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    D&D General D&D Mousepads?

    That's not a mousepad. That's a standing poster, I think the art was made for the PHB.
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Problem with Healing Powercreep

    I disagree with the entire premise of this thread. I don't want healing to be useful in the middle of combat. If healing becomes useful in combat, it becomes mandatory in combat, and I just don't like having to force anyone into the healer slot of a party. Also the metric used is entirely...
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    D&D General Time Machine and a New D&D.

    At no point shall a Player ever need to borrow another book for part of their kit. the PHB is all they will need. (I'm looking at you wildshape/pollymorph etc.) Completely gut the spellcasting system so that the most egregious gamebreaking spells aren't in the hands of players or at least...
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Rules Oddities (Kibbles’ Collected Complaints)

    This is double biting, considering they had to sacrifice the biggest open playtest in TTRPG history for a PR campaign.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Rules that annoy you

    I'm going to go with the loading property, and how it makes it mechanically impossible to use a shield and a sling at the same time. Also the jumping rules, which are needlessly convoluted and restricted. And the spellcasting component rules, where you have to drop your magic staff to cast a...
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    D&D 5E (2024) I just got a 2024 PHB From Gen Con. AMA!

    So, what kind of monsters are in the book? I wanna see what they picked for Druid wildshape mostly.
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    What game(s) handles pets and summons the best?

    "Just a bigger fireball" type summons are my least favorite kinds of summons to be fully honest. Even FFX had a more fun system where the summon effectively swapped out your current party for a monster in combat. Though that style of summon would be incredibly hard to sell for the rest of your...
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    D&D General Lies, Darn Lies, and Statistics: Why DPR Isn't the Stat to Rule them All

    Let me blow your mind: That was 3 years ago by the by. Since then they have been probing Action Economy (how effective your actions are and how to deny the enemy their actions) instead
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    D&D General I'm a Creep, I'm a Powergamer: How Power Creep Inevitably Destroys Editions

    I think a good deal of what people call "Power Creep" is simply the designers realizing their original project had flaws or gaps. I also agree with the sentiment that financial reasons are the chief motivator in launching a new edition.
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    Transformers One 2024

    It looks entertaining enough. It can't be worse than The Last Knight at any rate.
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    Bombarded with spam threads?

    Is there a forum option where new accounts can only create one thread per day, which doesn't go away until after they create a thread?
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    User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

    As someone who has had the same username for 17 years, it's not about being anonymous. Heck, I had a myspace page with my real name attached to it back when that was a thing (nowadays I don't even have a twitter or facebook because the places are so horrible). Nowadays, if I did switch over to...
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    User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

    My name just means "Idiot." My current avatar was lifted from the now defunct Dragon+ App. I found the whimsical Trashpunk-adventurer kobold to be eye-catching.
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    G.I. Joe RPG

    I play the Transformers RPG from Renegade (well mostly, the sub-systems are designed to be mixed and matched to a high degree, which means the game I'm in has a bit more shoved into it), which is basically the same system, only more extreme because Transformers are giant alien robots who can...
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    Critical Role Sam Riegel discusses his recent absence from Critical Role.

    Some hard hitting stuff here.
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    D&D 5E (2024) What is your preferred naming for the 2014 and 2024 versions of D&D?

    AE as in "Anniversary Edition." The harkening back is a soft allusion.
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    D&D 5E (2024) What is your preferred naming for the 2014 and 2024 versions of D&D?

    The 5 is redundant, just call it "AE". The subtilty harkens back to AD&D that way.
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal: "New Wizard"

    Out of this list of 4, Abjurer is the one I would have cut first. Mostly to bring back the Necromancer (which is far more iconic), but also because the Abjurer just doesn't fill the "white mage" niche that it's purported to fill, due to being entirely devoid of healing spells (save for like a...
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    D&D General Warforged? How Long Could One Live For?

    The organic bits of Warforged are wood. Which Implies they could theoretically live for 5 thousand years (the age of the oldest living non-colony tree is just shy of this). Which is 6 times longer than Elf, and 4 times longer than a Dragon.
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