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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I read children of time back when it was released, I found it engaging but didn't actually realise it was going to be the first of a series. I actually felt the ending was perfect and didn't need a sequel, just humanity and spiders working together and heading off into the stars.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 4E Cosmology

    For something as abstract as the planes, I think it's fine to include multiple interpretations, that no one is necessarily correct though some may think that they're correct and as they move through the planes, from what little they can see they may very well have evidence that they are correct...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 4E Cosmology

    Considering the sheer size of the planes, I wouldn't be surprised if the world axis and the great wheel are just theories of their structure, it doesn't matter which is true or if neither is true, just pick one for your world beliefs. I mean, how many people can even look at all of creation to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Do you like the Purple Dragon Knight Subclass?

    Love it mostly as is, but that's because I think the dragon type should be the choice of the player and the name changed to just "dragon knight". Who knows, they might have some text box with how to adapt to other settings. I think it would fit well in dragonlance, plenty of knights that rode...
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    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    QI mentions the Indiana Jones awards.
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    D&D General [ART THREAD]Your Personal Favorite D&D Art For a Monster

    I've used animal lords in a game before (my own, not the dnd versions) and had them appear as perfect examples of their kind with some crazy runic patterns on their fur. I think the images I used for inspiration were from magic the gathering.
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    New Unearthed Arcana Released, With 8 New Forgotten Realms-Themed Subclasses

    For gem dragons, sure, but if I was making this subclass for FR, I'd remove the specific dragon type, and change the name to dragon knight and tie it to the cult of the dragon. To me it makes more sense for this to be tied to the cult rather than the purple dragon knights. Also, what's up with...
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    New Unearthed Arcana Released, With 8 New Forgotten Realms-Themed Subclasses

    What I find wierd with the PDK (or any pet class with this ability) is the power of life and death they have over their pet. It dies, and the knight can bring it back to life with an easy ritual (or just a touch). I understand it mechanically, it'sa chunk of the PDK's power budget but it gets a...
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    New Unearthed Arcana Released, With 8 New Forgotten Realms-Themed Subclasses

    Yep, the elven chain wearing bladesinger is the concept that sticks in my head. I'd probably house rule it if it came up.
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    New Unearthed Arcana Released, With 8 New Forgotten Realms-Themed Subclasses

    Had a quick look through and like others I'm not too keen on the purple dragon knight either. As a subclass, I think it's fine and I could see it being easily adapted to different orders of dragon riding knights, but as the class for the purple dragon knights, it just doesn't fit the history of...
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    D&D 3.x Still playing 3e? Share your 3.0 and/or 3.5 house rules

    I'd be keen to have a read of those rules, would you have a pdf that you would be fine linking?
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    Streaming services, which do you have or are you getting rid of?

    I had netflix and disney+, stopped both when I was in the process of buying an apartment and haven't resubbed. Tvnz on demand has some decent stuff like others have mentioned. I often watch it on my PC and don't have to worry about ads due to adblockers.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Oh nice, I'll check that out and see if it works down here in nz
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I've also recently installed the libby app and hooked into my local library, it's a lot better than I thought it would be. I have some dragonlance novels that I intend to read at some point soon.
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    D&D General [ART THREAD]Your Personal Favorite D&D Art For a Monster

    I had to check some of his other art to make sure the signature was the same, but yes, yes it is. I don't think I ever realised. I quite like his artwork.
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    Presentation and Rules Are Different Things

    Fully agree. After looking at OSE I went back and had a look at the original B/X presentation and, while not horrendous, is definitely not as well laid out.
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    D&D 5E (2024) DMG 2024: The Planes

    Sort of a moot point since I'm not planning on buying 5.5, but I'm also in the camp where I prefer related groups of monsters to be grouped together. If I'm doing an adventure where I'm running a lot of devils I want to be able to find them quickly and I find it more convenient for their entries...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 4E Cosmology

    Yep, a lot of world building is the pet project of the DM. I think the only planes my players have only interacted with were the shadowfell and feywild, and their exact layout in the grand scheme of things didn't really matter.
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    D&D General [ART THREAD]Your Personal Favorite D&D Art For a Monster

    I've been flipping through my old 3e books and saw this image of Mephistopheles, it's one of my favourite images of him as I find it is the exemplar for the scheming devil archetype.
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