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    D&D 5E D&D Head Talks Future Plans (Sort Of)

    In one ear out the other. Like clockwork.
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    D&D 5E D&D Head Talks Future Plans (Sort Of)

    Oh boy, here we go again... Nearly everyone I know likes stuff like Warhammer 40k or Age of Sigmar. Different strokes for different blokes. Did you ever hear of this tabletop game called Dungeons & Dragons? Its gots its roots in wargaming from Chainmail as a hacked version of that system. Its...
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    Pathfinder 1E How "grimdark" is your Golarion?

    My settings are always a slowburn of how grim and bleak it really is. Avoid shoving it in players face immediately, let the horror slowly seep out. Current setting is in Arcadia.
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    D&D 5E D&D Head Talks Future Plans (Sort Of)

    Technically the downfall of 4th edition was less about the balance and standardization and more the fact that 4th edition is radically different compared to prior and subsequent editions. That 4th edition was really good at being a wargame with miniatures and grinding through dungeons. However...
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    D&D 5E D&D Live Schedule - Unannounced Book Reveal July 16th

    I'll be a happy camper if its a dark sun book.
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    D&D 5E D&D Head Talks Future Plans (Sort Of)

    All I want to see is the short rest system tweaked or replaced. It seems fine on paper, but it was really meant for 4th edition when the rest period was 5 mins and being recharged for combat after combat was encouraged. Edit: On some thinking, the happy middle ground for rests would be Short...
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    TSR Just when you thought it was all over.... now there’s a fourth TSR!

    Didn't expect how this would go for them or that they would cause these sorts of PR disasters, but I also can't say I'm surprised either.
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    D&D 5E I reject your reality and substitute my own!

    Early on have traps that make a click noise for low-level first dungeon they get. Basically telling them click=trap. Also have a very simple room that is largely empty except a pit trap in the middle, no spikes. Empty room = possibly trapped. Tell them throughout first dungeon, when they fail to...
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    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder 1.5 rumblings: Corefinder

    I'm only now learning about corefinder? I need this.
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    Pathfinder 1E When you forget to coordinate party composition.

    Players tend to be self-correcting from my experience. Although I have seen silly stuff like the 'all-bard band'.
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    Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder's Mwangi Expanse Contents Page

    I personally love how each city actually lists on the right hand side a key, images with a word each, of what sort of goods a player is to get from there. That is so useful you have no idea.
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    Is killing a Goblin who begs for mercy evil?

    1) Does the party have a high enough insight / sense motive check? 2) Is the creature's alignment an exception to the norm? 3) What are the player's codes/tenents, if they have any. 4) What is the creature? 5) What sort of situation is the party in? Sounds like a lot of conditions, but its not...
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    D&D General The Problem with Evil or what if we don't use alignments?

    In 5e paladins don't have to but are free to, but clerics actually have to pick a deity to follow and worship. Clerics and deities are fairly inseparable as they are basically in layman's terms divine warlocks.
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    D&D General The Problem with Evil or what if we don't use alignments?

    Not necessarily. Its the freedom of choice and morality. That for paladin as example, it is up to the player to stay within the graces of their deity. Not because their alignment said they outright should. And that paladins already have something better than alignment: A code of conduct. By...
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    D&D General What would be the best and worst parts or living in a D&D campaign world?

    Best thing: Learning simple spells like goodberry or create water, being able to see various cultures and races. Worst thing: I'm still a human. I might die to a house cat.
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    D&D 5E The Mainstreaming of D&D

    Yeah definitely in that sense, also Kindred the Embraced haven't heard that for a long while. I think a better way to put it, the mainstreaming part of it, is just how much more open and postitive people are about the subject matter than they were prior. Also a simpler edition that is fairly...
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    D&D 5E The Mainstreaming of D&D

    I live under a room temperature rock I guess. I always thought D&D was more mainstream. Especially when Vin Diesel, Stephen Colbert, Dwayne Johnson, and (maybe but likely) Stephen King played it.
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    D&D General The Problem with Evil or what if we don't use alignments?

    Only good time I seen alignment used was in a desert setting where alignment was suspended if you were suffering from thirst. That even the paladin got a free pass to go do amoral stuff if it meant survival in a harsh landscape.
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    D&D General How old were you when you started playing D&D?

    I started on the tail end of AD&D 2nd edition when I was 9. 3rd edition was like a year away. Step-dad taught me how to play.
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