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Where did the concept of Passive Insight come from?
The Player's Handbook has a section for "Passive Checks" for all ability scores
These rules are found on page 175, entitled "Passive Checks":
Passive Checks
A passive check is a special kind ...
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Where can I find Matt Mercer's Critical Role House Rules?
Some are listed in the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting (though they may be slightly different from those used in play)
As you guessed, some of the house rules used in Critical Role do indeed appear in the ...
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How much context will I not understand if I start with Campaign 3, Episode 1 of Critical Role, "The Draw of Destiny"?
You will mostly be missing jokes referencing events and characters.
The majority of the missing context will be jokes and inconsequential references to old characters and historical events in the ...
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Where did the concept of Passive Insight come from?
There are general rules for "passive checks" in 5e's skills chapter (Player's Handbook p.175), which "passive insight" is really just a specific implementation of. That didn't start with 5e, though. ...
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Where can I find Matt Mercer's Critical Role House Rules?
Matt Mercer made a comment on the Critical Role subreddit two years ago outlining his major rules changes by his recollection (including his rule for resurrection):
Here are all the major ones I can ...
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What was the first RPG podcast?
The earliest one I have been able to find is RPGMP3.com, with their "World's Largest Dungeon" series that started on Sep. 24, 2004. Not too long after the podcast term was coined. And they're still ...
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Where do I get the archive of the Sons of Kryos podcast episodes?
The episodes are on archive.org at https://archive.org/details/SonsOfKryosPodcast/
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What was the first RPG podcast?
With regards to the first online “Actual Play” recording - it was made on the 29th January, 2003 by Paul Maclean of Yog-Sothoth.com. It was a recording from a D&D game of “Return to the Temple of ...
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Are the official D&D Podcasts archived somewhere?
The actual plays are still on itunes
Of the material ever published, 109 podcasts - including the Penny Arcade material and actual plays - were archived as the "Dungeon Delve" podcast. It ...
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