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  1. mortwatcher

    D&D 5E (2014) Variable stat caps. Anyone ever used?

    As some of the others pointed out, I kind of fail to see the purpose of this change. If the max cap is 20 anyway, you are going to put the highest cap on your primary stat so you can max it, you lowest cap on your dump stat that you would probably never put nowhere near the cap anyway, and then...
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    D&D 5E (2014) A Reliable Talent for Expert Stealth

    so the unique perk of having expertise (basically rogue/bard or feat) is the same or worse until level 17? that does not seem like a good solution to me whatsoever I am not sure why are some people so bent of denying unique perks of classes, especially the martial ones, that already need all the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Saving Throws and non-proficiency

    from my experience, I have not seen a player go "Looks like I saved again" and be bummed about it. Oh bummer, my character didn't get dominated/feared/whatever nasty effect save spells often have.
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    POLL: What edition of D&D did you most recently play/run?

    5E bar none it's the most recent thing and even if it has it's downs, it's ups much out-weight it and it's a pretty good edition all in all
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    D&D General Character generators

    I use fast character maker for a convention one-shot otherwise I would just sit with players and make their characters themselves
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    D&D 5E (2014) Player's Attention

    It is a city of humans, the worst monsters of them all. Alternatively, have them chip in. How do the NPCs look like, which fraction they want to get in touch with and why.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Player's Attention

    Orcs attack. Seriously, just throw some monsters at them, that ought to get their attention. Or give us more context, because I can't help you with what you posted.
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    Survivor Magic Items (Misc. A-C)- BAG OF TRICKS WINS!

    Alchemy Jug 2 -2 = 0 Bag of Tricks 4 +1 = 5 the final trick
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    D&D General What Method(s) did you use to roll ability score when you first started D&D?

    I started with 3.5 and our DM wanted rather heroic characters, so we used 4d6, drop the lowest, reroll 1 and 2, arrange as you like now we do 4d6, drop the lowest, arrange as you like
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    D&D 5E (2014) In-Combat Healing: How and Why?

    how would vancian interact with upcasting? do I have to leave the slot free to potentially upcast, say, spirit guardians? or can I have heal in there and then upcast something anyway
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    D&D General Favorite things about your favorite edition: MECHANICS/RULES ONLY

    4e - the clearly defined roles of party members. Skill challenges 5e- bounded accuracy - less counting for me = amazing feature. PORTENT - I love messing with things. Being a physical combatant compared to caster is not such a huge trap option like it was in previous editions.
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    Survivor Magic Items (Misc. A-C)- BAG OF TRICKS WINS!

    Alchemy Jug 29 Bag of Holding 32 ​probably the most useful thing you'll get Bag of Tricks 27 Bowl of Commanding Water Elementals -1 bowl movement out of this Brazier of Commanding Fire Elementals 10 Broom of Flying 21 Carpet of Flying 27 Censer of Controlling Air Elementals 12 Crystal Ball 14...
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    Interesting class synergies

    quivering palm + portent - if you can bait the legendary saves, GG for anything
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    D&D 5E (2014) Let's list the "broken" spells

    that is true and there are a few solutions to that: 1. you have infinite amount of big bads, they have spells like force-cage 1-2x/day 2. talk with your players, if it makes you that miserable, work with them to change their spell list I'm aware that high-level D&D experience can be more work...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Let's list the "broken" spells

    now this comes down to what you mean by fun because for me, using that big spell to completely shut the baddie down sure feels great and fun, so I do not see it as broken if your players are telling you that it feels not fun for them when combats are shut down by those big spells, then you...
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    Low Magic Setting, High Magic Characters

    The ruling party usually doesn't like their subordinates murdered indiscriminately. Sure, if they go full murderhobo on some poor sod in the middle of the woods, they will get away with that. Murder an entire village, find the next village has their gates closed for you. Force your way through...
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    Favourite D&D edition that’s not 5E

    I started in 3.5E... as a fighter... needles to say, by level 5 the cleric was a better fighter than me and I'm not even gonna talk about our sorcerer. The edition was fine and I still found my niche (grappling), but I really did not feel like I contributed that much later on. So I voted for...
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    Magic Items Preference: flavor, or mechanical bonus?

    Bonuses, because I can always make up a flavor to make the item at least look cool. I've never had a DM tell me - "No no, it's just bland +1 weapon, don't add any flavor to it." There is also plenty of items that give you both, like cloak of displacement - can you imagine the headaches traveling...
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    GAME OF THRONES SEASON 8--Final Run-- Part 6---THE END

    1 is fine if you micro it perfectly until the opponent has no units shooting up
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    GAME OF THRONES SEASON 8--Final Run-- Part 6---THE END

    yep, they are basically committing mass suicide with how this season went, it kinda makes sense that is doesn't make any sense
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