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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    The 2024 PHB lore text for Warlocks and Clerics, fwiw. Warlock Warlock additionally has under the Pact Magic feature: I don't see a later feature (such as the Level 3 subclass selection) with lore text indicating when the Warlock finds out who their patron is, just this early text that...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Infinite Staircase?

    I've seen pieces of that supplement when I was looking up info on irda. It's not available anymore, but I'll check if anyone in my groups has it, because that would be great. Your post also inspired me to check my 3P Dragonlance Companion. That doesn't have any gnomes, but it does have some...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    -6 to his Strength ability score (AKA -6 from a total of 15, or 15-6=9). I'll edit the post as you are not the first person to misunderstand that sentence.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Infinite Staircase?

    A couple more questions: Module 1 / The Lost City My Lv3 party is approaching the "boss" of the 4th floor, a banshee. The party's current HPs and CON saves: 19 HP +1 CON 23 HP +1 CON 27 HP +2 CON 21 HP +3 CON (the sidekick) The 2024 version of Deathly Wail: Deathly Wail (1/Day). The banshee...
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    Spoilers Pluribus

    I have never met a person like Manousos. It's wonderful to me how, even so, his motivations are very understandable. I cannot wait for his collision with Carol.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    To his ability score, not his modifier. He has a total of 15 Strength. That's why I mentioned him being the first one to run into the room is helpful against Shadows specifically.
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    Oh yeah, I just meant this specific blog post about how mechanics are prioritized over narrative in 2024. The tables could be useful for deciding a particular Shadow's tactics, if he's looking for ways to base monster strategies on flavor. One thing I use my VTT for is on some monsters, I...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    On a different note I am surprised this blog makes no mention of the fun roll tables for monsters that can help a DM decide where a particular monster came from. Here's the one for Shadows: I don't really use these because I am just running a module and the module describes where stuff comes...
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    D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

    RE- People not reading the rules when they run the game and getting confused by monster blocks - I want to share what may be an illustrative example from my most recent session. I am a first-time DM. The party met a couple Shadows. Here's the 2024 Shadow stat block: I took note of the...
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    General video game discussion

    For existing games the scoop is apparently: Play Clair Obscur. For new announcements I would say- Cinematic teaser for Divinity, next Larian Studios game (yt does not allow embed due to adult content) Cinematic teaser for Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic (directed by the director of...
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock Video Game Announced by Invoke Studios

    Friends and I got irrationally excited about this because of a great book that came out this year called The Raven Scholar. Just a bunch of people saying MAGNIFICENT over and over again.
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    D&D General DnDbeyond AMA tomorrow (Tues, Dec 9)

    Here's a few answers I noticed from this: Will mechanics from the 14/24 rulesets that don't currently work in Beyond (2024 Warlock Eldritch Invocations, 2024 Ritual Caster, Sorcerer Clockwork Soul, etc) ever be fixed? The core underlying issue here is a backend for game data and game rules we...
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    D&D General DnDbeyond AMA tomorrow (Tues, Dec 9)

    Here's hoping the new homepage adjusts the display of sources to what I'm using lately instead of the Featured lists. Quests From the Infinite Staircase finally got pushed off the Featured list for me so now I have to do extra clicks to prep stuff. edit: Oops didn't read down far enough!
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    What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?

    Just wanted to share a moment from my session tonight where players got really excited about some Dragonlance lore, and how I got there. At the first session, there was an aarakocra cleric NPC on the same ship as the PCs. No one interacted with her. They did know her name and profession...
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    Spoilers Pluribus

    I'm not sure technical hurdles in genetic engineering are going to be a focus in the series, yeah. But I think it's extremely reasonable to believe there might be aliens or something else going on based on the simple fact that the showrunners have claimed multiple seasons are on the way! So from...
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    Spoilers Pluribus

    The virus is probably joined on every planet it colonizes. Otherwise it can't send the signal on to reach more planets. The behavior for hive created on Earth probably combines the knowledge of all the people it absorbed (including the knowledge that it got here via a signal sent into space) and...
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    Spoilers Pluribus

    This was my interpretation. It also ties to why they can't farm (modify the plant's default processes to their own benefit), but they will milk animals that experience issues if they aren't milked due to past farming/breeding changes. Also RE: consuming bacteria - the hive only prefers to be...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Infinite Staircase?

    Module 2 / When A Star Falls - another prep note from my work on it today: There are 3 rooms painted with the same color as robes worn by 3 sages in the Tower of the Heavens. Each sage carries a key which unlocks a desk drawer in their matching room. However, each desk drawer also has a glyph...
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