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    Whamageddon (Last) Christmas

    The Christmas “music” in the supermarket this morning was so terrible it made we long for Wham!
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    D&D General worldbuilding around expedition to the barrier peaks

    Golarion tends to have more extreme variation of theme than FR. This country is this genre, and next to that is another country with a completely different genre. A lot of Ed Greenwood’s original FR work is its own thing, rather than obviously being based on a specific genre. A lot of the more...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    Yup, as soon as you start allowing PC abilities on mass ranks of troops you very quickly get a magical arms race that turns every setting into Eberron. That’s why player character exceptionalism is such an important concept for any traditional pseudo-medieval setting like FR and Greyhawk. You...
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Read it? Yes of course Tolkien mistrusts the powerful. The thing that makes Gandalf and Galadriel good people is that they distrust themselves. And of course that is the whole reason Gandalf cannot take the ring to Mordor himself. The whole book is about how important the contribution of...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    Even if the breath weapon is only D6 once per day a 15' cone is going to devastating on a pseudo-medieval battlefield*, since each person on the enemy front row will be hit by three in the first round for 3d6 - enough to wipe out the entire rank. So you would also have to reduce the cone range...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    Wut!? Not even PC species are well balanced. They certainly ain’t balanced for NPCs. I’m pretty sure AoE breath weapons that do more than enough damage to kill several enemy troops at once even if they save beat a unit of dwarves with an extra hp apiece and the ability to sense tremors. I...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    No, keeping their numbers very low so they don’t rule the world with their breath weapon infantry is.
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    General video game discussion

    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has quite a lot of that, but on the other hand they are much more entertaining than the last two movies.
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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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