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  1. Xethreau

    Level Up (A5E) Level Up A5e Podcast: Mysteries of the Mournland

    Hi everyone! You might have heard me on this week's episode of Morrus's Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk. I just realized today that I should tell y'all about my podcast! Last month we launched Mysteries of the Mournland, the first-ever A5e actual play podcast! It is a horror game, and it's set in...
  2. Xethreau

    Podcast #162: Mysteries of the Mournlands and Level Up 5e with Josh Gentry

    It was a blast to be on the show, thanks for having me!
  3. Xethreau

    D&D General RA Salvatore Wants To Correct Drizzt’s Racist Tropes

    In the world I live in, some demons are good and some angels are bad. I'm not sure what else I can say about that.
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    D&D General RA Salvatore Wants To Correct Drizzt’s Racist Tropes

    No, they are replacements thereof. That is why a lot of fantasy worlds, even though they have a wide variety of creatures, are often considered white supremacist utopias because there is such little variety in the humans featured.
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    D&D General RA Salvatore Wants To Correct Drizzt’s Racist Tropes

    Evil isn't who you are. Evil is what you do.
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    D&D General RA Salvatore Wants To Correct Drizzt’s Racist Tropes

    I play it the Eberron way, which Dragon Age also does very well: Such entities may be understood as Good or Evil, but that perspective is influenced by political history and allegiance. Most entities, tragically, see themselves as being the height of virtue. The core of good fiction and good...
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    Playtest (A5E) Level Up Playtest Document #14: Warlock

    Charming! Good luck amping your products.👍 -edited-
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    Level Up (A5E) Subregions: A LevelUp Option

    That sounds about right! Possibly extending to folks under their direct supervision. This naturally leads to rolling on Sidewise fast-travel, which feels right,
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    Level Up (A5E) Subregions: A LevelUp Option

    Very neat! Do Fey creatures or folks raised in eladrin culture have any benefit when traveling through Twilight Paths?
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    Level Up (A5E) Are you still including Personality Traits/Ideals/Bonds/Flaws?

    Backgrounds feature a connection, which is comprable to a bond. Destinies include a motivation, which is comprable to an ideal. The backgrounds also feature a heirloom which is sort of a tangible version of both. Personality traits and flaws are basic characterization. I imagine players of a5e...
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    Playtest (A5E) Level Up Playtest Document #10: Adept

    Any religious term for an otherwise secular warrior gets a hard no from me. Appropriating the Eastern monastic tradition was inappropriate and misleading, and that would be the same with Western monasticism too. That said, I really like all the brainstorming in this thread. Many folks have...
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    Playtest (A5E) Level Up Playtest Document #14: Warlock

    That's a strange way of spelling "I made a basic and commonsense character design choice."
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    Playtest (A5E) Level Up Playtest Document #13: Cleric

    That's not what that means edit pantheism is equating Divinity with existence itself I think the point you are trying to make is that dungeons & dragons is pantheon centered, which you are righ about
  14. Xethreau

    Playtest (A5E) Level Up Playtest Document #13: Cleric

    I'm not sure how a cleric isn't any of those things. Doesn't this have a bit more to do with how literalistic or humanistic the player is being about the lore? edit: Doesn't this also have to do with how expansive or restrictive one's definition of "ministry" is? Blacksmithing is a form of...
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    Playtest (A5E) Level Up Playtest Document #13: Cleric

    MM - presumably yes. But I imagine that it wouldn't be desirable in all cases, and that an attempt at spreading your faith in a particularly inhospitable situation might actually draw in Town guard and detectives assigned to suppress your religious movement Ordination - not all clerics are...
  16. Xethreau

    Playtest (A5E) Level Up Playtest Document #13: Cleric

    Hi I'm Josh, I'm one of the two lead writers on the cleric. I would like to point out that the flavor text explicitly says that clerics do not have to be a member of a Western-style religious hierarchy. You can be an independent mystic, and you can even technically be an atheist. There are...
  17. Xethreau

    Pro DM taking clients for online campaigns

    @callmetama Thanks for your interest! Please @Mr.Underhill I'm sending you a message!
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    Pro DM taking clients for online campaigns

    Hi everyone! My name is Josh and I'm a pro DM now taking clients for online games. Already-formed groups are preferred, but individual inquirers are welcome. I have been a DM for 15 years and I am a freelance writer/designer for the game. I'm also a lead designer for Level Up: Advanced Fifth...
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