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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at... -
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TSR Inc. published Dragon #102 in October 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features gully dwarves... -
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FitzTheRuke reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) How do you handle surprised but won initiative? with
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I like 2024 rules better for surprise than 5E or 3E, but they do give a lot to defender in an ambush. So I modified it to:; If you are... -
FitzTheRuke reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) How do you handle surprised but won initiative? with Like.
More and more I'm becoming a fan of the group stealth checks that Mercer uses in Critical Roll.
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doctorbadwolf replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) How do you handle surprised but won initiative?.Imo that is a solid basis of a support pillar of the ranger class, which it should have more strongly. Survival, stealth, athletics... -
doctorbadwolf reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) How do you handle surprised but won initiative? with Like.
@mearls has a neat approach in his Moldvay project, where he's given the ranger the ability to grant their Stealth result to allies. I...
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JJonathan Scott reacted to Dyson Logos's post in the thread D&D General Maps, Maps, Maps! Dungeons, Ruins, Caverns, Temples, and more... aka Where Dyson Dumps His Maps. with Like.
Jeseph’s Lament Cold winds howl through the crumbling bones of the ruins on Jeseph’s Hill. Only the buttresses remain, like broken...
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JJonathan Scott reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) How do you handle surprised but won initiative? with Like.
Turns in combat are an abstraction for ease of resolution, but within the fiction, all participants’ actions within a round are...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Exactly! In my opinion the insistence upon relying on dice implies a lack of trust in the players. That if players are left to simply... -
MoonSong replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.Counterpoint, seeing some scary ideas get widespread traction is bad for a player who is at the mercy of the random DMs on the wild. -
majorarcana02 reacted to LegendaryGames's post in the thread RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Dragonbane Trudvang, Nimble, Numenera, and more with Like.
Legendary Games has never used AI for anything and never will. I guess I just haven't developed the habit of saying so. I'll add a note... -
el-remmen replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) How do you handle surprised but won initiative?.I went in the other direction and in my games attacks against surprised creatures are made with Advantage (though only for the first... -
payn reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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You’d think! But over the years, more than one person taking part in gaming forums has said explicitly that they have to try to drown... -
JohnSnow replied to the thread Free League Announces Dragonbane: Trudvang.I'm in the same boat. At this point, I'm seeing the kernels of my ideal d20-based fantasy-TTRPG in about 5 games that have come out in... -
prabe replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.That noise you hear is me yoinking this.
