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MadMAxJr

Sep 10, 2014 14:36

Let's send a message to the plane of law, informing them that this dragon has not paid any income tax on their financial gains, let alone report their financial gains.

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BESW

Oct 9, 2014 02:33

Declaring an RPG system objectively bad is tough to do without looking like an idiot or a troll.

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doppelgreener

Oct 9, 2014 05:21

@waxeagle I think the Bone Zone problem is kinda like the problem with the Soulknife: when your class features are ones your allies can for the most part mimic simply by buying good equipment, you have a problem.

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Grace Note

Sep 30, 2014 17:05

Congratulations to Joshua Aslan Smith! You've won a copy of the Monster Manual. Second winning this time, as it were!

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Adeptus

Sep 1, 2014 06:28

@Miniman For some reason I'm picturing a merger between a US/multinational car company, and an Italian one... "GM Fiat"

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GamerJosh

Sep 11, 2014 11:35

Hey, I felt like I'd seen a lot of questions about encounter building lately, so I built this: gamerjosh.com/5eTools/Downloads/EncounterBuilder.xlsx

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BESW

Sep 4, 2014 07:09

"No, seriously, how did you guys not figure this one out? We got over handed implements when your pentagrams still only had four sides."

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BESW

Nov 20, 2014 03:01

@Miniman I'm still waiting for more answers to my question, because I also want a free adventure designed to make 5e look good by showcasing its strengths.

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wax eagle

Sep 19, 2014 00:16

BTW, just so we're all aware, 5e is no longer Persona non grata in main chat. I'll keep hanging out here for the foreseeable future if folks feel more comfortable in a quieter room or need to bring arguments here.

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Magician

Sep 7, 2014 16:18

Overall, I find it quite curious how they say definite "no" to some rules questions, "yes/no but GM can change that" to others, and "do whatever, man" to the rest.

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Miniman

Sep 4, 2014 00:53

@chisaipete Players are a subset of creatures, NPCs are a subset of creatures that is mutually exclusive with the 'player' subset

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Grace Note

Dec 10, 2014 19:03

345 gives us 137, so congratulations to Nicholas for winning a copy of the Dungeon Master's Guide!

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wax eagle

Nov 18, 2014 03:27

I mean you don't normally care about whether someone sees you casting in combat. You might, say, at a dinner party

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Magician

Sep 17, 2014 13:51

I was going to say that the D&D world would be split: Cambions rule cities while Intellect Devourers rule caverns, but I was wrong. Intellect Devourers within Cambions rule everything. They also ride rust monsters, because why not.

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wax eagle

Sep 12, 2014 03:18

For when I do HOTDQ, I'm going to have a card for each of them with their BIFT on it.

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wax eagle

Sep 10, 2014 17:02

s3.amazonaws.com/slyflourish_content/monsters_by_cr.pdf

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wax eagle

Sep 4, 2014 01:41

I rolled a 1 and a 7 to hit. I call that "sadvantage." #DnD #5e #rpg @SlyFlourish @RosaMoonshadow

Tweeted by GSLLC on September 4, 2014 at 1:23 AM

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BESW

Sep 3, 2014 04:40

So if anybody has an answer to this, please give it!

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Magician

Sep 1, 2014 06:22

To be fair, that should perhaps be its own question (and may already be one): are casters still stronger than fighters in 5e?

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MadMAxJr

Aug 20, 2014 17:22

And wonder if the Monster Manual will include the dreaded Tarrasqueicorn, now with singing and dancing.

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doppelgreener

Aug 14, 2014 06:26

@BESW What if they take Vow of Ve[muffled, hooded, dragged off and beaten]

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RobertF

Aug 13, 2014 14:58

You can also make a whole campaign out of the murderhobo concept - the PCs are tasked to hunt down a band of murderous high level PCs terrorizing the kingdom. Terminate with extreme prejuduce.

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Magician

Aug 12, 2014 02:22

I feel the Tarrasque Town needs to be shared again.

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wax eagle

Jul 29, 2014 00:07

I'm running the 5e starter on Thursday night 8pm EDT, anyone interested, reply to this message.

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GMNoob

Jul 24, 2014 08:26

Do you agree that Wizards intends people to be using this rule right now to play characters past the starter set?

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Grace Note

Dec 10, 2014 19:07

I will be compiling statistics regarding the participation numbers, both for this specific raffle period as well as for the event as a whole, at a later date, and will provide them in the meta thread.

Joshua Aslan Smith

Dec 4, 2014 15:13

you could have a whole fun subplot where the party is trying to hawk a +1 mace nobody can use and it leads them to be embroiled in the underworld in waterdeep, but generally magic items are supposed to be few and far between

BESW

Nov 22, 2014 04:33

room topic changed to D&D 5e Overflow: For when main chat wants to talk about other things too. [dnd-5e]

BESW

Nov 20, 2014 03:04

(Remember, most of my rep on this site comes from saying "You could be a jerk, but why?")

RobertF

Nov 5, 2014 22:11

For future campaign settings, it would be cool if there were a conversion kit that allowed DMs to play any past module or campaign from 1st thru 4th editions using 5e rules. That way we don't have to repurchase existing adventures that have been reprinted w/ 5e rules. That's probably wishful thinking however...

wax eagle

Oct 30, 2014 13:19

(and hell no to conservation of momentum there)

wax eagle

Oct 30, 2014 12:32

The sad part is I feel like, given a digital PHB I could write something better in a weekend

Miniman

Oct 17, 2014 04:01

@waxeagle What's the point of me explaining about waiting to accept an answer if you don't post a better answer which dumps all over mine?

BESW

Oct 9, 2014 02:39

Is it actually worse than 3.5 and 4e at that? Because they were both pretty bad.

BESW

Oct 9, 2014 02:32

@Lord_Gareth Oh, they definitely kept some of the lessons learnt. Not as many as I'd've liked, perhaps, but a lot of it boils down less to "this is an inept system" and more "this system is designed for an audience which may be largely theoretical."

Miniman

Oct 9, 2014 00:14

@waxeagle I despise you even as I upvote your superior answers.

Dyndrilliac

Sep 9, 2014 23:55

The surprise round defies initiative because even if creature A has a higher initiative than creature B, creature B will act before creature A so long as creature A is surprised and creature B is not.

wax eagle

Sep 5, 2014 23:17

twitter.com/ChrisPerkinsDnD/status/508014478148251648

GamerJosh

Sep 5, 2014 21:38

i agree, and as a DM the character sheet has difficulties wrt using "calculated values" (last time I looked, I couldn't just get a player's AC... I had to calculate it from a few values)... very annoying... because of that, i tend to just create macros and ignore the character sheets

BESW

Sep 4, 2014 07:00

@Magician ...why can't my druid weave herself a nice little mistletoe bracelet?

Miniman

Sep 4, 2014 05:45

@Khashir My first thought is 'there's so much wrong with this and yet it's amazing and I love it'

Miniman

Sep 4, 2014 01:46

@waxeagle Lol yeah, one of my player's worst moments so far was when he rolled a 20 and a 2. With disadvantage. He almost started crying.

BESW

Sep 2, 2014 09:51

One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.

doppelgreener

Sep 2, 2014 09:46

[prostrates]

BESW

Sep 2, 2014 09:45

AS IT WAS WRITTEN, SO IT HAS COME TO PASS.

Lord_Gareth

Sep 1, 2014 06:25

@Magician 4e is the odd member of the family that many people didn't like. One might argue that the backlash against 4e is part of why there's a 5e that claims to throw back to 'classic' D&D

wax eagle

Aug 26, 2014 14:19

> So there is something very important about how we approached the [D&D] product line. So we knew, obviously, that there would always be individuals that would want to pirate and make a PDF, so that’s part of why we have the free rules, and make the game for free, so that there is really nothing to pirate. And then there’s a lot of people who still say, look, a book has value to me. So what can we [WotC] do to make this as a physical artifact so that it is something that is compelling and really interesting, so that you can say, yeah, I can go online and get a PDF and that’d be kind of usef…

wax eagle

Aug 26, 2014 03:04

nah, they can totally polymorph themself...that'd be fun. hey, I'm just gonna cast this and Oh look, I'm now a CR 17 red dragon....The good news is that the sphynx's crazy time travel effect is a lair action so it's not available to PCs...that'd be funny

doppelgreener

Aug 22, 2014 00:01

Batman took levels in some insane variant of Paladin. When a Paladin takes levels in anything other than Paladin, you cannot continue levelling up as a Paladin ever again, in some editions. Batman was in way, way too deep before he noticed his variant of Paladin was making him insane, but at that point he didn't want to forgo ever being able to put more levels into his main class ever again. (That'd be suboptimal!)

Joshua Aslan Smith

Aug 21, 2014 21:50

ah yeah, radiant mafia in the house