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    Daggerheart Reveals Ranger Class Preview (Exclusive)

    I find myself on both sides of this argument, in differing circumstances. This isn't DnD, so I don't want to carry my preconceived notions to it. And yet with DnD, I often desire the sacred cows because it's what makes DnD "DnD" to me. Is that hypocritical?
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    Level Up (A5E) What are your common house rules?

    I’m happy to have inspiration come up more frequently, we switched to TotV’s Luck for that reason, but giving inspiration every session doesn’t change Excellence being a better choice than the other destinies.
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    Level Up (A5E) What are your common house rules?

    Greater+Superior healing potions are a popular choice for Rapid Drinkers at my tables, especially when in a bind mid-fight. I personally dislike potions as a bonus action for all, partially because it steps on existing features' toes, but I also try to press time and resources at my tables so...
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    Level Up (A5E) What are your common house rules?

    A5E specifically has the Rapid Drink maneuver, which does exactly this. Before A5E I had a house rule that you could sub an attack for drinking a potion.. it gave martials a boost in 5e. They don't need that in A5E 😆
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    Level Up (A5E) What are your common house rules?

    Culture Tyrannized chooses either Defiant Will or Saving Face, not both. Scars of the Scourge's energy type is determined by GM based on origin. Destiny Excellence is removed. Alternatively, Excellence's "nat 1" Source of Inspiration only applies to proficient skill checks. Berserker...
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    Planescape Best Planescape Book across editions and 3rd party publishers?

    Possibly because of the first half-baked three-book release, Spelljammer. Which I'm still salty about. @paradisebunny it won't be the core of your content, but since someone mentioned Kobold Press' upcoming planes release, I figured I'd mention that Monte Cook did a planes book a while back...
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    D&D General A.I. D&D Session Transcripts and Summaries Example

    I'm familiar with another one, free AFAIK, Archivist AI Automatic Notes for Your TTRPG Campaign | Archivist AI It seemed like good stuff, and yet I still couldn't be arsed to keep up with it 😆
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    D&D 5E (2024) Should a general Adventurer class be created to represent the Everyman?

    If you're looking at an all-rounder class, you could look to 3e's Factotum for inspiration. They were dabblers in everything.
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    Worlds of Design: Magic, Magic Everywhere

    The collection-of-adventure books are different, I'd say, from the single long campaign adventures. I listed CoS and ToA, which had a load of magic items. GoS is largely adaptations of old adventures, which I guess were some of the miserly ones? GoS is quite sparse with magic though, I'll agree...
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    Worlds of Design: Magic, Magic Everywhere

    Ha I think my problem in communication is that I consider 3e and afterwards "modern" DnD- it's post-TSR DnD, modern ability score definitions n rules (10=0, 12=+1, etc). But I think you might underestimate the magic items provided in 5e adventures. As far as 5e adventures go, let's look at...
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    Do Shorter Lists Make Players/GMs More Creative?

    It's a strange thing, and when this gets discussed I often find myself saying things like "back in my day, things were better! We were more creative, we had less rules, blahblahblah!" But I scarcely remember my 2e days, when I started TTRPGs. I played heavily in the 3.Xe era, where rules reigned...
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    Worlds of Design: Magic, Magic Everywhere

    It really depends on how much you want to derail the campaign for a vendetta. But making the thieves "unreachable" because they're too powerful seems like it could get antagonistic quickly. As far as players' belief that their characters are the most powerful... well, that really depends on the...
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    Worlds of Design: Magic, Magic Everywhere

    Yeah, to be clear it's been a thing since Ye Olden Dayes. I ran Night Below for 5e, and wow! But modern adventures are also filled with magic items... and Red Hand of Doom? I loved that adventure, it's one of the best, buuut wow yeah the magic items are overflowing. On the other hand... I get...
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    Worlds of Design: Magic, Magic Everywhere

    Good ways, IMO, to control magic items in your party: Trade them away for something else. A favor, other magic items, power, whatever. I've had players trade permanent magic items for consumables because they didn't think the things they had were worthwhile, and they had a big fight coming up...
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    Worlds of Design: Magic, Magic Everywhere

    In my experience, in any TTRPG where the party has been stolen from, they have dropped nearly everything to go reclaim their stolen property and vengefully punish those that stole from them. Like, really really vengefully punish. That merchant might just try to pick up the pieces after being...
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    Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED]

    If it makes y'all feel any better, it's not being completely overlooked on the GG Discord. Some folk are throwing a fit on there.
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    Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED]

    I'm probably misinterpreting this. It sounds like you're saying you don't care about what the source of a product is doing, as long as it produces the product. "I don't care if the funny man spews hateful stuff in their off time, as long as they're the funny man on stage I'll still buy...
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    Goodman Games Revives Relationship With Anti-Semitic Publisher For New City State Kickstarter [UPDATED]

    I am now prepared to be very disappointed. I guess I'm really now a bit into said disappointment. I picked up A LOT of Goodman Games stuff over the years. The silver lining is that I'd always tout DCC as "my ideal TTRPG to run that I can't 'cuz I run too much 5e," so... I guess I don't have to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) OAR 10 City State of the Invincible Overlord

    Scrapfaggot Green's a location. Witches. The Witch Stone of Great Leighs
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    Boxed Sets: What Do You Want In Them

    Is the question here an old school "Night Below"-style box set, or a start set?
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