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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Warlock's patron is evil. Gasp!
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    D&D General How Often Should a PC Die in D&D 5e?

    In 5e I generally have 1 or 2 deaths a campaign, and finish around level 11 or 12. So I went with one death every 6-7 levels. But I usually ban resurrection spells (or make resurrection more difficult). In 5e if Revivify and diamonds are readily available, character death becomes nothing more...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    No combat, lots of shenanigans!
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    D&D (2024) What's your favorite rule change?

    A good summary of the positive changes (from a DM perspective) I saw elsewhere. Obviously players will love the class improvements and extra player facing stuff I agree they didn't go far enough, eg on spells. But there were some good changes
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Curse swapped arms and legs
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    D&D (2024) D&D 2024 Rules Oddities (Kibbles’ Collected Complaints)

    I was thinking more rules fixes (to things that previously needed Sage Advice or twitter threads to tell you how things actually worked) vs creating "problematic"/exploitable stuff as opposed to regular nerfs/buffs.
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    D&D (2024) Learning to Love the Background System

    If this is the case, just de-couple the mechanical aspects of ASIs and Feats from the narrative of backstory altogether. Assuming that anyone building a character wants to do so optimally, the honestly baffling choice to tie ASIs, Backgrounds and Feats together essentially forces certain...
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    D&D (2024) D&D 2024 Rules Oddities (Kibbles’ Collected Complaints)

    Anyone keeping count of the issues fixed vs issues created? I'd be interested to see the ratio. The most egregious to me is changing Hide and Grapple, but somehow making both just as if not more confusing/weird
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    D&D (2024) D&D Player's Handbook Video Redactions & Takedowns

    So many bad takes without all the details - these quoted posts have the context yall need. Pdf receivers signed an NDA and got the instruction of what not to show. So dnd shorts should have known what he did was not on. Other creators like pointy hat and treantmonk (both pdf receivers) largely...
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    D&D General What do you prefer to give/get XP for?

    XP is so interesting because it's changed a lot over the years and 5e does it so poorly that most players these days think they hate XP as a concept and just do milestone aka "GM decides when" levelling But when done properly XP can be a great tool to drive play. What gets rewarded gets...
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    D&D General Shocked how hard it is to get new players now-a-days

    Looking for players online is the best way in my experience. Not necessarily to play online, just advertising online. Facebook/reddit/discord in the below format or similar. There tend to be several lfg groups/communities for any given region System Module/adventure Day/time/frequency/length...
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    Planning, prep, motivation and you?

    I think you are imagining some of these challenges to be bigger than they are. I'm going to stick to home games as publishing is beyond my expertise. Organizing play is easy: I am an advocate of the tried and true set in stone game time. Whether you set it weekly, fortnightly or once a month is...
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    D&D 5E Running Tier 3 D&D 5e

    Lots of generic combat advice and whinging about paladin smite. Don't nerf the sorcadin suddenly after 10 levels, that will just feel real bad. For tier 3, the players would normally have 5th level and soon 6th level spells. But with all the multiclassing they're doing I think your casters are...
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    Times we have made mistake as DMs and how we would do things differently

    Mistakes I have made as a DM: Over-prepping to the point of writing plots, instead of creating situations for the characters to resolve. It's much more fun for everyone at the table when things are open ended Being way more invested in the game and the players characters than the players are...
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    D&D General D&D "influencers" need to actively acknowledge other games.

    This may have been addressed elsewhere in the thread but I haven't read the whole thing. Do you really think their job is to teach how to d&d better? An influencer can say their goal is whatever, but like a corporation who has a mission statement to "bring buzzword to generic term", their...
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    D&D (2024) What Should D&D 2024 Have Been +

    Yes, maneuvers for martials should have been the selling point for this edition! There's so much gamespace and depth there
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    Asmodee Owner To Split Into 3 Companies

    Is Asmodee that company I see customer service horror stories about in r/boardgames regularly?
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Undead drained players xp mwahahahaha
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    What makes an TTRPG a "Narrative Game" (Daggerheart Discussion)

    Who could have predicted a thread about GNS would go off the rails. I say that although Daggerheart claims to be a narrative game, it doesn't have any narrative focussed mechanics. It is in fact far more of a gamey aka crunchy or tactical game
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    D&D General Tell Me About Your Favorite Use of a Dragon In D&D

    Having "cast a spell" as a legendary action is common for big spellcasters. Or they can use prep/buff or ranged spells
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