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    Dragonlance Do you plan to buy Dragonlance?

    I will be purchasing both the book and the game, though I have no current intentions of running the adventure and doubt I will. What I do intent to do though is use it to bolster my current dragonlance post War of Souls Age of Mortals game. I'm honestly more interested at this point in the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Homebrew and the Origins playtest, how does it affect your rules?

    Honestly I hate the optional flanking rules for 5e as they completely trample all over other class features. We implemented a hourse rule for flanking to be a +2 bonus to hit instead and no way am I ever changing that back to advantage. More on topic, it's too early to say. I need to see...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 PHB Feats and Misc discussion

    I agree with Savage Attacker, but I'd not be so quick to assume all tables will have this same view. There are multiple players at our table who would LOVE to take Crafter and my wife and I both looked at Musician and said we can't wait to take this for a number of characters. The game isn't all...
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    D&D 5E (2024) OneD&D Character Origins summary

    Let's not gloss over the changes to grapple either! 1) A target being grappled now has disadvantage to hit any target other than the one grappling them. 2) The grappler is Slowed, which means other creatures have advantage to hit THEM. 3) Grapple is now an Unarmed Attack roll with a static DC...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What other general common spell lists should there be?

    Personally I think PF2E had it about right. We only really need one more list that is a hybrid of arcane and healing/buffs/debuffs for Bards and I would Hope Artificers. In PF2E they call this Occult. I care not what the name of it is but I will be VERY annoyed if Bards and Artificers lose the...
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    Dragonlance Dragonlance Brings New Options to D&D

    It likely will be, and the sad part is people will eat it right up without so much as caring, even though the Tyranny of Dragons literally spells out how to reskin it back to it's original form. The first book.
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    Dragonlance Read The Beginning Of Dragonlance: Dragons of Deceit!

    While your point is very likely fair and the setting is definitely full of silly names (Kender or otherwise), I'd point out that most of the time it's limited to surnames. Sturm is actually a fairly decent name by medieval standards, and I'd argue that Rosethorne is hardly the objectively...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Get The Vecna Dossier Free At D&D Beyond

    Welcome to the ever cyclical conversation about why Wizards won't do pdf files. Literally 5 pages back has this same exact conversation. It never changes because wizards never does and their fanboys will always defend them; even if they were to offer them polished dogpoo they'd say claim, "but...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Get The Vecna Dossier Free At D&D Beyond

    The cynic in me agrees with your sentiments, though the linguistic and logical side of me points out that perhaps people should be held to a higher standard (exceptions being made, of course, being for those who are not speaking in their primary language). Proper grammar and language matters and...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Get The Vecna Dossier Free At D&D Beyond

    Thank you for pointing this out. Hopefully the guy below reads this. To add to this there is a reason why industry standards exist, it's to promote accessibility for as many people as possible of as many socioeconomic backgrounds as possible, and it promotes competition in the market by allowing...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Get The Vecna Dossier Free At D&D Beyond

    Or, I remember what a $&>/show the 4e days were, largely in part due to proven track record of WoTC mishandling their in house and contracted electronic program support (that is still onging today, how'd that Dark Alliance game turn out, btw?), the horrific workculture issues that were allegedly...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Get The Vecna Dossier Free At D&D Beyond

    As someone who actually deals with technology in a professional IT setting, I can concur with most of this. We've a saying for such illogical poorly thought out products that are more about the aesthetics than actual functionality of a product: "It's made by a designer or artist, not a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 9 Things "Pro" DMs Do That You shouldn't

    Oh for them it's more about decision paralysis. I have to be cognizant to not overload them with too many sidequests at once or they start having issues following the plot, so to speak.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 9 Things "Pro" DMs Do That You shouldn't

    Ironically I try this and my players are indecisive and get all squirrely. I have even had a couple of them ask me to railroad/guide them a bit more in the past at times. They are a weird but loveable bunch misfits. 😅
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    D&D General What D&D Thing Has Changed The Most

    That I'm forced to hear about Magic the Gathering or popular d&d streams like Critical Role / celebrity DMs, or forced to use electronics/online material to play the game, whether I want to or not. ...a less cynical take: the game is a hell of a lot simpler and easier to learn for new players...
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    Dragonlance Read The Beginning Of Dragonlance: Dragons of Deceit!

    My problem with the post War of the Lance period is that it's too calm. Everything has just been wrapped up nice and neat with a little bow and everything is just fine. What that era lacks is conflict material for running games by default. The Age of Mortals by post War of Souls by contrast has...
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    Dragonlance Read The Beginning Of Dragonlance: Dragons of Deceit!

    I don't disagree with you largely, other than pointing out that the setting having a lot of stuff happening in an unrealistic time period is nothing unique to Dragonlance. I mean there have been just as many world altering disasters and gods being created/killed in Fae'run too but no one seems...
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    Dragonlance Read The Beginning Of Dragonlance: Dragons of Deceit!

    It's way more than just the Knights of Takhisis we'd lose though. Just to name a few things offhand: the interesting conflict between the wizards and sorcerers, depth and levels of grey to both the knight orders that weren't just "we fight because our gods say to", the existence of a third...
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    Dragonlance Read The Beginning Of Dragonlance: Dragons of Deceit!

    I have begrudgingly accepted that they are likely to retcon and throw out all of the Age of Mortals through time travel bull$&>/ despite it being objectively better and unique from other d&d settings for actual campaigns. What annoys me most is that they are doing it through bringing Takhisis...
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    Dragonlance More DRAGONLANCE Information: Kender, Battles, W&H's Novels, & More!

    Yes. You are right. I did forget about Kron! More to the point of my previous comments on the taunting, I'm not argusing that it isn't a fitting or decent ability from a mechanical standpoint, just that in a scenario where it's a choice between two of three options: fear immunity, pouches, and...
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