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    D&D General Final Hours of the City of Arches Kickstarter!

    Hello friends! We're in the final hours for the City of Arches Kickstarter! If you've enjoyed the work I do and want a fantastic high-fantasy city sourcebook built for lazy GMs, I really hope you'll check it out. If you're on the fence, please check out the 42 page free sample including an...
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    D&D General Interview with D&D VP Jess Lanzillo on Comicbook.com

    Comicbook.com has an interview with the new D&D Vice President Jess Lanzillo. Here are some interesting quotes with my own commentary. This feels like misdirection. The question had nothing to do with a false dichotomy between players who play online and those who play in person. She steered...
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    D&D General Interview with Chris Cocks on D&D AI, the OGL, and more

    Chris Cocks was interviewed on the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast. The D&D stuff largely starts at the 40 minute mark. I'm attaching a machine-generated transcription if you'd prefer to read it. Here are some tasty quotes: On layoffs: Dan Dillon, one of the people laid off in the 2023 Christmas...
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    D&D (2024) D&D 2024 Rules Oddities (Kibbles’ Collected Complaints)

    Kibbles Tasty posted this over on Reddit but I thought it'd be great to have a copy over here on EN World. These are all their words and comments, not mine: Some of these are balancing issues. Some of these mistakes in the rules. Some of these exploits or loopholes. Some of these are just...
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    The City of Arches on Kickstarter

    Hello friends! As fans of high quality RPG products, I wanted you to know about the City of Arches Kickstarter going on right now! You can find it right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slyflourish/the-city-of-arches-a-high-fantasy-5e-rpg-city-sourcebook?ref=dmuv04 The City of...
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    Level Up (A5E) A Database of Pregens for A5e?

    Hi A5e friends! My Wednesday group is now deep into our first foray into A5e. I know there's not a full-featured character builder out there, though I love the Google Sheet that @Anselm posted! One thing I'd love to see is a database of printer-friendly pregenerated characters for all classes...
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    Level Up (A5E) Level Up A5e in More Purple More Better?

    Hi friends! My eternal quest to find a downloadable, self-hostable, open-source, and modifiable option for building characters led me back to More Purple More Better, an Adobe Acrobat-based PDF with a pile of JavaScript which lets players build character sheets with info from various imported...
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    D&D 5E Black Flag and Tales of the Valiant on Shard Tabletop

    Black Flag, the Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide, and the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault are available on Shard Tabletop. Shard is the only VTT I know of that has a good mobile friendly character builder that doesn't require you to load a whole VTT to use. This gives it D&D Beyond-style...
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    D&D 5E What Are Your Favorite Short Adventures and Collections for 5e?

    In response to the thread on Matt Coleville's take on large published campaign adventures I found myself wishing he had instead focused on some of the more recent and excellent short adventures written by dozens of 5e publishers. What are your favorite short adventures, publishers of short...
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    D&D General Bob World Builder Recreates WOTC's "Do You Like Me?" Survey!

    Bob World Builder posted a video in which he took up the project of building a Google Forms replica of the survey Wizards of the Coast posted a few days ago (which has since been taken down) regarding WOTC's and D&D's overall popularity and future outlook. Watch Bob's video here: And take...
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    D&D 5E Challenging High-Level 5e Characters

    As happens in my campaigns, the characters in my 12th level Empire of the Ghouls campaign have hit the point where they're able to mitigate a lot of the threat of big battles. With ten years of D&D 5e behind us – what are your best approaches for keeping up challenging combat encounters for...
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    Black Flag Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault Marilith Preview

    Kobold Press just previewed the Tales of the Valiant Marilith. I think it looks great. Its stats are in-line with the benchmarks Scott Gray, Teos Abadia, and I came up with for Forge of Foes. It's a real powerhouse – both simple to read in their format with some cool tactical stuff going on too...
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    D&D 5E Don't Throw 5e Away Because of Hasbro

    For the past nine months, I’ve heard from a fair number of people, including people close to me and people I’ve worked with, say they don’t want anything to do with Hasbro, WOTC, or D&D. Unfortunately, they’re piling all of 5e in there too. 5e isn’t D&D. Since its release into the Creative...
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    D&D 5E Using "D&D 2024" instead of "5e24"

    I've seen more use of the phrase "5e24" to identify the 2024 revisions to the D&D 5th edition core books. I get it. It's nice and pithy and easy to type. But I think it's inaccurate. Instead, I propose using "D&D 2024" or something similar for referencing the upcoming D&D core book revisions...
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    Level Up (A5E) A5E in Reroll.co?

    Hi friends! There's a web-based and app-based character tool called https://reroll.co that has a data import feature using JSON files for classes, subclasses, backgrounds, spells, feats, and races. I wondered if anyone had considered building such files for Level Up Advanced 5e. It seems like...
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    D&D General Tips for Using Paper Character Sheets

    What are your best tips to help players use paper-based character sheets? What tricks have you personally found helpful when using paper character sheets? I’ll offer a couple: Write page numbers next to spells, powers, class features, and anything else you might want to look up at the table...
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    D&D General Where do New DMs Go for Help Online?

    The whole recent collapse of Reddit has me thinking a lot about where new DMs might go to get help with their games. The /r/dmacademy was a fantastic subreddit for this sort of thing. Hundreds of new DMs would go there, ask questions, and get answers to their sometimes common problems. As a guy...
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    D&D 5E 2016 5th edition D&D Dungeon Master Survey

    Hello! I am conducting a survey for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons dungeon masters to get a better idea how DMs prepare and run their D&D games. If you are a 5th edition Dungeon Master and have a few minutes to spare, I would greatly appreciate your response. You can take the survey at...
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    Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master Survey

    Good day to you! I am conducting a survey in order to get a better idea of how dungeon masters prepare and run their D&D games. The results of this survey will help us all receive objective evidence on how we prepare and run our games. If you have a couple of minutes, please help me out by...
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    Default Essentials Feats?

    Hi Folks, If you were to list out the most straight forward feats you would use to build pregen characters, convention characters, or characters for players who don't spend the time working on their own characters, what feats would you choose at each level? I'm looking for feats out of the two...
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