#DND5e

THREAD: The gaming social contractYou should get explicit CONSENT from your fellow players in your tabletop roleplaying games. It’s common decency & you already accept this in other situations, even
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A short thread on Racial Essentialism in #DnD5e & some possible solutionsRacial, or biological, essentialism is the idea that you have a racial identity that guarantees that and explains why
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In case you missed it over the weekend:Our co-owner @eugenemarshall was interviewed for this important article in @WIRED. Our book, Ancestry & Culture: an Alternative to Race in 5e, is
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Duetgames - a thread#Duetgame = 1 #ttrpg with 1 #GM/#DM + 1 Playerworks with pretty much any #ttrpg rulesetI have the most experience as a #DM with #DSA and #DnD/#dnd5e
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Thread of things people criticize #DND5E for not having rules for that’s actually in the rules:(1) Variable success/failure on ability checks. DMG p. 242 (2) Rules for social interactions:DMG p.
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1/ The whole TOTM vs. grid discussion re: #DnD5E seems, to me, to really be about whether you want combat to be primarily a narrative construct, in which case distance/targets/areas
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Oh, uh, hi new followers! You all seem...very impressive and cool and talented. I don't actualky know what I'm doing on here yet, but y'all seem like the bees knees,
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Here's another late night #dnd tip for #dnd5e designers, DMs, and dungeoneers: Think about the battlefield when designing encounters. Work in means to take advantage of monster strengths while complicating
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One of the best #gmtips I can share is: signal trouble before it hits, and allow PCs to choose how to react. This simple technique enriches the game in so
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[thread] #OSR and old-school #DnD gamers are sometimes accused of being reactionary, overly conventional and rooted in nostalgia. I think it's an largely unfair accusation. OSR is absolutely *packed* with
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THREAD:The new book from @Wizards_DnD, Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, begins to make the changes the #DnD #DnD5e community needs & has been demanding, with regard to race & racism. We
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Hey, #DND5e GMs, do you like #LairActions? They're fun, yah? Being able to do weird stuff to make encounters more interesting, even when it's not the monster's turn, is fun.
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Dear creators, when faced with a big #TTRPG #writing project, I use business project management techniques (from my day job) to stay on top of things. I want to share
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All #dnd5e combat carries an inherent risk, but roles and positioning also carry additional risks that are mitigated by class options.When those options are skewed in favor of a class,
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#dnd5e - Let me talk to you about non-combat conflict.Problems that don't get resolved from murdering someone.Combat can be part of it or part of the solution, but here's a
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D&D has a race problem.In @WIRED, @mjgault describes @Wizards_DnD's resistance to changing parts of #DnD lore & rules concerning #race.They want to retain the game's legacy. Here's why that's a
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