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    OSR Healing tweak - proportionality

    Could a healing spell just heal a set percent of your total instead of having a chart for each class? A basic cure light wounds heals 1/4 your total. Maybe add your level to make things more balanced as you gain levels. So a mage with 4hp only gains 1hp (or 1+1 if gaining your level as well)...
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    Black and white heraldry phoenix

    Why would it not just be a crow? It seems a bit like calling a white horse a unicorn that just has not grown its horn. I guess being nobles and such one would like to be the Phoenix House and not the Crow House.
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    D&D General Players Decide when to Level Up

    Sounds like the OP's group can handle it and be fine. I feel my group would be the same. I played the box sets for beginners and they each have missions or job boards that tell to level up after one or two of these minor quests. It seems fast, but are low level and designed to introduce the...
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    Gate Pass Gazette Issue #42 is ruining an owlbear's day!

    Man, that elf-guy needs to go help his crow.
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    D&D 5E (2024) How excited are you for the 2 upcoming Forgotten Realms books?

    I'm think I'm more in the meh choice at this point. I do not think my group used SCAG at all. Not sure we would use all the FR location listed out in the book. Maybe some in the other book with PC classes and spells, but likely not a lot.
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    D&D General Prepping for Heroes of the Borderlands in Greyhawk

    I'm trying to figure out where to place it near Phandalin/Neverwinter.
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    Creating some form of address courtesy titles for lowest nobility, and question about addressing strangers of unknown rank

    Goodfellow. It might bet shortened to just Fella after it is used a lot. Most things get shortened the more you use it. Same if you use Goodbrother/Goodsister and then is sounds like a dig on black culture. Sounds like you could replace the knight term of Sir/Dame with something instead...
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    Worlds of Design: Only Human

    Perhaps long-lived races like elves only can have children a few times. Where humans can become pregnant each month, an elf might only be able to once a year or every 5/10/50 years.
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    D&D General Does anyone recall coming across any magic weapons that return when thrown...other than Dwarven Thrower, Hammer of Thunderbolts or magic boomerangs?

    I do this a lot in 5e. Mostly for daggers, but also to hand axes and hammers. I even added it to a battle axe for flavor. It seems mostly a work around for arrows and such.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Subclassing the Warrior Veteran

    Do they need to be human? Make them all or mostly a race not part of the playing world. If there are no hippofolk in your world, then a group shows up demanding treasure from the PCs, they can have any power you want like pistols and hand grenades. You can also look back to 4e powers for...
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    Worlds of Design: Only Human

    I think the main reason is that we are all human and cannot get into the heads of another race like dwarves and elves. I referenced the Hobbit movie a couple weeks ago and the part about the elf king not wanting to waste more lives to defend the humans and dwarves since they will be gone in a...
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    New One Ring and Lord of the Rings Starter Sets Launching at Gen Con

    Can I ask how they play compared to 'normal' 5e? Is it more like the books or more like any generic starter? Could I place it in FR and be ok, or is there a lot of lore that would need to be tossed or folded in somehow?
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    Edible RPGs for August

    I was thinking that the thread was going to be more adult in theme.
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    TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D

    Just as the DM giveth, I recall finally finding a girdle to go with my hammer and gauntlets. I was so excited, I did not wait to have the item checked out first- and put on a girdle of femininity. It also struck me as weird to call them girdles- to a 10-year-old boy.
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    D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party

    I noticed this with AL as well. Mostly in Tier 1 with some people showing up at a table of 1st level PCs with a 4th level PC. I think most of the modules are designed for 3rd level and it tells the DM how to adjust, but I seem to see it run as is most of the time.
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    D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party

    My current campaign has several henchmen that tag along with the PCs. They are level 11 and the henchmen are about level 5 or 6 in power. They think that they are 11th level and tend to drop a lot. Some may be that I make an adventure for 11th level and not 7th.
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    Playing AS monsters?

    Pre-5e we tried playing something with all reincarnated PCs as monsters. We had a few goblins and a bugbear hanging out with a lizardfolk. It started out ok with townsfolk hiding children and attacking us and eventually the DM started skipping this to get more adventure in and it fell apart...
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    Things Said That Stop the Game Dead in its Track

    Back in the 90s someone would suggest playing a quick game of MagicTG before we played D&D.
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