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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    I like alignment as a cosmic force, inspired by Moorcock's eternal champion etc. I do find it useful as a rough shorthand for NPCs, but that could be served by a sentence about their personality as well, or how some other games do it: an adjective and a noun. "Inquisitive Scamp," "Amenable...
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    Level Up (A5E) Sight & Targeting a Spell

    That's a fair house rule- more than generous I think, considering.
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    Level Up (A5E) acolyte squad casting sleep

    I can see the strangeness here. I'm going to guess that you won't get much satisfaction cuz the rules just don't cover this instance. Squads treat their damage as a single attack. A spear, x5 damage, single attack roll. Casting a cantrip, same Say they're casting inflict wounds.. lvl 1...
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    Level Up (A5E) acolyte squad casting sleep

    My house-rule for squads of casters is allowing them to upcast spells. So they won't have access to higher level spells, but upcasting Sleep would be on the table. Still doesnt make it all that effective at the levels you'd be fighting such things at, but it's something. Narratively it's sort...
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    D&D General 6E But A + Thread

    Well they've been dealing with 5e for 10 years, it's sort of ingrained into the brain.. you think of "how you'd do things better" but that's generally going to be a modification of what you're working with, not coming up with something entirely new.
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    Other D&D Variant Domain play, what, if anything, do you use?

    Which section/rules/articles are you referring to on the Vaults of Pandius site? Not sure what to look for, the place is a treasure trove of info.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands

    Tribality is doing an unboxing of the set.
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    Level Up (A5E) Let's make Dangerous Strikes good on a Fighter

    I don't see Stunning Assault or Gaze of Conviction on those lists! Am I looking in the wrong place or did they just not touch your lists intentionally?
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    Other D&D Variant Domain play, what, if anything, do you use?

    That must be a recent issue, it was active a couple weeks ago when last I checked.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Critical Role Campaign 4 will use D&D 2024

    My first west marches game went great: IRL game, 2+yrs 'til COVID, about a dozen players, half of which were into the stronghold-building aspect.. and 2-3 players that played basically every session. My second and third attempts, online games (some with the same people that were IRL), fell...
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    Wizards of the Coast Releases Exodus TTRPG

    It is so. I think the common wisdom is "people that're going to buy it, will buy it. People that're going to pirate it weren't going to be customers anyway." IMO by refusing PDFs they're just making it less convenient for their customers, they're not really losing out $$ from illicit sources...
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    Wizards of the Coast Releases Exodus TTRPG

    With WotC I doubt it but, unless they drastically change their stance on PDFs but I suppose hope springs eternal 😅
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    D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands

    I've read that the "best" version is Hackmaster's Little Keep on the Borderlands:
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    Level Up (A5E) Sight & Targeting a Spell

    Notably, tremorsense specifically says that it doesn't count as sight.
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    Level Up (A5E) Sight & Targeting a Spell

    Could a blinded creature, or targeting someone in a fog cloud etc. target another creature with a spell like Hold Person? In 5e, unless a creature is deliberately hiding via using an action to stealth, you can still hear the creature and know its whereabouts to attack it. But A5E's target says...
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    Wizards of the Coast Releases Exodus TTRPG

    I resolved to not buy anything else on DDB for a few reasons, which makes it painful re: Cthulhu by Torchlight, but I shall check those out!
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    Wizards of the Coast Releases Exodus TTRPG

    Ooo, I have not heard of that one!
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