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    D&D 5E (2014) Nonstandard Races You Love And Want Back

    I seem to recall a not-too-recent 3PP item that described the Knome - a cross between Kender and Gnomes. Talk about the stuff of nightmares.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Nonstandard Races You Love And Want Back

    Too late. We are gnomes, and we are in. We'll give you this: you're right that you can't trust us. :heh: :heh:
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    D&D 5E (2014) Nonstandard Races You Love And Want Back

    Wemics (from Forgotten Realms). Kalashtar (from Eberron). These are the two I most want to see.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Equipment Damage and Duration Rules

    Double posting. Appears I'm not too lazy to hit the submit button twice.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Equipment Damage and Duration Rules

    ... and there's the reason for the mending cantrip. But then, I'm lazy and I'm cheap, and that seems to copy over to my PCs.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Anyone else think the Bard concept is just silly?

    "Give you gold?!? Dude, I can apply my own war paint, thank you very much." :heh: ... although I'm thinking a magical M.C. Escher could really screw up the magic portal business. Minotaurs would have a field day.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What do we want? Grognardhawk! When do we want it? Mearls!

    Had one player at our table who insisted on calling the denizens of Furyondy "Furry-undies". That's just wrong.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Anyone else think the Bard concept is just silly?

    Wow! Thanks for the new playground!
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    D&D 5E (2014) Anyone else think the Bard concept is just silly?

    Doesn't the word "wizard" come from the same root as "vizier"? My understanding of the RW role of viziers was that they had enough education and experience to enable them to advise leaders as to possible consequences of different courses of action. They weren't always right, and their...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simple Warrior Buff and the importance of Game Balance

    Yes. Quick, to-the-point, and it seems reasonable to add to the Champion archetype. It treads a little on the Battlemaster's Maneuvers, but not enough to be a steal.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simple Warrior Buff and the importance of Game Balance

    Since Dodge (Parry) is generally a reaction to being attacked, it doesn't make a good fit for an Extra Attack action on a PC's turn. Helping another character, though: that I like.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Anyone else think the Bard concept is just silly?

    So, "maþþumgyfa" might share the origin root for Tolkien's hobbit cultural giving of "mathoms" (if I remember the correct word) on their birthdays? And such a hobbit would then be the maþþumgyfa. Cool!
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    D&D 5E (2014) How do players know they are in the "wrong" location in a sandbox campaign?

    Fanaelialae - (no XP Award option showing; re comment #10 on this thread). Very good suggestions.
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    D&D 5E (2014) How do players know they are in the "wrong" location in a sandbox campaign?

    I really like MerricB's idea of the side-quests (see comment #8 in this thread). It keeps the game moving forward without letting it drop into a TPK, and may also be utilized to provide foreshadowing for when the party is ready for the more dangerous scenarios. Here's a notion that can be used...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Anyone else think the Bard concept is just silly?

    FYI: "Redthistle" is the clan name of my favorite gnome PC (Pathfinder game). He's a rogue/sorcerer, but I could add a level of bard just for your nightmares' sake ... ;) Your comment triggered a memory of a meme making the rounds, might have been back in the 1990s. The idea then was that...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Anyone else think the Bard concept is just silly?

    Can I stir the debate, and suggest it be named the Brandegoris College of Bardic Dance? Heh-heh-heh!
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    D&D 5E (2014) Anyone else think the Bard concept is just silly?

    Watch a movie combat scene with the sound on mute. Watch the scene again with the soundtrack playing. The difference is bardic influence.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Waterskins (apparently every adventuring party in history died of thirst)

    The ounce is the basic unit of measure (can I call it archaic?) in this system: 1 ounce of water sets the standard for a weight of 1 ounce. There are 128 ounces in a gallon. There are 16 ounces to a pound of weight. 128/16 = 8; therefore, a gallon weighs 8 pounds. I love it that according...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What do townsfolk know about the Seven Sisters?

    "You done good," as Joe Don Baker used to say, in the role of a club-toting lawman on a TV show back in the day, whose name has slipped my aging brain. "Walking Tall" was the name of the show.
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