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    D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids?

    It's worth recalling that 3E explicitly added the often/usually/always qualifiers to creatures' alignments, in addition to continuing a decades-long tradition of stating in the introduction to its primary monster book that alignments weren't absolute.
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    Gun Metal Games is having a twentieth anniversary sale! For a limited time, you can get a bundle with all of their digital offerings, totaling over $650, for just $19.99! Grab it before it's gone! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    D&D General The ph icon characters

    It's because the "pH" characters turned out to be... Basic. That's a chemistry joke, y'all.
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    Pathfinder 1E In Pathfinder 1e, do half-elves and half-orcs get the human bonus feat by virtue of being half-human?

    As other people have said, they do not get the bonus feat that humans receive. I've heard similar arguments, mostly from people who (understandably) confused "racial traits" (i.e. the various mechanics specific to each race, such as humans getting a bonus feat, dwarves getting a skill bonus to...
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    Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?

    I'm mostly curious about how the new edition would interface with some of the alternative subsystems for economics and governance from issue #3 of the Axioms (affiliate link) supplement.
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    DriveThruRPG is having a Cosmic Horror Sale! For the next two weeks, save 25% of thousand of cosmic horror RPG titles! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?

    How compatible is ACKS II with the previous edition? Is there a conversion guide anywhere?
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    D&D General D&D: Literally Don't Understand This

    High heels definitely have a place in the game; according to Macho Women with Guns d20, they give female characters a +1 bonus to Charisma, albeit with a -5 foot penalty to speed and being unable to sprint. There are plenty of builds that can help with. Oh, and since Poe's Law is a thing:
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    If you have the urge to rage-post about how everyone who disagrees with you are haters, and you're going to get some sort of symbolic revenge on them by spending money on and evangelizing for the things you think those people wouldn't like, my advice is the following: Re-read this thread's...
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    No, I think @Crimson Longinus has a point even without art having mechanics.
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    This is making me nostalgic for the days when elves, dwarves, etc. were all known as "demihumans."
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    D&D 3.x 3E/3.5 collecting

    It also had a web enhancement that contained a surprisingly large amount of extra material, and it received an unexpectedly large 3.5 conversion PDF as well. You can find both at the Ghostwalk entry on the TSR Archive.
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    Today I learned +

    "A bit"?
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    Chris and Jeremy discuss why they joined Darrington Press.

    Krisp summarizes the video as follows: Introduction and Commute Discussion The conversation opens with a light-hearted remark about the interview, indicating that the speakers are delighted to be back together. The ease of commuting from their location to Burbank is humorously contrasted with...
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    GOD RULES: Player's Guide (5e) Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page

    And it's live! :D I just pledged, and can't wait to see the final product! EDIT: The page looks good to me, though of course I jumped immediately to pledging rather than giving it a once-over. :P
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    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    It was just wishful thinking on my part, but for a second I could have sworn that I saw... "Spider-Pig film in the works"
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    D&D 3.x Mike Selinker about the release of 3.0 D&D

    I was in college, and adopted the system immediately, though I needed a good six months before I grew comfortable with it.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    This reminds me of a debate I once had several years ago with someone about the tactical options that PCs use when assaulting a dungeon complex (in the context of D&D). I'd posited that, for a stronghold where the native monsters were both intelligent and unified (in the sense that they were...
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    The entire presumption that "if you portray something evil in your work of creative fiction, and don't issue a disclaimer about how you don't agree with it, then you're endorsing it" is an incredibly toxic idea that has inexplicably become the default presumption for a particularly vocal...
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