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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    I've never read any of T. Kingfisher's romantasy books but her horror ones are very good and have things I would 100% steal for tabletop ideas.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    For me, reading them as a very young teenager, the Twins Trilogy was mind blowing just for showing a hero whose life goes downhill after saving the day. And since they focus so heavily on the twins and their relationship, which have always been the most compelling part of the franchise, they're...
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    It's GM's Day! Tell us about your first GM!

    My first GM was...kind of terrible. She was dating a friend I was going to college with, who invited me to join a Firefly campaign. I'd never played a pen and paper rpg before, and I'd never seen the show, but it beat going home after class, so I joined up. None of us, excepting the creepy...
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    Hot take: get rid of the "balanced party" paradigm

    I'm not sure I completely agree with getting rid of the party, but I've been in groups that have demanded the group move in lock step and it absolutely destroyed my ability to enjoy the game.
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    What's your VTT of choice?

    Owlbear Rodeo for me because I don't need or even want the VTT to do anything fancy. A map I can move tokens around on is enough for me. Any time my group used anything more complicated the game would always get bogged down by people trying to figure out how to use some feature we didn't...
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    D&D General Players: Do You Care From Whence Your DM Gets His Monsters/Challenges?

    Mostly I don't care, but I have played with a few people I'd prefer stick to official sources. Only because they weren't very good at telling if something was balanced and the group frequently almost died because they would throw something broken at us without realizing we had no way to deal...
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    D&D General The New York Times on D&D

    Before it closed my FLGS still had the sort of vaguely basement smell I grew up associating with hobby shops. It had been there for a long, long time and the smell certainly helped prove it.
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    Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words.

    Essentially both of the groups I played with were being unreliable at the same time, and I wasn't willing to put up with all the problems with them I'd been ignoring. I'd run out of patience DMing my real life group because they would sit like bumps on a log waiting for someone else to make a...
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    D&D General Multiple Sources of Resistance?

    I can't speak for the 2024 PHB, but the 2014 says on page 197 that it would only count as one instance. "For example, if a creature has resistance to fire damage as well as resistance to all nonmagical damage, the damage of a nonmagical fire is reduced by half against the creature, not reduced...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Alright, that's it, I quit.
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    D&D Beyond Adds Illrigger Class from MCDM

    I have an Illrigger a few times, although never very long, because with one exception any time I convince someone to let me play one the game seems doomed to abruptly end. From a mechanics standpoint they've always been a blast for me, especially comparing them to other martial classes. Curse...
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    The Savage Seas (5e) [IC]

    Zrok stood on his tip toes watching the city (and land) fade from view, suddenly realizing how big the sea was. This realization lead to intense anxiety that quickly overwhelmed his excitement over being on a boat for the first time, and he decided throwing himself into work would be the best...
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    (IC) We be Jammin' (5e PBP)

    "We need to keep people from touching that vine." William looped some rope and tried to lasso down a piece of roof. He braced himself and pulled as the elk backed up, but its hooves were more used to open forest than broken road, and it found its footing unsteady. William kept up a steady...
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    Spelljammin' (5e PBP OOC) (Full)

    Is the rubble of the building traversable/are the blights too close to clear any of it away?
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    D&D General When is the last time you played a tabletop RPG?

    About a month and a half, I think. We play twice a month but we've had to reschedule several times
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    D&D General When is the last time you DMed a game?

    A one shot last week, it's been maybe 6 months since I ran anything longer than that
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    (IC) We be Jammin' (5e PBP)

    William leaned down towards the watchman in charge, took a deep breath, and tried to keep the growl out of his voice. "Time was I'd have knocked you silly just for being in the way, or for being part of the watch, or just cause I felt like it. But I've matured since then and recognize that...
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    Spelljammin' (5e PBP OOC) (Full)

    I'll take a post to react to, please. I'm learning that for me it's more difficult to be creative in pbp than normal dnd.
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