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    D&D General Mechanical differences between AD&D and Basic?

    Well I'll be dipped. That's kind of dumb though, the head is a lot smaller of a target and almost everyone will try to protect it with their weapon or shield or if all else fails by leaning back. Even letting an arm get cut off is better than taking a solid headshot without a helmet in...
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    D&D General Mechanical differences between AD&D and Basic?

    Source? This is the first I've ever heard of this and I'm pretty sure I read the 1E DMG cover to cover multiple times back in the day.
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    ZEITGEIST ZEITGEIST in legacy character builder

    The copy I downloaded, by way of Hirou, had (as his own post also suggests) a "Level2" file but no additional ones following that naming convention for higher levels.
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    ZEITGEIST ZEITGEIST in legacy character builder

    [Thread necromancy in progress...] Just noticed a minor omission - these don't appear to include the Detect Planar Energies ritual Gale gives the party in the second adventure (which also figures in, at least, the third).
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    D&D 5E (2014) The semantics of the spell Sending

    I don't think this is ambiguous; it's definitely the second one. There's no reason for the "any"s to be there if they aren't quantifying the relevant amount of fighting or spellcasting.
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    Super Giveaway - All 5th Edition Books

    Entered. Don't exactly have a favourite but the one I'd be most excited about were I to win is probably Rising from the Last War, followed closely by Tomb of Annihilation.
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    Let's Have a Peek At TRANSFORMERS and GI JOE!

    Is it just me or is the perspective on that GI Joe cover really weird? It's very hard to tell where anything/anyone is in relation to each other. That's still the one I'm most interested in and it's not close.
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    Level Up (A5E) Vote! Which Of These Features Of Level Up Are You Excited About?

    Only picked 11 but that was a case of trying to stick to the really important stuff, if I clicked everything that interests me about this project it would easily have been over twice that. If I could only pick one it would probably be "Meaningful choices every time you level up", this is what...
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    Level Up (A5E) When can I play the game

    I'm not sure where the information that it starts October 5 comes from (I was in fact just about to complain that I can't find that kind of information anywhere - here, Kickstarter, or www.levelup5e.com!), but if that's true you're very unlikely to get it by the 9th. Notice that Russ said awards...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Integrating a story-resistant player

    Some people need to how things actually work out in play before they have any real idea who their character is. Having run it to completion, WotBS gives plenty of opportunities to form connections after the campaign starts.
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    WotBS Advice on killing off a prominent NPC in war of the burning sky

    I blew Torrent up right after she finished her opening spiel and never looked back. Three Weeping Ravens was also replaced with an ex-PC whose player had left the group early on, similar to what you're contemplating, it worked out fine.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Getting space combat completely wrong.
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    Level Up (A5E) Magic Item Price List

    (Shrug.) You appeared to be straight up denying the existence of any details on copying spells, period. In fact you came very close to explicitly saying as much in the post I was replying to. I now see how it could be read a different way, the one you apparently had in mind, but that was by no...
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    Level Up (A5E) Magic Item Price List

    Did you miss the post where I did exactly this?
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    Level Up (A5E) Magic Item Price List

    Player's Handbook, page 114, the sidebar "Your Spellbook", third paragraph under "Copying a Spell into the Book", first sentence: "For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp."
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    TSR TSR3 Throws In Towel, Rebrands Wonderfilled

    "Discovery is when you give each other ammunition" - love it!
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    Worlds of Design: To Move or Not to a New Edition?

    There isn't one simple answer to a question like this. It depends what I think of the changes. I picked the second, "sometimes new sometimes old" option but that's just the most common answer. I certainly don't have the need some people do to always be using the latest and ostensibly greatest...
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    ZEITGEIST Copying from Zeitgeist PDFs

    As I mentioned before, I'm currently running Zeitgeist on Roll20. Sometimes it would be really useful to be able to copy and paste a picture from the pdfs, most commonly an NPC portrait. However this does not seem to be anywhere near as straightforward as it might sound. When I try to do this...
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    Cypher System by Monte Cook Games: what do you think about it?

    Here are two Facebook posts I've written about it at different times. TL;DR - tried it, didn't like it. EDIT: I should clarify that the second one is specifically about Numenera and a few bits of it may be specific to that implementation, but most of it will apply to all the main Cypher titles...
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    Pathfinder 1E How to Survive Dominate

    If they're vulnerable to Dominate, they're vulnerable to Hold Person, which is also a lot less resource-intensive to cast. Basically any save-or-suck or save-or-not-be-part-of-that-fight effect with a Will save.
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