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Forum Topic: Hello,I'm looking to DM a 4th Edition Eberron, Dark Sun, or Homebrew campaign...

May 15 at 4:03pm
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Forum Topic: Hello,I'm looking to DM a 4th Edition Eberron, Dark Sun, or Homebrew campaign...

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Forum Topic: Looking to DM an Eberron Game

May 15 at 3:59pm
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Forum Topic: New Eberron Adventure Coming in Dungeon 214

May 15 at 3:38pm
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Forum Topic: Weapon mastery; feat tax?

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Forum Topic: Experienced 4e player looking for an online group to join.( I will never DM)

May 14 at 3:14pm
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May 14 at 11:58am
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goldengod

I am very happy with these descriptions. Actually, I'd say this is my favorite post from this column so far. It gave me all kinds of ideas for my own campaign. The only improvements I can see would be to make Demogorgon more devious and Nyarlathotep-like, as suggested elsewhere in this thread by EmmeDiEmme.
And of course, a similar write-up for the cult of Orcus would be nice.

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May 18, 2013 4:46 PM PDT

OskarOisinson

I sort of envision Devil Cults being grander in scale. Demonic cults, because of the chaotic beings they worship are ultimately self-destructive. They may last for a while, gathering more people through sheer potency, but eventually they will implode, largely precluding (to my mind) institutionalization.
Devil Cults on the other hand, I could see having a large and widespread following, covert AND overt. They are more systematic in their approach to evangelism because they make use of both...

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May 20, 2013 9:09 PM PDT

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Forum Topic: Encounter/Session Building... What am I missing?

May 13 at 9:06am
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Forum Topic: Paladin Question

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Forum Topic: Campaign settings

May 7 at 6:16pm
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Forum Topic: Uuuuuughh ... Monsters are Boring

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Forum Topic: Fly vs Air Walk

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Forum Topic: DnD Next Cleric needs to be fixed

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RadperT

The conventional pantheons are strongly influenced by the cotemporal expanse of the Far Realm which led to the stratification of the Outer Planes. Events in the nonlinear region are essentially fixed and it is convenient to think of them as causative to the Cataclysm out of which the demihuman races (and yugoloths) arose. Though seemingly made over into our own, however, the same universe still exists in which the celesternals are not divided between angels and devils, and persist in their...

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May 10, 2013 2:38 PM PDT

RadperT

Similarities in appearance and behavior have led to the existence of confusion among the original protohumans, humans, and contemporary protohumans such as gith and fey. Besides humans and mermen, shadar-kai, githyanki and githzerai are all descendants of wildmen, who were initially adopted by their protoillithid patrons because they demonstrated admirable loyalty to the group. Fey have both apian and wildmen blood and were shaped by their exposure to elemental forces, whereas the disobedient...

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May 10, 2013 2:39 PM PDT

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Forum Topic: Cantrips as 1st Level Spells

April 29 at 8:57pm
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Forum Topic: Continuation of Our Playtest Sessions

April 27 at 6:20am
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Forum Topic: The Action Economy

April 17 at 9:52pm
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Forum Topic: Game Night - Level 7

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RangerWickett

I don't think creature types should have much if any mechanical consequence. I'd rather label creatures with keywords, so special effects can work on them. Hide from Undead needs the game to notate what is an undead creature, and an Amulet of Protection from Vegetables needs you to define what is a plant.
But I don't want dragons inherently having different stats than bears. The complexity of 3e-era monster creation was WAY too high. 4e monster design suffered from divorcing mechanics from...

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April 16, 2013 4:15 PM PDT

DramoxTheIronLord

Much preferred the Origin, Type (Subtype) system from 4E than this.
I understand that, without the core assumptions that 4E had, there would be problems in labeling something as having a Fey origin in a setting without a Feywild, I think this is one thing that the previous edition just plain got right.
Although, when it comes to 5E monsters, I'd be happy just to see the Level and XP value at the TOP of the write-up

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April 18, 2013 1:37 PM PDT

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