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    D&D General Charisma Checks gone Horribly Wrong - Can you Relate?

    I have not noticed any set of tools in the new edition that gives advantage to CHA checks. I'm not sure I like advantage on things like opening locks since you are trained and have thieves' tools, but also not sure if a chainmail bikini should give advantage on Deception. Having moments of...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Avatar Of Bhaal Ideas?

    If he is a solo, I always liked having legendary powers that let you attack or do something between other players turns. Even like a beholder where at the start of each PC's turn, they roll to get hit with a ray.
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    D&D General Weapons should break left and right

    Maybe casters should lose spells if they fail at casting them. Roll a 1 when attacking with fire bolt- gone until you relearn it. While we are at it, fail a save by 5 or more against fireball- all your gear and hair burns off leaving you in a loincloth. Fail a second time then lower your...
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    D&D General Weapons should break left and right

    If you are looking to nerf big weapons or feats and such, I feel there are other ways to do this. You can just not use feats or houserule that certain weapons like polearms and great weapons cannot be used in 5ft hallways and things like that. Others pointed out the problems with breakage...
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    D&D General Should the third Forgotten Realms DLC have actually been set in the Forgotten Realms?

    I guess is stands for Digitally Licensed Content... ? I had to look it up myself since it was not spelled out the first time it was used in the the thread. Google search did not event say what it actually is.
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    What do you do with a character when a player bails forever?

    Generally the PCs just goes away if this happens. It would not be worth wasting time on making something up if a player did this to me. A better thing might be to make the PC a NPC or second character of a player. If you are petty, you make the PC, now NPC the fool that wanders into traps and...
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    D&D General Advice for a new DM

    A point on the number of players and scheduling. One idea is to make a set time that everyone knows about. Right now my group plays every Wednesday after the scout meeting. This means that my wife knows to not plan things on Wednesday nights. It has been the same for 20 years. All the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 D&D Starter Set - Your turn to design

    I think that you need something you can sit down and start playing soon. You want to be rolling dice with something like a trail ambush in Lost Mines on your way to town. This means pregens over having to pick things to place on a card. I like the tokens and maps to help players visualize...
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    D&D General Advice for a new DM

    I read someplace, so I cannot take credit for it, that there is an art of illusion. The players will believe you if you do not show them behind the curtain so to speak. Don't tell them about the trap secret or the magic item they missed. If they run into a NPC and ask his name and you have...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How can I do a Charisma-Investigation (or a Strength/Dexterity-Investigation if I can't use Charisma) to find a secret door?

    Maybe the ranger can speak with rats to find them. The druid might poly into something with a good check like a dog.
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    D&D 5E (2024) How can I do a Charisma-Investigation (or a Strength/Dexterity-Investigation if I can't use Charisma) to find a secret door?

    I seem to recall an old Dragon Magazine article about this. Mostly about not interacting with the game and the DM will then react and make the game happen. The DM has this cool adventure planned and you say you cannot locate anything so you all want to just leave and go back to town. The DM...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How can I do a Charisma-Investigation (or a Strength/Dexterity-Investigation if I can't use Charisma) to find a secret door?

    What is the DC the DM is asking for? How many people are left in the party? Say you have have 4 other PCs and a DC of 15 to find, wouldn't 4 rolls even at -1 mean that the party would find some of them? You can always leave the dungeon and go to town to hire a few henchmen scouts. You...
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    D&D General Who is this made for (Not Beginners) - the New D&D Starter Set

    Not sure if everyone is done badwrongfunning the OP for his experience, but has anyone else had problems running or teaching new players this? I have not bought it yet.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Stonecunning/tremorsense alternatives

    It could be a bit like this.
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    What Makes Something A "Classic"? EDIT: TO YOU

    It is like some songs that you have not heard in a while. They take you back to certain points in time and you recall the event surrounding the song. Although thinking about some of the songs, I guess some could be bad, but classic. I hear Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae I remember the summer of...
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    D&D General Who is this made for (Not Beginners) - the New D&D Starter Set

    How come nobody pointed out that it is not 'technically' a rulebook, but a Reference Booklet. Please direct pithy comments back to me. I was going to insert a sarcastic note, but some people think something written is does not always come across right.
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