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    D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition

    No please not. Let damage dealing go, spell casters don't need to be better at martials in everything. Spell effects should be interesting in other ways IMO. But remove boring control spells effects like strong save-or-suck-effects.
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    Matt Colville's Community

    But this are not the problem community members they were talking about who are negative only, without constructive criticsm. The haters. Yes, toxic positivity can be a problem too, but the constant negatives in many communities is the main issue that was adressed here. See every fan subreddit...
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    What is your favourite character type, (prof, class etc) And why?

    I always play some different new type mechanic-wise, but most of them are on the dumber side. And I prefer martials over casters. Its hard to pick a favorite. I had a dumb drunken master monk in 5e which was a lot of fun. I originally played him like the dumbness and drunkness was fake to make...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    That was a bleak one, needed a palate cleanser after that. The sequel is a bit more "sophisticated", but still very uncomfortable to read.
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    The irony of that. Thanks for the knowledge drop! But that makes it even more bizarre to use in RPG context.
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    D&D General 5e (2014 and 2024) pacing Issues and how to fix them (+Thread)

    I am really interested in your reports from your table! I once already considered something like the escalation die from 13th age for my game, but didn't follow up and your homebrew is more well-thought out. In general I like the idea of rewarding pushing forward instead of punishing early and...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    yes, posting and reflection also really helps. Thats why I enjoy this thread here too! I also track and post on storygraph but I am considering going away from that and having a analogue book journal only for reflection (and this thread here ofc).
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    D&D 5E (2024) Improving Medicine - one of the least loved skills.

    pssst don't summon it! On the other hand - a medicine check to recover luck - would that be the D&D-equivalent of a placebo?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Improving Medicine - one of the least loved skills.

    Interestingly enough medicine is far from the least useful skills at my table. I think it is too common in my games to investigate someone wounded or sick. But almost even more I use it for examing corpses. What killed that NPC is such a common open question in my game, I let my players...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I tried these 10 page rules before and I always failed, what helped me were two things: a) I have completely dummified my phone because I realized it destroyed my attention span. I have blocked all social media DNS, deleted a lot of distracting apps and have no colorful symbols anymore on my...
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    Completely forgot about that. Jeah, Brennan is fine. That would be quite a weird phrasing to thank the camera people. Brennan said multiple times that he has a creative team and CR also has staff like Dani Karr who is officialy a lore keeper. And like stated above they have frigging Perkins and...
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    Thanks for the recommendation, I also backed it! Its nice to have a KS in the lower pricing range for once. Just a module print, love that. It feels like all the campaigns I backed in the last years were game systems, or big setting books, game expansions etc.
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    No it was meant as being special in the sense of not wanting to use the default character classes or species. The player is definitely not a spotlight hog in the sense of wanting to be in the centre of the scene often, he often is more of the opposite IMO. He just likes high-concept characters...
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    OSR OSR-inspired video game, The Secret of Weepstone, has a trailer

    The PC specifications are listed on steam and there is a free demo available, you can try it our for yourself if you're not sure.
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    Interpreting where your judgemental statements origin. Never claimed its telepathy, just wanting to inform how you come across. But I apologize, I interpreted something wrong: I assumed it meant OC as in Original Crew to reference the OG critical role players. Now your comments seem to make...
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