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    AI is going to hack us.

    This sounds like the plot to the latest mission impossible.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    No idea what I said when I first responded to this thread, but I'm really thinking that both paladin and ranger aren't necessary as their own classes. For 5e, if subclasses were more robust and classes gained subclass levels at the same time, then I'd have made both subclasses. A ranger could...
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    The price of streaming vs out right owning

    I don't currently have any subs, used to only be disney, netflix, and dnd beyond but I've since stopped all of them. I owned a copy of MS office but as soon as I upgraded to windows 11 it was incompatible for some reason, it didn't just stop working it popped up on screen that it was no longer...
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    Daggerheart Review: The Duality of Robust Combat Mechanics and Freeform Narrative

    Not too keen on the cards (not a fan of gimmicky extras like cards or unique dice) but the hope and fear mechanic sounds interesting. I might have a read of the srd at some point to see how exactly they work together.
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    D&D General How Long Did You Play Only D&D Before Trying Another Game

    My friends and I played advanced fighting fantasy before I found out about DnD via the rules cyclopedia. I've mostly stuck with some form of DnD since then. I wanted to give savage worlds a try but scheduling can be a pain at times. Have played a little of pirate borg which I think of as DnD...
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    Daggerheart has been Officially Released

    If it's out then it makes sense that crit roll are starting a campaign showcasing the system. It should drive up interest. I don't really know anything about it, but I have a friend who was interested, I'll have to see if he's gonna get it.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wonder why there aren't any Elemental Domains (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)?

    Priests in Conan seem less like clerics and more like a combination of wizard, warlock, and artificer. Some seem to gain power/knowledge from demonic entities like Set others don't seem to have any patron teaching them sorcery while others have knowledge of mechanical knowhow that grants them...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wonder why there aren't any Elemental Domains (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)?

    I guess another thing I tend to lean towards now is that a priest isn't a priest of a specific deity. You're an intermediary of the Olympians or the Egyptian gods. While there were priests assigned to temples of specific gods, that seemed more of a temporal position rather than spiritual, you...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wonder why there aren't any Elemental Domains (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)?

    I also much prefer my gods being able to take away power, a gradual reduction in power to show disfavour and allow the priest to return to the "right" path. However, I also think it can work well to have divine magic be learnt and to have evil priests belong to the main priesthood. Self-serving...
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    How do you handle gems as a GM?

    I'm pretty sure that I only mention gem type if it is something that can be used for a spell. So I might say that you find 3 gems worth 50gp and a diamond worth 500gp. If I don't mention anything and someone says "I need ruby dust, are any of them rubies" then I might say yes, 2 of the 3 50gp...
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    Fallout Season 2 Teaser

    Man, December is so far away!
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    OSR City State of the Invincible Overlord, what even is it?

    I didn't even realise it was a thing until recently. I think Matt Colville may have stolen the title of invincible overlord for his big bad guy in a campaign he was running but I don't think it related back to the book. I wasn't quite born yet before it released. I've always had this idea that...
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    OSR City State of the Invincible Overlord, what even is it?

    I've never heard of this until the recent announcement (I know very little about Judge's Guild) and since this is going to be re-released, I'm curious what people who have used it, read through it, etc., liked about it (or didn't). What were your impressions of it when you first came across it...
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    Do Shorter Lists Make Players/GMs More Creative?

    Maybe you just aren't seeing them, there are a few subreddits that show homebrew content, many of which are spells, so people are still being creative and adding to spell lists, etc. However, that may not necessarily be in-game creation (like having a wizard research a new spell) and I think in...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Fixing ranger with higher level mark spells.

    Not sure if it's in my notes (I'd actually have to hunt for them), but anything that eats into the sorcerer's gimmick would probably be at a minimum level where the sorcerer is still far more efficient. With level limits like you posted, it would be even less efficient, but still maybe a good...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Fixing ranger with higher level mark spells.

    I like this idea, I was thinking of creating a set of metamagic spells (or, I guess, updating spells from 2e) that worked the same way. I think I'd stopped running games by the time I'd put them together. I'm not sure how useful it would be since it's only when the ranger hits the target that...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Fixing ranger with higher level mark spells.

    This thread is about adding higher level mark spells, not about removing hunter's mark...
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    D&D General DALL·E 3 does amazing D&D art

    I see the mullet comes back in fashion in the future.
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    D&D General Looking for Skype alternatives

    Discord might actually be the best one in that I don't think there is any fee for meetings longer than an hour. I do recall having issues with it taking up a lot of resources but it might be better now.
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    D&D 3.x Auril stats

    If you do use Skadi's stats, Id suggest giving her an ability similar to fire mastery but for cold allowing her to use any cold spell at will.
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