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    D&D 5E (2024) Creative uses of Thaumaturgy, Druidcraft and Elementalism?

    Could all of them just be combined into one thing and use that for all the casters? They all seem just for flavor.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Arcane Recovery strategy

    This is mostly what I was thinking with a 2nd and (2) 1st. I tend to keep a misty step around to get out of trouble and shield is always good to have.
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    What Are Your Non-Gaming Hobbies/Interests?

    I golf now that the weather has finally turned better up here in New England. I tend to go 3 days a week, but would like to go more once the rest of the kids are out of the house in a couple years. Ultimately, I would move to the Villages in Florida or something, but all my and my wife's...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What upcoming WotC D&D product are you excited about?

    I always liked the box starter sets and made long campaigns that used the box and then went beyond for like another year of gaming. But, yeah, I am starting to think this as well and it might not be worth the price if a lot of it is going to be wasted. I will look at the two FR books and...
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    D&D General Buying Selliing Magic Items

    Several items that are/were bad for people are now legal so that the government can tax them for revenue. I'm mostly thinking of alcohol, tobacco, and mamajuana, but I'm sure there are plenty. I'm also sure there can be plenty of reasons for both sides of the argument. Magic could be the same...
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    GMing Mistakes You’ve Made in the Past

    My wife will not play role-playing games, but she does play other 'role-playing games'.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands

    I'm going to wait until this comes out to start a new campaign. My current one is going fine and I should be done by Christmas, but more likely by next summer depending on how much side stuff the players want to accomplish.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Sage Advice Compendium Updated To 2024

    This one is interesting. I did not know this and allowed it. I think most of the time the cleric would attack and then bonus action to healing word, but I was allowing it to be cast as the action if they wanted.
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    GMing Mistakes You’ve Made in the Past

    I cannot recall having session 0 either. Granted I play with the same people for a while and just tell them to bring a new PC to the start of the campaign. We might spend 10 minutes going over characters and background and a rule of two that are in or out this campaign, but everyone wants to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) A Different Way To Run High Level Monsters

    Wouldn't the PCs that go after the monster just be the first ones to deal damage before the monster resets again? I mean, PC1 and 2 go and deal 100 damage and then monster goes and resets damage because you did not meet threshold. Now PC3 and 4 go and deal 80 damage. This carries over to PC1...
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    D&D General Hard Moves (in D&D)

    I kind of like the idea as a once-per-tier type of thing. The point is to make the penalty against the PC almost not worth taking the reward of passing a die roll, but not that hard to never take it. The only problem I see is a player vs. DM thing possibly if the players and/or the DM is not...
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    RPG Evolution: Owlbear and Gnoll Terrain

    How do I get that tower then? That is the best part.
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    D&D General Silver supplicant

    This article seems to have gathered a lot of lore and references to Auril.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Need help with idea. All comments welcome.

    I should have read more better. In a 1-shot I would go with dragons then. Some ancient conflict between the two races with a dragon leader trying to steal the power of the genies through a ritual. Giants could be working as its minions. Genies are somewhere in the level 14ish range I think.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Need help with idea. All comments welcome.

    @FoolishPity welcome to the site first. I'm sure you will get several great ideas. I think the easiest way to have the players run genies is to have them all be aasimar with the different traits. They start off low in power and gain power over time. You can swap out some genie powers with...
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    RPG Evolution: Owlbear and Gnoll Terrain

    I can see the hills being useful to show some players that their PC cannot see or target the monster on the other side of the hill. In fact, I'm going to not even place said monster on the table so you do not 'happen' to go around that way when all the other monsters are in front of you. A...
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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    I found that fantast Europe is what I grew up with as far as tales of knights and heroes, so copying that to a game world is normal and easier to have everyone at the table know what you are talking about. My gaming friends and circle growing up were all about the same culturally, so playing...
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    RPG Evolution: Owlbear and Gnoll Terrain

    I can see where it would be handy to have some of this. I like the clear acrylic piece between each floor of the castles. It seems that you can grab and go the floors you need to get to where the PCs are. I also like the grid extending past the walls to the air around it. There are always...
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    D&D 5E (2024) A Different Way To Run High Level Monsters

    Does it make sense to reduce the HP threshold if the PCs fail to deal the 150hp in the first round. It seems that the overall damage is still being dealt and the monster would start to tire. Dropping it by 25-50 each round would still be hard and in a couple rounds a zone would still die once...
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