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    D&D General Twin Guiding Bolt vs Ice Knife?

    In my not immodest experience with blasters, both as a player or GM, my feelings on first level damage spells and ice knife in particular are: On ice-knife: I've had a player friendly fire the fighter with this, not having read the spell properly. (I am not sure to this day if allowing this...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Humblewood: A New Third-Party Setting on D&D Beyond

    I have the book, but never ended up having a chance to use it as a GM. I do remember that there were some pretty nifty subclasses...
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    D&D 5E (2014) [+] The Alchemist, An Alternative To The Thirteenth Class

    I would strongly suggest you look at the apothecary class (In Sebastian Crowe's Guide to Drakkenheim), a follow up book to Dungeons of Drakkenheim. Key features: -Int caster -"warlock style" casting with a few high level slots that come back on a short rest. They have a little bit more slots...
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    D&D General [Forum Game] What's in a title?

    The party has been hired by a local crime lord to watch over an important shipment to End of the Line, a small town where a trail track ends. But bandits have removed the signage, causing the train to crash! What will our heroes do? (after this the heroes are now stuck in the middle of a...
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    D&D General Joe Manganiello: Compares Early 5E to BG 3 . How Important is Lore?

    I've seen a fair few. A dwarven druid, a dwarven fighter, a dwarven bladesigner, a few others in shorter things (one shot etc). I played a dwarven wizard in 3e, but not in 5e
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    D&D General Joe Manganiello: Compares Early 5E to BG 3 . How Important is Lore?

    I think you're confusing IP and trademarks. Trademarks have to be actively defended. IP not so much.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Indeed. Wasn't there some texts released where he seemed to say the trademark was worth 100 million dollars? (although I can't help but wonder if that was to get volunteers and supporters on board) I can't help but feel that if he had gone to WotC with 100 000$ as his opening bid, that WotC...
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    D&D General Joe Manganiello: Compares Early 5E to BG 3 . How Important is Lore?

    I first learned FR lore in the 2e era, and then in the 3e era. I have... no need to update the lore beyond this. Why would I? I think it's telling that all the settings I've used, only 2 are WotC... (Yoon Suin, UVG, Drakkenheim, warhammer, homebrewed pseudo earth, star wars SAGA, FR, 2e...
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    RollPig - a free, easy and cute game about being a pig

    This is adorable :D https://rollpig.com/
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    D&D General What's a good resource for creating a campaign world?

    I highly recommend Yoon-Suin. Now the "problem" with Yoon-suin is that is has a very specific flavor that you may wish to change... but it's filled with good advice and tables to create your own version of the stetting. For example, here is one table (I think one is "fair use"?). A local...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    I am not a lawyer, I have no legal training, I'm not even in the USA. I might know a little bit more than joe average but no more than that. I'm seeing the posts of the last few days as a long list of errors, blunders, and "factually incorrect statements". No one is perfect, people make...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Where's the Villain? and other musings. Why some published campaigns are great and some aren't (Spoiler alerts)

    My group ... is not quite like this, but they do like a bit of guidance. After finishing a long "silk road" campaign which was ... well not on a railroad, but definitely on a road haha - I ran my Yoon-Suin campaign. My goal with it was to be "anti" railroad. After a quick introduction...
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    D&D General The Mysterious Isle & Eye of Xxiphu - Time Travel Query

    I too don't quite understand the time travel bit - but it seems that all of it would be avoided if the party had stuck together.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Where's the Villain? and other musings. Why some published campaigns are great and some aren't (Spoiler alerts)

    I never read this adventure, but as a player we did part of it - it seemed like an endless combat slog. we didn't finish.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Where's the Villain? and other musings. Why some published campaigns are great and some aren't (Spoiler alerts)

    Warhammer was guilty of this. As a result, PCs would often strip fallen foes of all equipment and pawn it off. In one game, a party wanted to infiltrate the underworld so they set up a pawn shop and stocked it with all the stuff they hadn't managed to sell yet. After 2 sessions of that, I had...
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    D&D General The Mysterious Isle & Eye of Xxiphu - Time Travel Query

    I think if we strip away all the story and portals and whatnots, you have 2 fundamental questions to resolve 1: The party is splitting apart in significant ways because they can't agree on what to do. This issue could re-occur and can pose tremendous challenges to the GM (see what it did to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) A playthrough of The Shattered Obelisk (spoilers)

    Is the crypt guardian a generic term, or is this an undead with stats I can't seem to find? thanks for the update.
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