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    • kentop

      kentop posted to his forum thread.

      Forum Topic: The death of D&D
      September 22, 2012 at 9:46pm
    • kentop

      kentop posted to his forum thread.

      Forum Topic: Replacing dead PCs question
      September 4, 2012 at 9:33am
    • kentop

      kentop posted a new blog post.

      Get Serious
      Yesterday, I watched the live feed from the Pax Prime event in Seattle. It...
      September 2, 2012 at 1:51pm
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      kentop
      kentop
      My beef is with the way in which D&D sessions are played in videos and on you tube. They are almost uniformly of the jokey variety.
      For me, desperate situations are the things I like best in D&D adventures. It's not simply "kill monsters and search for treasure". That gets too boring too quickly.

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      September 4, 2012 7:41 AM PDT
      MardukBathory
      MardukBathory
      Acquisitions Inc players is a group the majority of whom are cartoonists, it's in their nature to make jokes. Besides, if you wanted to watch a serious fantasy story, why not just watch lord of the rings or similar?
      And is there a reason why anybody should have to roll play a drama? We have both comedies and dramas based on realistic situations but very few fantasy comedies. If you look at it as a roll play comedy you might note they roll play quite a lot; like when Jim Darkmagick...

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      March 30, 2013 9:07 AM PDT
    • kentop

      kentop posted to waltron's forum thread.

      Forum Topic: Resource Management for various classes. Brainstorm!
      September 4, 2012 at 9:06am
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      kentop Finally, after 4 sessions, I get leveled up to level 2?

      Mood: relieved
      September 2, 2012 at 9:31am
    • kentop

      kentop posted to his forum thread.

      Forum Topic: Gaining hit points with levels.
      August 29, 2012 at 9:48am
    • kentop

      kentop posted to his forum thread on the DnD Next group.

      Forum Topic: Opportunity attack problem
      August 22, 2012 at 10:36am
    • kentop

      kentop posted to Maestermagus' forum thread.

      Forum Topic: Attack of oppurtunity.
      August 20, 2012 at 9:08am
    • kentop

      kentop Where's that sorcerer play test promised today?

      Mood: relieved
      August 17, 2012 at 10:21am
    • kentop

      kentop Profile pic explained, I'm in a venetian water taxi, reaching for my PPK.

      Mood: cranky
      June 22, 2012 at 8:26pm
    • kentop

      kentop posted to Urielx1x's forum thread.

      Forum Topic: Awesome little blurb
      June 22, 2012 at 6:53pm
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      kentop posted to Zeldafan42's forum thread.

      Forum Topic: Classes: More or Less?
      June 22, 2012 at 5:03pm
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      kentop posted to Felorn's forum thread.

      Forum Topic: Nostalgia will it be the only thing Next has?
      June 22, 2012 at 3:35pm
    • kentop

      kentop added a comment to Klaus_Mogensen's blog post.

      How do you use XP in D&D now?
      June 13, 2012 at 7:58am
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      Azoreth
      Azoreth
      I must admit, the last few years I've felt a little lazy about Xps. I keep a very rough idea of what things our group does to earn Xps (only 1/2 of it is from fighting) and let the whole group level when it seems right.
      In the past when there was seperate level-up numbers for the classes we would do individual xps where players took turns going over the cool things they did and I would pencile em on scrap, add em up, add combat xps, and tell the player the total right then. No extra...

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      June 16, 2012 2:03 PM PDT
      Hippolyte
      Hippolyte
      Individual experience causes friction whether spoken or unspoken. Why did Johnny get a reward for roleplaying? Why did the striker get more experience for killing stuff, and is not a healer valuable? It also sucks when the party's levels start to spread. Better to give minor magical items as rewards for dedicated or meritorious play.
      Detailled group experience causes mathematically induced headaches.
      Levelling up arbitrarily can cause some players not to care.
      I now prefer...

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      July 1, 2012 12:22 PM PDT
    • Azoreth

      Azoreth voted in the poll, "How do you use XP in D&D now?".

      June 13, 2012 at 7:46am

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