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  • Basically people who complain you cannot make a gritty dark fantasy in style of Berserk or Game of Thrones in 5e be it because it turns PCs into op superheroes who cannot die or because there is abundance of easy and safe magic or (if they're covered bigots) because of the push for diversity in game's aesthetics and moving away from humanocentrism and always evil races...all these people would be happier if they dropped D&D and played Warhammer Fantasy.

  • Fun fact about druids - in their tradition pretty much every break from the norm, like writing things down or cutting herbs wrong, was punishable by being clubbed to death.

    Fun fact two: In France Druids were exterminated by Romans with help of Bards. Bards were basically a competting sect of the same faith with Druids and they sided with Romans to save their own skins and eliminate their rivals.

  • Considering I've been running 5e since the Plague Year, I wouldn't call myself a hater. I did notice, however, this very pattern whenever I voice concerns about anything with the rules - first people assume whatever flaw or exploit I point out, has been used in my group and then their solution is always to leave the group or kick someone out of it, and if it didn't happen in my group, then it means it doesn't ever happen. It's a catch-22 debating with these people.

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  • One of my favorite things about this page is that it can be read as intended, let to right, or can be read right to left like a manga, and it still tells an internally coherent, but entierly opposite story.

  • You should consider that Forgotten Realms wasn't really the default setting before 5e.

    In 4e it was Points of Laght/Dawn World/Netir Vale which was designed from bottom up to be easy to put in anything you want and it is credited for codifying on paper worldbuilding principles that are as wold as fantasy itsel (the poitns of light-style world). In 3e era it was Generic Setting, which was just Greyhawk without any words that would make them have to pay Gygax royalties. In TSR there was no default setting, they all just coexisted.

    WotC turned Realms into a default setting by pretending any unique stuff doesn't exist or trying to make it "the default" - look at Gnolls. The "hyenas turned into half-demons from eating Yeenoghu's blood" thing could work for Realms (it's a new lore invented for this edition), but WotC just HAD to try to force it on ever other world they own, goig so far to retcon two Gnoll bodyguards in Sinsiter Secret of Saltmarsh into Hobgoblins, just to keep the illusion Realms have nothing unique going for it.

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    More people should treat homebrew the same way a lot treats published modules.

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    Netherese brand identity game has no equals

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    Somewhere there Gandalf is facepalming

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    For your inspiration

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    I am starting Blades Campaign alongside my D&D one and had this observation.

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    Warlock: It's not that kind of worship,, I swear!

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    And it's not even a case of calling in Warlock's patron, they've been actively annoying him

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    Hot Take: 5e is too bloated with unnecessary rules and should be simplified

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    Best way to implement this idea in the campaign

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    The greatest villains are ones PCs create themselves

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    Reposting My Old Stuff #11: A humble suggestion for a slight improvement

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    You won't let me leave, you get me at my worst

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    Reposting my old stuff #10: Sprechen Sie German?

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    reposting my old stuff #9

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    Reposting my Old Stuff #8: I decided I don't want to be a slaver and this somehow makes me evil?

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    Posting my Old Stuff #7: Now that we established superiority of casters over marHOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!

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    How to handle running Blades in setting with different species/ancestries/races

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    Reposting my old stuff #5: #YouAreBeingDeceived

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    Reposting my old stuff #5: PvP erupted once he put it together