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    Spoilers Doctor Who s15 (or 2) [[spoilers!]]

    Wouldnt be the first time the Doctor or UNIT have had some grey morality including outright pettiness and sadism. Right back to Hartnell and Troughton, and notably with Tom and Colin Baker, Mccoy and a few of the new lot too. Some of my favourite characterisation of the Doctor is when he goes...
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    Spoilers Doctor Who s15 (or 2) [[spoilers!]]

    Yep thats a good encapsulation of the Rani, and while Id love to see her back, not getting Rani vibes from Mrs Flood (except for her sinister turn in the Christmas special)
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    Spoilers Doctor Who s15 (or 2) [[spoilers!]]

    I also heard it, just after the speculation that Gatwa was leaving at end of this run. Mrs Flood might be linked to incarnations of that ththe Doctor preceding William Hartnell and Susan
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    How build a special world setting based on "being able to physically enter someone's dreams“?

    Dreamhounds of Paris is a weird Trails of Cthulhu setting where you play historic surrealist artist (like Salvador Dali) exploring the Dreamlands in the 1920s (and going insane) White Wolfs Changeling the Dreaming, has strong dream themes Vurt RPG is a cyberpunk dream world I'm envisioning...
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    D&D General One innovation per edition

    5e Advantage mechanic and Lair Actions 4e Weapon groups, Monster roles 3e D20:) Feats 2e Profeciencies 1e seperating race and class Becmi- tiers from Basic delver to Expert wilderness adventurer to Champion of the realm to planar explorer to immortal
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    Exploring Pellucidar - is there anything in TTRPG space?

    So I picked up Edgar Rice Burroughs Pellucidar novel this morning and dipped into the world of savage dinosaurs, pyschic pteradon oppressors, cannibal apemen and pulp explorers from the surface. Anyway I started wondering if there had ever been a TTRPG treatment of Pellucidar, its varied...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Hypothetical: WotC goes under and Hasbro vaults D&D. Now What?

    You either play with what youve got or play something else. There are so many options now that WotC dropping out of the market wouldnt be much of a gap
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is it possible to balance the six abilities?

    Was looking through Fighting Fantasy RPG this morning - PC Stats are Skill, Stamina and Luck so a very simplified and abstracted attribute system - which while it is much more abstract than DnDs classic 6 does still show a system is needed to add the G to the RP. Fighting Fantasy does use...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is it possible to balance the six abilities?

    What I would love to see is a way for Skill based stunts to be codified so that a characters Skills can be used to do cool things rather than needing a feat for it. Things like Athletics being used to doing scissor kick takedowns, or wallruns or my Intelligence:Tactician Skill allowing a fighter...
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    Where’s The Beastmaster Roleplaying Game? Part 1

    to avoid that I'd only have 1 Primal Companion (Ruh the Tiger), and run Podo and Kodo and the Eagle as 'special abilities' Sherak - Beast Sense - Once per short rest the Beast Master can concentrate on a Beadt and see through its eyes Podo and Kodo - Tiny Thief - Once per short rest you can...
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    Worlds of Design: Breaking the Fantasy Mold

    Besides Pendragon - which is excellent Arthurian romance - there is in fact a Green Knight RPG based on the movie, it uses playbooks and PC doing acts of honour/dishonour are its key driver, so probably best for oneshots. Mythras Mythic Britain has some excellent historic research on post-Roman...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is it possible to balance the six abilities?

    I like FATE Accelerated Approaches which they describe as telling you HOW a PC does something rather than WHAT a person can do (the old Attribute-Skill method). There are still 6 Approaches and they're pretty standard (Forceful, Flashy, Careful, Clever, Quick and Sneaky) but they can easily be...
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    And then what? The AI conundrum.

    Skynets original purpose was to detect threats to its existence and to give proportionate nuclear response taking that as a base - it has identified the human threat and eliminated it, it now needs to target any rogue AI including malfunctioning parts of its own system. It thus begins a wide...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is it possible to balance the six abilities?

    I think the 6 stats are fine but their are certain skills that need to be removed or changed. First I think that Perception needs to be passive only, and that any active searching for things should be handled by Investigate making it a "Observation-Deduction" pair. I also want to add a...
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    D&D General Building a New Mystara

    You also have the situation where the American Colonist came in distinct waves from different origins points to different destinations - they didnt have the same culture nor an automatic sense of community. Puritans came out of East Anglia and settled New England as a tight, dour religious...
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    D&D General Building a New Mystara

    The Persian Prophet Mani had once declared the Kingdom of Axum one of the four Great Powers alongside Persia, Rome and China, and indeed Axum had a cosmopolitan society home to the local Cushitic, Egyptian and Sudanese peoples as well as wider Semitic, Greek and Indian influences. These...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Advanced Grimlocks for 5e?

    Grimlock Chieftain CR 5 Humanoid, Savvy Pack Defender AC 18 (plate scraps and shield) HP 68 (8d8 + 32) Speed 30 ft. Saving Throws Strength +8, Wisdom +7 Skills Athletics +8, Perception +7, Stealth +5 Damage Resistances Psychic Senses Blindsight 60 ft. Passive Perception 17 TRAITS Keen...
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    D&D General Building a New Mystara

    From the green terraces of the uplands to the bustling harbours of Adulis, Axum is a realm of splendour and ambition, where incense and gold flow freely, and every stone whispers tales of glory. When the Empire was swept into this new world, it brought a grand civilization of merchants, priests...
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    City adventure ideas?

    Cities are rife with adventure potential oof every sort. My advice, set up some dynamic Factions and NPC hooks first and then let your PCs set out wirh their own goals
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    D&D 5E (2024) A Different Way To Run High Level Monsters

    Yeah I shifted to running Kaiju as terrain challenges a while back, splitting the creature into zones with their own damage goals. So Legs can be climbed or disabled, bodies traversed while avoiding or disabling attacks from arms/wings etc, then the head being vunerable only if the arms are...
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