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    D&D 5E (2014) Want a better Rogue? Build a Wizard. Or why play a Rogue?

    Yeah, the online resource I was drawing from apparently hadn't errata'd their text.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Want a better Rogue? Build a Wizard. Or why play a Rogue?

    The movement restriction is only on the "object that can be closed", not a surface. The word "object" here is specifically in contrast to "a surface" as a casting choice, and the wording for surface has no "immobile" or "flat" restrictions, either. While the glyph has a maximum size (10...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Want a better Rogue? Build a Wizard. Or why play a Rogue?

    I think the wording is unclear on whether that is possible or not. For instance "where you cast the spell"...is that where you are (and if so, what does that mean) or the location of the object/target/center of the Glyph? But that is just one of several things that are unclear about this trick...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Want a better Rogue? Build a Wizard. Or why play a Rogue?

    "if the object is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph is broken, and the spell ends without being triggered. " Seems to me that wording indicates you and the object would have to be inside the bag of holding when you cast it to use it this way. If you cast the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Ability Score Balance: through the eyes of fresh players

    Maybe Fighter C has a little more experience under his belt to make up for his natural lack of abilities? I am assuming that either you'd be assigning a standard array or otherwise choosing such distinctions at character creation. Narratively, yes. He would have whatever bonuses the wizard...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Ability Score Balance: through the eyes of fresh players

    You could do it (mostly) without dumping the stats, too. Just get rid of their bonuses to combat stats. Then you can balance all the classes without having to worry about how stats affect them. The only difference would be the narrative explanation that Fighter A (with high physical stats) gets...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Ability Score Balance: through the eyes of fresh players

    I've thought for a long time that ability scores should be dumped. Wrap the relevant bonuses into classes and keep quirks around within the class and race to differentiate its members, but not affect their combat stats. Quirks would be sub-listed/restricted for each class, background, race. For...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Survey: What should the next Magic the Gathering Campaign Setting be?

    I voted Kamigawa. I could see Tarkir as well, but I like new monsters more than anything else.
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    Status Effect Rings

    One thought I had was polymer clay DIY. Its got loads of colors and you could mix them into patterns. Flatten out some clay, cut a ring of the appropriate size, bake it, voila. If you want a seat for your minis, just press the/a base into it before baking. After a baking, you can write on it...
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    D&D 5E (2014) A magician without Spells

    I've thought for a long time that D&D needed some kind of spell-free magic user. Sorcerer seems a good fit to me. Choose a damage type and a set of effects with some kind of dice or points like Combat Superiority dice. Let your base damage as well as the number, type, and effectiveness of your...
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    Social Distancing and Dragons

    My group has just transitioned to Roll20. We use Discord for the voice chat, because Roll20 seems to really lag with that on. We use D&DBeyond for character gen, and a Chrome extension called Beyond 20 to link them to Roll20. Its a bit of a bear for the GM, if you don't want to spend a bunch of...
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    D&D 3.x Multiclassing in D&D 3rd Edition

    Comments like that make me think of Fate Accelerated. You don't have "baseball card" stats like D&D (and most games). Instead, you have Forceful, Sneaky, Careful, Clever, Quick, and Flashy (and the words can be tweaked for setting). Any of the descriptors could apply to a character in any of...
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    How has the Coronavirus affected your roleplaying games?

    How does Google hangouts work for gaming? Like, can you share maps, etc.
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    How has the Coronavirus affected your roleplaying games?

    My group just decided to try roll20, and if that doesn't work, Fantasy Grounds.
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    D&D 3.x Multiclassing in D&D 3rd Edition

    I never tried it, but I thought the solution to multi-classing in 3e was actually in AD&D. In AD&D, a multiclassed character was generally only one level(ish) behind his fellows for each additional class...so just do that. Take two classes at once, best/average features from each*, and you are...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Losing Interest in Character/ Class?

    That's for sure...melee PCs were bad enough, but trying to figure out just what happened to your spellcaster character was a nightmare.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Losing Interest in Character/ Class?

    I can't say that I have, but this is probably just one of those personal experience things. I tend to only really get invested in or remember characters by the whackiest adventures/stories attached to them, not by abilities, etc. I haven't noticed that that is particularly affected by the amount...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is 5e the Least-Challenging Edition of D&D?

    erm...whatnow? I think you're reading too much into what I'm saying. My own experiences with the older editions have varied quite a bit as I moved from group to group, and I've heard even wilder ones from other old-timers. The type of play you describe may have been common in that era, but it...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Super Deadly 5E?

    Its weird. My experience with 5e is simply that the last only the dick monsters are gone.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is 5e the Least-Challenging Edition of D&D?

    Just a note: You may have had that experience with 5e, but it is not universal. Nor is the experience with the OSR games.
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