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    D&D 5E (2014) Troll PC race experiment

    Rather than referencing levels, how about abstracting it by using Proficiency Bonus instead?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Epic Monsters: Great Sphinx

    Love it! How about giving it Foresight too?
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    I see mention of laen. I may have already asked this but do you use any of Iron Crown's other invented materials like kregora, shaalk, arinyark, etc?
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    D&D General Armour class and essentialism

    Yes. I allow the PC Fighter to use their Proficiency Bonus instead of their Dex bonus. So a PC in leather armour and no shield has an AC between 14 and 18. You might allow the Barbarian to use the PB instead of their Con bonus - but not both Dex and Con.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Post Apocalyptic Aegyptus?

    How much of that was due to the introduction of iron weapons?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Post Apocalyptic Aegyptus?

    Actually, didn't Egypt escape the Late Bronze Age Collapse? The pharaoh of the time scored a big victory against the invading Sea Peoples and drove them off.
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    Anyone else playing Tiny Tina's Wonderlands?

    I'm taking it at a leisurely pace and it's very D&D.
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    Anyone else playing Tiny Tina's Wonderlands?

    I've only just started but it's great fun so far.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Mythological Figures is coming to an end... who do you still want to see?

    I want all of them, of course! :) More seriously, I think you should eliminate all the actual historical figures from that list and concentrate on the mythological ones. I've voted for a particular few. Something I would like to see is a worked example of how the same person can be modelled by...
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    D&D General Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth - welcome your thoughts and suggestions

    Try switching the ending and channel T1-4. You see Drelnza is actually Good. Just like Thrommel in T1-4. Iggwilv, evil as she is, cannot bring herself to kill her daughter. Perhaps thanks to her being raised by Baba Yaga. But she can bring herself to let her daughter be killed by adventurers...
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    OOTS 1253: Catching Up

    I've given up. The strip's gone from twice a week to once or twice a month and that's just not often enough to maintain my interest.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Boss Fight Advice

    There was a 3.5E Story Hour where this happened. The PC turned into an uvuudaum IIRC
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    Dragonlance DRAGONLANCE LIVES! Unearthed Arcana Explores Heroes of Krynn!

    44 pages in 2 days. Wow. I've skipped the lot. Apologies if I've missed your gems. I've read the UA and am not impressed. The Wizards of High Sorcery were explicitly linked to the moons, and Sorcerors were explicitly linked to Chaos. Really, the whole section on magic is pretty much used toilet...
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    D&D General Should Bearded Female Dwarves be the Default?

    The best response I’ve seen to this was a cartoon where the female dwarf said that she did indeed have a beard - braids, ringlets and all - but it was not above but below.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Great Weapon Master: how about -5 AC instead of -5 to hit?

    Right. But neither Mobility not the Disengage action prevent ordinary attacks; they only prevent Attacks of Opportunity.
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    A Question of Religious Character

    In the past, priests weren't generally devoted to a specific deity but served all the gods within the pantheon. There would be areas in the temple for each god, with the more important gods having bigger areas, and the patron deity having the biggest. You didn't have clerics of Thor or Zeus or...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Great Weapon Master: how about -5 AC instead of -5 to hit?

    Are you assuming a one-on-one combat?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Great Weapon Master: how about -5 AC instead of -5 to hit?

    Can you elaborate? I don't see how the Mobile feat affects things, Misty Step requires use of a resource that isn't at-will, and Cunning Action doesn't affect the penalty to AC.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Great Weapon Master: how about -5 AC instead of -5 to hit?

    Doesn't that depend upon the amount of healing available? The less healing available, the more important it is to not get hit. Do tell. Are you assuming a one-on-one combat?
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