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    D&D 5E (2014) I thought WotC was removing biological morals?

    There is not a redcap society. The redcap doesn’t go home to its spouse and kids after a long day of murdering and ask what the kids are learning in murder school. There’s no culture to redcaps at all. They are murder spirits. Elves and orcs differ because they’ve always been given the Tolkien...
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    Swordsage: The Complex Fighter

    Ashkelon, quick question: Will you be working up subclass entries for Tiger Claw and White Raven, or do you intend those simply to be "extra" maneuvers for everyone? Related: I notice that Tiger Claw Legendary Strikes require level 15 rather than level 9. Is that deliberate? Thanks!
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    "Chap With The Wings: Five Rounds, Rapid!"

    The actual United Nations requested that the show stop using its name, so the change to "Unified" was made. You would think the U.N. would have reacted the way the U.S. Air Force did to the Stargate franchise -- "You want to portray us as the brave defenders of the planet against threats from...
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    Skill Powers and Spellbooks

    I'd say that choosing a skill power (or a theme power, likewise) takes up both "slots" for that level, since it's not a wizard power. So he shouldn't get a spell and a skill power in the first place. I'm not sure if that's RAW, though. I know a lot of the hybrid options are very clear about...
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    WotBS Themes for WotBS?

    That's my thinking as well. I was just checking to see if someone else had already done it.
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    WotBS Themes for WotBS?

    Has anyone (fan or official) done a set of character themes for WotBS, like the ones for Zeitgeist? I know WotBS got started before themes became a thing, but some of the character options seem as though they would fit perfectly with the theme structure. I'm working on a set myself, but if...
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    D&D, Technology, and Planned Obsolescence

    The older editions (0e, 1e, B/X, BECMI, and 2e) are immortal as well, thanks to the discovery that they can be "retro-cloned" legally using the d20 SRD as a base. People who didn't start with those editions have begun to use them, thanks to the online "old school" community and the retro-clones...
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    We have 99 Heroes of Neverwinter beta keys to give away

    I would really like to be in the beta for Heroes of Nev--damn.
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    Eberron inconsistencies

    Actually, Eberron is designed to be teetering on the brink of any number of major changes (a new eruption of active world war being prominent among them), but the developers are intent on never pushing the setting past that point in published product, leaving the future up to individual gaming...
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    5E on the horizon?

    Remember, the complete DDI suite (including VTT with pretty 3D minis) was supposed to be out concurrent with the 4e launch, and there was quite a bit of grumbling when that did not come to pass (though people kinda got used to it over time, and the original CB helped soothe bad feelings a lot)...
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    D&D 4E Forked Thread: Al-Qadim, Land of Fate 4e

    Here's a Rich Baker blog entry that I dug up with some information on the Dark Sun "character themes" element. He even mentions 2e kits as a comparison. Some of the old AQ kits that could theoretically be members of most any class (such as the corsair) might benefit from being treated as...
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    D&D 4E Forked Thread: Al-Qadim, Land of Fate 4e

    Even a one-off book or series of Dragon articles would indeed be cool. If they haven't done it by the time you're done with your doctorate, Quickleaf, I'd suggest you polish up and send in some of your ideas as Dragon articles (the AQ equivalent of the Spellplague and the class builds in...
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    D&D 4E Forked Thread: Al-Qadim, Land of Fate 4e

    Anyone still working on this? I wonder if the "themes" announced for the Dark Sun book later this year would be of help in reconstructing 2e kits for Al-Qadim as well. Guess we'll have to wait to find out more about those. Meanwhile, has anything else been done? The PHB3 classes seem to be a...
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    Runepriests in Eberron

    I am pondering how to "fluff" a runepriest character for Eberron. (I'm the GM and one of my players wants to introduce one.) My initial thought is to equate "runes" with the various dragonmarks scattered throughout the world, but I thought I'd ask in case there are better ideas out there. I...
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    Advanced Player's Guide questions

    Oh. Well, don't I look uneducated. :o Not sure about the "&quot"s. I posted from my phone, and had to edit a few times to add spacing between paragraphs. I tried to change those codes back to quotation marks, and it looked as though it had worked in the preview, but apparently not. Thanks...
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    Advanced Player's Guide questions

    Ari or Joe, Not a nitpick, just a matter of amused curiosity: Any idea what was the nature of the search-and-replace that transformed every mention of "lava" in the nature priest's Burning Lava power into "lahar"? I've been trying to work out the sort of change that would accidentally transform...
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    Adventure's vault wackyness

    Huh, yeah, the double sword is weird. I was thinking that the primary end counts as a heavy blade and the secondary end counts as a light blade, so that you couldn't actually use Heavy Blade Opportunist and rogue powers at the same time. Upon checking again, the book doesn't actually say...
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    Immediate Interrupt vs Opportunity Attack

    You can interrupt after any square of movement. So if you have a melee weapon and a guy is charging at you, you interrupt between the last square of movement (the one that puts him adjacent to you) and his basic melee attack. Deadstop
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    Literary (and other) settings wishlist

    Is this really a greater problem for 4e than for D&D in general, though? "D&Disms" have always made adaptation of literary or folkloric fantasy to D&D a tricky prospect. Even in the OGL era, when some companies felt free to pull and replace the "Vancian" magic system entirely, you had...
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    Historical-based 4e games

    Don't forget that there's an explicit instruction to rework the flavor text on any power you like. That should go without saying, of course, but it means you might be able to get away with "look and feel" changes to some powers instead of making up new power sets wholesale. A fire-damage...
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