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    Paizo Paizo Leadership Team Update

    That would be pretty horrific; that would not be treating Crystal as a woman and also not respecting the fact both employees wanted to share a room, and were fine with the arrangement. That would also be fairly discriminary in a different manner. (And without getting into it too much here or...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Strixhaven Previews Start to Appear

    Oh no. Oh god no. Please, for the love of god, no. I almost want to know what those rules or advise sections will be. It is bound to cause awkward converations.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Strixhaven Previews Start to Appear

    To be fair, the two focus on very different things from what I've heard - and the Pathfinder 2e adventure you're referring to (Strength of Thousands) does go to level 20, so it's likely significantly longer. Plus, that campaign ties much more into the Mwangi Expanse and has a very different...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wizards is hiring a senior game designer for Dungeons & Dragons

    Back to the topic: Wizards must be continuing to expand. I wonder what releases they will be prioritising next as a result of hiring more people. I also wonder if they're going to get really ambitious and perhaps consider getting another D&D related system up for a different style of gamer -...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wizards is hiring a senior game designer for Dungeons & Dragons

    College and university should be accessible to all (and I think entry requirements should often be reformed; they are people who do not do well in primary and secondary shcool but would do well in their college course of choice, and these people often do miss out), but it also should not be seen...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wizards is hiring a senior game designer for Dungeons & Dragons

    You are so deeply ignorant of what poverty is like and many peoples experiences of life and education. Nobody chooses to be poor and the vast majority of people just want to work a fair day's work for a fair day's wage. Though that shouldn't matter either; the worth of human life is not...
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    D&D General Which movie rating would you use to describe your D&D campaigns?

    I am not an American, but since rating systems can be compared over here: I can see an argument that Indiana Jones' last scene might push it to be a 12 or even 15 rated movie (mostly for the ark scene alone), I don't see why Star Wars would be PG-13. The violence outside of the arm cutting...
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    Level Up (A5E) The sorcadin is dead. Long live the sorcadin!

    Needless to say, this is going to be a very interesting character to try and justify narratively =p Though it can be done for sure, with the right backstory elements (though it is probably best that this type of build emerges because it makes sense for the character, rather than the character...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Content Warning Labels? Yeah or Nay?

    GMs and players of a D&D or any other TTRPG can absolutely work together to ensure that everyone at the table is comfortable with the game as ran, using a wide variety of tools (such as X Cards, lines and veils, etc.) and by talking together to establish a healthy environment. That may sometimes...
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    Podcast #177: United Paizo Workers with Andrew White

    Yeah... that characterisation of the multitude of issues facing trans posters on the Paizo forums recently is wildly inaccurate. Typical, though, that trans people are being portrayed as oversensitive or that the actual transphobic practices of certain posters (including vaguely gestering and...
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    Paizo Paizo Leadership Team Update

    For the sake of transparency and to give Paizo staff kudos: They have made it clear transphobia is not tolerated on their forums and have started to suspend bigotted and troll posters, as they now have a mechanism for suspension that doesn't remove peoples' access to their digital downloads...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Idea that will most players will hate, but I think addresses a mechanical issue in game

    Your idea is very similiar to how melee and ranged weapons are used in PF2; pretty much no class gets DEX to damage for any weapon (one subclass does, and some people consider it a little too strong of a benefit); you have to use Strength. In fact, only some ranged weapons get that Strength...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why do you use Floating ASI's (other than power gaming)? [+]

    I want to point out another aspect of the discussion: difference in GM and player knowledge. Up until the campaign I was playing in stopped and I started to look at Level Up 5e and Pathfinder 2e for the purposes of (eventually) running a campaign myself, I was simply unaware of the average...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why do you use Floating ASI's (other than power gaming)? [+]

    Thank you for digging up that article Charlaquin. It really shows how much the design shifted over 5e's testing lifecycle. And it makes the term 'bounded accuracy' make a lot more sense (whereas it feels in 5e it really feels more like 'DCs rarely increase, just your reliability of hitting them').
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    D&D General Which is the best die?

    d8s are comfortable. Not too big, not too small, spinny without having weird issues.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Content Warning Labels? Yeah or Nay?

    Why not? It was a reasonable request on the part of Scribe. This is literally the point of the thread. This is why, while I respect what Sacro is doing now, I would have included some symbol or warning beside the 20 (out of 200!) monsters that are pretty heavy. It's just one of those just in...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why do you use Floating ASI's (other than power gaming)? [+]

    Offtopic somewhat, but this is the exact thing that happened with Pathfinder 2e's first proper adventure path, Age of Ashes. The monster maths are off, and there are too many level +2 (i.e. moderate or severe) encounters, particularly early.
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    D&D General How do you like your ASIs?

    Apologies in case this has been explained before, but what do you mean by 'red queen race'?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why do you use Floating ASI's (other than power gaming)? [+]

    Oh for naughty word's sake. Let me guess, they changed this because of 'feedback'. The more I hear about D&D Next the more it sounds straight up better than the 5e we actually got. Where there serious problems in that playtest that were corrected? ... if not... maybe they shouldn't have ran a playtest...
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    Roll20's Latest Usage Report: D&D Steady, Cthulhu Down!

    I stand corrected. Still, Foundry is doing pretty well considering. I hope it blows up more in the future, especially for new games.
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