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    D&D General What Should Magic Be Able To Do, From a Gameplay Design Standpoint?

    i mean, i would prefer if they are distinguishable from each other, but of equal overall value.
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    D&D General What Should Magic Be Able To Do, From a Gameplay Design Standpoint?

    rather than the LotR-esc medieval fantasy aesthetic (albeit with the magic cranked way up) i'd much prefer if DnD went more along the lines of Final Fantasy, i'm specifically thinking of the likes of 6, 7 and 10, where magic and tech exist both side by side and combined with each other, where...
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    D&D General What Should Magic Be Able To Do, From a Gameplay Design Standpoint?

    i feel this might not be the strongest argument since the entire series is a half-parody of classic fantasy but discworld has both! the old wizards of Unseen University are your classic beard and hat types, performing rituals with dribbly candles and fighting eldritch horrors from other...
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    D&D General What Should Magic Be Able To Do, From a Gameplay Design Standpoint?

    i agree with all of these though the importance of each IMO varies (though i don't think you wrote your list in any order other than that which it came to you), if i were to prioritize these most to least important for magic to be able to perform, i think i'd end up with something like: 1)...
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    D&D General What Is D&D Generally Bad At That You Wish It Was Better At?

    at least you know what you were blocked for, sometimes when i check who's blocked me it'll be the most unexpected users who i feel i've barely interacted with, makes me deeply curious what terrible thing i said that warranted getting blocked by this near stranger.
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    D&D General What Is D&D Generally Bad At That You Wish It Was Better At?

    are you interpreting Gobhag's 'social gamplay' as social mechanics or as roleplaying(closer to 'social deduction' as it exists in the context of games like among us)? i interpreted their post as the latter given the context and what it was responding to, but your response comes across as if you...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e Psion+++++thread

    what are these in slightly plainer text? i mean i can guess at a few of them ??? portals and teleportation? yep telekinesis, is there anything else to it? scrying? self body-manipulation/control i'd assume. off the top of my head i'd categorize the individual talent categories of psionics...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e Psion+++++thread

    my conceptual cornerstones for what a psion/psionic abilities should be/have are: primarily telepathy, telekinesis and energy manipulation based abilities, i understand self-bodily manipulation is also traditional. more granular (than spell slots at least) 'easy come-easy go' recharging power...
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    D&D General What Is D&D Generally Bad At That You Wish It Was Better At?

    if you don't want your RP policed maybe you shouldn't of played a game where your character's capabilities are directly tied to numerical values that you yourself assigned, or maybe you should've assigned them differently.
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    D&D General What Is D&D Generally Bad At That You Wish It Was Better At?

    i feel like a fairly simple solution to this would just be to let rules for codified actions apply to everyone, but only the classes with the feature get to apply all their bonuses.
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    D&D General Languages suck in D&D.

    i'd like something like this if we're trying to get languages to matter, consolidate most languages down into say, six-seven 'core language groups' plus common, and then common doesn't get bonuses to social interactions, it's this weird hodgepodge language that near everyone knows but if they...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Did You Take That Level of Fighter?

    sure but NickName's proposed 'totally not a fighter' feat is exactly that, a feat, not a level dip, so sure it's got to be worth as a viable option to considered against dipping but it's also not got to totally outclass the sum total of nearly four other feats by itself.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Did You Take That Level of Fighter?

    i mean, it by itself is functionally almost equal to four other existing feats: -light armour prof - Lightly Armoured -medium armour and shield prof - Moderately Armoured -CON saving throw prof - Resilient -a fighter fighting style - Fighting Initiate you miss out on three +1 ASIs (one to STR...
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    D&D General If we were re-designing the Tiny Hut-esc 'instant shelter' spells what would we change?

    that it is the only reference point we have does not make it the right one to use, because our world is not the fantasy world, you are trying to determine 'normal' using a foreign standard and thus your results will be off.
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    D&D General If we were re-designing the Tiny Hut-esc 'instant shelter' spells what would we change?

    i feel you cannot define it from our perspective because it would just put everything over the line, we are outsiders in this scenario looking in from an entirely different reference point, how can we begin to judge what passes for normal in their world if we're using our standards? you cannot...
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    D&D General If we were re-designing the Tiny Hut-esc 'instant shelter' spells what would we change?

    galder's tower was honestly the least offensive of these to me due to just conjuring (at it's minimum) two climate controlled rooms, two rooms with stuff in them admittedly, but at least it wasn't an extra-dimensional space or nigh impenetrable force field, and the stuff disappears with the end...
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    D&D General If we were re-designing the Tiny Hut-esc 'instant shelter' spells what would we change?

    Leomund's Tiny Hut is just one of those spells, you know the ones, the ones that are really just a little TOO convenient to not take y'know? there are a couple of other in a similar vein to it that are designed to provide some level of 'instant shelter' to the players: rope trick, galder's tower...
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    what would you say are the notable differences between LitRPG and RPG-mechanics verse? or is it just one's the genre and the other's the trope?
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    D&D General Reification versus ludification in 5E/6E

    i can agree with this, i'm less intent on every weapon being represented specifically so much as there being a mechanical templates for every archetype of weapon.
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