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you just hate the cis because of the things that they did

I hate the cis because it is led by the treacherous count dooku

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#a common neil cicierga banger

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this grave keeper edible aint shit

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moderation is MODERATELY boring

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"You can run any setting or game in 5e, the DM just has to do a rules overhaul!" This is why your friend goes on social media and complains about being a forever DM.

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ever since I learned in a board game review that the jedi were based on the bene gesserit I haven't shut up about it

#it's actually really interesting they are though and clarifies a bunch of stuff that otherwise seems utterly bizarre as a choice. #such as: midichlorians.

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The magic of a scorching summer evening

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"furry inflation" (2024)

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know the difference!

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old news but the evangelion opening whips

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#cats

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Corollary; if a hobby starts making you cum it transforms into a kink. Example; Quinton Hoover’s Earthbind.

i do love that one a lot but my award for personal favorite Horny Old Cart Art has got to go to JOCK's illustration of Dwarven Miner, mostly because i physically own a copy

one of the most lovingly rendered torsos in all of MTG

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Huh

へえ

There's stuff

なにかある

#cats

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#cats

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Just off the top of my head, here's some setting assumptions D&D makes thats not even universal to high fantasy, let alone dark/low fantasy, historical settings, urban fantasy, or scifi;

Magic is something anyone can access with proper education and time

There is a pantheon of very real deities who each have different purviews and distribute magic

Combat is generally slow and grindy, and your average player character or enemy can take multiple strikes from a sword and keep fighting.

Characters will get physically stronger and more martially competent as they continue to adventure, to the point of being able to fight enemies like dragons and giant demons.

Magic takes the form of a specific list of flashy and powerful effects, most of which can be performed in the span of seconds and are oriented around combat.

There is an afterlife and people can be revived

Generally speaking a character is going to have to choose between martial prowess, magical capability, and a sort of "everything else" bucket. In particular, a character specialized for combat is going to have little to do outside of it.

Some of these assumptions (leveling up, grindy combat, characters specializing in combat/magic/noncombat) are both very restrictive in the kinds of stories you can tell, and fundamental to how Dungeons and Dragons works to the point that you lose the benefit of familiarity if you try to remove it. (Good luck selling "We're playing 5e but we're not leveling up" or creating an entirely different suite of classes)

I saw someone compare D&D to Star Wars, which is more or less the most popular "scifi with magic" media; Jedi just don't fit into D&D classes; they're the biggest source of player-side magic, and their powers are a small toolkit of subtle, new-age-mysticism tricks; pretty far from wizards, clerics, and warlocks.

I know 5e-Only types will mostly not care but for the sake of my sanity I need this written down.

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Wait what was that coup that america did? In south america I think? I cant remember it

you're gonna have to be more specific