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  1. Glade Riven

    D&D 5E (2014) 5E Forgotten Realms: what will it look like?

    I expect 5e to sand off some of the rougher edges of the Spellplague and do what WotC said it would do - allow easy play in any era. It also needs a blue crate marked "Town Guard" that has a Dimention Door installed, capable of transporting PCs through time and space. It would be controlled...
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    Henches, Cohorts, and Donkeyhorses in 5e

    Wow. I had no idea I was playing/DM so Old School. And I haven't needed any extra rules for this crap. I just did what made sense for a vibrant, living world.
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    Rethinking setting design

    Sorry, sometimes my late night posting has some coherance issues... Basically, my strategy for getting the setting involves "self-piracy" as marketing. Any print versions would have a low-resolution version with the fancy artwork avalible for download or torrented. Print versions would be POD...
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    Let's Forget the Forgotten Realms

    Greyhawk, because it was butchered for 3e and skipped over for 4e, would be a brand new setting for me, and anybody who has come onboard in the last 15 years. Here's hoping you get your wish, and don't suffer the curse of the monkey's paw in the process.
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    The Return of the Sneaking Man

    Wow. Another demand that a class be weeabooed. There are good rogue builds, there are bad rogue builds. There are good DMs that will give everyone a chance to shine, and then there are DMs that end up leaving a player out in the cold. There are players who handle the class well, and there are...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Which of these settings do you want to see for D&D Next?

    Brand New Setting, Dark Sun, Eberron. I like Dark Sun and Eberron, and I'd like to see something new, with no previous edition baggage.
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    D&D 5E (2014) A 5e Setting: The Realm of the D&D Cartoon Show

    Can't say that sounds interesting...because it kinda doesn't. You know what would be really cool? Handle it like Avatar: The Last Airbender or the new Thundercats. Ditch the kidnapping of kids and the reality hopping. Air it on Hasbro's new Hub Network next to the latest Transformers or something.
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    Rethinking setting design

    I've been working on a Pathfinder-compatable setting for a while, and I'm making decent progress considering that I'm pretty much a team of 1 (plus the group I DM that gets to be guinea pigs). While at the moment it's homebrew, I do intend to do some indie publishing with it. Maybe someday it'll...
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    Let's Forget the Forgotten Realms

    The Dragonlance novels were my first introduction to Dungeons and Dragons. I read a few Forgotten Realms books, but the original Dragonlance trillogy was better. I didn't actually start playing D&D until college, about early-to-mid 3.5. The problem I ran into with Forgotten Realms in how it...
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    The benefit of a videogame education

    I came to D&D about the time 3.5 came out. Most of my prior RPG experiance had been with videogames - Final Fantasies, Zeldas, Elder Scrolls, and others. Very, very few games used a similar engine or underlying math. What this means is that I'm not that tied to a "game engine" - whatever RPG...
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    There are going to be a lot of people disappointed.

    I don't give a flying flumph what's in it so long as it's fun. Sure, it'd be nice to surpass the genre modularity of the heydays of d20, but not a deal breaker.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Would you buy a D&D Next Beta Playtest Rulebook?

    Would I buy a beta book? No. Do I care if WotC offers one? Nope. I hope the beta is text-only and written like the d20 SRD; save the artwork and fluff for the finished product.
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    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder minotaur race: P.E.A.C.H.

    My suggestion on the Horns: 1d4 piercing, natural attack; 1.5x strength bonus on damage if used as part of a charge. The bonus to two of the physical stats and a penalty to a mental stat is technically against Paizo's +2 to physical, +2 to mental, -2 to anything that was part of their original...
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    1000 page PHB

    Oi...think I encouraged something with my sig.. I don't want another super-massive tome. Pathfinder's core rulebook is big enough. What I do like is the "digest sized" books found in Essentials and recent box sets. In fact, I'd rather have smaller digest sized books that are more focused as...
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    Psionics

    Fluff-wise, I have no problem with it, but I'm an inclusionist. I want a system that will handle Conan to Lord of the Rings to Pirates of the Caribian to Indiana Jones to Al Capone to the Wild West to Die Hard and all the way up to Fallout, Star Trek, and Star Wars (not necessarally the specific...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Will there be a 5e Modern?

    I really hope so. A friend of mine still DMs his setting, which mixes quite a bit from the d20 spectrum. It started as Forgotten Realms + d20 modern set in the Wild Wild West with a dash of Fallout, and over a number of years borrowed from Eberron, Iron Kingdoms, and pretty much everything...
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    Keep your iPad

    Yes. But the question is whether or not it would be worth it to upgrade the hardware as well as the software when the time comes. I have a tendency to prefer sizable leaps when I upgrade. I don't want something just as good or only slightly better in a smaller package.
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    AD&D 1E My clever theory: why 1e AD&D is being reprinted

    Or it could be that they have realised that with any long-running franchise and/or popular, collector's edition stuff sells well and makes booku bucks from the premium price.
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    George Lucas Blames 'Star Wars' Critics for Killing Series

    The prequels make a lot more sense when you realize that his target audiance wasn't Star Wars fans, it was his own children. It's why NSync almost ended up in Attack of the Clones. Still, though, Star Wars fans are a pretty vitriolic and volitile fandom. They're almost as angry as Transfans...
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    Keep your iPad

    Get this - my tablet above? Wireless B. But it's wireless B before every electronics manufacturer used firmware to depower wireless G in all the mobile stuff to conserve battery power (you'd think they'd at least switch to N for most of the new stuff by now), so it connects at longer ranges and...
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