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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    There’s a lot of wiggle room, agency and fun in deciding how to explore and what to do when they come into contact with things. Paizo’s adventure paths were the core of the product range and at that time their unique selling point. D&D became its most successful when it started releasing...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    You’re right that everything exists in Eberron but in truth Eberron is a collection of settings (much as the Forgotten Realms is but dialed up to ten). Just because it encapsulates a few dozen different thematic biomes and cultures on the planet doesn’t mean that everything from every one of...
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    James Haeck Joins Wizards of the Coast as Senior D&D Designer

    I approve this appointment. If I now see something in a published product I don’t like I can say “What the Haeck!” Seriously, good luck to them though. I thoroughly enjoyed Dragon Heist, one of my favorite products. Not because it was flawless but because it had so much opportunity and...
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    Do you game with other ENWorlders?

    I’ve playing a weekend long session with @GuyBoy almost every month for about 20 years and in the last five am online session a couple of times a month as well. Ever since the heady days of GuyCon in the early 2000’s. He worst the first other person who DM’ed for me and we have alternated games...
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    D&D General Blending individual checks into group checks

    The problem is that the swing of a +1 to +20 modifier depending on the dice roll is just too great to allow repeated re-rolls. While artificially adjusting DCs feels arbitrary. I would allow someone else to try but only if they are more skilled than the first person to try. Of course the real...
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    Spoilers Stranger Things Season 5 - SPOILERS

    Worth remembering that the kids are heroes that saved the world multiple times. Some or all of that is documented by the military and other agencies. Also worth remembering it is effectively over. The gate is closed, the upside down destroyed and as far as they are concerned El is dead and gone...
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    Spoilers Stranger Things Season 5 - SPOILERS

    Well they were just kids… Not to mention that summoning the sorceress was more like bringing back a ex player character as an NPC for one last hurrah. I’ve seen worse.
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    Spoilers Stranger Things Season 5 - SPOILERS

    So seems the Mind Flayer particles were the big bad end guy all along and touching them was what gave Henry and by extension everyone transfused with his blood the psychic powers. Did not expect that. I thought Henry was the prime mover. I like the neat explanation. Also that Vecnas voice was...
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    Spoilers Stranger Things Season 5 - SPOILERS

    It was a little over 30 minutes or so from the upside down collapsing to the credits. 5 minutes in total on the kids each saying goodbye to their significant others, 5 mins on valedictorian speech. 5 mins on the on the older group, Nancy et al, 5 mins on Joyce and Hopper. 10 mins on the final...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Spell Fire Flare?

    Worth remembering its also Radiant Damage which means it will work with the Spellfire Adept feat which is nice. Ignoring cover is also circumstantially useful. Its clearly designed to be a levelable radiant spell for that subclass. I like the fact that there is an alternative to scorching ray...
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    D&D General Should I leave my friend's Spelljammer game?

    I think you’ve answered your own question then. 9 hours between game and work isn’t too bad. 6 hours isn’t healthy or sustainable. It doesn’t really matter about the rest of it. The hedonist monk is best avoided in all future engagements. If they’re objectionable to you and won’t change. I...
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    D&D General Should I leave my friend's Spelljammer game?

    Ok so to be honest you are conflating quite a few distinct behaviors here. Worth probably splitting them out. - Is a 10pm finish for a 7am start a deal breaker. Probably not. Plenty of people live comfortable on 7 hours of sleep a night. If you were enjoying a game then it probably wouldn’t be...
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    Dark Heresy gets the Owlcat Treatment

    https://darkheresy.owlcat.games/?fbclid=IwdGRleAPBTR9leHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqzA0nKKu5nNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7M0zVtlEbNmYYq34LRopuB6frNQ0wjk73Qk1NwAZGFR5EkQur004YDNrySKA_aem_PKL2Uy50kxBS2OL6XHKVXw&utm_campaign=120240366688080054&utm_content=Hero_become%2520founder%2520%E2%80%94%2520%D0%9A%...
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    Getting reviews

    Whatever happened to Endzeitgheist? I remember him being extremely prolific of 3pp stuff and I bought more than one product because he rated it highly.
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    You need to not tell anyone, because it’s the only way to keep a secret.
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    Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

    That was a really powerful story. As someone who loved the Razor Coast that came out the other side. It’s a real cautionary tale. Nicolas Logue a talented writer unsuited at that time to be a publisher who went into a spiral of alcoholism and depression from pressures of a full time job and the...
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    James Ohlen Shifts From Archetype Entertainment Head to Creative Consultant for Tabletop RPGs at Wizards

    Yes all three are good as is Raiders of the Serpent Sea. He thinks big and comes up with imaginative stuff. Particularly impressive quality as 3rd party work. There is a reason Baldurs Gate was number 3. Because he did such a good job on the first two that a sequel was worth it.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    It might also be that many changes are circumstantial. They’re to a specific spell or subclass ability. In some cases it even depends how you use the spells. Even when my cleric PC casts spirit guardians he doesn’t boost his speed and start running around the board. So there are lots of reasons...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I find it fascinating that relatively minor changes, often to just a few classes, evoke such antipathy. I’m really struggling to understand what in some cases seems like wholesale disgust at a system that is only very slightly different than the one that came before, that they think is great...
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