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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    I pulled that trick on my PCs with a wight wolf once. It was fun -- but you can only pull it off once. Had to go to a dracolich for my undead dragon trick later in the campaign.
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    It's pretty convenient that their abilities, alignment, likelihood of speaking and using magic, and danger level is all conveniently color-coded like a threat condition chart. What are the in-world and metagame reasons? How would the game change if the bag of Skittles that are dragons didn't...
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    Does Your Game Have Random Encounters?

    Yes, but I preplan them.
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    D&D General Reasons I Love the Dalelands as a Campaign Location

    I ran a great campaign set in Mistledale that ran up and down the Dalelands, plus above and below (using an inverted version of Monte Cooks Banewarrens and City of the Spider Queen). Along those lines, I'll just drop this here for fun:
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    DDAL Elven chain armour. do you need light armour proficiency?

    How many halfling Shires can I exchange it for? Or is that only for Dwarven chain shirts?
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    D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set

    Huh. I'm either completely clueless, or they need to market better. Probably the former to be honest.
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    D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set

    Sacred cows make the best eating. Sure, it probably isn't Dungeons & Dragons anymore, but Warrens & Wyrms can get by just fine with modifiers and level consistency. And maybe a wound-condition track and armor as damage reduction, and ...
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    D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set

    Now that I see this I'm surprised it hasn't happened before -- particularly with modern board game and miniatures games using character "dashboards" fairly regularly. Add ability, spell, and item cards and you have a more tactile and easy to organize game.
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    D&D General Crochet, Coloring, & Journals: Upcoming D&D Books from Ten Speed Press

    It's finally got its second edition.
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    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    None of your tinkers, smurfs, or Keebler elves around here, sir. This is a serious place. Players who want to play short characters will be assigned Kender.
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    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    All I read here is just jealousy because someone couldn't qualify for Bard Camp.
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    Unpopular Geek Media Opinions

    LOL. I'm now on Wind & Truth and am thinking Sanderson is falling into the Robert Jordan trap of not having an editor willing to tell him to cut stuff.
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    OOTS 1332: Possibly a Rumpus

    Do we have stats for a Rumpus? Or just a Dire Rumpus?
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    5E Powered Gamma World: What Should It Look Like

    WotC shouldn't give it to someone else. Don't use 5E; GW deserves a bespoke system. But if you must ... go all in on gonzo & mutations. Plant people -- great! Human-animal or human-plat hybrids -- great! Start with mutations like feats, add then (or enhance them) over time. Character building...
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    Unpopular Geek Media Opinions

    Tom Bombadil is stupid and useless and should have been edited out of Lord of the Rings.
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    New One Ring and Lord of the Rings Starter Sets Launching at Gen Con

    That's good to hear; I'm still waiting for a shipping notification from the game store I pre-ordered from. Hopefully that will occur soon. Will echo the Moria book -- fantastic -- and I just picked up Realms of the Three Rings which had some great source material.
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    D&D 5E (2024) The return of official D&D to Target is coming

    You're too generous. 2000%.
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    A New Hope Returns to Theaters in 2027 for 50th Anniversary Celebration

    Please be the one without the Episode IV title card!
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    D&D General Does anyone recall coming across any magic weapons that return when thrown...other than Dwarven Thrower, Hammer of Thunderbolts or magic boomerangs?

    "Here's a kiss for you, runt!"
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    Which Chips (or Fries) Are the Best?

    Mmmm, ranch. Had the most amazing fries the other day at a diner called "They Say" in downtown Detroit, just off the river. They had the perfect blend of crispy crunchy outer to thick moist interior, and were seasoned to perfection.
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