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    Doctor Which

    Wut!? Purdey was awesome!
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    But does it deal with the issue of multiple minions slowing the game down, and leaving the other players twiddling their thumbs?
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Oh look, that goalpost wizzed past again. Not sure if its a US goalpost or a UK one though. I am pretty sure they asked for you to supply ONE example from D&D, not only examples from D&D. The point being, if you can only give examples from games that are not D&D, then then there is nothing to...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I don't know, I don't speak French.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Oh, did I just see a moving goalpost?
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    Have you never played Diablo and it's family of computer games? Because the Necromancer class does not work like that.
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    Then it’s only a lose on one count - being anything like a Diablo Necromacer.
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    Given that Conjure Animals makes the game grind to a screeching halt, that's not a viable solution for a playable turn based tabletop game. It also has a limited duration, which most of the summons of the Diablo Necromancer do not. So its a lose on both counts.
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    Neither of these resemble the Diablo Necromancer though, which is really what this thread is all about. The Diablo Necromancer has a bunch of until-they-are-killed undead minions, and the reason it can have them is that they are controlled by the computer. So in that sense the OP is correct...
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    D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?

    It sounds like a DM who feels the players are having far too easy a time of it! Maybe it's the players who need to be spoken too, and told to stop trying so hard to win.
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    D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?

    Yeah, it's better to start off with rules-lite systems, and gradually add stuff in, rather than dive in with something that is very crunchy. But that's something else that is best learned by experience. But the advice has to be, unless your can say "I really enjoyed that" you should say...
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    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    I don't recall any version of D&D that had PC necromancers who could summon armies of undead. There were no PC necromancers in 1st edition, and by 3rd edition all they got was an extra necromancy spell per day. There was the Pale Master PrC in 3rd edition, that had a couple of undead pets, but...
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    Trailer Superman Full Trailer

    I can remember exactly how I learned the Superman origin story. You remember those viewmaster toys - a 3D slide viewer? For some reason it was on one of the disks I had for that. Must have been around 75, a couple of years before the Reeve movie. Hulk I got from the Bill Bixby TV series...
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    Trailer SUPERMAN Final

    We have always done it that way round. I never considered the phrase to be in chronological order.
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