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    D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations

    Yes, he can. Maybe he shouldn't, but that is another issue. :)
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    D&D 5E (2024) How do you rule using a Hand Crossbow with a nick weapon

    How do we know that the rules are assuming that you have only two arms? They don't say that they do, and you might be a Thri-kreen. What if there are shenanigans you can pull off that are not forbidden by the rules, but are impossible if you have only two arms?
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    dumb premise for a game - Medieval Aliens

    Isn't this just the "Cowboys and Aliens" movie, but 500 years earlier?
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    D&D General Did 5e 2024 Not meet the economic goals set, and if not, why not?

    If it did not make the goals that were set than those goals were unrealistic because, per WOTC, the new PHB sold better than any other D&D book had ever sold (over the same period of time). If "better than anything before it" for the PHB and (maybe) "better than any DMG or MM before it" for the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Skill Mastery as an idea

    What you would need to do is give every skill a Mastery Property, as weapons have Mastery Properties. Than every character who had Mastery of the skill could, when they successfully used that skill, add the Mastery Property. Example - Mastery Property for Intimidation = Fear. "When you...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Shifts to Franchise Model, Dan Ayoub Named as Head

    Legal won't let them do that, the payouts to the families of those poor missing kids were a big part of why TSR had financial problems....
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    What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?

    Waiting for the reprint, since our first two shipments sold out instantly and now all the distributors seem to be out.
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    D&D General D&D adventure set in London

    It's partially based on "The Borribles" novels from the 1970's, and a big part of the plot of those was the Borrible's (kids who become un-aging halfling Rogues with pointed ears who pass as human kids until you pull their hats off. If their ears are clipped they become human again) desire to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wizards of the Coast promises to release more “CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3” without Larian

    They said it would be as serious as BG3. They did not say that it would be as good as BG3. All they're really saying is "it will not be a comedy".
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    The question is not whether you can try something, the question is whether or not you can ever succeed at something. If you want to waste your characters time trying something that the rules will not let you do, absent the ability to do, so that is your choice. You can no more Grapple without...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What's Your 2026 WotC D&D Wishlist?

    Make it a flip book with two front covers and bound upside down from each other, like an old Ace Double paperback.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Line of sight ruling

    Clearly everyone falls prone face up or their neck twisted so that they can still see everything, otherwise prone would impose some sort of penalties on perception, which it does not.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Line of sight ruling

    Note also that the Unconscious Condition says that you are unaware of your surroundings but it does NOT say that you have the Blinded condition, so maybe everyone in 5.24 passes out, and falls asleep, with their eyes open but with their brains incapable of processing what their eyes still see...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Line of sight ruling

    I believe that the rules on Medusa's permit you to avert your eyes, but is there anything on the rules that even allows characters to close their eyes or that say that closing your eyes is sufficient to Blind you? If so than anyone who has you mind controlled could just make you close your eyes...
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    What makes a TTRPG purchase "worth it" to you?

    Whenever the net present hedonic value of the item exceeds the net present hedonic value of not spending the money, or or of spending it on something else, of course.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Session Zero, then fight vermin.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Potion miscibility, permanent effects and using potions in the future.

    If one potion is permanent than every other potion they ever drink will have to be checked on the mixing table, since they will still be affected by the permanent one. Therefore they will have a 35% chance of a problem every time from now on. This may help balance this.
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    How Will The New Tariffs Affect TTRPG Prices?

    So the thing is that books are printed on paper (mostly Canadian paper in the USA), and even if books are exempt the paper is not, so the books will go up some anyway.
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    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    Cantrips are already limited by how long you can talk and wiggle your arms before you get tired, as most of them have verbal and somatic components. I would be skeptical of anyone who thought that they could use them for more than 1,000 rounds in a row, or more than 4,000 rounds per day without...
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    Paksworld RPG Based On Elizabeth Moon's Novels

    Sometimes people change their minds as they get older. This is normal and good and, in this case, good for role-players.
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