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    D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?

    Interesting because other than the Realms (and I much prefer Eberron) I find 4e works best for most of those. First re simulationist mechanics I find hit points drown everything else. They are a mechanic commonly interacted with (as in multiple times every fight) that ensure that there is no...
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    Do you "roleplay" in non-TTRPG Games?

    And mine is that regardless of the "storytelling game of personal horror" tagline Vampire has a ton of combat mechanics. (I think more than AD&D had) and entire Disciplines that were basically for combat. And that like Vampire AD&D has social mechanics, mindreading mechanics, and mechanics that...
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    D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?

    Meanwhile I'm in camp c. I'll take warblades, binders and beguilers or 2e fighters or AD&D wizards over 3.X fighters and wizards (or pre-4e clerics)
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    Do you "roleplay" in non-TTRPG Games?

    A strange game. The only move to keep all your friends is not to play.
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    D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?

    A lot depends on whether you can tell players to manage their own stuff.
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    Do you "roleplay" in non-TTRPG Games?

    [Citation needed] - not that I can't believe it but where is the aggregate? You're implying Vampire wasn't superheroes-with-fangs there.
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    D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?

    Assuming by "that" you mean getting worse rather than changing then 4e. At launch the PHB was at least six months from being ready and adding books didn't add too much power creep because there was structure. 4e also has the distinction of outlasting the edition intended to replace it in the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) [+] What does a non-spellcaster Psion need/look like?

    I just had a thought. I fundamentally do not see the point of the Psion we have been presented - a pretty generic caster trying to force itself between the sorcerer and wizard. But my first main RPG was GURPS and GURPS psionics is as different from GURPS magic as D&D magic is from Stars Without...
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    Hours actually playing RPGs, non-D&D?

    As mentioned on the other thread 60 is a three hour game every other week
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    D&D General Hours actually playing RPGs, D&D?

    60+ is only 20 three hour sessions or 15 4 hour sessions. That's about one evening a week 1/fortnight. I haven't played any 5e since about July but made it over 60 before that
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    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition Is Coming in 2026

    No. You are just missing the point. Yes WRFP 4e has multiclassing rules. So does D&D 5e. By changing to "All careers have four levels and the only active suggestion is to progress in your career" WFRP has put careers on a level with 5e classes - and players who have been playing since 2e will...
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    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition Is Coming in 2026

    And D&D 3.0 worked if you played it as if it was 2e. You are continuing to play 4e as if it was 2e which works better - but the scaffolding and signposts have been removed. So if you have a guide who's been playing since the 2e era you'll find that path but new players very rarely will. Because...
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    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition Is Coming in 2026

    It's not "an option" for progression. It is the default for progression that changed. Pre-4e WFRP used a careers based system in which every character makes routine and regular choices as they level up, deciding how they will grow. Meanwhile WFRP 4e is a class based system in which your classes...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Views on 24 MM/SRD monster mechanics now

    I'm I think in several common camps 2024 monsters are a minor improvement on 2014 but not substantially different Abilities which can be subsumed into basic stats/skills or give advantage were always boring and deserved cleaning up Lycanthropes should be vulnerable to silver or have their regen...
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    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5th Edition Is Coming in 2026

    My hard line is whether they fix the career system back to the way it was with you bouncing between careers to level up rather than just level up in your career. I want the Pit Fighter to go to a Judicial Champion not Pit Fighter 1 -> Pit Fighter 4; Pit Fighter 4 should not be a thing.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    It's how I use some of the Void Transformations
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    Warhammer 40k: The Emperor of Mankind: The Manufactured Myth

    I can't agree here. Just as crapsack, possibly. Just as fascist? The Imperium of 40k has always had a maximum of two legal religions (with the Adeptus Mechanicus/Omnissiah having the possible second). Meanwhile if you go back to WFRP 1e The Empire is very much polytheist, with the Cult of Ulric...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Ehh... you can either make strength your best stat and give up a single point of knowledge/casting or you can make strength your second best stat and give up a single point to hit with your weapon. Either way it's not a big deal.
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    Warhammer 40k: The Emperor of Mankind: The Manufactured Myth

    I believe that the Emperor's original plan was to put Magnus the Red into the Golden Throne; it needs a big psyker but not necessarily the Emperor himself. Big E is also a Perpetual meaning that if he dies he comes back; it is not known whether Horus managed to strip this from him, whether the...
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    Contemporary Simulationist TTRPGs [+]

    No it isn't. Until and unless you can cover every single possibility in a concise ruleset you are going to have to rely on GM adjudication. Which means that unless you can show me the game that has something as comprehensive as the description of what a fight is then either you have an...
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