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  1. MoonSong

    D&D 5E (2014) So, I kind of want to stay with 2014 rules. What are my longterm options?

    I'm seeing I wasn't very clear. That's not the problem. The problem is, I want to stay with 2014 rules or move to a ruleset that is an improvement without falling into the 'sins' of 2024. As a DM I need a reliable source for rules to keep giving to future players. As a player, I need a safe...
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    D&D 5E (2014) So, I kind of want to stay with 2014 rules. What are my longterm options?

    Having a reliable long-term source for rules, a way to induct new people and replace books that wear down. Plus, why not? a way to have support? For example, if I want to recruit people for a 2e game, I can direct them to for gold and glory and splats can be bought in pdf for relatively cheap...
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    D&D 5E (2014) So, I kind of want to stay with 2014 rules. What are my longterm options?

    Ok, let me explain myself. I've seen enough of the rule changes, and while I like some of the changes, I don't like the rest of the changes and don't like the changes I don't like more than I like the changes I like. I'm not exactly boycotting the new not-edition, for example I plan on buying...
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    D&D General Not the Wicked Witch: Revisiting the Legacy of Lorraine Williams

    You really sound as if you thought the OGL was a bad thing... In general, I'm not sure why you are so focused on being mad about the Buck Rogers deal. Why was it a crime for a woman to use her personal property in a way that could prop up other part of her personal property in a way that would...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    Care to be more explicit? I don't exactly follow.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    It didn't use to be a factor! So far it was perfectly possible to have a sage barbarian with 16 strength and not having to justify it. Why is it suddenly something only a powergamer minmaxer would do?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    That was just a tangent to that tangent. I've just finally gotten up to date with Dr. Stone and was quickly reminded of him. Still he had his follower from the background feature n_n. Let me bring this in order. To me backgrounds in 5e are mostly if not entirely about roleplay and getting a...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    The crux of the discussion is that that sidebar won't be there, or at least not in the phb and will be gated behind DM approval.
  9. MoonSong

    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    I might have done it by accident, so please quote me at the point I demeaned or invalidated the style.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    There's nothing fishy. We have teo choices that used to be independent of each other and now we have to find ways around in order to contort one with the other just because of a pointless design decision that removed customization where it used to exist. And I come to this from the opposite...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    And that's where 90% of DMs I've played with failed.
  12. MoonSong

    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    I'm reminded of Doctor Stone. When they needed an experimented sailor, they ended up picking a rich guy with an obsession for yachts. He was the best around.
  13. MoonSong

    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    But minmaxers aren't the only people who like to customize.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

    As a DM, I'm open to allow players to go nuts with their characters, but as a player I hate Mother-may-I for character creation.
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    D&D General Words which replaced "race" in fantasy games

    Te more I think about it, the more I'm liking Origin as a term. Because it is more open that way. Maybe a character is one of a kind like an homunculus, a golem, an artificial construct, an awakened animal, a modified member of a living group - vampires anyone?- or a someone who has a people. No...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Should 2014 Half Elves and Half Orcs be added to the 2025 SRD?

    But we had a narrative something that had lore, art, and visibility. It could be tweaked and improved on. Now we have nothing, only "you are truly one or the other" or maybe "something you can hope to get to play at most once". Also I can't let go of the awfull feeling that came upon hearing...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Should 2014 Half Elves and Half Orcs be added to the 2025 SRD?

    @TiQuinn this is a matter of representation. For a lot of us mixed people half-elf is representation in the fiction, a way for us to project onto the fiction. Losing it in the way that it was lost was insulting and upsetting.
  18. MoonSong

    What Is A Sith/Sith Post RoS?

    My headcanon is that the sequels are from a timeline where Luke didn't learn anything, didn't redeem Vader and thus Palpatine survived.
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    D&D General Words which replaced "race" in fantasy games

    Oh, indeed. My favorite terms are kin, folk or origin. People/peoples and even kind or type work too.
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