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Yeah the OG Planescape boxed sets were honestly not that great in terms of actual gameplay content. I honestly think DiTerlizzi's art, the extremely 90s Exocet font, and vibes carried 90% of the setting's sales.
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whydirt posted:Yeah the OG Planescape boxed sets were honestly not that great in terms of actual gameplay content. I honestly think DiTerlizzi's art, the extremely 90s Exocet font, and vibes carried 90% of the setting's sales. And it was freaking great
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May 25, 2023 02:38
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I said it before in the thread, but if this book is nothing more than a vehicle for more DiTerlizzi art of the setting, it'll be a net good no matter how much they may blunder anything else.
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May 25, 2023 13:23
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A hardcover RPG manual is a luxury product and should be spiced up to the nines with art, flavorful page layouts and excessive poo poo nobody could ever even think to ask for.
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Hra Mormo posted:A hardcover RPG manual is a luxury product and should be spiced up to the nines with art, flavorful page layouts and excessive poo poo nobody could ever even think to ask for.
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May 25, 2023 13:52
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Hra Mormo posted:A hardcover RPG manual is a luxury product and should be spiced up to the nines with art, flavorful page layouts and excessive poo poo nobody could ever even think to ask for.
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May 25, 2023 15:38
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Bobby Deluxe posted:That implies however a cheaper paperback edition, which I don't think they've done since advanced. The probably recognize that most people use beyond, or just  even at the table now. and Beyond is generally like 30 bucks for the book online.
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May 25, 2023 16:19
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The 4e compendium paperback is p good.
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May 25, 2023 16:25
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Payndz posted:Yeah, haven't they just announced their next round of hardbacks will be $60 each or something insane? For that money the interior had better be waaaaaay beyond what someone could knock up on their own in InDesign with some AI art. Don't be silly, it's just $60 during the prerelease window. After that it's $70.
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May 25, 2023 20:02
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Art of the Hive Ward and an article about the upcoming stuff including Planescape. https://www.polygon.com/23736642/dnd-dungeons-dragons-phandelver-planescape-deck-of-many-things-release-date-price
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May 27, 2023 19:46
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This is so cool.
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love to see a kenku in any art. They're just little guys.
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May 27, 2023 22:57
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Yusin posted:Art of the Hive Ward and an article about the upcoming stuff including Planescape. This looks more Kill Six Billion Demons than I would have expected but this is not a complaint by any stretch of the imagination
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May 27, 2023 23:03
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I didn't think I'd be down for quasi-cyberpunk Sigil but it turns out I am
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May 27, 2023 23:06
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I think a Demodand is on the art. Been a while since they have been in the game.
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May 27, 2023 23:07
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Happiness is being a yeti with 2 ice cream cones
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Reveilled posted:I didn't think I'd be down for quasi-cyberpunk Sigil but it turns out I am in contrast wow i fuckin hate that
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Reveilled posted:I didn't think I'd be down for quasi-cyberpunk Sigil but it turns out I am Kamigawa was right there for fantasy cyberpunk.
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I don稚 think it looks too punkish, just a market in the Hive. Which I think looks right. I admire that Pit Fiend for abandoning Hell to open up a BBQ.
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May 27, 2023 23:48
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Yusin posted:Art of the Hive Ward and an article about the upcoming stuff including Planescape. I like that they're swinging for the fences here. I like less that its about as far from Diterlizzi's style and zorn color palette as they could possibly have made it. Arivia posted:in contrast wow i fuckin hate that Yeah, same
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May 28, 2023 00:18
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Yusin posted:Art of the Hive Ward and an article about the upcoming stuff including Planescape. It's a nice bit of art. Lots of varied people going about their lives, with a few people taking advantage of personal talents to make an honest coin. I'm interested in seeing more.
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Ashheap Empire posted:I like that they're swinging for the fences here. I like less that its about as far from Diterlizzi's style and zorn color palette as they could possibly have made it. It feels like it should be in a Shadowrun book, doesn't fit Planescape's vibe at all. All it needs is a decker in mirrorshades.
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Could've done without the neon. That one outhouse-like building seems to literally be just a tentacle shop. Some kind of massage parlor, perhaps.
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May 28, 2023 11:42
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Just picked up 5e material after my wife showed interest after watching the movie. Haven't played since 3.5. They really seem to have made effort to cut back on power creep, wow. Armor seems useful! 20 AC actually seems to mean something.
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The only thing I don't like about the art is that it seems to have too few building spikes, razorvine and weird, otherwordly architecture to be instantly recognizable as Sigil. If you told me this was some other Monster Manual-positive fantasy city, I'd not have thought differently for a moment.
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May 28, 2023 12:23
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Just picked up 5e material after my wife showed interest after watching the movie. Haven't played since 3.5. They really seem to have made effort to cut back on power creep, wow. Armor seems useful! 20 AC actually seems to mean something. i played waaaay back as a kid with some used ad&d 2nd books and eventually switched to 3.5 as a young man in the mid 2000s. i didnt love the complexity of 3.5 and then 4e completely killed my enthusiasm. i'm back over 15 years later now and loving 5e. it's really good
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Yeah, I played 2nd in high school, missed everything else, and have now played in two 5e campaigns very readily. Sometimes I'd prank my compatriots by explaining THAC0 to them.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, I played 2nd in high school, missed everything else, and have now played in two 5e campaigns very readily. Sometimes I'd prank my compatriots by explaining THAC0 to them. I played a sort of pre-1 in college - it was a homebrew system made up by the DM roughly based on the Original edition, but flavored with some 1e (which had just come out) and Chainmail. I got back in with 5e playing with my kids. I'm kind of meh on it. I don't like the emphasis on character development instead of the story/adventure, and the general video game-y feel of it, but it's fun nonetheless. I'm going to DM them through ToEE using 1e rules as our next adventure. It will be interesting to see how they handle it.
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I知 rolling a swashbuckler rogue to drop into a campaign starting at level 7 because someone got half the party killed, and I don稚 know if I wanna: Get my hands on booming blade and be a tremendously annoying hit and run rear end in a top hat Do that but also take a single level of fighter for duelist to be a more accurate tremendously annoying hit and run rear end in a top hat Forget booming blade and do a single level of fighter for two weapon fighting to be a regularly annoying hit and run rear end in a top hat who can hit and run up to two things at a time Thoughts? I知 leaning towards the second option because giving up my bonus action for a second attack feels pretty heavy but I can always choose not to do that depending on the situation, so I知 torn.
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History Comes Inside! posted:I知 rolling a swashbuckler rogue to drop into a campaign starting at level 7 because someone got half the party killed, and I don稚 know if I wanna: talk to the rest of the party and see what fits their plans?
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The swashbuckler is already being made to fit their plans, we need martials and a face and I知 checking those boxes. This is just trying to nail down how the character plays, because I知 not sure which option I like the most.
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Yusin posted:Art of the Hive Ward and an article about the upcoming stuff including Planescape. if they pull this off, it'll be a really good toolset for the game. that goes a really long way especially for a less uh tenured audience. it's been a while since anything 5e was a good idea so i'm looking forward to seeing how it undermines its own ideas edit: i don't know anything about planescape and based on the idea that "it's the big city in the middle of realities" i think the art is fine. there's a knife wife or something in sigil? also isn't sigil the name of the big city in erbberon Ominous Jazz fucked around with this message at 00:06 on May 29, 2023 |
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Booming blade sounds annoying to deal with. Go for option two, and channel Puss in Boots. Do an Antonio Banderez impression when you roleplay.
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there are a bunch of opportunities to join factions in LMoP. i'm getting to the point where the pcs are about to go to cragmaw castle so those opportunities are coming up in the book. where can i read more about what it means to be apart of this faction and stuff? is it all in the sword coast sourcebook or? i don't want to give this to my pcs and then it never comes up again lol
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May 29, 2023 01:00
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Wasn't that an organized play hook that got abandoned?
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:there are a bunch of opportunities to join factions in LMoP. i'm getting to the point where the pcs are about to go to cragmaw castle so those opportunities are coming up in the book. where can i read more about what it means to be apart of this faction and stuff? is it all in the sword coast sourcebook or? i don't want to give this to my pcs and then it never comes up again lol They are mentioned in the basic rules here. https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/appendix-c-the-five-factions
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Ominous Jazz posted:
For fun I will do a little synopsis of the setting later.
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History Comes Inside! posted:The swashbuckler is already being made to fit their plans, we need martials and a face and I知 checking those boxes. Every time I try to make a swashbuckler I want to add 3 levels of Fighter for Battlemaster maneuvers.
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Wife made her character last night (wood elf Druid) and I made a human Fighter companion for her. Really excited to have this new shared connection with her! Here's some minis I made of them:
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