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    D&D 3.x Still playing 3e? Share your 3.0 and/or 3.5 house rules

    This has given me an idea for a fighter only feat, like a fighter version of spell mastery. Pick a number of weapons, any feat which applies to a single weapon additionally applies to all your chosen weapons. So weapon focus (shortbow) and weapon mastery (longsword, shortsword, mace) would apply...
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    D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

    Nothing is wrong with fantasy cowboys, I'm just saying that's what they look like. I've only had limited exposure to cowboys since I'm from NZ so it's entirely possible that there are others that these could appear to be like, but when I saw the pic Mexican was what I thought of.
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    D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

    This is the pic that I've seen. There may be others but this one really makes me think that the orcs shown are fantasy Mexican cowboys, they even have chaps. It's otherwise a good picture, I think the artist is pretty good.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    An easier read than Shakespear for sure. Project Gutenberg has been great for some very old books that I otherwise wouldn't have read. I've read a few H.R. Haggard's Allan Quartermain books because of it. I'm glad I did, She was an amazingly good read.
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    D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

    Honestly, you're not the only one who got that vibe from the imagery.
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    D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

    How do people actually use orcs and drow, goblins and ogres, and other such races in their game? I'm personally not so keen on making orcs a standard player race in my games, in the campaign I ran a while back I specified none of these typically evil races because they were the baddies. I'm...
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    D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

    I loved the orcs in the volo's guide (I think it was that one), from memory there was one that exploded in a pile of goo and disease when it died.
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    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    I loved Mario, I watched the trailer and realised that the people complaining were just an "old man shouts at clouds" situation. I also loved the dnd movie, I had a bit more disposable income but if my brother took all his kids to even one of those movies he'd probably go bankrupt. I...
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    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    I do wonder if the DnD movie would have done better if released a month later so that it wasn't directly competing with Mario, I feel like people only have so much entertainment money to go around. Perhaps they'd checked online and saw the Negative Nellies talking trash about Mario and thought...
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    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    I'm sure someone will, especially if $15 million was gained during the ks. There is probably a good overlap of people that read Sanderson's books and RPG players. Is the game even out? From what I've seen, DnD might be shrinking but a lot of people are playing non-dnd rpgs, this might be one of...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I read children of time back when it was released, I found it engaging but didn't actually realise it was going to be the first of a series. I actually felt the ending was perfect and didn't need a sequel, just humanity and spiders working together and heading off into the stars.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 4E Cosmology

    For something as abstract as the planes, I think it's fine to include multiple interpretations, that no one is necessarily correct though some may think that they're correct and as they move through the planes, from what little they can see they may very well have evidence that they are correct...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 4E Cosmology

    Considering the sheer size of the planes, I wouldn't be surprised if the world axis and the great wheel are just theories of their structure, it doesn't matter which is true or if neither is true, just pick one for your world beliefs. I mean, how many people can even look at all of creation to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Do you like the Purple Dragon Knight Subclass?

    Love it mostly as is, but that's because I think the dragon type should be the choice of the player and the name changed to just "dragon knight". Who knows, they might have some text box with how to adapt to other settings. I think it would fit well in dragonlance, plenty of knights that rode...
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    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    QI mentions the Indiana Jones awards.
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    D&D General [ART THREAD]Your Personal Favorite D&D Art For a Monster

    I've used animal lords in a game before (my own, not the dnd versions) and had them appear as perfect examples of their kind with some crazy runic patterns on their fur. I think the images I used for inspiration were from magic the gathering.
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    New Unearthed Arcana Released, With 8 New Forgotten Realms-Themed Subclasses

    For gem dragons, sure, but if I was making this subclass for FR, I'd remove the specific dragon type, and change the name to dragon knight and tie it to the cult of the dragon. To me it makes more sense for this to be tied to the cult rather than the purple dragon knights. Also, what's up with...
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    New Unearthed Arcana Released, With 8 New Forgotten Realms-Themed Subclasses

    What I find wierd with the PDK (or any pet class with this ability) is the power of life and death they have over their pet. It dies, and the knight can bring it back to life with an easy ritual (or just a touch). I understand it mechanically, it'sa chunk of the PDK's power budget but it gets a...
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    New Unearthed Arcana Released, With 8 New Forgotten Realms-Themed Subclasses

    Yep, the elven chain wearing bladesinger is the concept that sticks in my head. I'd probably house rule it if it came up.
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