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    D&D 5E (2024) Intersection of skill & tool proficiencies

    OR... they just keep adding dice. When you have advantage and disadvantage, you roll 3d20 and take the middle roll. :p "Okay, you have 3 advantage and 2 disadvantage, so roll 6d20, and use the third highest die."
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    D&D 5E (2024) Warcaster Cheesy Fondue 2024

    Not in 2024. The rules tell you who your enemies and allies are. https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/rules-glossary#Enemy https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/rules-glossary#Ally
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    D&D 5E (2024) Dungeon Master's Guide Bastion System Lets You Build A Stronghold

    Detailed differences between the dndbeyond article and UA: The UA says players get bastions at level 5, period. Talk about the narrative justification with the group. The article says, we assume you get them at level 5, but you could do it later if you want, or give it as a quest reward or...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Dungeon Master's Guide Bastion System Lets You Build A Stronghold

    As far as I can tell, every single detail mentioned in the video is identical to the playtest, except: James Wyatt says that the bastion does the Maintain order when the player isn't there and can't communicate with their hirelings. The playtest simply said it happens if the player isn't there...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Command is the Perfect Encapsulation of Everything I Don't Like About 5.5e

    Sure, but examples are examples, not the absolute outer bounds. The spell doesn't say anything like "if the DM determines the command is more powerful than the examples, the spell ends". The definition of the spell doesn't say "the target can only move toward or away from the caster or just not...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Player's Handbook 2024 Table of Contents

    Not quite: it's the "Material Realms". These are the Material Plane (singular), Feywild, and Shadowfell. Correct. By the way, the Inner Planes do include the para-elemental planes. It also says the DMG will have more info on these and "other planes, like the Far Realm, Negative Plane, and...
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    D&D 5E (2024) I just got a 2024 PHB From Gen Con. AMA!

    Instead of affecting a certain number of HP worth of creatures, Color Spray affects all creatures in the cone, but they get a Con save to avoid being blinded.
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    D&D 5E (2024) The 10 Species in "Your Ideal 2024 PHB"

    Human Elf Dwarf Ling Sprite Goblin Myconid Blink dog Half-elf Half-ling
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    Good alternatives to proper miniatures?

    You say that, but that's exactly how we got iconic D&D monsters like the Bulette, Rust Monster, Owl Bear, and Umber Hulk. Turns out they're knockoff Ultraman monsters!
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    Today I learned +

    You know Aretha Franklin's signature song, "Respect"? It's a cover. The original recording is by Otis Redding.
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    D&D General On Early D&D and Problematic Faves: How to Grapple with the Sins of the Past

    I don't deny that some people do get overzealous in going after people they view as having said something problematic, but there is a no less vociferous and even less open "How dare you call foo problematic!" in nearly every case. See, for example, the inciting incident of this thread: Jon...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    Nobody is doing any of that. This isn't a competition to be the most offended or get on the highest horse. Nobody is shocked that sexism was to some degree more socially acceptable in the 1970s. This is a thread about a history book. The book reproduces historical documents, and it contains a...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    It's like pineapple upside-down cake, but pizza!
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    Bronze Dragon "Pun-ny" Names?

    Bronzie Hawn Marlon Bronzo Bronzos Bronzos-Ghali Lyndon B. Bronzeson Long John Bronzer Peter Bronze-donavich
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    D&D General On Early D&D and Problematic Faves: How to Grapple with the Sins of the Past

    I would turn this around slightly: when writing a parody, you ought to keep Poe's Law in mind. It may be ambiguous at first, but by the end, you should make darn sure people know you aren't actually advocating for eating babies. You're probably right that achieving understanding by 100% of the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook reveal: "New Monk"

    My notes from the video: Monk and the ranger are "largely new classes". Lv 1 Martial Arts: Monk weapons are Simple Melee Weapons and Martial Melee Weapons with the Light property. Unarmed strike can be used as a bonus action, no longer tied to Attack action. Unarmed strike can do damage...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook reveal: "New Monk"

    Word from Todd Kenreck in youtube chat is that this video will be 40 minutes long.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Give it time! The cheese-powered space ships are from the 2260s.
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