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    Jess Lanzillo Departs Wizards of the Coast

    Quite frankly, I don't care why any of them left. Cause trying to figure out why does not change anything.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Solasta 2 and the 1/2 elf

    Could be done, but never going to be done. At least not within the 5E paradigm. The D&D advancement game is about Class. That's it. Class is all that matters. Species, background, feats-- all minor flavor bits by comparison.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Solasta 2 and the 1/2 elf

    They all stink and do not identify a gosh-darned thing. BA Dash? Is it an orc or a rogue or monk? I guess this ability insinuates they are one and the same. Perception skill proficiency? Is it an elf or pretty much any other character that selects the most popular skill in the game? The...
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    D&D General Unseen servant drums

    I'd let you use an Unseen Servant in this way even if there weren't "rules" in place to allow it. In fact, the Servant wouldn't even be just barely passable, but actually a fairly good drummer at the beginning. And as the Bard leveled, the Servant would level up their drumming skill too...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Solasta 2 and the 1/2 elf

    I for one do not find a single species whose mechanics are appreciably meaningful... especially not when you bury them under 20 levels worth of class mechanics. ;)
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    D&D General What makes a TTRPG a "D&D Variant" to you?

    ## What's the matter with the game I'm playing? ## Can't you tell when I roll my dice? ## Maybe I should buy some new d20s ## Or will my dice pool mechanic suffice? ## Where have you been using Foundry or Roll20? ## You can't get a mini without spending lots of money ## Everybody's talkin'...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Solasta 2 and the 1/2 elf

    Exactly. If (general) you want your PC's history to include the fact that one parent was an elf and the other was a human... that's fine by me. Your backstory is your backstory. But I wouldn't have (general) you use special game mechanics to represent it. There aren't any special mechanics...
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    Ivan Van Norman Leaves Darrington Press

    First time I saw him was when he competed on the first season of King of the Nerds.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    I still don't get why some people feel it is so important to think that "Pathfinder outsold D&D" or that "Daggerheart will surpass D&D" that they'll go through all this effort to try and claim/prove it. If (general) you have such an issue with the idea that a game you do not like is the more...
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    WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

    Well of course. But I was referencing the comment that implied that due to people being laid off in America that we were heading to a dystopia. But then again... if things are bad in other parts of the globe compared to America... those places are still better now than they were during First...
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    WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

    People might say we are moving into a dystopia, but I'd still rather live in the dystopia of today and tomorrow than the illness-infected 1800s or any part of the globe during the Second World War. Because we never experienced the world that our grandparents and great-grandparents grew up in...
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    D&D General Zero-Prep D&D Game?

    I'd be more interested to see who the players were that actually play in the 'zero-prep' game. I have to imagine there's a certain... unconcernedness... with how the game runs for those people. Ones for whom just getting together to hang out is the most important part of the evening, with the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    Heh... I know it was just a typing mistake... but I very much like the Freudian slip you put in here. Yes, it absolutely would be DUMB for a multimillionaire to throw their wealth into some fantasy heartbreaker to try and surpass D&D. :D
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    The point wasn't that D&D can't fail... it was that D&D can't fail and have some other game take its place. If D&D is dying out... its means all RPGs are dying out as well.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    Even if WotC didn't walk back on their attempt to cancel the OGL and still went through with it, it wouldn't have changed Dungeons & Dragon's place atop the RPG brand genre. It still would remain the top RPG. Too many millions of people know the game and only that game... and have no idea that...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    Yes it does. We've had 50 years of the roleplaying game being a genre unto itself, and 50 years of changes, adaptations, and advancements. Both in the tabletop sphere and the computer sphere. Innovation has happened again and again and again over all that time. Heck, the whole concept of...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

    No, there is no "fight" between D&D and Daggerheart. And no, Daggerheart will not "surpass" D&D. There is no legitimate shot in any sense of the word of that happening. Will Jeremy and Chris' expertise help extend Daggerheart's game and reach? Sure. But there have been countless games that...
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    D&D General Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford Join Darrington Press

    No. There's nothing about what Darrington Press is doing that matches what Paizo did or does. They are two separate companies making vastly different choices.
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    D&D General Todd Kenreck Let Go from WotC

    These people exiting Wizards of the Coast mean nothing to Dungeons & Dragons. We've seen the same thing happen time and time again (especially after new core book releases)... and if D&D is still as popular and is played as often as it is right now even after layoffs following 2E, 3E, 4E, 5E...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Man I hate the organization of the 2024 Monster Manual

    But then you have the same problem with players having no idea where to find the monster they want because they do not yet know what the monster's "creature type" is. I mean, what is the type of a Displacer Beast? Does every single one of us know off the top of our heads? If not... then we...
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