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  1. Rabulias

    D&D 5E (2024) Printed 2024 Player's Handbook Compared with Other 5E books

    And even if you get really good at it, there is an X factor that is hard to account for: your players. I have fights that I thought would be challenging, and my players will play cautiously and conservatively, with good organized tactics so it becomes a routine fight. Other times, it's like they...
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    Spoilers Star Trek Prodigy season 2

    I just finished too. And I agree that where the show started and where it ended in terms of tying in to Star Trek are worlds apart, but did not feel forced or shoehorned in (well, maybe the last few minutes of the last episode). This season was full of time travel with some alternate universe...
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    New Paramount: Paramount Global and Skydance Merger Confirmed Finally

    Glad it's a change of logo and not the name; "Paradance" and "Skymount" are right out! :ROFLMAO:
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    New Paramount: Paramount Global and Skydance Merger Confirmed Finally

    New exec: "We're really interested in all the Star Trek you have going on here." Old exec: "Glad to hear it! It's a big part of our content line up." New exec: "Though we'd like to introduce some plotlines and characters..."
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    Spoilers The boys Season 4 (spoilers)

    I think @Morrus meant season 5, not 6. I know it's hard to keep track sometimes.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Printed 2024 Player's Handbook Compared with Other 5E books

    Yeah, I am unsure about some of the changes, but some of them look cool so it's worth the price to pick it up and take a look. I may cherry-pick some rules and features to hybridize into my game. Time will tell if the 2014/2024 ratio in my game is 80%/20%, 50%/50%, or something else. I am...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Printed 2024 Player's Handbook Compared with Other 5E books

    They can pay to expedite shipping for a single pallet or two, but they can't afford to do that for all of them, or we would be paying $100 for each copy. Plus, it takes time to print and assemble that many books -- this is probably one of the first ones off the press.
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    User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

    Like many others, my username is from a favorite D&D PC. Rab was a halfling multiclass fighter-thief, created back in 1986 for an AD&D game at college. I envisioned him as a swashbuckling type (very different from his halfling kin), with some Indiana Jones influence, exploring the unknown...
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    New Paramount: Paramount Global and Skydance Merger Confirmed Finally

    Kinda like 20th Century Fox. :ROFLMAO: Hopefully this leads to some good movies.
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    Today I learned +

    Not too surprising. The concept of the screw, one of the Simple Machines, has been around since the ancient Greeks or older.
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2024 AD

    Judy Belushi Pisano, widow of John Belushi, died Friday.
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    The Fellowship of the Ring

    Caveat: I am not a reader of the books. I found each season 1 got better in many things over the course of the season, and by the end was a much more solid offering. I even said to friends that I wondered how the producers could finish episode 8 and look back on episode 1 and not go back and...
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    D&D 5E (2014) A better model for Legendary Resistance

    I like a lot of these ideas, but this one above gave me an idea. This is just off-the-cuff spitballing at this point, so there may be things I have not thought through fully yet. Instead of Legendary Resistance, legendary foes get a certain number of Legendary Destinies (LD) per round...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Spells that make you go Hmm....

    I agree with some of your points. I think most of the consolidation of spells into a single spell with multiple applications/options is a strength of 5e (Bigby's hand, I am looking at you). Create homunculus (which is actually 6th level, not 5th), is not a throwback. Back in AD&D days, a 7th...
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    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    Purple is Star Wars shorthand for Badass. :ROFLMAO:
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    D&D 5E (2014) Does anyone play 5e Perception rules as written?

    How is this different for parties with a light source? Most light sources have a smaller radius than darkvision. Remember that monsters using darkvision also have disadvantage to see the party if the party is not using a light source.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    I complained before about Sol not sensing Osha was really Mae, but episode 6 shows Sol is clearly distraught after the losses on Khofar. I can see that that could cloud his senses, as Mae points out to him.
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    A Peek at Quests from the Infinite Staircase

    Any speculation as to what this means? :unsure:
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    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    I doubt this. With Bazil finding the remains of Pip and sniffing around after Mae, I think Bazil will be instrumental in exposing the switch.
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