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    Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks Talks AI Usage in D&D [UPDATED!]

    I'm not in the industry, and I assume a CEO has way more free time than I do, and I play regularly with about half that number. I find it believable, if he loves to game and devotes lots of time to it. That's really only 3 or 4 oversized groups or 5 reasonable ones.
  2. the Jester

    Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks Talks AI Usage in D&D [UPDATED!]

    I have a dm who has used AI to generate pictures, boxed text, custom monsters, and even plots. He has to tweak everything a bit, but it does a bunch of the work for him.
  3. the Jester

    D&D 5E (2014) Homebrew (no pun intended) Magical Teas: How to Do It?

    Magic Tisanes Wondrous item, uncommon When found, this appears to be a box of 1d4+3 teabags. You can draw a bag from the box and add it to a potion as a bonus action. If a creature then drinks that potion within the next minute, it gains an extra effect from it. Each teabag might have a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Homebrew (no pun intended) Magical Teas: How to Do It?

    I have magical tisanes, which are basically tea bags that you add to an existing potion and they add an additional effect. It's not exactly what you're looking for but might provoke an idea for you.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Full List of Changes in the D&D 2024 Player's Handbook

    I know not everyone does, but I splash a lot of science fiction in my dnd.
  7. the Jester

    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Maybe. Probably. Definitely.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Full List of Changes in the D&D 2024 Player's Handbook

    To be honest, I see no reason why it should be. And the whole "dispersed across the multiverse" thing falls apart if you realize that languages change pretty quickly over time and the same language tends to evolve in different directions in different locations, so that it splinters into...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    I feel slightly responsible. Apologies for the system shock.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    You never go ATM... machine.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Full List of Changes in the D&D 2024 Player's Handbook

    For an edition that seems to be intent on removing much of the lore and flavor from things, and stripping any culture from monsters, this seems like an awkward, backwards, counter-to-their-overall-design-philosophy choice. If the point of removing all the established lore about e.g. goblinoids...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Never considered banning a spell before: Portho's Portal from BoET

    IME Kobold Press has a lot of great ideas, but I often find their idea of "balanced" to be pretty far removed from mine.
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    D&D General Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Magic Missile: Why Gygax Still Matters to Me

    Oh man, I once got a four pack of Hong Kong kung fu dvds. One of them was given different title on the box than on the surface of the disc, and its plot was basically nothing like the box claimed. It was dubbed and also had subtitles (which were always on, not like these days where you can turn...
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    D&D General Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Magic Missile: Why Gygax Still Matters to Me

    A fair number of dnd monsters are drawn from non-Western sources, and a fair subset of them were around before e.g. Oriental Adventures or Kara-Tur were.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Creature Stat Blocks in 2024 Player's Handbook

    I miss the Scent special quality from 3e.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Issues with Legendary Reactions vs Legendary Actions

    But why? What does the change make better? What problem does it fix? It feels like a change for the sake of change.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Issues with Legendary Reactions vs Legendary Actions

    Yeah, this is an obvious but apparently unanticipated consequence of changing legendary monsters from LAs to reactions. I complained about it during the playtest, but apparently to no avail. I don't see how LAs are difficult to understand or any harder to handle than extra reactions, and I don't...
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    D&D General How Was Your Last Session?

    I ran a great session last night, playtesting my own homebrewed version of dnd. It was this iteration's first playtest, and my first revision of it since 5e dropped 10 years ago. The short description of the game system is that it's not the dnd you know; it doesn't even use the core "d20...
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    D&D General Time Machine and a New D&D.

    I do 10 levels, but only the basic four classes- the others are achieved via feats. F'rex: NECROMANCER You can spend 10 minutes performing a ritual over a corpse to turn it into a skeleton or zombie. The ritual requires arcane or religious components costing 25 gp per HD of each...
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