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    What mechanics or subsystems do you use regardless of the game you are running/playing?

    During character creation for any game that doesn't already have something similar, I give everyone the Hubris table from 7th Sea 1st edition so that everyone can select their one "fatal flaw" for their character that they can easily play. I have found that when players have a single "character...
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    D&D General Design issues with 5e

    Nothing wrong with playing games that fit your preferences better. Always the best option.
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    D&D General Design issues with 5e

    Yeah, and that's their problem, not WotC's. WotC can stay with updating 5E or create a 6E or do whatever they decide to do over the next ten, fifteen years and the players out there will deal with it just like they always have. Playing the game while complaining about the game, LOL. WotC knows...
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    D&D General Design issues with 5e

    Except they won't really lose that many. Because as we have seen for decades, so many people stick with D&D regardless of how the game plays when they could have moved on to any number of different games that better suited them. And they get past that by just showing up here to complain about...
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    D&D General Design issues with 5e

    Well, based upon all the responses we have seen thus far, the answer appears to be to never bother making a 6E at all because no matter what they do or what individual things they change, it will piss off over half of you, LOL! :D
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    Let's Talk About Metacurrency

    I've been fine with them ever since I was introduced to them in the Ghostbusters roleplaying game. For me... there is a distinct split between the mechanics of a game and the narrative that we are experiencing at the table. The narrative is what is truly important-- what is happening, what the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You Start At Level 1?

    Usually level 1 just to give the players a session or two to figure out their characters, but also because sometimes depending on the size of the group I will start the PCs in smaller groups in different sessions to give them more time to have personal playtime at the start, before them all...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC folks guests on Eldritch Lorecast.

    Yeah, well interacting with the public over social media is probably like pregnancy... you forgot how much pain you were in before when you find yourself going through it again after swearing you never would. ;)
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    D&D 5E (2014) Your CR limit for an average 1st level party?

    In addition... with a 4 PC group, an attack that begins with going after the healer full force will be a much harder and probably deadlier fight than one where the monster and tank square off (and the healer can remain upright to cast healing spells as needed.)
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC folks guests on Eldritch Lorecast.

    The new staff probably haven't been burned yet by the general public's insatiable need to be jerks to them on social media when they don't get their way, like the previous staff regime had been. ;) Give it time. They will go radio-silent on all things D&D soon enough, LOL!
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e"

    'Compatible' is not a synonym of 'balanced'.
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e"

    Yeah, the issues being some people not getting WotC to do things the way they want them to be. ;) That's the most important thing for most of the player base, LOL.
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e"

    Nope, it's just the same old same old we've seen here for decades. Just pointing it out doesn't make one "excited"... it makes them "observant".
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e"

    Some folks kept calling the game 5.5, even though the publishers at the time said it was just 5E. But they didn't care if it was "wrong" and did it anyway. Now that they aren't "wrong" anymore... I do hope they are fully prepared for a bunch of people to STILL continue to call it 5E or 5E 2024...
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    D&D General Can animal companions, familiars, mounts, spend HD on short rest to recover HP?

    Only thing worse is when all the constrictor Wizard familiars organize to form the Union Of The Snake, as Duran Duran warned us about.
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    Paul Hughes newest MCDM employee

    Wouldn't be surprised if he's taking on more of the responsibilities that James Introcaso had been in charge of before moving off of Draw Steel! and over to Crows.
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    D&D General Can animal companions, familiars, mounts, spend HD on short rest to recover HP?

    The big thing to remember though is when you see your Mount using their short rest to read... you know something bad is probably going down. ;)
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    D&D 5E (2024) Feedback wanted: Spend death save failures for additional hit dice

    It takes a play perspective, which applies to both the DM and the players. If the DM has an alternate rule they are wondering about, the players are going to be the ones who will be engaging with it. So my post was to give a potential player perspective of how that rule would be engaged with...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Feedback wanted: Spend death save failures for additional hit dice

    :rolleyes: I have an idea... rather than argue the semantics, why not argue the actual point?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Feedback wanted: Spend death save failures for additional hit dice

    I would imagine how useful the ability is would be dependent on the type of DM they have and whether those DMs tend to attack downed PCs? If you have a DM who usually doesn't attack downed PCs, then having those death saves available allows the PC to have a longer survival time lying...
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