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  1. J-H

    New Trailer for Secret Level's D&D Episode Released

    I'm really interested in the Mega Man one. I hope it's kid-friendly. My boys have run through Mega Man 1-6, and they're up to X2 now.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Have a new player that I will be DMing, got some questions.

    ^^ What he said. Do a one-shot at 3rd level or 5th level and try an Eldritch Knight or Paladin out. "Use weapons and magic" covers Artificer, Bladesinger, Paladin, Ranger, EK, AT, Warlock, Bard and leaves out only Sorcerer, Monk, Barbarian, and Druid.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Setting up a Dungeons and Dragons Club at my Local Library

    If you're planning on using 5.14 instead of 5.24, D&D Beyond is currently intermingling the two on character sheets with no way to turn off the 5.24 components during character creation. You can ignore them, but only if you know you need to ignore them. I've seen it end up with some pretty...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Setting up a Dungeons and Dragons Club at my Local Library

    If she doesn't get back to you within 24 hours, you may be better off doing an in-person visit to discuss it.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Why aren't you using 5e 2024?

    The poll options are a bit hyperbolic :)
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    D&D 5E (2014) Baldur's Gate 1 campaign materials

    What walls are you hitting? I am 50 sessions into my BG2 campaign, with the party just about to enter the Underdark. Campaign log is here: https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?656408-Baldur-s-Gate-II-(5e-campaign-log)
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    D&D 5E (2014) Setting up a Dungeons and Dragons Club at my Local Library

    These tokens are pretty great. https://diceofrolling.com/products/battle-tokens There's one for every character class (except artificer), plus a selection of monster-suitable ones. I see that they've added a dragon token + expander since I bought my set.
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    Drizzt's Daughter Gets Audible-Exclusive Book Launching This Week

    My wife has been on a kick of listening to or reading audiobooks and has gotten into some of the stuff that's adjacent to urban fantasy. Apparently old elf/vampire/lycanthrope/secretly a dragon/secret king/etc. etc. meets younger woman is a pretty common plot line. Meh.
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    D&D General Bricks & Minifigs World Record TTRPG Event

    Stats were rolled (4d6b3) and I had 17, 14, 12, 8, 8, 7. I ended up playing a bard! This is the first time I have been a PLAYER instead of a DM IRL in over a year and a half. My party ended up being: My bard Another bard (the player was a bit confused by DNDB defaulting to 5.24 rules; he went...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Give me ideas for a really simple boost to martial characters [2014]

    I added Cleave Through in my current in person game. We have a swprd-wielding rogue, NPC fighter (run by a player), cleric who uses the Flail of the Ages a lot, and a sorcerer. In 41ish sessions, Cleave Through has been remembered exactly 0 times. Too situational and fiddly. The big boost is...
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    D&D General Possible or possibly terrible? wildly different approach to random encounters

    I think this could work, or it could flop. The devil's going to be in the details and how you handle it with the players. I think it's worth discussing with them and giving it a try. Having some mechanical benefits helps, also. "You remember picking up a strange spear wielded by the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) ADHD friendly character sheet design

    After a discussion in the Weapon Mastery/Complexity thread, I was listening to Ginny D's D&D with ADHD video and realized that my cleric who can't remember some of his class abilities or find things quickly on his character sheet is probably ADHD or ADD. I have designed a one-page character...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Not loving weapon mastery with beginners

    I would as well. The party tempest cleric, who's been playing the same character for 40 sessions (2-3 hours) since level 1, has NEVER used his "deal damage to someone who hit me" ability without being reminded of it. Most of the times he's used his CD to maximize lightning damage, it's been...
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    D&D General Bricks & Minifigs World Record TTRPG Event

    Local(ish) store didn't have a lot of info, and aren't sure if they have a DM or not. I didn't volunteer this time :) I have signed up. I haven't ever participated in trying to set a world record before. I'll show up with a Tortle Deep One Warlock (salt-encrusted emissary of the seas)...
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    D&D General Bricks & Minifigs World Record TTRPG Event

    There's one about an hour from me. I've never heard of this before, and the info page is really short on details. Anyone have more info? It would be interesting to actually play instead of just DMing in person.
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    D&D General Best Hexcrawl Resources?

    The Alexandrian has a short series on it.
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    New Look at Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Red and Black Dragon Revealed Via Bookends

    Bookends are just a sign that you don't have enough books on your bookshelf :)
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    D&D General Stuff 5E Did Right

    Having run a campaign to epic and a couple of higher-level modules and adventurers, I'd say 5e also does high levels well. It's certainly more balanced (between classes) and easier to write fo and DM than 3.5's epic calculus.
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    D&D General Stuff 5E Did Right

    I think the OP list is very good. I would also add flexibility and simplicity in monster creation. In 3.5, everything had to have skills, feats, and ASIs calculated to add up. When I DM'd 3.5 PBP, there were a number of enemies that I spent more than 30 minutes writing up. In 5e, all but the...
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    D&D General Golems With Ranged Attacks?

    Here you go.
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