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      Appendix d12: Unknown Rays of the Beholder www.wizards.com
      August 9, 2012 at 3:20am
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      sawbladex
      sawbladex
      ... needs a ray of integration, for making two or more things into one. I do like the beholder com-ray, and the projection ray.
      August 10, 2012 11:47 AM PDT
      Noirsoft
      Noirsoft
      The combination of x-ray and projection ray would make for an excellent internal injury diagnosis. Paging doctor B. Holder, B.Holder to ICU.
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      August 12, 2012 3:55 PM PDT
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      Project Yore www.wizards.com
      July 4, 2012 at 6:11am
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      Snyderart
      Snyderart
      Hey Jon,
      Great work that pays homage to a great edition and Mr. Gygax. Recreating a book to match an existing book is MUCH harder than creating one from scratch!!! Your work is appreciated. I run into the same problems that you did recreating a book that has no existing digitals. My non-freelancing, "pay the bills" day job is as a graphic designer at the Center of Military History and occasionally, I'll have to recreate old WWII books that were written in 1945 and are into their 20+...

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      July 25, 2012 5:25 AM PDT
      Sir_Joseph_the_Crowe
      Sir_Joseph_the_Crowe
      Yep, yep! I had to do a similar project involving old newspaper articles. With all the bleed-through, it takes a lot of finesse and judgment to clean up and batch processing isn't always possible. I like the beautiful cover treatment on this re-creation.
      July 25, 2012 12:20 PM PDT
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      Dungeon Command—Follow the Leader www.wizards.com
      June 27, 2012 at 1:37am
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      tirwin
      tirwin
      I agree I keep looking at these dungeon command articles hoping for pics of minis and all I keep getting are cards which I could care less about. It's all about the minis! Heck I will probably buy the stupid box/game just for the minis and I will never even try the game.
      June 27, 2012 8:48 PM PDT
      mbcestelle
      mbcestelle
      If you do a google image search you can get a look at what will most likely be the minis used in the game. At least it will give you some ideas.
      June 29, 2012 7:42 AM PDT
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      Judged by Its Cover wizards.com
      June 27, 2012 at 1:34am
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      Alrenn
      Alrenn
      I thought cover art in 3.5 was great! I loved the look of old tomes and books bound in blood, it felt more real than the clearly computer-art renderings of brightly colored races in 4.0.
      August 19, 2012 3:50 PM PDT
      EldradWolfsbane
      EldradWolfsbane
      Have different covers per printing making each book a collector's item.
      August 24, 2012 11:29 PM PDT
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      Rule-of-Three: 06/26/2012 wizards.com
      June 26, 2012 at 4:41am
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      nukunuku
      nukunuku
      All I want is a wizard that doesn't use vancian casting. That's still all I want. Don't give me a sorcerer or something else - I'd like a wizard, please. Sans vancian.
      July 3, 2012 12:15 PM PDT
      the_lop
      the_lop
      But the wizard isn't a D&D wizard if he doesn't use Vancian casting. I have been playing wizards since the dawn of "Eldritch Wizardry" and I wouldn't have them any other way.
      If they change the mechanic then change the name, it isn't a true wizard.

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      July 13, 2012 12:28 AM PDT
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      The Moral Compass wizards.com
      June 21, 2012 at 3:51am
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      christopher_perkins
      christopher_perkins
      I can't drink his tears if he's not at the game table.
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      June 27, 2012 10:49 PM PDT
      Sephyrill
      Sephyrill
      I think alignment and morale should be discussed before starting a new campaign. Your guidelines are good if the campaign gets the "good" or even "neutral to good" flag. When you happen to support all alignments for your party or play an outright evil or neutral to evil campaign, it shouldn't be too punishing if the party plays the previously chosen alignment correctly.
      Letting characters shift through alignments (slowly!) can make up great character development. However, there is a fine...

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      June 30, 2012 3:11 AM PDT
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      The Thing in the Crypt www.wizards.com
      June 20, 2012 at 1:57am
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      Gazgrull
      Gazgrull
      Looks kind of like a mind flayer to me.
      June 11, 2012 2:23 PM PDT
      oledirty
      oledirty
      Oh noes! The picture isn't exactly the same as the description! Oh noes!!!
      June 19, 2012 11:57 PM PDT
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      Dungeon Command Preview 2 wizards.com
      June 18, 2012 at 6:47pm
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      Malarky
      Malarky
      1 of 12 , 10 of 12 and 9 of 12, is there 12 models? so it kinda look like 3 models don't get card?
      June 24, 2012 4:39 AM PDT
      Malarky
      Malarky
      where did it say this? i though one more was coming?
      June 24, 2012 4:41 AM PDT
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      Monster Design in D&D Next, Part 2 www.wizards.com
      June 18, 2012 at 3:23am
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      June 16, 2012 at 1:30pm
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      June 16, 2012 at 1:29pm
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      Rule-of-Three: 06/12/2012 www.wizards.com
      June 12, 2012 at 3:22am
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      InchLabel
      InchLabel
      (I'm sorry, I haven't read the entirety of this thread, so apologies if this has already been suggested.)
      I don't like disengaging from melee being consequence free, but I'm not keen to reintroduce AsOO either. In our first playtest, in addition to heavily using (abusing?) the move before-and-after rules (shot-on-the-run style pop out from cover, shoot and pop back behind cover) we also had the issue of consequence free moves and hustles, enabling players to leave melee, run past other...

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      August 15, 2012 1:33 AM PDT
      InchLabel
      InchLabel
      (I ran out of characters.)
      I think the fairest thing would be to say that if you've already used your action this turn, then you can't use another action as part of your reaction. But you can still use your remaining movement or a free action to react.
      This would deal nicely with the following situation which arose:
      6 goblins run down a dark tunnel with spears. Each wants to throw his spear from hiding (in the darkness) once getting close enough to see the invaders. Since they...

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      August 15, 2012 1:49 AM PDT
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      June 5, 2012 at 2:09am
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      Zhandra
      Zhandra
      I like the racial archtypes created by racial penalties as well, but my playgroup is full of oldschool players anyway, so regardless of what the rules say, we never have Elves with 16+ Constitution; its just lore that we'll never let die. So whether or not they include the racial penalties in the mechanics, they'll always show up when ya want 'em to.
      June 9, 2012 6:46 PM PDT
      KarmothSteadybow
      KarmothSteadybow
      Floating bonus for humans: sounds pretty good. Bonuses in every stat as well? Not so much. I think it would serve the archetype of the adaptable, "everyone's unique" human better to have multiple floating bonuses (probably with a limit of +2 -- +3 at the most -- per stat) than to have static, across the board +1s. Humanity's adaptability comes from the adaptability of each individual, true, but also from the slough of differing abilities found when the race is taken as a whole. Additionally, I...

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      June 13, 2012 11:31 PM PDT
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      Your twitter has blocked me and I don't know why? I never been weird to D&D...
      May 11, 2012 at 6:09am
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    • oledirty

      oledirty added a comment to WotC_Trevor's blog post on the DnD Next group.

      Goblins Care Only About Your Axe
      I’ve played a lot of D&D lately. But even when using rules prone to...
      May 11, 2012 at 6:07am
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      Azoreth
      Azoreth
      It is a very smart idea to be able to incorperate both styles of play (TotM/grid) into one game system. Not only do you find both types of encounters (2 guards/big final battle) and both types of players' tastes. But it would create a great amount of flexibility in the game itself. That is what our imagination can do, now D&D might do it as well. I love the fact that a DM or module would have the freedom to say "You know, they would probably post a pair of guards." and be able to run it quickly...

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      June 16, 2012 1:29 PM PDT
      Gnurd0
      Gnurd0
      This is intriguing, and I have to admit, I haven't really given much thought as to whether or not a particular encounter warrants grid and minis (I'm a bit of a grognard). This will be interesting to see. I'm actually going to start trying more TotM style combats in my games for the smaller encounters.
      July 12, 2012 2:42 PM PDT
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      Sexism in Fantasy www.wizards.com
      May 2, 2012 at 5:09pm
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      OskarOisinson
      OskarOisinson
      analogue* sorry, I always do that and it makes me feel dumb.
      October 25, 2012 2:41 AM PDT
      Ogbek
      Ogbek
      I'm a guy. I like pretty women. But all these bikini-clad or bare-midriff adventurers are ridiculous. It makes NO SENSE. It breaks immersion. And it makes it that much harder for many girls or young women to find D&D approachable.
      Also, as a guy who likes playing funny characters, I think the occasional funny-looking guy or gal is perfectly appropriate. D&D is about adventure, but there should be room for other elements, and one of those is humor.
      Don't make D&D so...

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      January 26, 2013 8:34 AM PST
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      Fighter Design Goals www.wizards.com
      April 30, 2012 at 4:17am
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      throneworld
      throneworld
      One thing about #6 that I find strange is the notion of "If the fighter can get close, the wizard's dead." That seems to be the angry old-school consensus, along with the related "If the wizard can keep the fighter at a distance, the fighter is dead." Whatever happened to "I ready my bow and shoot him in his eye"? Why should a fighter's ranged attacks be less deadly than his up close ones, if he is truly versatile (#4 above). I admit, I do love the idea of balance across classes so I never...

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      June 17, 2012 12:49 AM PDT
      BerylBrightshade
      BerylBrightshade
      I actually totally agree a high level fighter should be able to hit a wizard with a bow attack, its just that on average arrows do less damage than heavy weapons since you don't get your str bonus unless you have a special bow, and this would mean it takes 3 or 4 rounds of arrows (whatever) to take down the wizard outright, giving the wizard hope of escape (teleport). I posted the earlier comment purely in response to #6 above suggesting that a high level fighter should be close to immune to a...

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      July 17, 2012 8:04 PM PDT
    • oledirty

      oledirty posted to zyraen's forum thread on the The new DM's Group group.

      Forum Topic: Roleplaying with Experienced & New Players
      April 28, 2012 at 3:00pm
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      News on D&D Next www.wizards.com
      April 28, 2012 at 2:46pm
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      oledirty D&D Next!! Yay

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      April 28, 2012 at 5:44am

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