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  1. cbwjm

    Baldur's Gate 2 + AD&D 2e --- Enhanced Edition Re-Re-Retro-Retrospective

    There's a story mode for the enhanced editions, no need to alter your character with the keeper app (I used to use it extensively back in the day) unless you want to get a head start on levelling. 3d6 for stats wasn't common from what I can tell, and in the baldurs gate games it was all...
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    Do you guys pay attention to poison and potion onset times?

    I never did paid attention with potions taking time (not even sure I knew that was a rule). I do for poison since it's needed to make use of spells like slow and neutralise poison.
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    Virtual Happy Hour (Brews & Spirits, Pics & Reviews)

    Is it DB that owns monteiths? I always think its lion red, either way the breweries they've bought tend to be better than their original beers.
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    Virtual Happy Hour (Brews & Spirits, Pics & Reviews)

    Monteiths black is a decent beer. I've been running on Zeffer lemonade as well as a few random beers ( whatever's on tap)
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    D&D 5E (2024) Karsus Post BG3?

    That's a good idea, his body used for magic, his soul bound to it (I read that his soul was never collected from the Fugue Plane which might be why he became a vestige). I recall reading somewhere that there was a place which had beheaded clones of Karsus, might have been a 5e background but...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Karsus Post BG3?

    I like to have psionics being different from magic, so Mystra can't touch it. So perhaps whatever ritual to restore Karsus (or perhaps one of the others) to life uses the psychic energy of captured psions. I'd have liked to see Karsus return in some fashion in the forgotten realms, beyond a...
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    D&D General Redesigning DnD 5e with no Bonus Actions

    Bear in mind there might not be any travel time and set-up might be fairly minimal. A lot of people play online so easy enough to connect and start playing. I also recall stories of WotC staff playing during lunch breaks so in those instances they're likely already at the play location. Which...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Goblins and Orcs Not Being Green

    I typically think of the orcs from WoW, green for the most part but a large clan is red. Now, the wow orcs also tend to be how I imagine they look rather than the dnd versions. Before then my imagination was more influenced by the 2e and then the 3e orc versions. My hobgoblins tend to still be...
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    D&D General Redesigning DnD 5e with no Bonus Actions

    I dunno, a lot can happen in an hour, but you'd have to be more focused on playing the game for that hour that say a 3 or 4 hour session. So long as the game moves forward, a small 1 hour session might be quite good.
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    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    I knew those Romans didn't come up with it themselves!
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    D&D General Redesigning DnD 5e with no Bonus Actions

    They mention it in another post, but that was the joke. They aren't different.
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    D&D General Who was your first character, and do you still play them?

    Don't remember, but it was probably an elf from BECMI. I've had a number of characters over the years and now that I've lost/thrown out my old ringbinders and notebooks, the memory of those old characters has disappeared with them.
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    D&D General Redesigning DnD 5e with no Bonus Actions

    I reckon for bonus action spells you could potentially tie them into some other thing so that Misty Step becomes, when you move, you can cast this spell as part of that movement and teleport up to 30 feet. Definitely more wordy than "Casting Time: Bonus Action" but it could be an alternative...
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    D&D General Redesigning DnD 5e with no Bonus Actions

    I don't believe that's how PF2e works. You just have actions, 3 of them, and you can decide how to use them.
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    D&D General I spent how much? How much did you spend in 2024.

    $82.66 AUD from drivethru from what I could easily tell. All of that was non-dnd related. $75.07 AUD for some 2e PDFs from DMsGuild. Total $157.73 AUD, but since I'm from NZ (drivethru typically shows AUD so I have to do a small conversion) it works out to be around $175 NZD. I also found $53...
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    D&D General Redesigning DnD 5e with no Bonus Actions

    I also tend to think bonus actions are kind of trash, since they put limiters on cool concepts, but since they're in the game I just have to put up with them. If I was going to remove them, I'd probably do it slowly over time, take them out of the attack action (dual wielding? Make an attack...
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    What are your TTRPG Goals for 2025?

    I wouldn't mind running something.
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    AD&D 1E What was the reason for Demihuman level and class limits in AD&D?

    Have you played the boardgame small world? It sort of simulates this as you have something like 3 ages of different fantasy races building and expanding an empire, but every time you advance an age, you pick another race and the previous one stops expanding and slowy contracts as new races...
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    D&D 5E (2014) I think I prefer backgrounds in 2014

    I'm not sure that has really changed any, it's just shifted how they optimise: Before floating ASIs, people would pick a race that benefited their class. Floating they'd pick any race (though some might also provide non-ASI enhancements that would help optimise their character). After floating...
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    D&D 5E (2014) I think I prefer backgrounds in 2014

    I found itnweird that they went with floating ASIs and then with the new edition decided to restrict them again. It's not really that big a deal since anyone used to floating ASIs would probably keep using it, but otherwise shifting them to background seemed like a backwards move.
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