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    D&D General Which 3.0/3.5 Prestige classes would make good 5e subclasses? (+)

    Chameleon / Factotum would be great. Would love it as a rogue subclass. I also liked the old Hellfire Warlock. Burning yourself out for damage was so cool.
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    D&D 5E Mike Mearls 5E 2014 Monster Mods?

    It has low-nonscaling HP, but it doesn't have the one-hit death rule of a minion. A few scenarios where they diverge at level 1 come to mind: Burning hands will fail to kill ~5% of the time on a failed save. On a successful one, it still kills around ~38% of the time. A mod-less attack like a...
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    The 2024 Pumpkin Spice RPG Contest

    Pepo, the Pumpkin Planet Pepo is a planetoid megaflora in the shape of a massive jack-o’-lantern, 5 miles in diamater. A massive flame at Pepo’s core grows and fades to mark the passage of the day, and the entire planet enjoys eternal tropical weather. But danger lurks below Pepo's surface. The...
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    D&D General The D&D Memes Thread

    Do jokes about D&D Discourse(tm) count as D&D memes?
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    D&D 3E/3.5 Happy Birthday D&D 3.5 - you're old enough to drink!

    Reading this gave me -1 Str, Con, and Dex. 🧓
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    OSR What's the best introductory BX/OSR scenario for new players and DMs?

    I'm a big fan of Tomb of the Serpent Kings. It's designed in an intentional way to teach players lessons about old-school dungeons. It's also free! The one negative I'll mark for it is that early in the dungeon you are expected to "save to dodge", but a lot of old-school games don't have a...
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    D&D General Jaquaying the dungeon - a term to avoid

    Half an hour or so ago Anne posted an update on her blog: https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2024/01/an-update-on-jaquaysing.html Coinciding with a post from Justin's blog about the same thing...
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    D&D 5E [Review] Valda's Spire of Secrets is my favorite expansion in all of 5E

    More power to ya! It's an important element of the game for me & my players.
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    D&D 5E [Review] Valda's Spire of Secrets is my favorite expansion in all of 5E

    Oop sorry I missed this. Running content with a wide power delta is a PITA. I need to be aware of the power profile of the moon druid, ward new players off Berserker Barbs & Assassin Rogues, plan for owl familiar scouts, jack the power of enemies way up for the peace cleric, yadda yadda. With...
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    D&D 5E [Review] Valda's Spire of Secrets is my favorite expansion in all of 5E

    Sorry if it came across as passive-agressive. Certainly wasn't meant to! A lot of folks theorycraft whether a class is good or bad all the time. Sometimes I raise a concern about a bit of 3rd-party content or homebrew, I get told "that's not a problem you're white rooming", and then we play it...
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    D&D 5E [Review] Valda's Spire of Secrets is my favorite expansion in all of 5E

    It's a lot easier to have a battle of hypotheticals than to run the class. In theory a cohort is easy to kill, in theory there's more lockdown in T2, in theory the cohort & captain won't attack every round, in theory in theory in theory. I'd much rather hear experiences at the table than go down...
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    D&D 5E [Review] Valda's Spire of Secrets is my favorite expansion in all of 5E

    I'd be interested to hear folks' experiences with the classes & subclasses at the table. For me, there was a pretty wide power band (e.g. Sellsword vs Dragon Acolyte, or Spirithost vs most of the Near-Humans), with options generally leaning towards too strong, like a lv2 Captain with just their...
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    What is, in your opinion, the single WORST RPG ever made, and why is it so bad?

    Dragon Age RPG for me. Loved the games but the book was beyond half-assed. Quarter-assed.
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    D&D 5E Using "D&D 2024" instead of "5e24"

    My main issue here is that 5e24 (and 5.5e & DnD1) is already pretty long. 4 or 5 characters is about as long as i want to type before I call something by it's real name. Even if it does Stick It To The Man a bit more, "D&D 2024" is a mouthful, and is  longer than WotC's "D&D One" brand name, so...
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    D&D 4E Ben Riggs' "What the Heck Happened with 4th Edition?" seminar at Gen Con 2023

    In a vain attempting at preventing this from becoming a multiquote lollapalooza, I'm going to consolidate the two source requests. I definitely don't mean to imply that my 5-odd quotes were the definitive representation of every comment about every D&D discussion I've read online, which seems...
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