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  1. occam

    D&D General Multiple Sources of Resistance?

    That's incorrect. Resistance has never stacked in 5e. You have Resistance to an instance of damage or you don't.
  2. occam

    D&D General Multiple Sources of Resistance?

    To the best of my knowledge, there is no creature that has Resistance (i.e. that takes half damage) from spells or magic in general, so this wouldn't come up. There are creatures that gain Advantage on saving throws against spells and magic, but that's a different thing.
  3. occam

    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    What about this looks stable to you? Also, while Musk has declined to report profit numbers since the acquisition, it's pretty widely acknowledged that despite massive cost-cutting, between steeply declining revenue and huge loan paybacks, Twitter/X has likely still not achieved...
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    The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Added to D&D Beyond

    Yes. There's an added tool proficiency for pipes! (And you can use it to gain inspiration after a smoking session.)
  6. occam

    The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Added to D&D Beyond

    Characters are roughly in the same ballpark as regular D&D 5e PCs, but I haven't playtested to see how that works out at the table. There are no spells, and it's worth mentioning that Callings (i.e. classes) only go to 10th level (as is called out on the DDB product page in a couple of places)...
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    WotC Some Rich Dude Calls for Wizards of the Coast to "Burn in Hell" and I Refuse to Care

    Hell is where every die roll ends up cocked... and you're not even the one rolling. You're just watching someone else roll, and reroll, and reroll... "oops, cocked again!"... when will you ever get your turn??!!
  8. occam

    Elon Musk Calls for Wizards of the Coast to "Burn in Hell" Over Making of Original D&D Passages

    Once again, I am foiled by the absence of a head-smack response emoji.
  9. occam

    Dragon Reflections #84

    From a modern perspective, it's funny to read that being "not as complex as other systems" was a knock on Basic D&D. (This is the OP's paraphrasing; I'm curious what the original wording was.) I do remember those days, though; complexity, in and of itself, was often considered a sign of...
  10. occam

    WotC Some Takeaways From Hasbro's Latest Reports

    And so does Hasbro. Digital Game Licensing is reported separately from Digital Games and Tabletop as categories under the WotC & Digital Gaming segement of the company.
  11. occam

    WotC Some Takeaways From Hasbro's Latest Reports

    Talk about obfuscation; you're mixing up numbers from two different quarters (2023Q4 and 2024Q1), thus confusing things. This article is referencing 2023Q4. But here you're talking about 2024Q1. And your conclusion is suspect. In 2024Q1, revenues for Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Sword Coast population data from 2024 D&D Pocket Expert

    London reached a population of 2,000,000 in the mid-19th century...
  13. occam

    D&D 5E (2024) The New Custom Backgrounds Details

    Go to Collections, under Homebrew click on Create Background, and under "Use an existing background as a template", select one of the 2024 backgrounds. Then change whatever you want and save it. If you have Homebrew enabled as a source when creating a PC, you can then select a new background you...
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    D&D 5E (2024) The New Custom Backgrounds Details

    I don't know where this story got started, but this is incorrect. You can homebrew 2024-style backgrounds on DDB right now, and have been able to since the revised PHB was released.
  15. occam

    D&D 5E (2014) LotR 5E Resources

    There's this, for AiME: Fan Supplement for AiME The material's of varying quality, as expected from such a compilation. It's good for ideas, though, and I've done my own versions of some things in there. For TLotRR, Free League is supposed to bring it to D&D Beyond at some point, which should...
  16. occam

    D&D 5E (2024) Digital book on '24 dragons?

    Yep, there was an email containing codes for the dragon art book and the Gold digital dice set. I received mine on Sept. 3rd.
  17. occam

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player’s Handbook is ‘Fastest Selling D&D Book Ever’

    You hit the nail on the head with that last point. Three times the book sales sounds like a lot... but when the books still sell out given the increase in D&D players since 2014, where will those desperate players go? To buy the book online, thus falling right into WotC's trap to convert us all...
  18. occam

    D&D 5E (2014) Darkvision and Magical Darkness

    This is exception-based design at work. You're proposing that the general rule and its exceptions would be sequenced like this: Darkness: Blocks normal vision, but darkvision can penetrate it to a specific range. Devil's Sight: Grants darkvision that penetrates both normal and magical...
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