errata?

    When last I looked, they were been doing stealth updates to the system without posting patch notes, so there's no way to know what's changed. Maybe bump @pukunui 's + thread and someone else will have an answer :|
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    I don't think so, but it's hard to tell over text.
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    Yeah that's a real concern. Should it be a concern, if we can't tell? I'd say yes, but I couldn't pin down why except "it seems utterly dehumanizing."
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    I did google it- are you referring the shooting of protesters?
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    I imagine part of the animosity is that the tools themselves were originally created via unauthorized use of all those works online. I guess the next ethical hurdle is WotC's archives of texts and images were made by people- yes, WotC owns them.. would those folk agree with their works being...
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    Binary Success vs Multiple Levels of Success

    I use both pass/fail and degrees of success. At the table it works well, but originally players expected everything to be degrees of success, especially when they can roll very high over the DC. I think one example is the classic Persuasion mind control- "the DC was 15 to get the knight to...
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