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  1. Maxperson

    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I wouldn't particularly want to be a combat anything in real life. :P
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I added a level of exhaustion every time you get up from 0 in combat. It makes the group think before healing someone from 0 instead of just stabilizing them. There might be more encounters before a long rest is achieved and exhaustion levels build up.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    5.5e changed threshold to budget which changes meanings, and then said not to exceed that number which sucks for groups of highly skilled players who need it to be exceeded. 5e uses threshold, though, and threshold isn't a cap. Threshold means equal to or greater. It even gives an example of...
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    Wow. Deliberate rudeness to someone because they have a different opinion than yours. Classy! If you can't respond without rudeness, don't respond to me. I don't want to interact with people who are like that and I loathe the block button. Edit: I hadn't refreshed my screen and didn't see...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    You have as much evidence that DMs are good at that as you do that they are bad at that, which is to say pretty much none. Our experiences are minimal at best given the sheer number of DMs out there across the wide world. In my personal experience, most DMs do listen. Other folks have a...
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    YOUR approach is terrible and has little to no benefit!!!! Well, no, not really. It's just different. Both approaches have pros and cons and you view yours as having awesome pros and cons that are minimal. I have a different view. This is a situation where neither of us can be right or...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Or a commercial for old people.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    There aren't any design norms for deadly encounters. It's X+, where X is the number you see listed as deadly on the chart. Anything and everything above X is still just deadly.
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I love playing clerics. However, I am crystal clear with the groups I play in when I make the character. I am NOT a healer. My PC is a cleric of war, or forging or whatever, and that's where his spell focus will be. If they want a healer, someone else will need to make one.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    I've seen it situationally for the most part. I think one or maybe two PCs over the years just had it always a part of their prepped spells.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    I'm absolutely not a fan of reskinning. However, if a warlock wanted to call himself an artificer and try to fake tech being behind his powers, I wouldn't have an issue with that.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    Jerry Rigging is making something cheaply. Temu merchandise is Jerry Rigged. Jury Rigging is improvising/makeshift repairing. They are similar, but different.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    I think that learning controls is much easier than building/repairing the tech.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    I wondered that as well. It's not like the Gorn could have easily explained it to her via yes/no questions.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    You're right. It's not that it can't happen. It's that it generally WON'T happen. People for the most part like to enjoy playing the game and not very many people want to be a healbot and spend every slot they have on healing spells.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    California just shot HOA's in the head. Those fines max out at $100 and then it's done. That neighbor would have been able to just fork over $100, or perhaps $100 per tree and then the HOA would have had to let him keep them there.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    It's not at all universally prepared. There are too many good spells and too few prepared spells you can pick for that to be true. It kinda is. If you are using everything you have just to heal, you are a healbot which means you are specced for healing. You may not be fully optimized for it...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    In addition to the story not being very good once the time travel happened, what really drove me crazy was Michael's expression(not expressions). She had one expression which was abject horror as if her life and/or the universe was ending. She used it when her boyfriend did something wrong...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    The first two seasons were good. Then it went downhill rapidly. Once the time travel happened, it not only didn't feel like Star Trek to me, it was very much not a good show in my opinion.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    There are other good spells and slots are at a premium. That spell isn't cast as often as you think. That may be how your group does it, but your group isn't the gold standard of how groups around the world play. In your example you used literally every spell slot to cast healing spells...
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