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  1. michaeljpastor

    RPG Evolution: D&D's Missing Archetypes

    I'd add the ability to cast both divine and arcane spells given the eclectic nature of knowledge.
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    Spelljammer D&D Direct Live Report: 9am PDT (5pm BST) SPELLJAMMER CONFIRMED! DRAGONLANCE!

    Everyone has a "first" DM screen. Don't need another one? Give it away to someone who needs one or ebay it.
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    Spelljammer D&D Direct Live Report: 9am PDT (5pm BST) SPELLJAMMER CONFIRMED! DRAGONLANCE!

    When asked if any of the Spelljammer books in the slipcase will be available for individual sale Perkins said that they're only talking about the bundle package at this time. “But it's safe to say that we'll have some mechanism for breaking up the material into smaller pieces later,” said...
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    Spelljammer D&D Direct Live Report: 9am PDT (5pm BST) SPELLJAMMER CONFIRMED! DRAGONLANCE!

    Called it! LOVE the fact that they're segregating content. I have 6 books I have not cracked open yet because I'm not a DM and I don't want anything spoiled for me. However making them hardcover seems a bit much for me. I would much rather if they were a very sturdy softcover book (the one...
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    Spelljammer Spelljammer in D&D 5e Speculation: How Will the Setting Be Changed?

    It also happens to be the nickname for a musician at a circus or Carnival.
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    Spelljammer Spelljammer in D&D 5e Speculation: How Will the Setting Be Changed?

    Too absolutist and fundamentalist for my tastes. Don't like the changes? Go read something else.
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    Spelljammer Spelljammer in D&D 5e Speculation: How Will the Setting Be Changed?

    A lot of you're describing is "patches" which are additive without altering the original text. It's a type of retcon.
  8. michaeljpastor

    D&D General Cosmological constants

    So in the heirarchy of Cosmic Constants, is? Inner Planes/Outer planes/Astral Plane Inner planes/Ethereal Inner Planes Prime material planes Phlogiston / Crystal Spheres Wildspace
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    Spelljammer Spelljammer Confirmed (MAYBE, April Fools?)

    I think we have some spontaneous consensus here. I posted the topic Cosmological Constants simultaneously and they jive well with this model.
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    D&D General Cosmological constants

    In my mind, the Etherial and Phlogiston can be easily jived if one imagines the plogiston as energy and Ether is matter. . Both are in a constant flow state, but deep ether at its highest densities is comparatively inert. Phlogiston and ether are mutually exclusive, one displaces the other...
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    D&D General Cosmological constants

    I've not seen on the interwebs any comparitive descriptions for various basic cosmological/fundamental terms/concepts found in the D&D omniverse. So I'm actually confused as to how these ideas relate. Astral vs Ethereal is easy to me since I've always known them, but how do the following...
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    Spelljammer Spelljammer Confirmed (MAYBE, April Fools?)

    the status quo feeling is that spelljammer has always been just over the horizon but is so legendary umm Ethereal Ware, fueled by fan devotion to it who just want it to be better. Spelljammer Confirmed became its own meme, bubbled up from fans,which makes it ripe for parody. it was almost...
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    Spelljammer Spelljammer Confirmed (MAYBE, April Fools?)

    I think it's the ultimate april fools joke, because it's self-effacing on one hand, and a double negative is a positive, so all the false leads and fake Starjammer Confirmed statements are actually true. It's so cheesy it's cool. I love double irony. Don't like it? Ignore it. Move on. Buh-bye.
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    Spelljammer Spelljammer Confirmed (MAYBE, April Fools?)

    A rose by any other name much? The difference is like Kiev and Kyiv to me. Star Frontiers can be/is a Prime Material plane in a cosmic Crystal Dyson Sphere. The races are like Daxam and Krypton, where each planet claims to be the Genesis Throne world and the other is the Colony. Who came...
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    Mutations Tables (Gamma World)

    Hi All, Many years ago I had an extensive mutations table system, which has been lost to the ages. I've since curated hundreds of traits across the InterWebs, and my initial plan was to create all of it in a wiki., But I find it too difficult to adapt in that format. I've since shared a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) The D&D Multiverse Part 2- The Remix Culture of the Gygaxian Multiverse

    The single most influential College course I ever took was in my freshman year at the College of Wooster. The title of the course was March 2nd 1667 and it was all about Hypertext Theory. Basically the premise was that no text ( books movies art or whatever) exist in isolation and is influenced...
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    D&D 5E (2014) The D&D Multiverse Part 2- The Remix Culture of the Gygaxian Multiverse

    I'm really surprised I haven't seen a lot of commentary about the influence of Lovecraftian Cthulhu horror. Admittedly it was on the fringes, despite its inclusion in deities and demigods; which is ironic considering that it's considered the Far Realm now and it's getting a little bit of a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) The D&D Multiverse Part 2- The Remix Culture of the Gygaxian Multiverse

    Well of course it would be a mistake. It is obviously influenced by World War 1. :)
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    Mike Mearls and his Gamma World project!

    Whatever happened to this project?
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