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    D&D General Hasbro CEO Says AI Integration Has Been "A Clear Success"

    Their moral compass has never changed. It is unwavering, unflinching, always pointed directly towards the $ Also nothing in the snippet linked above is inconsistent with their previous claims of not allowing AI art. For example when he says "We believe the winners in AI will be companies that...
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    D&D General Is Grappler feat mandatory/broken for monks?

    I thought about using that house rule but instead went with the ruling that when the grappler moves, the grappled target gets to decide which square(s) on the map they are dragged into (must be a legal position within 5ft of the grappler). This also fixes the silliness of "I make you fall off a...
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    D&D General Is Grappler feat mandatory/broken for monks?

    It's definitely strong but I'd say that's overall a good thing* that Martial characters have new battlefield control options *As long as you aren't combining it with Spike Growth. Grapple Monks are gamebreakingly OP (like thousands of damage per round) with Haste + Spike Growth. That's when...
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    D&D General Faerun '68 (+)

    Fantasy Football league with teams in each major Sword Coast city Magical "scrying boxes" in every home, able to switch their attunement between multiple magical broadcast networks The Sword Coast and Red Wizards are in a technological race to see who can build an airship capable of traveling...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Bonus Action Conversion

    I wouldn't call that blasphemy at all. It's a much better design, but 5e was already established with the Action, Bonus Action, Movement, and changing that framework was definitely off the table with the goal of keeping 5.5e "backwards compatible".
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    D&D 5E (2024) Bonus Action Conversion

    Good call on Flurry of Blows. That is more straight up powerful than the Attack Action at levels 1-4 and then again at levels 10-20. In 2014 rules this wasn't an issue since using it required taking the Attack Action first, but in 2024 rules this restriction was removed so it would be...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No 5.5 AP Yet?

    I kinda think this is what is going on. They're probably realizing they can make more money with far far less effort by letting Third Party Publishers write campaigns, identify which ones are popular, then partner with those publishers to sell the product on DnD Beyond.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Bonus Action Conversion

    It honestly does seem pretty crazy that it wasn't obvious at the time that the importance of action economy would dictate that any build without a consistent use of their Bonus Action would get left in the dust compared to builds that do get value from their Bonus Action. That's easy to say now...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Bonus Action Conversion

    If using a Spiritual Weapon or Flaming Sphere twice is better than using your Action like a normal person, you have a realllllllly bad character build and ought to rethink things
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    D&D 5E (2024) Bonus Action Conversion

    That would be a worthless feat that no one would ever take. I'm convinced that the only reason 5e doesn't allow you to use a Bonus Action as your Action is that it was designed assuming that no one would ever want to do this since Bonus Actions are generally always weaker than whatever optimal...
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    D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?

    Literally everyone's actual answer is "whatever makes in-game sense at the time", so that's kind of pointless to list as a choice. The question is just to rate where in general you tend to fall on average. So on average, in your anecdotal experience, which ranking tends to make in-game sense...
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    D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?

    I voted 3 in the middle because in games I run, longresting without being interrupted is typically automatic, but the quest structure is frequently (though not always) set up where excessive longresting would cause the mission to fail (NPC to save dies, NPC to capture gets away, etc) I...
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    D&D Movie/TV How would you build characters for a KPop Demon Hunters campaign?

    I would start here and then make modifications off these builds
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    D&D 5E (2024) Cloud of Daggers / Teleport Question

    Not really. By a strict interpretation of the rules, that text only applies when YOU (a creature) teleport, and does not specify anything either way about when you cause a magical effect to teleport. Cloud of Daggers is a nearly useless spell if you cannot put it on top of creatures to do...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Cloud of Daggers / Teleport Question

    Agree with this, BUT, you also need to ask why the player is moving it to a specific location around the corner which they cannot see. If they're moving Cloud of Daggers around the corner right on top of an enemy that the Player can see on the map but their Character cannot see, that's...
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