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    D&D General Why was 3.5 needed?

    As I remember it, Pun Pun only works if you interpret (obscure Forgotten-Realms-specific monster whose name I've thankfully forgotten)'s vague ability to add spell-like and supernatural abilities to a reptilian creature, followed by a few low-powered examples, as meaning they can add any ability...
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    D&D General Why was 3.5 needed?

    If I'm remembering things correctly, the Miniatures Handbook invented the concept of the swift (and immediate?) action. Seemed like a useful thing to have included in the 3.5 Players Handbook, but instead they had to keep explaining it in every new splatbook that used it - although it is in...
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    D&D 5E (2014) The Minimum* to Keep 5E at a Low Power Level?

    If the sorcerer likes to nova, I'd have some more monsters turn up a minute later.
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    Challenge: Shows that Deserved More than Four Seasons

    The Mars / Belter / Earth dynamic was what I liked about the Expanse books; I stopped reading them when the action moved to the other side of the Gate. The TV show is on my "to watch" list but I think I've only got seasons 1 to 4 (got the DVDs as a birthday present).
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    Challenge: Shows that Deserved More than Four Seasons

    Do soap operas even have seasons? British ones are on continuously. To use Emmerdale as an example, it started in 1972 and so far has had 9,617 episodes (which works out at over 3 per week). Days of Our Lives (which I've never seen) apparently started in 1965 and has had over 14,000 episodes...
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    Is Resource Management “Fun?”

    I take the money out of their treasure without even telling myself about it either. Basically all their treasure is deemed to be "net" of living costs and I don't bother working out what those costs were in the first place. Or to put it another way, we ignore living costs. But that's because...
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    Girls Who Don't D&D

    Australia has way more sheep than New Zealand does, although NZ does have more sheep per person.
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    Unique British aspects of D&D in the UK?

    The way it is all a mish-mash of various time periods (including imaginary ones) also seems "foreign" to me. Not-vikings interacting with not-Romans, whilst Arthurian knights in platemail are part of a feudal system that we are told exists but never really see. Meanwhile everybody is literate...
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    I should write a book called "Diary of an RPG Hoarder"

    Or hire a storage unit to keep all your stuff that isn't books.
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    It seemed to go on for ages, and we all knew that it would resolve nothing and change nothing. Still, at least it was shorter than the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan at the end of RotS. The Rebel Alliance blew up two Death Stars in less time than that took, and it's not as if the outcome was...
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    D&D 5E (2014) I think I want to mainly dm?

    I'm in 3 gaming groups. I GM in one, am a player in another and we share the GMing in the third (although it is currently my turn). I enjoy having a mixture of roles.
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    D&D General My Metagame Rule

    I did once run a game where a player had his character cast Glitterdust on a bat in an attempt to blind it ... I was also in a 3.5e game where the player of an elven wizard tried to cast Sleep on a group of Drow ... So I've no idea what PCs should or shouldn't know!
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    Pathfinder 1e and Immortal Handbook Ascension

    OOPs, sorry! That'll teach me for not looking which forum this was posted in. That seems like the perfect situation for using the Mythic rules.
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    Pathfinder 1e and Immortal Handbook Ascension

    OK, now I've re-read the thread title (or read it properly for the first time :)) and it is Immortals Handbook: ASCENSION and per Drivethru it's a d20 product from 2008 that deals with the D&D 3.5 Epic Rules. There's no reason why you couldn't use it with the Mythic rules, but since the Mythic...
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    Just discovered Castles and Crusades

    That's offered as a suggestion in the Castle Keeper's Guide (pp276-7 in my version). Along with some other options that I find bizarre, such as setting the default to 15 and adjusting the roll by +3 if prime and -3 if not prime.
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    A "Why Oh Why" RPG Thread [+]

    They need to cover what is going to happen in a 6 part adventure that will fill many sessions. (Although I doubt the 3 part APs have introductions that are any shorter!) So the background feels the need to explain why the PCs will eventually end up in location X, meet monster Y etc. (And there...
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    Not a Conspiracy Theory: Moving Toward Better Criticism in RPGs

    Absolutely not a requirement, but arguably the way D&D is "supposed" to be played from AD&D 2nd Edition onwards. What does it say on the back of the 5th edition Players Handbook? Genuine question, since I don't know. Pathfinder 1st edition says "The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game puts you in the...
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    Not a Conspiracy Theory: Moving Toward Better Criticism in RPGs

    Isn't that what the Forge tried to do? Once upon a time on EnWorld you couldn't even complain about sorcerers being underpowered, or have an important discussion about whether you can use a lance two-handed from horseback, without someone re-phrasing into Forge-ite terms that no one else...
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    D&D General What monster names are public domain?

    I take something that isn't mine every time I breathe in. But I'm getting way off topic here.
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    D&D General What monster names are public domain?

    Stealing ideas is nothing like stealing bread. And there is plenty of scope for people to disagree on what is wrong, without necessarily making any of them bad people. Paizo, for example, doesn't include Eladrin in Pathfinder because they think the inclusion of the word "Eladrin" in the 3.5 SRD...
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