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  1. billd91

    D&D 5E (2024) Effects that kill you at 0 hp

    Or, you know, if you're on a hot streak with the dice and a player is paying a brutal price for it... ease off. Ignore the crit results. I mean that weretiger had a 50% chance to miss the ranger but rolled well enough to beat the odds and go 4 for 4 instead of a more expectable 2 for 4. Or you...
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Malcolm-Jamal Warner has died. https://people.com/malcolm-jamal-warner-cosby-show-dead-54-11775980
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Five Guys burgers are good, but if you have peanut allergies, they aren’t for you. My favorite fast food is Culvers. But I live in Culvers country so they’re common around here.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Effects that kill you at 0 hp

    My players are aware that these effects exist since we’ve been discussing rules. One of the PCs is an orc and we went over how her relentless endurance differs from death ward. So they know, intellectually, they exist. But for a particular encounter with such a risk, I might hint at it and let...
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    D&D General Weapon Mastery - Yea or Nay?

    "Honest" randomness? So's a 1d20, a 1d6, and so is 4d6k1. They're ALL equally random, they just have different distributions. And, since at least 1979, the distribution for 4d6k1 has been pretty dominant for generating adventurers. And yes, because it skews a bit higher with its mean and lower...
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    Green Ronin Crowdfunding Legal Defense Fund In Fight Against Diamond Distrubutors

    You've definitely identified one of the most a corrosive attitudes running through society.
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    D&D General Weapon Mastery - Yea or Nay?

    I can definitely see the point of this line of criticism. Having to pick specific weapons to be proficient with in 1e, the addition of weapon specialization in 2e, weapon focus/specialization feats in 3e... all of these tended to push fighter-types into narrowing a character to the point where...
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    D&D General Weapon Mastery - Yea or Nay?

    Well, let's unpack this a little. 3d6 vs point buy and 4d6 vs point buy are pretty different comparisons. Both point buy and 4d6 are methods that will tend to insulate a PC from very low stats. And with 4d6 being the long-preferred convention (since 1e days), offering up 3d6 is going to seem...
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    D&D General How Was Your Last Session?

    We didn't get an awful lot of overall playing in because we ended up in a single combat for a couple of hours. It took a bit longer because there were a lot of enemies on one side (20 hobgoblins, 2 captains, 1 warlord) against 6 level 5 PCs. So I set it up to be a reasonably tough encounter...
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    Power Rankings: Weird Al's Top 26 Songs

    The justification works pretty well for me. It's his really big mainstream breakthrough. "Eat It" took him from Dr. Demento's show right to Top 40 radio.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Recently finished Hodag Days by R.L. Baranowski. Started reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
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    Power Rankings: Weird Al's Top 26 Songs

    THE BEST GEORGE HARRISON SONG!!!! Thanks for sharing.
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    Green Ronin Crowdfunding Legal Defense Fund In Fight Against Diamond Distrubutors

    But how will I know it's a unique file if it isn't an NFT?
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Didn't expect such an attack from this clown. Welcome back - to my ignore list.
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    D&D General Weapon Mastery - Yea or Nay?

    I think they're a bit "one note"-ish in the sense that the one note each weapon plays is repeatedly spammed. If anybody thought the trip attacks people made with the spiked chain back in 3e was tedious, don't let anyone pick topple. Granted, I think the 5e.2024 implementation is at least a...
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    New Edition of Mutants & Masterminds Coming Soon, Playtest Launches at End of Month

    I expect they'll kickstarter it. And no, they're not grifters. Nobody is being swindled or conned to help them with legal fees.
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    D&D General Did 5e 2024 Not meet the economic goals set, and if not, why not?

    Are you serious? With all the jabs at wokeness with various publishers and products in the RPG industry? Of course, this is going to be something you might want to consider, particularly with highly critical clickbait or claims of "failure" by people on the internet. It might be ridiculous we...
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    Old shows that you enjoy?

    Tailspin was pretty inspired. Shere Khan as a corporate. The behavior and mannerisms of Don Karnage and his air pirates.
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    Stop Looking At Your Character Sheet

    Hey now, the rat-bastard keeper in me is saying that should be a GROUP Luck check - and that means you use the lowest Luck score in the group.
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    Old shows that you enjoy?

    I have The Man From U.N.C.L.E on DVD as well as Star Trek: The Animated Series, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Muppet Show, and Jonny Quest.
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