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    Trying to Describe "Narrative-Style Gameplay" to a Current Player in Real-World Terms

    I think it's worth drilling in on this, because I think it's generally too reductive to cut the player motivation down to just "get better stuff." Stuff, progression, all that is nearly always in service to other goals. Personal power is directly correlated with agency; better stuff is very...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Has Done Away With the Adventuring Day

    We'd have to fight about a definition of "agency" again to settle that question. "Tourism" carries a strong implication players don't have any; regardless of their prompts/actions they'd get the same exposition.
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    3PP Release AVAILABLE NOW: Multiclasser's Manual, Volume 2

    Tiny little thing I've spotted, the Esper/Fighter first feat provides proficiency in "Intuition" which I'm pretty sure is meant to be Insight. Very exciting though, this has hit at exactly the time I have characters considering mixed class builds.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Has Done Away With the Adventuring Day

    I don't want to touch the Nar point, but I'm unpersuaded this is a necessary feature of a Gamist approach. I think it's perfectly possible to finesse either or both the mechanics or characterization to align the incentives of a player with the incentives of their character, thus that both make...
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    The Trouble With Rules Discussions

    If you actually want that loop (and I'd argue it's better as a rare spice than a consistent thing) what you want us an item with traits that are empowered by a ritual, or a material that can be forged into a magic item, to delay the reward until they get back to town/finish the quest/have a day...
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    The Trouble With Rules Discussions

    That's another consistent problem in RPGs though. Scenario and rules design are rarely clearly separated and called out. If anything, this has gotten more muddled in the 5e era. It would be pretty normal for a GM to come up with say a custom skill challenge ruleset for a set piece encounter on a...
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    If you're attached to Rincewind, you certainly could, but I think it's completely reasonable to pick up a different thread. Really, you're already ready the two books that are most different structurally than the rest of the series, so it doesn't much matter now. Pratchett was still mostly doing...
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    Level Up (A5E) Additional Eldritch Invocations for Pact of the Chain Warlocks

    Could you just steal the Druid Wildshape AC progression? Maybe also the temporary hit points as well. Say, give warlocks (or maybe even the familiar itself) a Prof/short rest gain 1d4*Prof temporary hit points bonus action.
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    I've found if you go through the effort to set up a seltzer fountain in your house, you'll eventually make your way through any syrup or shrub or other flavoring concoction in homemade soda form.
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    It might be best to simply skip around and see if any synopsis appeals to you (there is really no strong need to read Discworld books in any particular order), though I do agree that Guards! Guards! is really the best starting point, and if you don't like that, you probably won't care for any of...
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    Virtual Happy Hour (Brews & Spirits, Pics & Reviews)

    I'm trying out a new round of shrubs, my last attempts were pretty popular with guests. They're a little sweet for me, but people seem to like something a little more conventionally soda-like to try with the seltzer tap. On the left we have a blueberry pomegranate in the little bottles and a...
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    3PP Release Available Now: Multiclasser's Manual, Volume 1

    Only because it's modestly relevant to my campaign....is esper/fighter in the cards? :)
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    Roleplaying Mechanics - The Value Test [Mechanics for Roleplaying instead of no mechanics]

    I think you could use more clarification about precisely what should prompt a Value test in the first place. Right now it's largely entirely up to the GM, with some potential input from the player. I think you want more clarity around frequency, the scale of an event that should require value...
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    Level Up (A5E) Spellcrafting Mage Armor

    I'd do a detonation effect. Either defensive, say, "when hit by an attack, as a reaction you may end the spell immediately to become resistant to all damage types dealt by the attack until the start of your next turn" or offensive "after being struck by an attack, you may end the spell as a...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Sounds a lot like the Los Angeles problem, where the highway was built for significantly slower speeds and less traffic than it now has to accommodate, leading to very similar situations. I'm not terribly pro car to begin with, but it makes me especially sad that we're dealing with poorly...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    That's a slightly different scenario, where a lane is used for both entry and exit. That's arguably a failure of highway design, not of the drivers involved. In a better world, you'd split that in half, forcing a merge in, then opening an additional exit lane (though of course, much highway...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The one that gets me every time is people who completely fail to use the merging lane to begin with. My commute involves entering a (usually crawling speed in the morning) highway on a merge lane that ends, and then the new rightmost lane ends again slightly further along. If everyone zippered...
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    3PP Release Available Now: Multiclasser's Manual, Volume 1

    I think that's unqualified good! After all, that's what print proofs are for, so we're solidly back on the normal track.
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    D&D (2024) Command is the Perfect Encapsulation of Everything I Don't Like About 5.5e

    Is it? Compelling a single action's worth of friendly fire seems like a reasonable downgrade from Crown of Madness' multiple such actions 1 spell level higher.
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