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  1. Garthanos

    D&D 5E (2014) DM's: How Do You Justify NPC's Having Magic/Abilities That Don't Exist in the PHB?

    Reasonable? how?, that is not how magic focuses work? Why are you assuming something is a magic item that creates an independent magical effect when those are rare and expensive and focuses are cheap and common and do not work that way. You are making unreasonable assumptions. Basically every...
  2. Garthanos

    D&D 5E (2014) DM's: How Do You Justify NPC's Having Magic/Abilities That Don't Exist in the PHB?

    Most items used to create magic effects can be assumed as such. Most player powers are not created by the items (there are some but there are a lot more that are not). Your "if" seems to be you wanting everything explicit... like if you dont say heroes use the restroom then they must not...
  3. Garthanos

    D&D 5E (2014) DM's: How Do You Justify NPC's Having Magic/Abilities That Don't Exist in the PHB?

    Thing is there are just thousands of potential reasons... enumerating every single one... I mean why? isnt that what imaginations are for... the race may only be one small fraction of the required ingredients it might be the participation in a given religion or binding a particular demon by...
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    D&D 5E (2014) DM's: How Do You Justify NPC's Having Magic/Abilities That Don't Exist in the PHB?

    The orc tribal shaman uses different magic than you and probably involved unspeakable acts.... why would you think you can do what he does exactly?
  5. Garthanos

    D&D 5E (2014) Is the Default Playstyle of 5E "Monty Haul?"

    I am thinking some of those may be independent 5e issues not saying not issues but I am not thinking they map to bounded accuracy .... the encounters per adventuring day issue for instance could you focus fire how that one is BA related? I mean potentially swingy encounters because the d20...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is the Default Playstyle of 5E "Monty Haul?"

    I found skill challenges a wonderful way to enable chases (its even one of the more interesting type of SC)
  7. Garthanos

    D&D 5E (2014) Is the Default Playstyle of 5E "Monty Haul?"

    The cons include some things that really annoy me - what examples are you reacting to?
  8. Garthanos

    Rings of Power -- all opinions and spoilers welcome thread.

    I am a far more casual reader of the books than many here but I too have been enjoying reading the conversation...
  9. Garthanos

    Rings of Power -- all opinions and spoilers welcome thread.

    I had 20/10 vision myself in my youth and with lenses I still do (doc accidentally tested me for it just the other day and I said no problem that is quite readable ) ... LOL does that mean I have the eyes of a 200 year old Numenorean.
  10. Garthanos

    Rings of Power -- all opinions and spoilers welcome thread.

    Wait they cannot use materia based on its source being Silmarillion? Wow!!! talk about hamstringing it.
  11. Garthanos

    Rings of Power -- all opinions and spoilers welcome thread.

    For me that is a way to visualize an internal conflict and its resolution, shrug. If they talked her head game out loud that would be pretty meh... perhaps they could have had her meditating and done some visualizing her conflict in a vision. It is supposed to be a big choice.
  12. Garthanos

    D&D General Has anyone created a homebrewed version of World of Warcraft's Drachthyr race for 5e D&D?

    I think WoW features much more larger than life Warriors than 5e fighters can pull off particularly by end game (though the 5e Rune Knight is like the Avatar battleform, so its not impossible.). The Warrior is like Barbarian and Fighter with a dabble of Warlord nicely mashed together. The...
  13. Garthanos

    D&D General Has anyone created a homebrewed version of World of Warcraft's Drachthyr race for 5e D&D?

    I have more than a few alts though not all at max level and not entirely that much variety ;)
  14. Garthanos

    D&D General Has anyone created a homebrewed version of World of Warcraft's Drachthyr race for 5e D&D?

    I think its more like a leap up and fly across the battlefield raining down fire and then land
  15. Garthanos

    Rings of Power -- all opinions and spoilers welcome thread.

    Numenoreans need other humans around to show both are pretty awesome
  16. Garthanos

    Rings of Power -- all opinions and spoilers welcome thread.

    They deprived Rand of climactic potency and other problems... but pacing was better than the books in my opinion.
  17. Garthanos

    Rings of Power -- all opinions and spoilers welcome thread.

    D&D translated the arrow as a magical bane ie Dragon slaying concept ... ie one might show a close up of the heirloom ancient arrow burrowing actively into the beast while throbbing with magic perhaps (I think that buffs and visualizes it in a way more consistent with the books that mentioned...
  18. Garthanos

    Rings of Power -- all opinions and spoilers welcome thread.

    Prefer the pacing of Wheel or Time so far... they arguably made it better in that regards to the books
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