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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 3:50AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 22, 2007
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If D&D Next is planned to be printed with so many optional rules, modules, and variants; it would be a great help to have a massive checklist for DMs to hand to potential players. This would lower the time of the 10-30 minutes conversation on which of the 100 rules and modules the DM is planning to play in these game.
Other editions had a lot of rules and options that force DM to spend time explaining their game. Few games of the same edition looked the same but the underlying core was larger and more shared. D&D Next plans to exacerbate the issue by having it as a design goal from the start and by having more things piled on the smaller core. Getting DMs and Potential Players to buy into and make the same game will be a thing to be looked at in order to avoid potential group destroying disagreement.
Orzel, Halfelven son of Zel, Mystic Ranger, Bane to Dragons, Death to Undeath, Killer of Abyssals, King of the Wilds.
Constitution Based Class for Next!
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 4:05AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 31, 2012
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I have been thinking about that as well.
In particular, It will be challenging at cons and store games and such.
They should take a page from Living FR and Magic, and use common formats for those events.
An announcement might sound like this:
5:00 Table 16 "Lair of the Wuzzel" levels 5-7 Basic Core format. (or extended format, or tourney format, or casual format). Modules could be keyworded for being legal in certain formats, similar to the banned and restricted lists for MTG.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 4:08AM
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May 30, 2010
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If done correctly this won't be necessary.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 4:30AM
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Aug 22, 2007
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@Daganev
How so? If someone tried to play a dwarf in my game, we must have a 10 minute discussion or a 3 page read on playing a dwarf or the player will be upset why their dwarf is insane, tainted, axeless and wearing armor made of wood and bone. Plus we're using Modules A, B, C, E, F, H, J, K, L, M, P, Q, T, U and V.
Orzel, Halfelven son of Zel, Mystic Ranger, Bane to Dragons, Death to Undeath, Killer of Abyssals, King of the Wilds.
Constitution Based Class for Next!
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 4:47AM
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Date Joined:
May 24, 2012
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I don't see that as a problem. As a long time DM I like having options and a checklist so the players know what to expect and what they can use isn't new, BRP from Chaosium uses it.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 7:29AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 13, 2010
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I have been thinking about that as well.
In particular, It will be challenging at cons and store games and such.
They should take a page from Living FR and Magic, and use common formats for those events.
An announcement might sound like this:
5:00 Table 16 "Lair of the Wuzzel" levels 5-7 Basic Core format. (or extended format, or tourney format, or casual format). Modules could be keyworded for being legal in certain formats, similar to the banned and restricted lists for MTG.
Yes, format names and conventions are cool.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 8:01AM
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I don't see a checklist as a problem. It would also be useful to include a reduced checklist for advertising for players at FLGSs.
I agree that there should be an organised play 'standard' and variant 'standards' (for different tyles of play) so that a convention GM can just include the style of game in the description.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 8:28AM
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May 30, 2010
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I don't understand why it takes you ten minutes to tell someone that you are playing darksun with a Lovecraft twist.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 8:33AM
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I agree it would be time saving also would help mismatched DM/PC's to part before tragedies.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 26, 2012 - 9:02AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 16, 2009
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I just hope this doesn't allow the system be dissorganized without having the checklist- thus requiring it to play- or to have a list of names that aren't clear as to what they mean.
I'd hate to have "Surges" be the name of an option on the checklist, and have to look up what that meant.
My hope is the options are clearly named, and there isn't too many of them.
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