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what if, and stay with me here because this is crazy, some people played D&D in worlds that had more advanced technology
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also game mechanics do not have to reflect reality because you are, in fact, playing a fantasy game. just have a gun use the same stats as a bow
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8one6 posted:As an aside, leave it to Baen to come up with the shittiest possible cover for an omnibus collection. I mean, the original cover for The Sleeping Dragon wasn't exactly mind blowing, but come the gently caress on with this floating head least effort bullshit. I dug up my old 3.0 DMG because I could've sworn I remembered something in there about firearms and this is what I found:    
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8one6 posted:gently caress yes, I remember that. This entire debate reminded me of an article from the last print issue of Dragon magazine. I present Meepo's pump-action Mossburg I still own all of the d20 Modern books, and that kobold showed up in Urban Arcana, and he still rules.
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Jul 16, 2017 05:22
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How to Gun 1) Find the stats for the bow 2) Copy those down 3) Go back and erase "bow" 4) Replace with "gun"
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admanb posted:5E is a perfectly good version of D&D. It's just that D&D has pretty much always been an incoherent mess of a system except for 4E which was coherent, but not D&D. Simply incredible.
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gently caress that. Seize the means of reanimation.
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Jul 29, 2017 19:10
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Polo-Rican posted:I was DMing a game recently and had the players enter a vampire's lair. That actually sounds pretty cool. Vampires are usually portrayed as very intelligent and well-prepared enemies, so maybe the next one isn't some scrub-tier vampire like that one. Give other vampires proper lairs with traps and guardians and have contingency plans in place in case they get attacked during the day time. Killing a vampire by staking it in the heart is a really thematic and neat way to do things, but make sure that getting there isn't easy for their enemies.
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Dragonborn are big lizards, what is there even to show? 
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Aug 9, 2017 19:07
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Remember, just because your bones are broken doesn't mean they won't stop a bullet from hitting me.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:You can buy the rules for individual spells for 2 bucks a pop. Hahahaha gently caress this.
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Aug 15, 2017 23:05
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Intellectual property is theft.
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Aug 31, 2017 12:24
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Trebuchet King posted:I missed 4e completely but I'd heard it characterized as kind of MMO-ified? Like in terms of mechanics and such. In that it introduced balance and mechanical definition that ensured that every party member had an equal contribution, sure.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Well you are not giving him money you are giving the charity extra life money. Funny enough one of the first tweets about that is if they could have Crawford do it instead and he just straight up says sure I will ask him. I agree that it's pretty funny how loving stupid Mearls is.
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Sep 19, 2017 23:03
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dont even fink about it posted:"Roll to advance plot" is not a roll people should make. Among other reasons, never make people roll for something if nothing interesting would happen on a failure. The fact that this is not obvious to the lead designer of the RPG with the most name recognition in the world is hilarious.
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Magil Zeal posted:I can't wait to be a dragonborn from the Grrrmmballhyst clan. Personally I think Chumbyxirinnish is for me. Could this thing be any more 
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Arivia posted:I ended up looking at the lizardfolk name tables from Volo's Guide to Monsters and it turns out they were all taken from 3e. Wouldn't surprise me if these are similar. Good job Mearls! Too lazy to even use a random name generator. Then again, the D&D team is now what, three people working out of a supply closet in the back of the MTG offices?
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If the fighter is the class for idiots, what does that make barbarians?
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mastershakeman posted:I kind of get the logic about bad rules leading to better DMing - it's stupid at first glance, but everything about high level play I've ever seen breaks down pretty badly and it seems the solution to fixing that was just to tell the DM to git gud via having to pull rulings out of his rear end from the get go We purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.
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Who doesn't, at some point, just want to be dollar store Gimli for a little while?
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In my fantasy games when I voice dwarf NPCs I like to give them redneck accents.
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Oct 13, 2017 16:26
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Dungeons and Dragons stays true to its roots
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quote:“The land that they live in is a savage land. That’s just part of what Chult is. It’s a place of monsters." they're still echoing centuries of racist fantasies about darkest africa despite the sword coast or whatever being eat the gently caress up with zombies, owlbears and whatever the gently caress else lmao
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Oct 18, 2017 21:46
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MonsterEnvy posted:Just to inform you That is much less racist then you would think. Nanny Pu'pu there is actually a Green hag. Which is a literal baby eating monster. Just to inform you That is just as racist as I think. I know your gimmick is to eat WotC rear end 24/7 but you don’t have to do this. Don’t go to bat for racism.
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Oct 18, 2017 22:21
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MonsterEnvy posted:This is the same thing as this Neither of those things are real. They were made up by people. One of them is a racist caricature summoned up from centuries of colonialism. The other appears to be a bog-standard fantasy being. Maybe its racist against the villain of True Detective?
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Oct 18, 2017 23:04
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MonsterEnvy posted:Yeah. I agree there. Vegepygmies are legacy monsters from that Alien Spaceship adventure so they kept their name from that. The place you are coming from is...? "I'm okay with racist imagery that comes from Wizards of the Coast" or "Drawn pictures cannot possibly use influences from the real world and therefore the bone-wearing 'monster' woman was completely created from a person's imagination"
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Oct 18, 2017 23:11
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Haggins posted:Don't like it, don't buy it. Why does any art have to go through some PC filter to ensure it doesn't offend anyone? I mean, I sure ain't buying it. But I ain't gotta buy it to know that poo poo stinks.
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Oct 18, 2017 23:22
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Haggins posted:This poo poo just seems like a witch hunt akin to what the Christians in the 80's did. Instead of indoctrinating kids to worship Satan now it's making them Klan members. lmao sure, this is the new satanic panic
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christians in the 80s: your books make kids worship satan black bloggers in 2017: hey maybe do better when creating your fantasy africa same thing
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Oct 18, 2017 23:29
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maybe don’t create entire cultures or species of sapient beings who exist to be cannon fodder for guilt-free murdering.
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Conspiratiorist posted:I approve of this but good luck getting people to give up their goblinoids and kobolds and trolls and ogres and giants and evil elves. In every game I've run since I started, the "monster" species were never monsters. They were just regular people trying to get by like everybody else. It takes a little getting used to, but its way more interesting than the standard ethnic cleansing fever dream that most games endorse.
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Conspiratiorist posted:That was humans until we discovered agriculture, though. You sure about that?
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Conspiratiorist posted:Ask the megafauna. I don't have access to an elephant at the moment. gradenko_2000 posted:There is no reason why goblins, kobolds, trolls, and ogres can't have material reasons for coming into conflict with the player. It's not hard to come up with reasons why people would fight each other, and I don't know why people need to come up with bullshit like "always chaotic evil" or whatever. Of course if you follow the line of material justifications for conflict, you always arrive back at the root cause and only 100% guilt-free acceptable cannon fodder: the bourgeoisie.
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AlphaDog posted:Countdown to "why did you have to make this discussion all political?" and/or "now you're talking about people like me being the bad guys this is not ok". Considering that we started this conversation talking about the new racist D&D book, that would be silly. Which virtually guarantees it will happen. Goffer posted:Been doing a bit of looking at evolutionary psych and life history strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_history_theory and depending on the lifecycle of the Orc, there might be some great explanations. According to the evolutionary psych, organisms that live faster lifes: This isn't directed at you, but just an observation. It's interesting that you can look at this list of traits and pretty much see how almost all of them are arguments made by white supremacists.
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The Racism Defender has logged on.
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likequote:“I’m gonna ignore for a moment the fact that they described [Chult] as a wild, untamed land—how much of Africa was thought of for a long time,” Dace, who runs the Black Role-Players Organization, told me. He had bigger fish to fry: “Their speaking patterns are described right down to having clicks. This creates a problem if white gamers were wanting to do an accent and do serious clicks and clucks based on what they’ve seen on TV about African languages.” Dace noted that Africa has upwards of 2,000 languages and only three language groups use clicks. It is one of the most stereotyped aspects of Africa.” Dace suggested using Swahili as another point of inspiration. read the article
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MonsterEnvy posted:I am just posting stuff from the adventure. (Which no matter how you may feel about this topic is very solid. Probably the best one they have come out with.) I would hope that it would be better than Drums on Fire Mountain. I love a good, well-designed racist adventure.
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MonsterEnvy posted:I did. I don't care much for the article.  MonsterEnvy posted:I am talking about the 5e adventures you rear end. Right, Tomb of Annihilation is the best racist adventure they've put out yet.
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MonsterEnvy posted:You have not read the adventure so judging something as racist just because of an article rubs me the wrong way. I was a little skeptical at first. After all, WotC is staffed by some real nincompoops at the moment, but surely all that progressivism they'd been into recently would have helped them create a better product right? Nope. The Nanny Pu'Pu picture was a pretty big indicator that the article was right, and on further inspection, they really do know what's up.
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