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    How to make an encounter with falling great distances interesting and dangerous, but not deadly?

    A social challenge to see who can make it up without being covered in pigeon poo. The cleanest in the eyes of the elder is the leader of the party.
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    Ridding D&D of All Races - Multiple Choice Poll

    In a way this is what I have done for my world. For the "light" side there are dwarfs, elves, faeries, gnomes, halflings and humans. For the "dark" side there are bugbears, giants (GoT style), goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, orcs and trolls. Any subtypes are based on a nonracial idea. For example...
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    Campaign Settings and DM Strictures, the POLL

    My game is a combination of option three and four which I explained during our session zero at character creation. For example the area the game started in was described in terms of population as being 30% human, 25% halfling, 20% gnome, 15% dwarfs where a third of the dwarfs hate elves, the...
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    Do We Really Need Half-Elves and Half-Orcs?

    I allow half races, however, I limit them by area and have racial preferences. Areas where there has been a lot of conflict, piracy, or slavery practiced. Border areas and along certain trade routes. An elf and a faerie might produce a child together, whereas an elf and a troll producing a...
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    Intellect Devourer ate my Intelligence

    You could consider the player to have suffered having all his levels drained. The other players that care for him, could imprint on the "new born baby". As the dwarf relearns at an accelerated pace an opportunity to have a completely new class and skills can be offered.
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    Ridding Elves and Half-Elves of Darkvision

    For my game each race has a list of characteristics a player can choose from. Not all elves have dark/night vision.
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    What would you want to see in a 5e CRPG set in FR?

    An AI to intuitively run the game based on player decisions.
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    Movement Tray Recommendation

    I have used paper cards with the unit information written down on them. The size of the card represents the unit size, X soldiers per square.
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    [Homebrew] Less may be more

    When I made my monster list I used these three lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_by_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythic_humanoids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hybrid_creatures_in_folklore I took out the player races such as troll, faerie...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Gave a player a cursed item has not notice its cursed want to hint at it

    Every time the player fails you can describe him hearing a soft snickering of voices on the air.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Does the Game Need Now?

    I second a new video game, however, one that does not have cut content and if possible allows you to continue on paths that are not part of the adventure. For example: the Bishop romance in NWN2 and being able to run away with him.
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    Does limited resources affect a battle?

    My players have indeed run out of resources on occasion. At other times they have more than enough. Each situation is different. Take a siege, storming the castle can easily drain resources, but attacking to damage a section and withdrawing to resupply may not. Of course withdraw allows the...
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    Help, My players don’t know how to play.

    Do not share tea and biscuits with them until they learn the rules.
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    How important is art to you?

    As long as the art conveys the author's meaning in a clear and concise way it can be elaborate or simple.
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    Favorite Villain/ memorable Big Bads

    Twin black dragons, a male and female in an incestuous relationship trying to breed two headed dragons that were constantly burning my players plans to ash. Carsandra a level 12 sorcerer medusa who had to be captured alive. Lord Elomin a level 15 antipaladin who rides into battle on the back...
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    What songs make you think of DND?

    The Court of The Crimson King by King Crimson and Princess Coldheart by The Legendary Pink Pots Both songs provided the basis for a family of NPC nobility.
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    Your Favorite Character... That You Barely/Never Got to Play

    Triani the half elven bard who would play "spaghetti western" music to cast her spells.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What is your current way to roll stats

    Our game is very home brewed. We have ten standard attributes each starts with 3d6, there are three special attributes that start with no dice. You have a pool of 10d6 to distribute among the attributes as you see fit. The only exception is that the amount of dice from the pool given to a...
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    Scaling for a large group

    Generally I give each of my players an appropriate foe to deal with and run the group combat as several individual ones. The exception to this is when the party splits, then one smaller group might find themselves to be outnumbered. Also there are the special enemies which require the characters...
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    How do you stat out rulers such as kings and queens in your games?

    All the npcs in my game have a full character sheet. I do this because quite often one or more of my players brings a friend along to "watch" and I offer them a npc to play rather than just sitting there. For the group it makes the game more fun and for me it helps to round the npc out by being...
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