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| bio | website | numenetics.tumblr.com |
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| location | Texas | |
| age | 30 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | Jul 3 '12 at 22:50 | |
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I've only been gaming steadily for about five years, and most of that has been DMing for D&D.
I'm very interested in the early RPGs of the 70s and early 80s, but my active game right now is a 4th edition D&D game with some house rules to (hopefully) give it some of the feel of those older games.
My interest in gaming is two-fold, in that not only am I an active gamer, but a PhD student in anthropology and will be writing my dissertation on role-playing games. I'm interested in the connections between play, myth, and ritual.
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Sep 18 |
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Are there any restrictions on mastering and/or using a ritual based on its Key Skill? Somewhere in there is what seems not quite right about rituals to me. I can never put my finger on it exactly, though. |
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Sep 18 |
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I need a ritual to review memories Number balance is definitely not my thing, but level 5 with 2pt lower DCs seems about right to me. |
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Sep 18 |
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I need a ritual to review memories This seems exactly right to me. It could even be a little easier to cast, meaning either a lower lever, lower DCs, or a lower component cost. It seems that reviewing the memories of a living person should be easier than doing it to a dead person. |
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Sep 18 |
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I need a ritual to review memories spelling |
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Sep 18 |
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Fair replacement rule for D&D 4e item creation? The point that 4e uses prices as a balancing factor is well made, but I'm not sure I see why that suggests raising purchase prices over lowering creation costs. Could you explain your thought process there? |
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Sep 16 |
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What are the advantages of Tabletop Roleplaying Games over MMORPGS and CRPGs Or unless you sign up for D&DI... |
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Sep 16 |
answered | How to quickly plan a fun one-off session? |
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Sep 16 |
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Rules for prone in D&D 4e? Just to add: one big difference is that getting up from prone no longer provokes opportunity attacks. I think that's the biggest change. |
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Sep 16 |
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What is a good example of implementing old-school design in a 4e module? Clarified question in response to comment. |
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Sep 16 |
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What is a good example of implementing old-school design in a 4e module? Anything, really: megadungeon, sandbox elements, dungeons with lots of empty rooms, cursed items, modules that emphasize player skill, modules that don't emphasize a specific linear plot, etc. Any or all of these. There are certain tropes that tend to be more common in older games, and I'm curious to see how people have implemented them for 4e. |
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Sep 16 |
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What is a good example of implementing old-school design in a 4e module? This definitely looks promising--glancing over the reviews, it seems that the design ideas vary from module to module, but there as Beska says, C9 definitely has the cover down. I will be working through these for ideas. |
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Sep 15 |
asked | What is a good example of implementing old-school design in a 4e module? |
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Sep 9 |
asked | Campaign is on hiatus. How do I keep it on life support? |
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Sep 9 |
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How to give directions to megadungeon locations without giving players too much info? Very good advice--although I read the title as "Clues and Maps craps" at first. |
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Sep 9 |
accepted | How to give directions to megadungeon locations without giving players too much info? |
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Sep 9 |
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How to give directions to megadungeon locations without giving players too much info? I know that all of my questions follow a pretty tight theme, but this is what I'm working through these days--hope that's okay. |
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Sep 9 |
asked | How to give directions to megadungeon locations without giving players too much info? |
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Sep 5 |
accepted | How do you DM differently when it's for only one person? |
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Sep 4 |
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Does teleportation require line of sight? I don't have the full context for this, since I pulled it from the Compendium, but that part might refer to a power that teleport an enemy, in which case the text makes sense. Otherwise, I'm not sure. I copied and pasted though, so if its a typo, it's WOTC's |
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Sep 4 |
answered | Does teleportation require line of sight? |
