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    D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18)

    I mean, under ideal circumstances, the rankings would be: 1: Perception 2-Tie: Everything else Perception is too baked in as the superior skill in the system to unthrone, but everything else is extremely DM/campaign-dependent, and again, ideally that involves working into the game...
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    IRON DM 2025 Tournament Thread

    So, for those of you who are new, a quick breakdown of how judging will work from this point forward. Each judge will be posting their judgment individually and independently. We will not be reading each other's judgements as we do so. Each judge will be able to offer one vote towards...
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    IRON DM 2025 Tournament Thread

    We are in the home stretch now; there's less than twelve hours left in this match! Happy writing, DMs!
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    NUREMBERG Official Trailer (2025)

    It's a great thing, then, that this is a historical film. As we've all found out about the world we live in, nobody ever learns from history. So we should be pretty safe.
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    D&D General What's your view on a pirate-driven campaign?

    If'n ye be amenable to video games fer yer entertainment purposes, ye could do quite a load worse than givin' Uncharted Waters: New Horizons a gander. Twas a Super Nintendo game set in the groups age of exploration, where ye could choose t' engage in discovery, trade, and a even wee bit o...
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    NUREMBERG Official Trailer (2025)

    Russell Crowe keeping the goofy accent era of his career still rolling strong
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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

    @humble minion and @AustinHolm, your ingredients have been posted.
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    IRON DM 2025 Tournament Thread

    IRON DM 2025: Round 2, Match 1, humble minion vs AustinHolm @humble minion and @AustinHolm, you have 48 hours to post your entries to this thread. Please limit your entry to a title, a list of the ingredients used and 1500 additional words. Please include your list of ingredients at the...
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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

    Alright, we'll be kicking off Round 2 in a little under two hours! We hope you look forward to the very fun batch of ingredients we've brought together!
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    D&D General Nolzur creates inclusive miniatures, people can't handle it.

    It was a truly great show. Well... except for the gas leak year. We don't talk about the gas leak year. I appreciate that you are coming from a good place. I just hope that you consider that I am speaking not of a place of imagined fear, but of experience, and leave it at that.
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    D&D General Nolzur creates inclusive miniatures, people can't handle it.

    I want you to know that I mean absolutely no offense when I say this, but this is unbelievably naive. At the very least when we're talking about the internet, no, at least 90% of the time it is malice, it's just not usually not so obvious as it was here. Your problem is framing this as...
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    D&D General Nolzur creates inclusive miniatures, people can't handle it.

    This, on the other hand, is not it. Not to say that straight calling a person a loser is a worthwhile endeavor, but it's especially difficult to "try to see people with whom you disagree as human beings" when the root of our disagreement comes from them not seeing me as a human being.
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    AD&D 2E Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play AD&D 2E? How Was/Is It?

    This is the point that always gets lost in THAC0 arguments. They often come down to trying to measure just how difficult/easy or complex it was to actually deal with in play, which is a deeply subjective sliding scale that people are, very understandably, not going to agree on. It's not even a...
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    D&D General Nolzur creates inclusive miniatures, people can't handle it.

    Lucky are we, then, that we get to participate in a space where they do not get away with this kind of stuff.
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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

    Very well, we'll kick off Round 2, Match 1 then!
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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

    @AustinHolm and @humble minion, how does a start this Thursday at 11:00 am PDT?
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    Sequel game systems?

    I do believe that Shadowrun's editions have also advanced the timeline forward at times. I also think the same is true of Paranoia
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    D&D 5E (2024) What should the 15th Class be?

    The above options feels me with a sense of ugh. Not because I don't want them, I'm all for lots and lots of classes. But because... for whatever reason, these options feels like "take 2" (or I guess "take 3") on a failure to suit an archetype. Options one AND two are basically saying "We want...
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    Iron DM 2025 Scheduling Thread!

    @Fenris-77, @humble minion, @GMMichael, @AustinHolm Congratulations on making it to Round 2! Who is ready to step up to take on our first match? We would love to get this match underway tomorrow. Do you remember that you'll have 48 hours this time around to work with!
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