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    D&D 5E (2014) Best third party campaign books - recommend me some

    I have the PDFs from when they were on drive thru. I think the new company is called something like Quimbleys and they still sell them on their own site. Mostly they focus on the board game stuff now though. Edit looks like the relationship fell through this year and the quimbley site is down.
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    Undead Origins

    Microlite2020 Spell List 1.01 (341) Microlite20 Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell. Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell. 4th-Level Arcane Spells Animate Dead: Creates level X2 HD of undead skeletons or zombies.
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    Tell Us About Your Pirate Campaign(s)

    I played in a Savage Tide pbp game here, it was fun. 3.5 high fantasy pirates and demons.
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    Tell Us About Your Pirate Campaign(s)

    I ran a Death in Freeport pbp game here with a big pirates theme. It was a heavily house ruled 3.5 with some of the house rules to make 3e more swashbucklerry and less plate armor tanky in incentives. The one I remember most was giving everybody their reflex saves as adding on to their dex bonus...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I haven't checked but I would expect they are rarer on the random item generation charts as well being on one of the multiple 1e miscellaneous item subtables compared with the single rings table. Plus they were not in B/X like rings of protection +1 were so no Keep on the Borderlands early...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    "Armor class below 10 is not possible except through cursed items. Armor class above 2 is easily possible due to magical bonuses and dexterity bonuses. To determine a “to hit” number not on the charts, project upwards by 1’s (5% increments), repeating 20 six times before continuing with 21 (Cf...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Best third party campaign books - recommend me some

    For Freeport, there is only the Death in Freeport conversion for 5e, but if all you want is the story ideas and D&D beats the Pathfinder 1e Return to Freeport and the 3.5 Black Sails and the Trilogy follow up 3.0 Hell in Freeport and 3.5 Crisis in Freeport provide a bunch more. Hell and Crisis...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Best third party campaign books - recommend me some

    Northlands Saga stuff from Frog God appeals to me the most of their 5e stuff, though they have not converted the entire saga yet that they have in Swords & Wizardry and Pathfinder 1e. If you like the darkness of the Ghoul Empire one you might also like The Blight from Frog God. For more dark...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Best third party campaign books - recommend me some

    I like the 5e Cthulhu D&D adventure paths that were originally put out by Petersen Games. They have four part ones that are themed around Mi-Go, Yig, Tsathogua, Ghouls, and Hastur (and I think an all in one single big one about Dopplegangers/possibly Shoggoths?). Dark World is the Mi Go one and...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I am not aware of any such explicit limitation. I can find the reverse on page 79 at the beginning of the attack charts "Armor class below 10 is not possible except through cursed items. Armor class above 2 is easily possible due to magical bonuses and dexterity bonuses. To determine a “to...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I had forgotten those were a thing, another potential +5 of AC and save bonuses (just does not stack with armor and shields)
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    My understanding of 4e dragons was that individuals varied, but Chromatics were still evil and metallics generally were not, though they shifted to more unaligned instead of baseline good. Here is the text in the 4e MMI: Dragons are diverse creatures, appearing in at least twenty-five...
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    It has varied hugely over time, edition, and setting. 1e had Lankhmar with spellcasting clerics as White Wizards, not connected to gods. 1e Dragonlance had normal clerics with setting flavor rarity, then in 1e Dragonlance Adventures the 1e specialty priests for each god with themed reduced...
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    Eberron decouples dragon color from alignment. Golds and reds (in Eberron) are equally likely to be evil or good. In d20 Modern the different color dragons are there but they all have the same basic stat block by age category, whites are as big and powerful as reds. They just differ by breath...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    The top end bracers of defense that stack with rings of protection because they are not magical armor are the key part of that. Without the bracers the most you could get for the armor aspect from the 1e DMG would be leather +1 which means no ring or ring and nonmagical leather armor. Max...
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    Expert tops out at 14th level, it has disintegrate spells and such. 3e had a lot of variety in options. Eberron clerics being any alignment and gods being theoretical was pretty big there. 4e made it default core cleric with their investiture powering.
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    Except for the part about 100% of 1e holy avengers being LG (whether intelligent or not) and only 25% of 2e holy avengers being intelligent with alignments. A 1e CG paladin from that Plethora of Paladins Dragon article has an alignment conflict with 100% of 1e holy avengers. A 2e CG paladin can...
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    Moldvay does not say their powers can be taken away. That was notably in contrast to what Gygax had done in the 1e DMG for AD&D. 1981 B/X does not have any BADD triggering demons or devils or that sort of stuff either. The reference in Moldvay Basic to gods is so slight that for years I had...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    No, I quoted the same sections. 2e Intelligent holy avengers have alignment restrictions. CG paladins would have the conflicting alignment problems when wielding an intelligent LG avenger, though they would still activate the big paladin avenger powers. It does not say all holy avengers are LG...
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