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    D&D 5E (2014) Chris Perkins and Todd Kenreck Talk About Mind Flayers

    Why would the Illithid want to extinguish such a wonderful supply of energy? The trick is converting the Sun's energy to something more amicable to the mauve skin persuasion. A lens/shield around the star to keep the energy harnessed for experimentation. Maybe have full light preserves for...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Caution in Too Much Fun

    Ration fun like someone lost in the Sahara rations water, a few drips to make it last. Dry description and flat characterizations enable the fun to really stand out when it finally makes an appearance. One or two fun things per session with the remainder being a roll call like revelation of...
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    D&D General What Constitutes "Old School" D&D

    You know you're old when you are in the grocery store and the music is just playing all the right tunes.
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    D&D General What Constitutes "Old School" D&D

    As grognards begin to cross into the hereafter (not for a while I hope), Old School will become later and later. Old School is whenever you first learned the game. Particularly when rules were so dense, esoteric, and conflicting to new players. Old school D&D felt like an accomplishment to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5E Survivor - Deities Final Round: Anubis Wins!

    Anubis 52 Athena 51 Boccob 51 Lugh Lámfada 48+1=49 Odin 51 Olladra 50 Sehanine 43 Selune 51 Takhisis 43-2=41 Yondalla 51 We are almost to Lughnasad (Aug 1) cannot disrespect the god so close to his holiday. Tiamat by another name is still a monster, not a deity.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5E Survivor - Deities (Part X: Dawn War Deities)

    Can we just focus down the Platinum Dragon? Leave him to rot on Krynn.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5E Survivor - Deities (Part X: Dawn War Deities)

    Avandra 11 Bahamut 13 Corellon 13-2=11 Erathis 11 Moradin 8 Raven Queen 13+1=14 Sehanine 11 Corellon is a cool god, but he is not unique to the Dawn War. Raven Queen is the best.
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    WotC WotC blacklist. Discussion

    Who could argue with the stunning brilliance of Gleemax?
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    WotC WotC blacklist. Discussion

    RPG design and production is a small incestuous pool. A blacklist doesn't have to be anything formal just people who have worked together asking for opinions. I doubt there is a list that is disseminated but almost everyone existing in RPGs has worked or knows of others in the biz.
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    WotC WotC blacklist. Discussion

    I am not surprised there is a blacklist for WotC. I am sure it is unspoken or at least, 'unwritten', but there are definitely people WotC, a division of Hasbro, would not want to be associated with in any context. Unfortunately, there are also people who have spoken out about WotC practices that...
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    D&D 5E (2014) what monsters create other monsters

    Yellow Musk Creepers beget Yellow Musk Zombies. Great Old Master Neogi spawn multiple Neogi. Lycanthropy can turn victims into lycanthropes.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Which common monsters/creature types do you exclude from your campaigns?

    But do you use Roman monsters in your campaigns or exclude them? :ROFLMAO:
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    D&D 5E (2014) Which common monsters/creature types do you exclude from your campaigns?

    I was thinking about orcs and their evolution throughout D&D. We went from pig faced to neanderthalesque. From this: To this: Why didn't we go to this: I know Warhammer greenskins and Warcraft pushed D&D along the bestial man path, but boar men are just so much more fun and are not...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Which common monsters/creature types do you exclude from your campaigns?

    No, no I like grell, particularly intelligent space pirate grell in Spelljammer. I stand by my disdain of the fart powered jellyfish and the 'use dice as a monster of cosmic order'.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Which common monsters/creature types do you exclude from your campaigns?

    Savage pack tactic blink dogs would be wonderfully terrifying. Would their baying and howling randomly cut out and emerge while they blink? Even scarier... Gonzo is ok with some things. I don't mind Giff or Space Whales, but modrons leave me cold. I don't mind tentacly weird creatures like...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Which common monsters/creature types do you exclude from your campaigns?

    I don't exclude much but I heavily modify. I stole the idea of goblinoids all being the same creature just different stages of life.
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