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How Dragonbane Pointed out the Clashing Desires of My Gaming Group
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My point is that just as not every encounter has to be a combat encounter, not every camp has to be a survival-roll-required camp. I...
Sep 8, 2024
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How Dragonbane Pointed out the Clashing Desires of My Gaming Group
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I'm your opposite number there. I run 3.5e when I run D&D and for me it's the sweet spot of the D&D editions, or at least can be made...
Sep 7, 2024
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Bringing Back the Fighting Man
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The "pushover encounters are not fun" school of thought is common enough that you share it. It's also contradicted by my own...
Sep 1, 2024
Edgar Ironpelt
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Bringing Back the Fighting Man
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Thoughts: The 3.0/3.5e Cleave feat was an attempt to reincarnate this in spirit. There's a common school of DM though that PCs should...
Sep 1, 2024
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Help with an Elven Kingdom in my Homebrew
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My thought is that the deed should be a test of character, rather than a serious test of ability, something to show that the PCs are...
Aug 21, 2024
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Huge Equipment Lists: Good, Bad, or Ugly?
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When it comes to sleeping in armor, there are those who want to emulate read-only fiction: "He stood up and cast open his long black...
Aug 17, 2024
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There is nothing good about only having 16 possible backgrounds and not allowing customization. The only way to be Tough is to be a...
Aug 17, 2024
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Huge Equipment Lists: Good, Bad, or Ugly?
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I'm inclined to favor long lists of available stuff. But as many others have noted the stuff has to be useful. Also, there is a...
Aug 14, 2024
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What is a "Light" RPG? What is a "Crunchy" RPG?
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I think of it as a philosophical difference. In crunchy RPGs the crunch mechanics are an integral part of the character and world...
Aug 2, 2024
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I don't really think anyone has ever thought DPR was the only valid or useful metric. Its benefits are that it is basic and universal...
Aug 2, 2024
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Should 2014 Half Elves and Half Orcs be added to the 2025 SRD?
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I voted "other" because I have given up on D&D editions beyond 3.5e. Not my humanoids, not my hippodrome. On a world-building level...
Jul 29, 2024
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Spells: do you prefer Rotes or Dynamic?
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I prefer Rote spells, because Dynamic spells are a PITA both to deploy and to adjudicate in the heat of play. Because of this there's a...
Jul 28, 2024
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Reinventing the Wheel
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People don't always agree on known problems, and even when they do, they often don't agree about why it's a problem. Some house rules...
Jul 28, 2024
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There's several reasons that apply to various instances. As already mentioned, solutions are not universal, because there is no real...
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And to this is something I really hate. It makes no sense to me at all that every task is equally difficult.
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