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    D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition

    You had two 20th-level wizards in your group, and that was the best they could do? No one cast vision ahead of time to try and figure out what they needed to be wary of? No one had a contingency spell with greater dispel magic set to counterspell? No one was willing/able to cast wish after the...
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    D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition

    If the issue is simply making the "boss" last longer, consider giving them maximum hit points per die. It usually won't give them more than an additional round or two, but it can help make the PCs sweat a bit for how the enemy won't go down as easily as expected. There's a great article about...
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    D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition

    I'll refer you to the table of contents for the AD&D 1E PHB:
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    New Unearthed Arcana Brings Back Five Subclasses

    "I'm a murderhobo, but at least I'm a sober murderhobo!"
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    Today's Deal of the Day over at DriveThruRPG is Frog God Games Tome of Essential Horrors 1 for OSE, which has been marked 70% off! Pick it up before the sale ends! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    D&D General The Revival of D&D with Jeremy Crawford at Comic Con.

    Here's Krisp's summary of the video: Introduction to the Panel The panel is moderated by Gordon Bellamy, who expresses his enthusiasm for Dungeons and Dragons and introduces Jeremy Crawford, the lead game designer of D&D. The setting is Comic-Con Malaga, where the audience is welcomed with...
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    D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data.

    You're the one who suggested that being able to ride a dragon was innovative, and that's why the Purple Dragon Knight got shouted down by the community. Don't blame me for pointing out that being a dragonrider was not only an innovation that D&D had hit upon much earlier in its life than you...
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms: Real World Gods Still Present in the Old Empires

    To be clear, while Gygax minimized the influence of Tolkien on D&D, he did concede that things such as hobbits, orcs, ents, etc. were derived from his work. No, that was Douglas Niles. As per Shannon Appelcline's history of FR2 Moonshae: Meanwhile, Jeff Grubb and Ed Greenwood were preparing...
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    D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data.

    You're playing fast and loose with the truth. Again. I brought up Council of Wyrms not because it was the most recent "actual" (whatever that means) change in the game, but because it directly undercut your assertion that having mechanics for riding dragons was an innovation that WotC pulled...
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    Webcomics!

    I always enjoyed Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (YAFGC), but since it has a not-inconsiderable number of NSFW instances, I'm going to play it safe and not link to it here.
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    D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data.

    Which is to say, you were opposed to Planescape's innovations, and yet they went through anyway. So clearly D&D has innovated over the course of its fifty-plus years of history. Leaving aside the prerequisite bickering over what constitutes "real" changes, this is a good reminder that not all...
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms: Real World Gods Still Present in the Old Empires

    I suppose it's germane to link to this article from the Forgotten Realms wiki: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Earth#Religion
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms: Real World Gods Still Present in the Old Empires

    If Nobanion is still around, then as per Dragon #54, he's Aslan from C. S. Lewis' Narnia books, who (spoiler alert) is actually Jesus by another name.
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    Skirmisher Publishing is currently offering their new title, 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' the Game, for just $2.99! Click on the link to apply the discount. Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data.

    Would you care for a more recent example of you complaining about "incorporating a bunch of lore I happen not to like" instead, then? That you're criticizing people for saying now what you said then. Actually, Council of Wyrms not only let you play a dragon, but also a demihuman "kindred" that...
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    D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data.

    Aren't you the guy who hated all over Planescape's innovations as a "needless intrusion", with its "bogus distinction" between demons and devils that was being "crammed down your throat"?
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    D&D General WotC is at it again

    As opposed to the usual style of forum content:
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    D&D 3.x Still playing 3e? Share your 3.0 and/or 3.5 house rules

    I think that's it! The fact that its spellcasting tops out at 5th-level spells is unusual, yet matches perfectly with the list of dawnblade spells in Resnet's Spellbook, which is also by Hudspeth Games! Thank you very much! :D
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