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    Dungeons & Dragons Shifts to Franchise Model, Dan Ayoub Named as Head

    It is an interesting question. With 5e supposed to be the "forever edition"....what does future dnd development look like? Perhaps they are taking a more out of house approach, maintaing the keys to the core pillar, but letting other houses develop and design for a time.
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    D&D General What I learn from DM 600 sessions of Adventure League

    I hear you. Its all about expectation and context. First impressions are critical, and so doing a little dice fu behind the scenes to ensure a brand new player has a good experience is worth it.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Shifts to Franchise Model, Dan Ayoub Named as Head

    While true I didn't see anything either, at the end of the day the goal is to maximize utilization of the "brand". As Spaceballs once put, "Dnd the video game, dnd the toilet paper." And to note I have no issue with that, its smart business to recognize that your brand is a far more powerful...
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    The Fantastic Four: First Steps - Official Teaser Trailer (2025)

    Beyond just the momentum of being a movie stable, its very easy to store (the seeds needed for a bucket of popcorn take very little storage room compared to the ultimate size of the meal), it lasts in storage a good while, and since its not a hot meal you can continuously make it without it...
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    Phase 5 of the MCU is over

    Quantumania - Hot Garbage Gotg3 - Pretty solid, Rocket really gave you some big emotional payoffs in an otherwise silly movie. Secret Invasion - Hottest of Garbage. Loki - There are aspects of loki I do quite enjoy, and the ending is pretty poetic. But its also the worst of the multiversal...
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    Civilizations, RANKED!

    hehe it won't :)
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    D&D General Optimistic Thoughts on Optimizing

    Boiling this down, the most key point is "Optimization becomes a problem in a group of non-optimizers". And that is very true in my experience. I've played with the group of players that want to just build the craziest thing they can make and then as a DM I am supposed to challenge them. That...
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    Civilizations, RANKED!

    Old world isn’t civ enough for me on the list but I consider it the number 1 4x game to come out in quite a while
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    D&D General Solar's Flying Sword as a Legendary Weapon

    The very quick jist. The party is going to find a solar's flying sword attached to a special stone that can mimic a creature type (think a very power nystul's magic aura). So...the sword believes it is being weilded by a solar. So treating this as a legendary weapon but it won't do the full...
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    PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer 2025

    Continuing the fine tradition of Armageddon that's its easier to train non-astronauts to be astronauts than teaching astronauts other stuff:)
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    I think Ando had the opportunity to deliver that message but never quite got there. It was much more focused on these early heroes of the rebellion. If we had had one scene towards the end where some imperial higher ups note a large series of sabotages across the galaxy, much more than can be...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Rate My Avatar of Bane (Based on ENworlds Feedback).

    Hard to say how well your specific party will do against this guy, only you know how high above the belt they can hit. All we can say is you had statted this guy as a rough CR 15, and this guy is significantly higher than that on paper, and that is before even factoring in a nigh immunity to...
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    D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D.

    I do like the idea of doing it publicly. I think so many people have this idea of dnd that is completely wrong, and then they see it and go "oh this, this looks fun" and your off to the races.
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    New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More

    this is true. the one counter though is the battlemaster can nova with his manuevers by using one on every attack, the AA cannot. Also at 15th level the battlemaster takes off a lot more, since they basically get a free d8 on every attack outside of their superiority dice (whereas the AA still...
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    New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More

    Nope didn't miss it....banishing is still by far the best of the bunch.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Rate My Avatar of Bane (Based on ENworlds Feedback).

    My quick review: 1) I agree the closed fist attack seems weirdly powerful compared to his normal attacks, it does more than double his black gauntlet attack. 2) Since its literally "Bane", I would have the bane spell work with no saving throw....or just make it an aura or something. When Bane...
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    New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More

    on the arcane archer, if they just gave us one more reason to like int I think we could be good here. Int to initiative for example, just something that makes going hard int worth a bit more of my time, and this class can look good to me.
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    New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More

    Funny enough accursed shield was one of my least favorite things about this class. No armor....so I have to have the mage armor invocation (and lets be honest I'm already using pact of the blade if I'm going this route, so that's two invocations committed for the concept)...and I have to have...
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    New D&D Unearthed Arcana Reveals Two New Subclasses for Monk and Sorcerer, Plus Revamps For Seven More

    looking over the arcane archer, my quick and dirty: 1) Banishing Shot: Super good, always useful. 2) Beguiling Shot: Banishing is better 3) Bursting Shot: Doesn't scale that well but very good for an early pick up for that extra damage. 4) Grasping Shot: Banishing is better 5) Piercing Shot...
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    D&D General Best D&D product of any edition (non-core book)

    I believe you are correct! I will update my post
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