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  1. Tymophil

    Planescape Adventure introducing the PCs to factions?

    Hi all bashers, As far as I know, there is no official adventure that is meant to introduce the factions to PCs, in order for them to join one such organization. Did anyone come up with such a scenario?
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    Critical Role's 'Daggerheart' Open Playtest Starts In March

    Firstly, I don't play Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, and won't. A few years ago, I have played it a few times as a player, a Dungeon Master and I even tried to write some adventures for this edition. I did not like it, and went to other systems. So Daggerheart could be a system to please me...
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    Critical Role's 'Daggerheart' Open Playtest Starts In March

    I didn't play it yet. I was referring to the comments I saw earlier in the thread... That why I said it "seems".
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    Critical Role's 'Daggerheart' Open Playtest Starts In March

    It seems that the biggest problem so far is the amount of Fear points that the system generates, and the amount of work it puts on the Game Master. Can I suggest to replace 2d12 by 1d12 for Hope plus 1d10 for Fear? Moreover, I would not give Hope for critical rolls. Probabilities : Fear point...
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    Skill Challenges in Essentials

    I was searchnig for it under the complexity heading, as it was given this way in the core rules (DMG p72)... So it is 3 failures for any Skill Challenge. Okay? Is it better than what was stated in the core rules?
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    Skill Challenges in Essentials

    Where in Essentials rulebooks is this information? There was such a piece of information in the core Dungeon Master Guide, but I cannot find it in any Essentials book that I have read so far.
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    Skill Challenges in Essentials

    Good day to all the fair ladies and gentle knights, I’m reading the rules for Skill Challenges in Essentials (both in the Rules Compendium and Dungeon Master’s Kit, they are the same). I simply don't understand the rules. I seem to lack an information. For a Complexity 1 Challenge, theparty...
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    Making your own power cards

    Hi all, I am back to D&D4, and I would like to update all the softwares I used back in the days. So, I would like to know what is the latest version of the DnD-4E-UCS, and where I can find it. There is a project page on Source forge, but it is empty...
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    [4e] Masterplan

    I was finally able to find 11.10... But not 11.11 so far. Do you know of any add-in that was developped for Masterplan?
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    [4e] Masterplan

    Hi all, I am back to D&D4. I used to prepare and run my sessions with Masterplan. I have version 11.3, along with jailbreak and jailbroken. I found that there were new versions for Masterplan up to 11.10 or 11.11 (it's not quite clear). I have been, so far, unable to find those versions (the...
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    D&D 5E What do you do when your players are gunshy?

    May I suggest that you add some new ingredients to their experience of adventuring? Different goals: Maybe, for once, they to need to overcome an opposition, but rather… … gather information to decide wisely on a difficult matter. … avoid being killed… Somebody tries to kill them on a regular...
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    D&D 5E Whats your dealbreaker for 5E?

    It will not be translated in French...
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    A magic system I thought of...

    A caster can have something like 4 to 6 level 1 "effects" at the moment of creation of the character, then can add one effect per level he gains, and level of magic. So, a magician starting with the 6 starting affects will have, at level 5 : 9 level 1 effects, 4 level 2 effects, 3 level 3...
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    A magic system I thought of...

    Iwant to use in a dimple game, suited for introduction du Roleplay... There is no debate... But not much magic either in fact... I think a set of advices and good introduction scenarios could put players and gamemasters on the right tracks... I also plan levels to be few (9 to portray the...
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    A magic system I thought of...

    Thanks for those answers. I will check Elements of magic. I intented this system for initiation to RPG, it seems it's not a good idea...
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    A magic system I thought of...

    Hi guys, I came up with an idea for a magic system based on effects. In my system, a spell is several magical effects linked together to shape up the hex itself. For example, if you want to detect magic on an object that you touch you just have to link together "Detection" and "Magic source"...
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    Astral ship deck plan anyone ?

    Hi fellow gamemasters, I am searching for a good deck plan for an astral ship for a D&D adventure. I already checked Dundjinni forums and Cartographer's Guild I got one inspiring ship, but I would like something weirder and/or bigger... Does anyone have such thing under his belt (Spelljammer...
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    Why I like skill challenges as a noncombat resolution mechanic

    Skill challenge stripped to its bare bones. I use MasterPlan to play, and the structure of a skill challenge is beautifully apparent in this software. COMPLEXITY : length of the challenge. It sets the duration of the scene that is driven by the challenge. For me, the complexity is set by the...
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    Fourth Edition Retro Clone

    I think you should AVOID taking the "Keep on the Shadowfell" path... I mean : fight, then fight, then fight, then fight... And finally fight the boss... It would be better to introduce rules one at a time, stressing how to handle some situations with skill tests , stat test, without such, Skill...
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    D&D 5E To Anyone Writing 5E Material

    What I'd like to see in D&D5 adventures, and yet to see in any module published so far... 1. Lots of players hand-outs. This is what I mainly expect from professionnal publishers : do what I cannot do, or don't have time to do. NPC portraits, beautiful maps, inspiring pictures/documents, etc...
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