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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    What are common insults hurled at anyone we don't like?
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    Ease is what you want. There is no mileage in making settings massively complicated. There are no real world examples of different sentient species coexisting peacefully. Humans aren't even capable of coexisting with their own species.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Is also British, if slightly less English. Tolkien and Warhammer share a deep mistrust of the powerful.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    I think maybe they are more popular in England. The Shire is ever so English.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Let's make 5e specific setting, starting with a pantheon

    “We demand a new thing. But it must be exactly the same as the old thing.”
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    Can Someone Explain the Basics of Palladium/TMNT?

    More importantly, how do you order pizza?
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    D&D General worldbuilding around expedition to the barrier peaks

    Personally, I don’t think having a crashed spaceship would be very different from most D&D settings. I would go full Metamorphosis Alpha, and make the spaceship the setting. But not let the players know until they find a mysterious hatch. “The world is hollow and I have touched the sky.”
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    Whamageddon (Last) Christmas

    I think Tom Jones deliberately leans into the predatory subtext, especially as he got older. It's satire, you are supposed to question it.
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    Whamageddon (Last) Christmas

    I overheard a cover of someone singing something from Muppet Christmas Carol. Don't know who the band was, but I'm surprised there isn't more of this. I guess Disney ruthlessly hunts down licence violators? Heard some choral renditions of traditional carols. So far no Wham!
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    The "very small numbers" approach works better than removing breath weapons. But damage resistance makes for a good plot point. There are several Dragonborn in RotFM because they have cold resistance, and the climate suits them. If a character has fire resistance, they are likely to be drawn to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    A setting needs to have some sort of centerism, human or otherwise. There will always be a dominant species. If there are others, they exist in small numbers, and define themselves relative to the dominant species.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    I've seen a few gnomes, more than I have dwarves or elves in fact. Don't care for them myself though.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    No it isn’t. I’ve told you before that halflings were the most popular PC race in my group, outnumbering humans. That was a few years ago though, and since then the halflings have themselves been outnumbered by warforged.
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    Sci fi puts them on different planets. No one is the Mos Eisley Cantina is from Mos Eisley.
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