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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Now, I know the first 500 times I've given my opinion you havent agreed, but surely on the 501st time you will.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Also not sure you need to forgive to let go of the grudge as such. Im estranged from my Mum and one of my siblings due to disagreement around my life choices. I tried at time to find some path to reconciliation, but just kept getting hurt. So in end im happily staying estranged, im not...
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    What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?

    I dont know of an example directly, but hypothetical one to try and show my understanding is random encounter tables. It could be roll a d100, on 1 to 10 there are different encounters that happen, and 11 to 100 no encounter. Or it could be, roll a d20, if it is a populated region (see x for...
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    What are you reading in 2026?

    As for year ahead, having read the Stephen King books I wanted to read and Peter Fehervari omnibuses in 2025, looking to try and clear some of my unread books - have an ever growing collection across Kobo (my store of choice), Kindle (for books not available on Kobo or on sale on Amazon but not...
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    What are you reading in 2026?

    Started new year reading Interceptor City by Dan Abnett, following closing 2025 reading Double Eagle and Apostle's Creed from Sabbat Worlds to refresh my memory. Certainly a bit weird reading the intro to Sabbat World, with weirdness on timing - talking about some of the Horus Heresy novels...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I think the GM and host are two different people in the example. For me though, l can't say yes or no, depends on why the DM wants to exclude the other species not in the 3 mentioned books. I would hope in this case the DM would explain why not Tabaxi in particular, or allow them as they...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I think it is more why did you eat the baby? What was intent/ reason for doing so? Is it a Soylent Green scenario? Were you coerced into it? Did you just wake up and decide one day I want to eat a baby?
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I like the way Lord of the Rings Online has been handling Orcs and Goblins in recent years, showing some variation in attitudes as such.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I think you are taking the most uncaritable reading of my posts possible. As ultimately yes I have, as described, had this happen in games I've played in, with me ultimately stopping playing a character I liked because someone came in with a concept that clashed with mine after I had already...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Slight tangent from these two bits - it may be a factor of changing life circumstances leading me to as a DM wanting to minimize my workload, and as a player wanting to play characters that interest me, in broadbrush strokes I tend to want to DM / play in one of the following four types of...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    And further for the record, I dont think I've ever expressed that I think DMs should block player options if they exist, only that if a DM is blocking it i don't see a way out. After prior experiences as player and DM, my only concerns that may impact on character choices is that it doesn't lead...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Is why I also liked that the Kender in latest supplement were more described as insatiably curious and chatterboxes , rather than kleptomaniacs.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Im not trying to invent problems, I included some real examples earlier of things like this, I was just trying to make point that a player coming in with a given idea can impact on other players as well. We dont have these issues anymore in our group, but it did take time and conversations to...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    We now use standard array to smooth some things out. But I think there can be an element of it is rude to suck in dnd, if player is deliberately building sub optimal (which this person was, the party wasnt a min / maxing one by any means, but playing a cleric and putting highest stats in...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I have had a couple of cases where I've ended up having to step in, or been involved in as a player, around player choices impacting other players. Real examples include: Player creating a glas cannon type striker in 4e, but then always charging up into Frontline trying to tank attacks, which...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    For this one referring to very beginning of first book, where Tanis, Flint and Tas reunite and run into Toede, where it seems Toede etc are there at invite of seekers, and before the army actually attacks Solace and occupies it. Before that feel is that any war is far-off rumor, but somehow...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I ran dragonlance,.as like the general lore of thr world around the War of the Lance up until Dragons of Summer Flame, and was running the 5e adventure. While I generally liked the adventure and updates to lore in there, I still tend to base it around the races being quite xenophobic until...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I dont see it as the DM is always right, but if they aren't going to bend, what is the player going to do? If they can get whole group to move, then maybe that would show the DM that they are doing something wrong, but if the DM still gets players willing to play, then for better or worse they...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I dont think it fully works, as depending on what is happening, the whole party could be impacted by the player playing that race, and other players may not be happy about it. I ran a Dragonlance campaign recently, I said based on the world, there are the common races that are native to the...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    I dont understand this response. Im sure you've posted elsewhere that GM and Players have as much right to find the game they want to play as each other, and sometimes they wont align, so DM will need to find other players, player will need to find other DM, and each has as much right to that...
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