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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    To be specific, if it stays at 80% on Metacritic, that would beat every single MCU movie in ratings except Black Panther. It might not do blockbuster Marvel numbers, but I would say $600-700 million or more isn't out of the realm of possibility now.
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    I was extremely suspicious of it given the previews, which suggested bad, but if those reviews keep up, it will do blowout numbers.
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    If every option is at-will, balancing is much harder. Dishearten is famous for this in 4e —in Epic, a PC could legitimately use that power Augmented 2 every round of most combats, imposing penalties of 7-9 to hit or so. By forcing choice, it allows more choice that then stays within the balance...
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    Yeah, the basic problem is that if you have recharging resources that are dependent on resting and they're not all the same, different classes will have different power levels dependent on those numbers. Like daily 5e spell casters, who benefit from a single rest do better than short rest spell...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Item Math of 5e

    Me: "This is a document about what the system tells you to do." People: "We don't do that and we broke a bound that's unfun." Me: "That's an expected outcome." You: "Oh, blame the DM why don't you???" Should weird things happen if you don't follow system guidance? Sure. Is that acceptable to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Item Math of 5e

    PCs should not need a 20 to be hit and also, Bounded Accuracy is not a thing in 5e. 5e's math is more accurately 4e/2 math, just made fuzzy and obscure. You have enough encounters to use up level 1 spell slots, PCs will not be casting Shield functionally at-will. If you don't have enough...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Item Math of 5e

    4 person party gets in Xanathar's 20 minor items each and 5 major items, 2 Uncommon, 1 Rare, 1 Very Rare, 1 Legendary... i.e. they had the same numbers as this thread.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Item Math of 5e

    Just to use the Berserker as a specific example, assuming they're raging and doing frenzy for the combat: They go from 1d8+7(25% kill) to 1d8+10(63% kill) They go from hitting on a 6(75%) to a 3(90%) They get hit with Advantage 64% to 51% They get hit without Advantage 40% to 30% Now note what...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Item Math of 5e

    That's the point. I'm describing the typical campaign that R&D is talking about in DMG. You're not playing a typical campaign and telling me that you don't see the effect of magic items. Because a caster could use up her high level spells without fear of needing them later. In part because the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Item Math of 5e

    If these PCs are fighting 6-8 medium to hard combats in a day and the one at-level primary caster is blowing half her high level spell capability on an easy fight, that's an example of how magic items make a difference.
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    The 4e Discord server, which has about 4000 people or so on it, usually has new games showing up every third day or so in the looking for games channel: https://discord.gg/ywBGjHTJ
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Item Math of 5e

    Btw, this got called out by Alphastream/Teos on Dragon Talk #364 at approximately the 10 minute mark(as well as some similar math), so WotC's aware of it and perhaps it is influencing some things.
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    Yup, I think though that it is more clear than that — the general rule is you can take feats as long as you qualify for them. The restrictions of multiclass feats doesn't conflict with that in the slightest for taking more than one.
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    The only class-specific multiclass feats are the ones that are directly multiclass feats for the most part. It says you're limited to one class, not to one class-specific multiclass feat. It could potentially be read as implied, but it shouldn't be.
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    There isn't one that gave a +2 to hit, but Resourceful Leader and Bravura Leader are two of the most powerful feats in the game — in heroic, in a 6 person party(5 can be affected by it), using approximately 2 APs per 3 combats typically(now 10 APs per 3 combats), average 1.5 hits for an AP...
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    Yeah, MC'ing is really strong — most classes do not have top-tier EDU by 13th level, but many have 2 of each — it is a giant powerup if free. As some quick examples: Wizard: Dark Gathering, Mirage Arcana, Shield Invoker: Thunder of Judgment, Silent Malediction, Demand Judgment Warlord: Vengeance...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    I don't think it hits Black Adam's revenue numbers. I think it on net loses money due to promotion/costs/how revenue from theaters work. Even though the revenue will be apparently very high, somewhere in the low $200 million range or so.
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    I think it ends up being Black Adam with slightly better reviews and somewhat worse revenue. And Paramount ends up losing money because of how theaters work and how much they spent on stars/promotions/etc.
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    You just need to be trained in Acrobatics & Arcana, two relatively easy skills to pick up with Bard or via MC'ing Bard. If you have a consistent source of temp hp out of combat, Sensate = +3 power bonus to all skills at 10th. Have a +2 item bonus to all skills and there you are at +9 if a Bard...
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    D&D General How would you redo 4e?

    The original skill challenge had two major issues and that was quickly errata'd. Basically: People choose when they want to go, no forced initiative where Fighter has to make the social scene roll because they won init The skill challenges were originally set up that "difficult" skill challenges...
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