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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    I think the main reason people have vague memories of what the "default" was is that the books themselves were ambivalent. From the OG Dark Sun rulebook class description: Note the reference to preserving as "old and established." From the Wanderer's Guide in the general world overview...
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    What Do You Call This Popular Beverage?

    This might skew the numbers for the future:
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    Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players

    I remember seeing a quote by Steve Jackson, probably in the early 00s or so, saying something like "I love to see D&D grow and bring in new players. Because in a year or two some of those players are going to get bored with D&D and look for other options, and some of those players will become...
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    D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids?

    "I'm not gonna launch those ships. Captain's orders."
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    D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids?

    No no no. The goa'uld are the quori/inspired from Eberron.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    One of the main characters in the Verdant Passage novel (the one where Kalak gets murderized) is Agis of Asticles, a noble who has a fairly large amount of farmland and, of course, uses slave labor to tend it. He is described as a character with a strong conscience, and makes efforts to treat...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    It mostly did, because defilers had a much faster XP table than preservers (who used the normal wizard one). However, due to the way the XP tables kept doubling for most of a character's career, the effect was something like a defiler being about half a level ahead of a preserver until you hit...
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    D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids?

    Come to think of it, in retrospect it was probably a mistake to push various FR factions back in early 5e as player options for organized play, particularly the Zhentarim. They've generally been the go-to human-ish villains of the Realms in the past.
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    D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids?

    I'm not sure I'd call humanity "ascendant" in the Third Age of Middle-Earth, primarily due to machinations of Sauron and his servants. Arnor had gotten split into three different kingdoms and then eaten piecemeal by the forces of Angmar, and Gondor had steadily lost both land and power. Fourth...
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    Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1

    Sure, I mostly meant that since 1e was published in 2017, just before Discovery came along, TNG-era is sort of the assumed default of the book with TOS and Enterprise as options. But it works fine in any era. The thing is that Star Trek is kind of distinct in its genre. If you try to play it as...
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    Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1

    I haven't had the opportunity to play it myself, but I have the 1e rules and I've seen some actual plays (Geek & Sundry had one before they collapsed and most of that particular crew moved to AltHaven). It seems very Star Trek-y, with the primary focus being on mid-era Star Trek (TNG/DS9/VOY)...
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    What are your thoughts on TTRPGs with non-standard dice?

    It does require a certain amount of "black-boxing". The reactor has taken damage and needs to be repaired to work. You roll to see if you can do it, and get a result like that. Clearly, the broken part was something that was inside. Or maybe you could interpret it some other way – maybe you can...
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    What are your thoughts on TTRPGs with non-standard dice?

    Every time I play, there's always someone who needs to borrow dice. And of course, I am happy to supply them.
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    What are your thoughts on TTRPGs with non-standard dice?

    Daggerheart has an equal chance of Hope and Fear no matter the skill and difficulty involved (unless I'm missing something – I don't have the game so I could be missing out on nuance). In Genesys, higher skill and good circumstances will give you more good dice which gives you both more...
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    Draw Steel News

    Starting recoveries are listed on the pregen sheets, as well as how much you recover with one: The adventure also points toward the Rules Reference for a general list of actions and maneuvers characters can do: It probably would have been a good idea to call out the Catch Breath maneuver...
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