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    WotC President of D&D consumes own "product"

    It kind of is. Two patties of "pink slime" that each have a precook quarter pound weight is probably a lot closer to a normal hand formed cooked ground beef burger than a normal McDonald's starter pounder or hamburger/cheeseburger that was cooked Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) - also...
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    WotC President of D&D consumes own "product"

    Linked the video because it includes a bunch of other ceos doing similar. Pretty sure I saw one or two others over the last couple of days too.
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    WotC President of D&D consumes own "product"

    This might help. Many ceos are piling on The one done by the McDonald's ceo looked like a toddler who was physically revolted by the idea of trying a burger taking a tiny bite in order to get desert and things went downhill from there.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You Start At Level 1?

    There is risk &combat too, sometimes as part of the plans. Its just not mindless combat. Quoting the ad&d dmgpg120 "A potion of healing is a fairly necessary item, something the DM may want to be readily available to the characters. Therefore, it should be cheap..". They can be given out by...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You Start At Level 1?

    It's much broader than domains, those were a higher level thing too. You are kind of complaining about a more foundational problem that wotc created with 5e's simplification of the skills system. Prior to 3.x there wasn't really a skill system (more of a shell hinting at one) and the system...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You Start At Level 1?

    Level 1 is a bit different. Less "roll initiative -> [hack and slash], more "[here is a problem], use your imagination together to call upon skills and strengths that you may of may not have" along with establishing ties to the world. Instead of "oh I bought a bear trap and some meat" to deal...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    Replacing enough of the right spells does the job of going a long way. Even moreso if the spells chapter includes useful mechanical hooks to build off in other books and settings. Edit: even an optional sidebar for vancian prep would be a huge bit of structural gm support, especially if it...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    Oh no. Florida waters absolutely have straight up domain of dread level horrors that would fit right into old-school Ravenloft. Stuff like flesh eating bacteria brain eating amoeba and chain link fence alligator gar are just the start. Florida also has gators plus crocodiles caiman monitor...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    It's pretty common with iguana if we get a big cold snap like this year. there were so many dead iguana that the dog stopped even being curious enough to do more than even glance at it without breaking stride after the first week. Super invasive zombie iguana are so very much more Ravenloft...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    Best I got. That was a month ago and in still stumbling across ones freshly fallen from trees that scavengers haven't found yet while walking the dog.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You Start At Level 1?

    I'm going to agree with raynard and others but to a step further. The really bonkers prx combos tended to require very narrow very specific feat chains and occasionally painful skull choices. They simply were not that big of a deal because they were so obvious and the gm could ask why Bob is...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You Start At Level 1?

    Apples and carburators. Not sure where those stats come from or what they are looking at but yes my games advance slower with much reduced exp awards and level higher than the 90% of games that end before 10 Cracks start forming late tier2 early tier3 & advancement accelerates a bit just to end...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You Start At Level 1?

    My games tend to advance slower and last longer than average (~8-12+ months low-mid teens). I tell players to show up at level 1 even moreso in 5e than prior editions. Those early levels are really the only ones left where players are excited to explore and do things with the goal of getting...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall, New Adventure Book Featuring Red Wizards of Thay

    I hear the tavern has a hellbound infestation in the basement and the bartender is offering self starting exterminators 50cp a head to help with getting themselves some better gear so they feel more comfortable heading out past the walls. Invasive slaad are harassing my sheep, I'm willing to...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    Bad [people] do bad things. Supernatural did it for years https://supernaturalwiki.com/Meatsuit
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e"

    And/or the 3.x Ravenloft with like a whole chapter on specific changes to spells classes etc or how darksun setting books tends to have some setting specific mechanics for chargen and such. Wrt c&t specifically though id be more surprised if all the bits & bobs were in a single book. Printing...
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e"

    There is a third possibility. . so far 5e has been extremely hesitant to add anything approaching the kind of gm support/mechanics extension/alternate rules (pick your favorite wording) beyond new PC options. The 5.05 release was extremely light on change even compared to some past...
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    Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork

    A lot of named Lovecraftian entities were in the early mm or something like a deities & demigods book∆. Tolkien stuff was similar I'm sure that it led to a knee jerk "oops no more of that" and they got renamed into more generic serial number scratched off stuff like halflings aboleths & put...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    Some of them look like historical alchemy symbols
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    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

    While it wouldn't surprise me, what part of "character creation options" gives you that absolutely bizarre idea?
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