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    D&D 5E (2024) University project on D&D spells

    You will be shown a series of spells. These spells come from three different sources: A Human Player: An experienced Dungeons & Dragons player. GPT: A general-purpose large language model from OpenAI. LLaMA: A large language model from Meta that has been specially fine-tuned to generate D&D...
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    D&D General The Great Railroad Thread

    I would rather the DM ask where I would like to go next. If the group wants to go to Pengewich, then the planned adventure should happen and the players should get on board with it unless something drastic happens to change things. If we tell the DM we all want to go to the Castle of Arrrgh...
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    D&D General The Great Railroad Thread

    Was there a question or are we all going Thunderdome here?
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    Castles & Crusades spell components

    Relying on the player to track is a crapshoot at best, even with a player that is generally honest and forthright. I'm thinking of something with generic 'packets' like 4e ability cards that we would flip over with encounter and dailies cast. Not sure if they are attached to a spell...
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    Tips and Tricks to Running a Con Game

    @erk_fwd welcome to the site, there are many with great answers to your problems or what someone will point out as a problem. I ran a convention game earlier this year using a modified home game adventure. From playtesting it with my home group I was able to judge the time and add better...
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    Homunculi Weight

    @barbarian66 welcome to the site. The thread is from a couple editions ago and 20+years so not sure if the poster has been seen in awhile. We do not mind bringing up old stuff to argue over again though. Heck, I did not even know the artificer was that old as a class. Good place to insert...
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    D&D General Fall of Netheril- The Return of the Arcane Age Subsetting

    This is the new product coming out in November 2025. The other books mentioned are from 2e days for those confused like I was.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dispel Evil and Good cleric spell 5th level in use

    Why would you rule to teleport to a space above the dragon and not to directly stand on it? Would someone teleporting down the road need to land above the road or he just lands on the road with no chance of landing 1foot below and now is buried up to his knees? Maybe I can see it since it is...
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    AD&D 2E First example of official max hp at first level?

    Likely not the first example of power creep in character creation.
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    Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1

    Couldn't one just strap a few ACME rockets to a passing meteoroid and steer it into a bothersome planet and make everything go the way of the dinosaurs? Unless you needed something on the planet like the OP stated.
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    What makes a successful superhero game?

    I'm thinking of the Endgame movie where the spaceship is raining down missiles on everyone and they are all hiding and such, then Ms Marvel comes to just fly through the ship and take everything out. Begs the question of why she couldn't just fly through Thanos to end the whole problem. It was...
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    US Tariffs: $80-$200 Surcharge On All Packages Regardless of Price

    Soooo, they are saying that AI cannot even figure out how to charge accordingly? I know it is government and nothing is easy, but still.
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    D&D General D&D: Literally Don't Understand This

    Without context, nothing about the art says D&D to me. If it was talking about a section in Radiant Citadel, then I guess. Picture looks more like a Chinese-Lantern themed quinceañera to me though.
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    Seeking Community Input: Map Making Tools That Actually Serve GMs

    I could use printed maps like the old 4e D&D Keep on the Shadowfell came with. Maybe not a full adventure, but a double-sided map with an encounter location on one side and another 1 or 2 locations on the other side. It would better it is came with an encounter for each location that adds to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dispel Evil and Good cleric spell 5th level in use

    It never came back up in the final fight with the ghost dragon. It did try to possess the cleric and he made the save. Then it was able to take over the fighter with a 20 AC and cloak of displacement so that make things tougher. The players were all for taking out the fighter to remove the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dispel Evil and Good cleric spell 5th level in use

    I have the final fight tonight with the ghost dragon in its lair. I'm not sure but likely will have an auto-hit on allies that become possessed, but a to-hit against other monsters that the ghost possesses. I think it is mostly to have the player that is possessed be able to do something in...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dispel Evil and Good cleric spell 5th level in use

    I thought about just not letting it work on this ghost, but also I did not want to player to not try something which was a good idea on his part. There is a lot of spells that just bypass things though. some of this is that you are or are becoming one of the most powerful people in the region...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Ideas for Slight Level Adjustment?

    You should be fine to run as is. This is especially true if your players are more optimized than normal since most modules are set for a 'normal' party. Keep in mind that 5th level is a big bump in PC power with extra attacks and 3rd level spells and such. You can always fudge some monsters...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Why doesn't the Tarrasque have Regen?

    I question why even having the thing in the first place. But is is supposed to be iconic, but so are several other monsters. Same with tradition or providing a challenge to high level PCs. I feel that regeneration is generally weak with the other powers out there. Give it a damage...
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    D&D General The ph icon characters

    I do find it cool that the new book pays a throwback to the original.
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