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  1. Maxperson

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Or a commercial for old people.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    There aren't any design norms for deadly encounters. It's X+, where X is the number you see listed as deadly on the chart. Anything and everything above X is still just deadly.
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I love playing clerics. However, I am crystal clear with the groups I play in when I make the character. I am NOT a healer. My PC is a cleric of war, or forging or whatever, and that's where his spell focus will be. If they want a healer, someone else will need to make one.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    I've seen it situationally for the most part. I think one or maybe two PCs over the years just had it always a part of their prepped spells.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    I'm absolutely not a fan of reskinning. However, if a warlock wanted to call himself an artificer and try to fake tech being behind his powers, I wouldn't have an issue with that.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    Jerry Rigging is making something cheaply. Temu merchandise is Jerry Rigged. Jury Rigging is improvising/makeshift repairing. They are similar, but different.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    I think that learning controls is much easier than building/repairing the tech.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    I wondered that as well. It's not like the Gorn could have easily explained it to her via yes/no questions.
  9. Maxperson

    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    You're right. It's not that it can't happen. It's that it generally WON'T happen. People for the most part like to enjoy playing the game and not very many people want to be a healbot and spend every slot they have on healing spells.
  10. Maxperson

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    California just shot HOA's in the head. Those fines max out at $100 and then it's done. That neighbor would have been able to just fork over $100, or perhaps $100 per tree and then the HOA would have had to let him keep them there.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    It's not at all universally prepared. There are too many good spells and too few prepared spells you can pick for that to be true. It kinda is. If you are using everything you have just to heal, you are a healbot which means you are specced for healing. You may not be fully optimized for it...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    In addition to the story not being very good once the time travel happened, what really drove me crazy was Michael's expression(not expressions). She had one expression which was abject horror as if her life and/or the universe was ending. She used it when her boyfriend did something wrong...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    The first two seasons were good. Then it went downhill rapidly. Once the time travel happened, it not only didn't feel like Star Trek to me, it was very much not a good show in my opinion.
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    There are other good spells and slots are at a premium. That spell isn't cast as often as you think. That may be how your group does it, but your group isn't the gold standard of how groups around the world play. In your example you used literally every spell slot to cast healing spells...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I blame 3.5e and onward for that mentality, really. During 1e and 2e, any magic sword was prized because it meant being able to hurt things that were immune to anything needing a +1 or higher to hurt. 3e continued that feeling by making DR 15/+1, 30/+2 and the like. Once 3.5e came around and...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I think that's more because people get entrenched in their arguments about X, Y or Z. Folks challenge those ideas, they defend, the defense gets challenged, and suddenly the argument appears to be very much only about realism being the king of kings. When these discussions get boiled down and...
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    Yeah. That would drive me away from the game. This tough angry human isn't a human, he's an orc. This other tough angry human isn't a human, he's a dwarf. This third tough angry human isn't a human, he's a goliath. I want humans to be consistently human. If I want one to be tough, he'll...
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    D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books

    Your games with their rings of resistance on every finger are not the norm. Unless they've had time to prep, it's unlikely that half the party will just happen to be resistant to fire. Wow. That sounds mind numbingly dull. Why on Earth would anyone want to play a healbot and not someone who...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I don't get that impression from anyone here. We just tend to follow the Gygax thought on the matter. "ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS is first and foremost a game for the fun and enjoyment of those who seek to use imagination and creativity. This is not to say that where it does not interfere...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I don't see a problem with this. Have that person hack at a 1 inch thick flat rock and he is not going to do much. Have someone who has a greatsword and leverages it with great strength and there's a good chance that he's breaking the rock. It's just more important for the death by a thousand...
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