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  1. Voadam

    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    Not really clear at all. They get an extra three weapon proficiencies and two non-weapon proficiencies when they first become a Knight of the Rose at level 4. It says they advance more slowly than others because of their greater training but they advance farther than others. The only mechanical...
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    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    All I can think of for Gygaz and thieves is someone in his campaigns was amazingly effective as a thief and he felt he needed to counter them, hard. Or they were super annoying to him and these were rulings made in pique that then stuck. I have heard zero stories along those lines though...
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    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    Which is weird because he also seemed to really like them narratively. He was a big Lieber fan and made his big protagonist for the Gord the Rogue novel series an ultra competent Gray Mouser type thief.
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    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    In addition to those 1e Dragonlance Adventures has Knights of Solamnia that require going through two levels of cavalier variant Knights of the Crown to become Knights of the Sword, and then to qualify for Knights of the Rose you need to have gained at least two levels as a Knight of the Sword...
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    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    To make it work you need to make a number of judgment calls on the ambiguities. Is it a single class so you start off as a human or half elf first stage bard which is like a fighter but with bard prerequisites and weapon and armor and alignment limitations and you must switch to second stage...
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    Undead Origins

    M20 Hard Core Rules v1.02 (451) Microlite20 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Skeleton, Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell. Zombie, Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell. Ghoul: Humans slain by ghouls rise again as ghouls in 24h. Create Undead spell. Ghast: Create Undead spell. Mummy: Create Undead spell...
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    I find as a player and as a DM that I enjoy a mix of familiar and new in things like monster stuff. As a DM I generally mix core MM stuff most everybody knows with 3rd party stuff only I have. So when I was running my 5e conversion of the Iron Gods AP the gangs of Scrapwall included humans and...
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    Undead Origins

    Microlite 20 Modern-Day (433) Microlite20 Vampire: ?
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    Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

    Poor Issac. I liked the actor in Shadow and Bone and was looking forward to seeing more of him here.
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    Undead Origins

    Alter Microlite20 v.0.7 (413) Microlite20 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell. Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell. Necromancer Spells 2nd -Level Spells Animate Dead: Creates undead skeletons and zombies.
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    Friday Chat: What Mechanics Do You Steal From A Game To Use In Another?

    I used 4e monster solo/elite/normal/minion rules in my 3.5 and pathfinder 1e and 5e games. That would probably be my current favorite cross system rule. I remember throwing an alien NPC from palladium into a 1e game, full mechanics like he got parries while the PCs had regular AC, he had a 6d6...
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    Roleplaying is not definitionally playing others, the role can be yourself in an imagined scenario. A character can be a lot of yourself and still be playing. How much you make a role yourself seems to me just a matter of taste.
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    Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

    There is also
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    Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

    Octo-eye works better for me than eye midge.
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    The humanoid HD track Kobold d4 Goblin 1-1 Orc 1 Hobgoblin 1+1 Gnoll 2 Bugbear 3 3e kobolds were green, 5e ones are red. It is not a stretch to say these are different tribes/bloodlines/ethnicities or just within the scale coloration variation of kobolds.
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I don't think it specifies one way or the other or give anything that would suggest one way or the other. I believe a DM has to decide whether it makes more sense for their game either narratively or for game flow purposes which works better for them, to have mages taught by their training...
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    Undead Origins

    Microlite20 House Rules v1.2 (393) Microlite20 Undead, Un-Dead: ? Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell. Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell. 4TH-LEVEL ARCANE SPELLS Animate Dead: Creates level X2 HD of undead skeletons or zombies.
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