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    Gate Pass Gazette Issue #42 is ruining an owlbear's day!

    To be honest, I first thought it was a modern take on an elf woman.
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    D&D General The ph icon characters

    I would hate to see what they would come up with to make an iconic party now-a-days. Then to see the same characters spread across all the books and art, no thank you.
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    Common Pitfalls in Game Design

    I recall a time I tried to expand the Risk game and made about three times the number of countries and regions. I added new shortcuts from South America to Australia and other options. I think the board itself was almost a whole sheet of plywood. We tried to play it once when I was mostly...
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    D&D General Players Decide when to Level Up

    There is the Adventure League (AL) route where everyone levels up after each adventure if you want to. The downside is that the adventures are capped for tiers and you cannot bring a 5th level PC to a level 1-4 game. This lets the players have a few PCs kicking around that they like and DM can...
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    D&D General Your last adventure in photos.

    I really like that the cave top and tree come apart in the last set of pictures.
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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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