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    The "G" in RPG

    This is probably where a divide occurs between people, because in my opinion there's absolutely no reason why 'collective storytelling' can't be a game. Fiasco is a game and that's completely about 'collective storytelling'. And theatrical improvisation is entirely about games... that's why...
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    Is it? Are we sure about that? Or is it perhaps that because you fall into that camp, you wish/hope/want it to be massive so that there's the slimmest chance it could get changed? And if it doesn't get changed... maybe the movement isn't as massive as you thought it was. Just like the...
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    What's this '3E' stuff? The 1E Paladin and Ranger horned in on the 1E Fighter! :P
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    Heh... did "we" do it, or did the individual designers of 3E, 4E, and 5E all do it themselves because even they realized how irritating it was? ;)
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    I dunno... maybe there just aren't enough people who want those sacred cows slain? Maybe the number of people hung up on the Wizard "getting everything" isn't big enough to warrant a change? Don't ask me. I have no idea. I just know I couldn't care less if a Psion or isn't in the game. I'm...
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    The "G" in RPG

    I've yet to see a "killing monsters" character build in any version of D&D that has not been able to do so to the point of "frustration" while others were also doing it. Are there builds that don't do it "as well" as others? Sure. The 3E Bard was not designed to be one of the premiere foe...
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    What do you mean "gave"? The Wizard / Magic User has had all the psionic effects as spells in their repertoire way before psionics even existed in the game as thing. If anything... the psionics system horned in on Wizards and stole their functionality, not the other way around. ;)
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    By the way... now that we've reached page 37 it seems about time for us to move over and talk about why WotC hasn't made a Psion yet.
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    To be fair, Capn... I intended my 'six days' thing to be about threads where posters get together to create a usable Warlord class, not threads about Warlord existence in general. :) Threads about people just complaining that WotC doesn't give them what they want can last much, much longer...
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    The "G" in RPG

    For me, the game works when it enhances and is an integral part of the story and narrative. If it's not... if the stats and dice rolling do not add and enhance the feel of the world, then they serve no purpose. D&D's central narrative gameplay is "kill monsters". That's what 95% of all the...
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    There's no hostility towards the people who say they want a Warlord for 5E... it's much more about being amused by it. It's been TEN YEARS. An entire decade of people wanting a Warlord. And yet despite being told they aren't going to get it from WotC, and being told there are plenty of 3rd...
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    Yeah, but if no one actually plays that random homebrew then it's a bunch of people just talking out their rear ends, saying they want to play Warlords but never actually doing so. So sure, keep talking about it if you wish... but I think your words would have a bit more weight if most of you...
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    If you know this is the situation regarding WotC... have you moved on from waiting for it and just went with one of LaserLlama's or EN World's, or Kibblestasty's versions and used that one instead? At some point, fans of the Warlord need to just play rather than waiting for WotC to get around...
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    D&D 5E Why is There No Warlord Equivalent in 5E?

    Do a search here on EN World. At last count I believe there have been 53 different attempts by various posters here to create a Warlord class over the last 10 years. And they all end the same way... everyone involved can't agree how it should be built and the thread falls off the front page...
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    At My Most Burned-Out in 35 Years

    If your wife is basically blackmailing you to run games, that's called an abusive relationship. It's not roleplaying games you should be worried about, it's your personal life. You aren't burned out from too much gaming, you have people in your life that are emotionally manipulating you-- your...
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    D&D (2024) What Should D&D 2024 Have Been +

    For me it doesn't really matter if they make a full 6E or just keep iterating on 5E, because for the most part I find 3E, 4E and 5E to all be foundationally similar-- roll a d20 and add some modifiers-- that I don't foresee a 6E or another iteration on 5E being all that different and thus to me...
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    D&D General When to know a rule?

    Yep. But people at my tables enjoy D&D and they want to play D&D so we use D&D. We just don't get so ridiculously hung up on the rules of D&D like so many people here do. D&D is not a board game and we don't treat it like we would a board game, so if the rules aren't airtight and balanced...
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    D&D General When to know a rule?

    I've talked about this before, so I always assume people have heard my ramblings about it before already (and then just casually walk on past and pretend they didn't hear it, LOL.) But in case not and you honestly don't know, there's a simple reason-- in freeform roleplay (aka performative...
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    D&D General When to know a rule?

    Nah... some of us don't forget it, we just purposefully ignore it. ;)
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    D&D 5E D&D Beyond: No More À La Carte Purchases But US Customers Can Buy Physical Books

    Indeed! Not to mention also that a lot of us couldn't give a rat's ass about the companies themselves, our only care is about the product we are getting. If I see something I want, I buy it. And that is the beginning and end of my relationship with whomever it is that made it. I have no care...
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