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Spell Blow Back—How Part of D&D that Everyone Avoided Shaped the 5th-Edition Power Curve
The original Dungeons & Dragons game featured some activities that most players didn’t enjoy and eventually came to skip. I already wrote about mapping. Unless your group plays D&D in a deliberately old style, you don’t draft a player as … Continue reading →
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Tagged encumbrance, Ernie Gygax, Gary Gygax, spells
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