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a solid 40% of game design is recognizing when you're making things too hard on yourself

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being 100% honest the issue with 5e isn’t that the game is bad, which mind you, it is, the issue is that wotc has an effective monopoly on an entire medium, and a definite monopoly on the cultural view of said medium, profits off of racist stereotypes and concepts, fucks over artists and creators, and has a meatgrinder of a business model precisely designed to sunk cost fallacy people into not trying other games

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The real curse in Curse of Strahd is that Strahd thinks he's hot. Unable to see himself in the mirror.

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I think that app icons and MMO action icons should swap designs I think opening Tumblr should feel like I'm about to do a 1000 potency AoE on a 2 minute cooldown instead of just another blue app with a white letter/symbol on it

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Plot twist: it wasn't a mistake.

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Can you use speak with animals to communicate with a dog that can already talk but only in French?

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The mcelroys made an entire generation think that playing D&D badly is activism

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Meet the kākāpō-bear, a strange creature that resembles an owlbear but has the plumage and behavior of a kākāpō! 🦜

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"Blorbo from my shows" this, "blorbo from my videogames" that. What about "blorbo from my DnD game" that only three other people know. Do you ever think about that-

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What saving throw/skill check would you roll for standing for 8 hours straight for when adventuring doesn't work out and the party has to go into customer service? Ignoring the constant wisdom and charisma saves from having to interact with customers

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CURSE OF STRAHD 2

THIS TIME

IT'S STRAHDIER

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This might be controversial but I believe that as a DM you should never kill your players. Whether it's "bad luck" or "a long series of bad decisions," it causes a lot of unnecessary hardship all around.

Instead, you should kill their characters.

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This cat character already has her own lore. She was the familiar of a wizard who died and so she was no longer bound to him (The wizard got better but the cat no longer recognized him and instead chose a PC as her person) (also this cat looks like a skeleton because of the inherent gothic magic effects of Barovia)

Wanna make a joke character sheet for my cat who likes to sit at the d&d table with us. There's already an NPC in my game who is a cat that she can play as, what class should she be?

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Wanna make a joke character sheet for my cat who likes to sit at the d&d table with us. There's already an NPC in my game who is a cat that she can play as, what class should she be?

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gothic horror rlly is just. aw fuck look at what youve done. the house has inherited your inter-generational trauma and in response has transformed itself into a metaphorical device to track the decay of the family. we're never gonna pay off that mortgage now