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  1. Ancalagon

    D&D 5E (2014) Question on Mass Combat Comparison

    I've kept this one (exploder wizard's post) in my back pocket for need - but I've hadn't had the need for it yet: https://www.enworld.org/threads/tools-for-running-larger-battles-efficiently.471525/#ixzz43z2QJaRu
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    WotC Hasbro CEO Chris Cox talks about D&D on NPRs Here & Now. Topics include Layoffs and OGL.

    That question is not Hasbro specific, it's a question about capitalism. This is a story that has happened hundreds of time by now
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    D&D General The Charisma Conundrum

    It's very hard to roleplay more charismatically (or wisely, or smartly) than what you actually are. One method is the third person/objective driven description. For example "My character attempts to charm the elven alchemist. I flatter the excellence of his glass work and imply I may have...
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    D&D General Bizuids and Clercerocks

    I have to say, I really do enjoy creating these kinds of systems. The Yoon Suin setting is very cool is that it has neat elements but not everything is explained. For example, a few clues: there are hundreds of gods the gods demand sacrifice some of the gods are very minor the river is known...
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    D&D General Bizuids and Clercerocks

    I would add fighter and rogue to the mechanical list. Psion would be internal, so perhaps the psi warrior and soul knife would be internal?
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    D&D General Bizuids and Clercerocks

    In Yoon-Suin, in the yellow city, there are hundreds of gods. https://slugsandsilver.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-few-yoon-suin-gods.html In the original setting, all slugmen are mages or holymen (priest of various sorts). But it never explained why...
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    D&D General Bizuids and Clercerocks

    In Troika!, there are no "classes", only backgrounds. They all use the same rules for spells, but the background provides the "story" behind their skills and spells. I'll post two to illustrate. 53 Sorcerer of the College of Friends As an integral part of your tutelage in the sub-dimensional...
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    D&D General Bizuids and Clercerocks

    I think I answered this with the - not that clear - sentence "But others may not have such choices.". I meant other individuals may not have the choice of a "safe-ish" patron like a friendly genie or archfae. I also think you misunderstood this example as being the way warlocks are in my...
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    D&D General March Madness 2024 - Round 6 - Martials Semi-Final

    I know that "objectively" the paladin is better but... Fighter for me!
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    D&D General Bizuids and Clercerocks

    So... I think the Druid kinds of messes up this analysis. I see most druids as cleric-like - they get their powers through a deep mystical connection with nature, this is why wisdom, not intelligence, is their casting stat. That being said, the star druid is definitely a "nerdy" druid, and I've...
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    D&D General Are the 5.5 (or whatever) classes/races/monsters/etc better than 5.0?

    I think that people who "won't switch" may be doing/saying so for a variety of reasons, some more nuanced than others. For example I'm "not switching". By this I mean 2 things 1: wait and see 2: I have 2 campaigns that won't end till 2025. I'm not switching ruleset 3/4 of the way through...
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    D&D General Cleretic advice

    I didn't say it was right. I said that's how the word has been used. When you're speaking of "goals" - who's goal? The OP's planned PC? How we should live in real life?
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    D&D General Cleretic advice

    See... again I must disagree. There is a strong value judgement with the word. Heretic is a term applied by the dominant, the orthodoxy, branch of a religion, towards those who dare deviate/disagree too much. Heresy is "wrong", is punishable. Very few people call themselves heretic, I used...
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    D&D General what environments feel lacking in nice people?

    I'm a little leery of the question, because it can reflect real-world colonial attitude - people living in these impoverish lands are "lesser" somehow than other people (... thus it's "ok" to take their land). It's not a big leap to then go "the swamp is an evil space" (and thus it needs...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Looking at the sign on the lower right - AI art?
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    D&D 5E (2024) This Dragon Art Is From The 2024 Player's Handbook

    It's an intriguing idea. One of the numerous campaign setting ideas I've never used is a world where dragons are much more ... present... in the world. There may not be many, but they are there. A young adult copper dragon is the mount of a king. A Red dragon controls a mountain pass...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Monster damage realization - DPR per CR diminishes across the game

    It's clear that CR 0 to 1 has a different set of rules than most other CRs. But the core is remarkably consistent
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    D&D 5E (2014) Monster damage realization - DPR per CR diminishes across the game

    @Rabulias I must admit it took me a moment to understand what you were doing. is your "adjusted" CR 1 a CR 0 or CR 1/8 creature? (I have more comments but I want to be sure I understand you)
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    D&D 5E (2014) Monster damage realization - DPR per CR diminishes across the game

    So - by damage per CR, I meant to illustrate the average damage (per round - of course it's per round, it's not going to be per hour...) in relationship to the CR. (again, I'm using the DMG numbers) You will note that between CR 1 and 20, the relationship is linear - it's not a curve, it's a...
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    D&D General Cleretic advice

    Re-read my post please, this was just one example. If I get into the more serious disagreements, we leave the scope of discussion of this forum.
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