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    D&D General Did 5e 2024 Not meet the economic goals set, and if not, why not?

    There is no point in asking Question #3 or debating #3 or worrying about #3. We don't know... we will never know... so bringing it up or using it as some sort of evidence for one's beliefs about the state of Dungeons & Dragons is a waste of time. As I said... WotC's game line continues. Right...
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    D&D General Did 5e 2024 Not meet the economic goals set, and if not, why not?

    Anything that is not strictly mechanics-related will absolutely be able to be used. I mean I would presume anyone playing Level Up has been able to use any of EN Publishing's older adventures with it even though those were made for 5E14 and not Level Up specifically. So there's no reason to...
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    D&D General Did 5e 2024 Not meet the economic goals set, and if not, why not?

    I would disagree with the idea that they did not change enough in 5E24. At the barest minimum... they fixed a number of things that people were whining incessantly about for like the first four years of 5E14's existence-- the Great Weapon Master and Sharpshooter feats... the Ranger's Favored...
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    D&D General Did 5e 2024 Not meet the economic goals set, and if not, why not?

    I keep wondering why people seem to think the three core 5E24 books were supposed to be this huge thing in the first place? As though the game begins and ends with these three books and that if someone chooses not to buy them that somehow that's a major failing and that everything is falling...
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    D&D General Wearing a lantern on your belt?

    I've done something similar, in that I've had PCs that have purchased "burned out" Ioun stones... the ones that ran out of whatever magical power they originally had and turned grey... and then had Continual Light cast upon them. Because even though the burned out grey Ioun stones no longer had...
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    D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?

    No. Double no. Triple no. She is her own DM. She is going to learn her own best practices. She is not going to be perfect, and she is not going to be the best DM for how each and every one of you wish to play the game. Heck... I've seen enough of your posts complaining about your players...
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    I look forward to seeing the next person's list that probably disagrees and runs counter to most of your votes. ;)
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    The Necromancer is like the Psion and the Warlord... every person has a different idea about what it should do and how it should be done. And every Necromancer player will have different things that they need their animated minions to work and look like. Are skeletons/zombies animated purely...
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    D&D General D&D Beyond's Users Online Over Last Year

    Hopefully each of us will be able to take this one data thing and use it to spin-- I mean "prove"-- whatever it is we want to believe and say regarding Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons. Needless to say... the game is still here.
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    D&D's New Solo Player Guideline Explained

    Until I actually play any of the three Dragon Delves adventures that were listed as possible for solo play as a solo play player to see how their solo play rule suggestions actually work... I will not bother trying to "fix" them sight-unseen. Heck, for all we know a veteran D&D player could...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Solasta 2 and the 1/2 elf

    And the answer to this is that they should be in any specific 5E24 game if that game's DM wants them to be and makes/finds a Half-Elf species design to incorporate into it. If specific Half-Elf game mechanics are that important to that DM, then that DM can add them. But if the question is...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Solasta 2 and the 1/2 elf

    That's not the point. The point is Vex and Vax could have been half-elves in CR Season 1 and been played as half-elves and been treated as half-elves... even if the couple of racial game mechanics written on their character sheets were human ones or elf ones. You don't need specific game...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Solasta 2 and the 1/2 elf

    And they could still have done that story, even if they had gotten 3 Human or 3 Elf mechanics, rather than 3 'Half-Elf' ones.
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    Jess Lanzillo Departs Wizards of the Coast

    If I'm going to imagine fun things... there's a much longer list ahead of 'D&D isn't owned by WoTC anymore.'
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    Jess Lanzillo Departs Wizards of the Coast

    Quite frankly, I don't care why any of them left. Cause trying to figure out why does not change anything.
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