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  1. cbwjm

    Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

    I also don't think that cyberpunk means tech makes everything worse, I think it's more that tech dominates everything and the ones in charge (typically corporations rather than governments) are the ones making everything worse, they just happen to control the tech.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    The 2e ranger was improved by kits if you had access to them; they brought back the giant slaying aspect of the 1e version with a kit though it still wasn't as versatile since the 1e version had 'Giant' apply to multiple enemy types that I probably wouldn't have included whereas the 2e kit...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    A small note, but 3.5 allowed the ranger to choose between 2 weapon fighting and archery.
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    D&D General Eberron - why don't you run it? [-]

    The setting just never really appealed to me. It's got some cool stuff for sure, but the overall setting never grabbed me so I never ran it and still don't really have any real desire to.
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    Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

    Lagging a bit down here in NZ as well, sounds like they are sending a pallet load of books down to a distributor down under before fulfilling individual orders. Postage costs jumped up a lot since the kickstarter if I understood the last update correctly.
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    Spoilers Foundation Season 02 (Apple TV+) - SPOILERS

    So was I, I so wanted Day to win, but I think the story wouldn't have been as good. I had no idea Bayta was the real mule but I did think it was weird how she told the mule to leave the infirmary. Was the original mule her brother or another psychic that she was controlling, did he believe he...
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    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    Wooo! I'm not the only one. I'm also quite often seeing a thread about a great railroad before remembering that railroad means something different in rpg land.
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    Pathfinder 2E Spellcaster armour

    From memory, 1e had feats that reduced arcane spell failure which allowed you to wear light armour without arcane spell failure. Combo it with mithril and I think you could wear a chain shirt with no issues.
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    D&D General Monster Importance in Homebrews?

    I did make a setting which has drqgons, giants, and elementals as a big part of the setting. Everything else was Schroedinger's monster, you never know if they exist until you start setting up an encounter.
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    Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

    I've finally played through cyberpunk 2077, had no idea the lore was based on the cyberpunk ttrpg. I quite like the genre but there doesn't seem to be much of it being released nowadays. Some older movies to watch are johnny mnemonic, robocop, and tron which I'm not sure 100% fits but at least...
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    Marvel Animation's Marvel Zombies - Official Trailer #2

    I'm a little over the zombie genre too, but this does look pretty cool to me.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    Nice to know that they're going to have more seasons, this felt very much like the finale to me (apparently it was going to be from reading other posts). Almost felt like there was a reboot of TOS planned for after the close of this season.
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    Trailer Tron: Ares | Flynn Lives

    I'm gonna be disappointed if they don't mention how big the door is.
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    D&D General Homebrew or Premade Campaigns?

    I'm primarily homebrewed campaigns.
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    I remember reading something that the blue helped them blend in to the blue skies. No idea where I read that, if it was in an actual edition, or if it actually was in DnD. So many years of lore, hard to keep it all separate.
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    They really do seem to be colour-coded for our convenience. I've no idea why they ended up with the colours they have, but it is something I'm moving away from. Now I have dragons based on element and each element tends to have a range of colours that is typical.
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    TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?

    That's not quite right, humans did have more hp in 2e, but most had 1-6 instead of a full d8 hit die. They had something like a dozen humans to cover a few cases so some had more than a d6 hit die. So they were still weaker than an orc, but on par with a goblin.
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    OSR What's more important for a retroclone?

    I just changed my vote from 2 to 1. I initially went with feel but thinking further, a retroclone I feel should probably enable users of it to easily port in stuff from the original game. Like, even with slight changes like changing Thac0 to ascending hit bonus, BX stuff is easily thrown into an...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Rate D&D 2024

    When it comes to stat adjustments, I was fine with them being tied to race, but once they became floating I happily adapted that (though felt that each race needed to have the same stat adjustments). I feel that tying the stat adjustments to background was a step backwards and, if I was to play...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Rate D&D 2024

    I've had a few beers that would rate 4 or below on your scale, mostly sours, can't stomach them.
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