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    D&D General Why do good monsters exist, from a game design standpoint?

    I'm a bit confused by the original question. Monsters and NPC's are there to be used to help drive the story. Good ones for good threads in the story,evil ones for evil threads in the story. Sometimes either for neutral or simply non important ones in the story. Why do we need lists of what...
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    Wouldn't that depend on the deity. They aren't all the same are they?
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    but as an addendum to the post you were disagreeing on. I do think it would help a lot if WOTC would add sections for gods and Patrons on what they expect from the various orders of their worshippers. Gods in the D&D aren't all powerful or all knowing so it could be one gods definition of what...
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    Alignment is an Ideology. You'll never stop people arguing over whether it s right. Whether it's done right or whether paladins and clerics and other worshippers should suffer consequences.
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    If your gods are typical mythological gods who don't know everything an augury could be wrong even if the rolls are good.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I think the thing we miss a lot talking about bad DM's is a significant percentage of them are new DM's just trying to hold the game together while they figure it out. I don't have any numbers but I bet that 9 percent one would be well below 1/2 that if you take those guys who are just...
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    What's Your Price Limit?

    about 40 bucks a book. I can afford more but that's my limit unless it just Freaking WOWS me. Otherwise, I'll get a Humble bundle or we'll share a book at the table. I'm well aware that the books I mowed lawns for in 1975 at 20 bucks each may have been more expensive in real dollars back...
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    D&D General Why do good monsters exist, from a game design standpoint?

    I feel obligated to point out not all characters are good and not all parties are good. Though I agree they are the vast majority.
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    Self correcting is a trait of self awareness and use of intelligence guided by wisdom. Not an alignment trait. Libertarians embrace chaos. They think people will adjust and it will all be ok without rules. Self correcting for your mistakes or to change how you do things to obtain goals is...
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    One: it provides a framework for god's followers in a system where the gods are directly interacting and giving specific advise and guidance on how to behave. Two: at it's heart the game is structured around conflict it helps a new GM to divide things into groups to help them decide who will...
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    Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model

    problem is it leaves the realm of impulse purchase now. Id love to see the number of people that buy one or two but not all three of the quarterly softcovers. I'll be interested to see if they increase profits or not taking out the cheaper option for someone that may only be interested in...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I've never met more than a few of those DM's over the years. They exist but I don't think they are more than a percent or two of the DM population. DM's terrified to stretch the envelope because they've seen other great DM's are far more prevalant IME.
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    Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again.

    Just killing the weaker damage dealing, generally less important NPC's l, is the definition of clean up crew. Kill the small ones so melee can have the heroic moment with the big ones. Meshes perfectly with the PF2 design focus of all non melee's just being support for melee.
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    D&D General D&D weapons vs reality

    You are so wrong. Drones are what keep the Pentagon up at night. The ones that have scared them the most in the Ukraine are the fiber optic drones that jammers don't detect or stop. The Pentagon is looking at a new world order where anyone can build drones in their garage that are the...
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    Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again.

    So the new spot for magic is clean up crew? Interesting.
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    D&D General D&D weapons vs reality

    They've been throwing waves of drones at Russia for over a year now. If you dig deep enough the Pentagon has people working with them to learn what they learn to make our drones better. Probably not overblown.
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    Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again.

    Well PF2e doubled down on its strong group of players that like the game to be more tactical. They locked in the fact that the game assumes all non melee combatants are support classes. Any non melee class will have far more impact bugging and supporting melee than doing anything else. A lot...
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    D&D General GMing and "Player Skill"

    Well player "skill" in An RPG is just rules mastery and extreme min maxing. Not really skill. Just putting the Lego's together to achieve what DM hadn't considered. When GM starts planning games to ou think 6 players then an escalation 8nsues that all but insures that the game will lose all...
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    D&D General D&D weapons vs reality

    It's a story as old as time. Armored thing hard to kill till it isn't. Now one infantryman with the right missile or one drone equipped properly and tank is done. . It's got every 1st and second world nation terrified. The Ukrainian are stripping parts and batteries out of totalled electric...
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    D&D 4E Rambling thoughts about D&D 4th Edition

    Your players must be easier to satisfy. I've had thieves that want smart sneaky dogs, bards that want performing dogs, etc. etc. I haven't had a player ask for a war dog or hunting dog for a long time.
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