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    D&D 5E (2014) Dungeons of Drakkenheim: a dark fantasy sandbox in a ruined city

    This probably isn't the place to have a full discussion on it, but if 1/1000 people are spellcasters.. that seems relatively high magic to me 😆 Even if 2/3 of those become mages with cantrips and spell levels, that still seems like a good number.
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    D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data.

    Some of this isn't news, because we've heard it from @mearls when he talked at cons etc. about how bad DnD was and how WotC was looking at licensing it out. But it's good to hear it from others, plus the new figures are interesting!
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    D&D 5E (2024) Improving Medicine - one of the least loved skills.

    I'd agree, but unfortunately IMO the best ways to improve medicine would be to nerf a lot of the bounce-back/natural healing/resilience of 5e characters.. and then medicine could fill to restore some of it. It was pointed out to me that they get all their hit dice back now from a LR in 2024, so...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Improving Medicine - one of the least loved skills.

    You covered some nice non combat uses here. Medicine would be a lot more important if characters didn't automatically heal to full from a long rest. Imagine if you could use medicine to restore hit dice! Modern DnD characters are made so bounce-back and durable, but they can be low on hit dice...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Monk's Unarmoured Movement Improvement & Climbing Speed

    I guess I took it for granted that checks are only required when failure is a possibility 😆
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    D&D 5E (2014) Monk's Unarmoured Movement Improvement & Climbing Speed

    Just keep in mind that climb speed =/= spider climb. Having a climb speed means that instead moving at half speed while climbing, you move at full- but you still need to make ability checks to climb! When folk forget this, I point them to the common Potion of Climbing which grants both a climb...
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    Do you use "voice acting" when you play?

    Sometimes. I did it ever since I was a kid, both as GM and player. As a GM nowadays I tend to give the first impression in a voice or with some sort of inflection or different speech pattern, and then once the impression is set I'll switch to 3rd person.
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    Hours actually playing RPGs, non-D&D?

    See, I figured OP meant DND 5.X specifically but it just goes to show that you need to specify 😆
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    D&D General 'Project Sigil' 3D Virtual Tabletop Finally Laid To Rest

    One could hope but, well, earlier this year... Project Sigil - 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    I don't know if I've ever run goblins without some sort of ranged attack 😅 even if it was slings or hucking gross stuff/stones. Typically though they have some short bows. Side note, I wish slings were more prominent!
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    D&D 5E (2014) Arcane Abeyance, huh, yeah, What is it good for?

    Giving haste to the fighter. Or fly. I think that's how it was used (all the time) in my Night Below game years ago.
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    Trailer Battlemarked Demeo X Dungeons and Dragons

    Here's a link to the base game, Demeo. I checked it out a while ago, never picked it up. It looks like this is a DnD-flavored version!
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    Level Up (A5E) Removing Pointless Death (+)

    If you're running A5E characters with A5E monsters, it shouldn't be an issue. The A5E characters are, overall, more powerful than 5e- especially the martial characters (and especially the berserker and fighter). Obviously there could be some edge cases, but not in my experience... if the players...
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    D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e

    Can you elaborate on both points?
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    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    I have hopes. I followed the Mangianello thing somewhat closely at the time, was disappointed when executive leadership changes torpedoed the prospect.
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    D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro

    You know it's true, I think as laymen we might underestimate whales (hi I'm a whale). I briefly worked for a video company that made online free to play (with micro transactions) Facebook gambling games.. the vast majority of their revenue was whales.
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    D&D General Is this use of a wizard's spellbook accurate?

    My instinct was also to say that AI had something to do with it, buuut to be fair we've had things like "this cantrip is better than 5th level spells!" clickbait videos before AI. So human slop is equally likely :'D
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    Level Up (A5E) Removing Pointless Death (+)

    Have you flat-out told them that you want to see them succeed, and that them discussing stuff in the open can lead to them being right (because maybe they come up with a better idea than you, and you snag it)? I've had the experience with players thinking that if they discuss stuff in front of...
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    Draw Steel General Thread [+]

    The automated stuff definitely made the rules easier to handle, but the UI was very rough in a lot of places. I had a harder time figuring things out with it than I did Foundry, R20, Owlbear Rodeo, etc. It kind of reminded me of my experience with old Fantasy Grounds (which I bounced off of). On...
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