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  1. Quickleaf

    OSR Old school wizards, how do you play level 1?

    "Hah, this feeble mage hides because he is reduced to throwing components at us. Bacon trimmings, really? Clearly, you have no magic left and now Uruik the Butcher wi– Wh- Why are those hounds looking at me like that?"
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    D&D General Best Hexcrawl Resources?

    I have a few... here's two... will see if I can dig up more... Old School Encounter References (B. Scot Hoover) The Perilous Wilds (Jason Lutes & Jeremy Strandberg)
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    OSR [Old-School Essentials] Less Is More: Enhancing Campaign Themes with Limited Classes

    Love your thread! For my own setting I am making quite a few quirky custom classes...
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    D&D General Stuff 5E Did Right

    If we’re focusing the conversation on talking about the rules text (eg. as opposed to marketing via live plays), I think the 5e rules’ one - and possibly only strength - is how it synthesizes pieces from older systems. Advantage/Disadvantage and a modified version of Healing Surges are straight...
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    D&D 5E (2024) DMs what do you think of the new PHB?

    This might be too esoteric for the simple question about “what do DMs think of 2024 PHB”, but I often wonder about how negative space in design influences player behavior. How vague rules (whether intended or not) can encourage players’ worst impulses or better angels. This is above and beyond...
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    (IC) Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden

    Trails of spectral frost seem to run off the ghost’s clothes, yet never quite reach Lumrolur. The terrified kobold pulls its recovering bewildered leader (the one wearing fake wings that had been possessed) away from the ghost, back into the dead-end corner. After several breathless moments...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Buffing Int, Wis, and Cha (Mostly Int and Cha)

    You run into the problem of Ability-Score-as-Class. For example, say INT also gives bonus skills/languages/tools, then you have your Wizards and Artifcers becoming skill monkeys automatically. Or if you say CHA also gives you a number of Contacts, then you have Bards, Warlocks, and Sorcerers...
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    D&D 5E (2024) DMs what do you think of the new PHB?

    If I dive deep back into the 5e-o-sphere it will probably be with Level Up or Tales of the Valiant. It’s just so hard to get into that stuff when I’m already at the max complexity I want with 2014 D&D, so while I love the alternate/third party versions in principle, something turning the dial...
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    D&D 5E (2024) DMs what do you think of the new PHB?

    Shush. Of course we support the exploration pillar, conveniently accessed with the Project Sigil VTT where GMs can explore all kinds of built-in and purchased add/on modules! ;)
  11. Quickleaf

    D&D 5E (2024) DMs what do you think of the new PHB?

    Look as long as I can opportunity attack push a slower or paralyzed ally to get them within reach of a monster on their next turn, the 2024 game is GLOWING UP. 😏
  12. Quickleaf

    D&D 5E (2024) DMs what do you think of the new PHB?

    I have a very similar view, but have decided not to get the new book. Based on playtesting some of the UA, watching 3 flip-throughs of PHB, listening to insiders discuss their playtesting of the new PHB, and WotC’s press releases, my perception as a DM: There doesn’t seem to have been a DM...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How many combats do you have on average adventuring day.

    Answered 2, but anywhere from 1-3 was typical. But often muuuuch harder than baseline suggestions in 2014 DMG.
  14. Quickleaf

    Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks Talks AI Usage in D&D [UPDATED!]

    Tech bro man tech bro man Does whatever a tech CEO can Whats your game like? Not important Tech Hasbro man tech Hasbro man
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    (IC) Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden

    GM POST Lumrolur's bolt drops the first kobold, and streams of whisper-thin white mist – like a breath from behind the grave – roll off its body towards the kobold leader wearing fake leather wings. Clutching its head, the kobold leader falls down as a hazy bluish translucent figure seems...
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  17. Quickleaf

    D&D 5E (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

    My friends using DNDBeyond find the "integration" of the 2024 and legacy rules unwieldy... many rules entries are effectively doubled in length, with 2024 being given priority so you need to scroll down to find the 2014 "legacy" definition. Here are 2 screen caps demonstrating the issue: (1) is...
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