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    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone at WOTC paying attention to what they print any more?

    thus carrion crawlers suck. Every edition has poorly worded blocks that probably sounded cool in the developers head but could have been worded far better. As far as the actual effect on play, seems perfectly ok to me. you get paralyzed it sucks to be you.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    High level play doesn't have to be saving the world. Remember it's all relative to your enemies. It could be saving the city. Or it could be as my current game is trying to find the lost soul of a PC. I agree though the Marvel movie of save the world every movie save the universe every...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    I've run a few high level games that were the end of campaigns and played in a few. Plus I've run some of the "high" level modules released over the years. Isle of the Ape and even one that was for up to 100th level characters that took the players to hell. High level play has a lot of...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    See I just roll with it and ignore the stuff I don't like. IF I have to go to a new edition because of players I just make table rules and magic items to fix what I don't like. Life's too short to fight about it. I just want to play or run a game.
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    yeah in the magazines, at the cons and the old farts who hung out at the game stores every night to play. That was the equivilant of the internet of gamers back then. They were still the minority but often the white whales of the industry back then. It wasn't different then, except that they...
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    D&D General The blood war can finally end!

    Though to be honest. using the lower planes is a bit dicey anyway. When Hell and the Abyss get involved it begins to become more Dark and less DND if you arent' careful. It' takes a special table to play around with that stuff and not end up in a horror game.
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    D&D General The blood war can finally end!

    If you look at the current cosmology of planes the Abyss is the trash can of the universe where all the stuff that even hell has determined is too bad for the universe to contain get's thrown. All the blood war really is is hell doing it's job and containing the demons till they get ejected...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 2024 D&D is 2014 D&D with 4E sprinkled on top

    getting the danger vs heroic craziness right has been a running target , which has never ever been actually agreed on so yeah. They've done that, they'll at some point borrow from 3rd or even 2nd or other games again in the future. If the game stops changing only the new players need books and...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Let me correct that. D&D players on internet forums. (the rest of the world usually doesn't care)
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    LMAO......Even in 1970 when I was 11 25-35 year old gamers bought most of the game's at the game stores. I saved for 6 months to buy my DMG after my parents got me the players handbook for christmas. For many many years most of the tables I played at were younger kids who's older brother...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    painful post isn't it. Don't feel bad I"m only a year away from Grandmaster Grognard, except for playing with Gary I meet all the other requirements. Hopefully they have a Gamers nursing home for us.....
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    D&D 5E (2024) Disintegrate Reverted to Old Wording

    to be fair we had those discussions when keywords were in the picture. Some people have no common sense and some people willfully and intentionally argue the details to the point they want it to be even when it's clear to the 90% that it was never intended to be that way. And some people just...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Disintegrate Reverted to Old Wording

    yes it said you were disentigrated if you went to 0 hp. while that my conflict with the new death save mechanic it was quite clear. you become a pile of ashes. even back then. Nothing I've ever read about death saves made me think they were for situations like that. This is simply getting...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Disintegrate Reverted to Old Wording

    seems perfectly clear to me. A high level spell designed to disintegrate things actually disintegrates the character if they go to 0 or below. seems to be a working as originally intended to me. I don't think Death saves were ever intended to save the character from being a pile of dust...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Martial/Caster fix.

    Since you have to roll with each wish that does anything other than duplicate a spell of 8th level and below and risk a 33 percent chance of never being able to cast wish again probaby not more than once or twice i'd guess.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Martial/Caster fix.

    So are we going to make all martial attacks require saves to do damage?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Martial/Caster fix.

    And at any level the martials have unlimited damage potential with very few save or suck abilities. Those blindness, deafness spells are great when they work. Teleport unless the cell is antimagic. It's the same tired argument every time assuming that the magic will work every time when in...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Martial/Caster fix.

    Why are martials less influenceful. First of all everyone always prefers the big bad buff hero. Second casters are ony overpowered when some retro campaign where the tires old trope of "Magic" southern bell covers her eyes "has all but vanished from the realm" if there are plenty of...
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    Theater of the Mind and VTTs: Oh Brave New World...

    VTT's just seem to take too much work. Though with 3d printers and all the other options to have cool maps etc I understand people wanting cool things. It just seems they tend to take away the magic of the player imagining it better than a 3d print ever could
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    Star Trek and Idealism vs cynicism

    That's what DC univere is for don't ruin STAR TREK
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