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obsidian jasper
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Isn’t that the patron?

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So like if it’s a melee attack it’s the thing swiping at the enemy

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Eldritch blast is the thing eldritch blasting the enemy

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Etc

cosmic geyser
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The patrons are the same... It's part of the redundancy between the two.

fossil raven
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You're channeling power that they've granted you

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It isn't, technically speaking, yours

obsidian jasper
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I mean it’s literally a separate body attacking

fossil raven
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Ahhh

obsidian jasper
fossil raven
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Hmm check out the Undead again

obsidian jasper
fossil raven
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That Form of Dread may be what you're looking for

obsidian jasper
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You just transform

fossil raven
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Very much feels like your patron is being the power for you

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Or it can be flavoured that way

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Like you're temporarily sharing a body with them

obsidian jasper
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For example my character had it that the form of dread made it that basically all plants immediately withered

obsidian jasper
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But thx for the idea

fossil raven
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At the end of the day it's your character, but my tip for playing it is always to let the flavour lead the usage

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That Samurai for example, Fighting Spirit is a great feature but for Josef it's not just his force of will causing it

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It's his beer

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The world is your oyster

obsidian jasper
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lol

cosmic geyser
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He's not a samurai. He's just a raging alcoholic

fossil raven
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Exactly!

obsidian jasper
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Drunk fu

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With melee weapons

fossil raven
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And an amazing brewer too

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Actually he's a crossbow master lol

cosmic geyser
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As one should be

obsidian jasper
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This character seems familiar ngl

obsidian jasper
fossil raven
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Surprisingly well

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He's a bit of a combined armsman

cosmic geyser
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Ranged samurai is so good

fossil raven
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So he has a Heavy Crossbow, Hand Crossbow, Battleaxe and shield

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Medium armour, with a bit of an odd balance of stats (using point buy)

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+3 Dex and MAM, and +2 Strength

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I build my characters with a lvl 1 feat BTW

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And that's how I run games too

obsidian jasper
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HERESY

cosmic geyser
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Good tbh. They're both extremely overcentralising as player options

fossil raven
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Variant Humans get an extra one!

obsidian jasper
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Oh god

fossil raven
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And I'm not a fan of custom lineages personally

obsidian jasper
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Pole arm thing plus sentinel

obsidian jasper
fossil raven
obsidian jasper
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It lets me min max

fossil raven
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Pick a race and make it work, that's my philosophy

obsidian jasper
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Custom lineage makes me be able to look how I want and still get a feat

fossil raven
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If you've got a secondary ability increase from a subrace, you can switch that one around

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So Dwarves have their +2 Con, but Hills' +1 and Mountains' +2 can go to something else

obsidian jasper
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Mountains get a shit ton of stats

cosmic geyser
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Even if you use the Lineage option instead (assign stats as you see fit), Custom Lineage has like zero flavor (which is by design, since the point of Custom Lineage is really to make a character race option that is supposed to be different from everything else available to the player).

obsidian jasper
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Ye so I don’t really care for race flavour most of the time

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And there’s stuff like the reborn

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So I can still get flavour

fossil raven
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And that's something I really lean into

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The race flavour

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My current Dwarf really fucking hates Duergar for example

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And is distrusting of arcane magic and elves

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Clan Crafter background and a blacksmith, of course

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Helps that I have totally legally-acquired PDFs of every lore-centric sourcebook and then some others

cosmic geyser
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WotC are sending Pinkertons to your location

fossil raven
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Listen, the books'll be outdated before they can catch me

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So all good

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And they ain't MTG cards

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But yeah I really lean into whatever race it is I'm playing

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Sometimes to the point of stereotype, on the surface

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The only race I don't do that with is humans because they're generally described as having muuuch broader spectrum of cultures due to their short lifespan

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I also try not to make many special snowflakes, and if they are in some way special it'll often (hopefully) be counterbalanced by intense tragedy

trail ferry
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what if i made like a magi tech digital dungeon

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and the treasure is in a pick up shaped like this

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the treasure is not actually the spinning fox even tho that would be pretty cool

dapper fulcrum
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sounds fun

sage vector
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Can the treasure be a spinning fox?

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Just spinning fox friend

modest echo
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plz

tepid crane
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If only foxes existed in my current setting

frail hull
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Why don't they? Just need cat like behavior in a dog like body. Got you a fox.

tepid crane
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They are a myth. Foxes aren’t real, or maybe they are and they erased themself from the world.

trail ferry
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In cheese's setting

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I'm special

tepid crane
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Or not real

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50/50

trail ferry
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Dragons arent real but they are special sort of wixelsSit

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I could be both

obsidian jasper
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Make foxes eldritch beings

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Like they shouldn’t exist

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Yet they look like they kinda should

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And if a player makes an insight roll and succeeds they see what it actually is

cosmic geyser
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Just have characters pull up a random animal and be like “Is this a fox?”

trail ferry
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vicksyPoint 🐸

fossil raven
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I persuaded my GM to introduce morale checks for when a big enemy force gets cut down enough

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so 20 goblins just skedaddled

tepid crane
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It’s fun when enemies are more then statblocks with legs

obsidian jasper
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I love being a warlock, goblins running away thinking they’re safe and getting hit after running like 90 feet

arctic yew
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I was thinkign of making a grung monk and naming him after the sound he makes when he runs

i had it all done,until i said "plap plap the toad" outloud and realized that would be a bad idea

dapper fulcrum
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Unsensible chuckle

craggy cloak
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the "say it out loud" rule saved another soul

arctic yew
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welp
uh
all of my players have been flying raijin'd

so i can just spring that whenever i want

proud osprey
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man i wanna play some d&d rn

proud osprey
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some politics or some shit in there

obsidian jasper
tepid crane
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Drunk message I’m guessing

fossil raven
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or a political intrigue-type campaign

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those are fun

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well, can be

tepid crane
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everyone loves a ASIOF noble bickering campaign

proud osprey
tepid crane
# proud osprey Excuse Me

My bad I just figured when you sent two really vague and personal messages that confused people I offered what I thought it was.

proud osprey
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i think i fell asleep

craggy cloak
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These are neat

modest echo
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Yooooo

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Is this a starter box of some kind?

craggy cloak
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Official wotc education set for Stormwreck Isle

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The art is so cute

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Back for example

modest echo
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That's really really nice

craggy cloak
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Yeah i love it

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These teens rule

obsidian jasper
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Why do people my age do this

sand hornet
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Because it's funny

obsidian jasper
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Alr

craggy cloak
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Its very funny

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I loved it

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The story tracker is so nice

modest echo
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Oh that's good

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I need that for Chuubo's

proud osprey
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anybody down for some #political d&d

stone hollow
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i really wanna make a homebrew fighter that gets a really big cannon

craggy cloak
obsidian jasper
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How would you guys make a character that doesn’t die bc of regeneration but it isn’t like overpowered?

modest echo
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Put them in a party where nobody else dies either

smoky notch
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make them an NPC

slender nexus
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But in general that's a difficult thing to do, because HP is the resource that defines combat, so making something that gives you infinite is very prone to balance issues

modest echo
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My first instinct would be that they can "die" but it only lasts for a long rest

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That keeps HP very relevant on the scale of a single combat and adventuring day

slender nexus
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Maybe a Barbarian that regains some amount of HP at the end of their next turn if they go to 0 or die while raging (with a clause to prevent the rage from ending), since they are the class that gets such features

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Infringes a bit on Zealot, but that's not the end of the world

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And again means that HP remains relevant between encounters

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Could probably even give them some regen on Rage, since it is a limited resource, though I'd be wary of that given how tanky Barbs are already

tepid crane
craggy cloak
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Revenant

obsidian jasper
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Alr thx everyone for your ideas

obsidian jasper
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Anyone here got an idea how to make a character with the same feel as this picture, please tell me if it’s very edgy btw
Cw for a nasty wound

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obsidian jasper
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They’re like kinda immortal like they can be temporarily disabled

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But after some time they’re back

dapper fulcrum
obsidian jasper
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Do barbarians scale into late game?

dapper fulcrum
obsidian jasper
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Actually no

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It’s fine like that

dapper fulcrum
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its Not

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but you have to live with it
5e is just kind of Like That so you hope that your DM is generous

obsidian jasper
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I’m playing wizards and warlocks most often

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Or paladins so I have never suffered

dapper fulcrum
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the OneDnD version of Conjure Minor Elementals is a travesty

obsidian jasper
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Why?

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I ain’t playing OneDND until the people I play with actually also look into it

dapper fulcrum
# obsidian jasper Why?

4th level spell, as an action to cast
all attacks that hit a target deal an extra +2d8 (NOT once per turn), +1d8 per spell level above the 4th

it scales better than spirit shroud and deals a ridiculous amount of damage at higher tiers with stuff like Eldritch Blast, or if paired with extra attacks

smoky notch
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she got attacked by a big wolf one day

final phoenix
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A recent swords comic had made me want to make a stat block and develop out the idea of an Entaur

obsidian jasper
proud osprey
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anybody got any selling points for new 5e

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like anything notable or cool that it does on the mechanical level

tepid crane
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Idk

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Base building rules that are actually usable?

dapper fulcrum
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wait for real?

tepid crane
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Something about making a fortress and you have a list of rooms/buildings you can make that give you a bonus or effect

dapper fulcrum
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hmmmm

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nice

tepid crane
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Might be fun to do a “mines of moria” styled dwarven restoration campaign

frail hull
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Weapon proficencies that martials can use?

normal crow
# proud osprey anybody got any selling points for new 5e

The rules are more solid, overall, without feeling like a whole new edition. It's also beautifully illustrated.

BUT

If you don't want to spend on a new PHB and don't mind the lack of art, its text will supposedly be released as Creative Commons at some point next year.

obsidian jasper
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I like that you can transfer stuff over

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Although everyone getting a feat at lvl 1 is eh bc I’m a custom lineage enjoyer so it doesn’t give me much

dapper fulcrum
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the feats being divided into general utility and combat feats are a nice touch

obsidian jasper
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What exactly does that change (sorry I haven’t looked into it very much yet only on a basic level)

dapper fulcrum
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you can get a lot of free feats via stuff like warlock invocs and backgrounds
but those free stuff is isually the utility feats

obsidian jasper
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Yall think I could pull of a megumi and mahoraga build with a friend?

proud osprey
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i’m not hearing a lot of 5.5 selling

smoky notch
obsidian jasper
tepid crane
obsidian jasper
smoky notch
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depends on the story behind it i suppose, or how your character acts/looks

tepid crane
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I don’t know if dnd is the right game to play jjk inspired stuff in

obsidian jasper
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I just like dark character development

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I just realised all my characters are getting darker and darker

cosmic geyser
# proud osprey i’m not hearing a lot of 5.5 selling

I mean, what Anatole’s said generally checks out. There isn’t really much to sell 5.5e on outside of “we “fixed” a couple of class/spell/rule issues.” Also we only have the new PHB to go off of, so it’d probably be better to wait until the new DMG/MM comes out (which is also when the free version of the rules should be coming out as well)

obsidian jasper
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I just realised my newest character is a child with a darker backstory than most of my other characters

cosmic geyser
dapper fulcrum
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i like the customized form they ha

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wait i just realize they didnt reprint aasimar in the latest book i heard

tepid crane
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I wonder if this is a result of critical role

dapper fulcrum
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critrole has customized goliaths?

pure elm
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But I thought it was in the new PHB still

dapper fulcrum
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i mean the

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uhh

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the UA animal-headed asmir

pure elm
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Oh guardinals

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Yeah they didn't make it I believe

craggy cloak
tepid crane
dapper fulcrum
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please o famous dnd streams popularize a conan esque barbarian

modest echo
proud osprey
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thinking of running an additional game

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return to my old micro-macro format

normal crow
craggy cloak
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maybe a bit aggro lol

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anyways yeah new 5e stuff is like, use it if you want, its not gunna radically change your game

obsidian jasper
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what do you guys think of a character with two sheets, one for combat and one for rp?

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bc it's two seperate enteties

tepid crane
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Sounds a bit like powergaming

obsidian jasper
modest echo
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I wouldn't be opposed to it, but what does having two separate sheets accomplish for this?

obsidian jasper
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except like the mental stats

obsidian jasper
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bc one being is protecting the other

cosmic geyser
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Uh… why not have it be the one character sheet where one “character” handles combat while the other handles roleplay. Also, having two character sheets is too much info for me to parse through

modest echo
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instead of just assigning different stats/skills on the sheet to each of the two characters

obsidian jasper
craggy cloak
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Is there a reason the stats need to be different?

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From an entirely flavor point of view nothing stops you from doing this with a single sheet, so to speak

modest echo
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If you have two sheets it goes from " I'm playing a combo character" to "I'm playing two characters"

obsidian jasper
craggy cloak
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Yeah but can you just use One Stat Sheet for both

obsidian jasper
obsidian jasper
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so I can just say those parts apply to that character while the others to that

modest echo
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Exactly!

obsidian jasper
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alr

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thx

slender nexus
arctic yew
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We are

3 xp from next level

looks at the peasant crowd around us

Looks at my lawful good alignment

obsidian jasper
mellow rivet
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they're not worth any xp

tepid crane
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Rats are

mellow rivet
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oh, I'm wrong. They are

obsidian jasper
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alr

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I feel like my next character should go from neutral good to neutral evil

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Y'all what alignment would you give a 12-14 year old with the haunted one background

arctic yew
obsidian jasper
arctic yew
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The

The dm

obsidian jasper
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Why

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Seems perfectly fine to me

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My ass gets inspiration if I find a loophole like that

cosmic geyser
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Because that's metagaming

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The point of XP is that you gain XP from an encounter that is thrust upon the party

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So just going out and buying chickens to slaughter isn't an encounter. If anything, that would be the party abusing out-of-character knowledge

obsidian jasper
cosmic geyser
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Is it?

obsidian jasper
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Ye

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It’s a skill

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Imo

modest echo
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this is fun

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it's a legal (but weird and unintended) result of system-logic, with fictional implications that make some level of sense
so I think the most compelling argument against it is other players at the table saying "that sounds silly i don't want to deal with that" (instead of calling it metagaming specifically)

arctic yew
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This is exactly why I hate exp and exclusively do milestone

cosmic geyser
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Yeah same tbh

modest echo
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I've become disillusioned with milestone since seeing it done poorly but it's a valid model

cosmic geyser
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I can see that. Milestone really needs a good anchoring of "here is a spot story-wise where the party should level up." I just think using regular XP leads to the party having to do what feels like an absurd amount of encounters in order to get to higher levels of play. (Although... regular XP format could work for trying to run "low-power" games...)

tepid crane
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I do GP = XP. Good for directing players at tetnus covered ancient tombs full of monsters and money.

modest echo
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yeah milestone leveling produced a similar issue, i don't think we've leveled up for like a year. but because it's more aggressively GM dependent, i feel like the lows are lower

tepid crane
arctic yew
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Its just htat situations like this are too cmoon with xp

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"if i wanted to progress i shouldnt be actually doing quests,i should be wiping out towns"

modest echo
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That makes it a meaningful decision for your character, right? There's a lost opportunity in not becoming a bandit tribe, but the other things you're doing are more important to you

proud osprey
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i’m set

tepid crane
proud osprey
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anyway like i’m saying

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wanna do a micro macro thing

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who wants to potentially join the macro gang

tepid crane
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No idea what that means

proud osprey
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i.e.

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i have two irl groups rn, with colleagues and friends, they’re playing out some classic small scale adventures in my world

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i wanna run a game concurrently, set on a slightly higher stratum of my setting

tepid crane
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Oh that’s quite clever

proud osprey
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focusing on an ongoing broader issue

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like. there’s been this crusade just now

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consider: crusade follow up, with a strike team sent behind enemy lines

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etc

tepid crane
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Sadly I’ve tried to get some similar help when I was running Mausritter (I wanted to see if anyone cared to RP a noble and decide on decisions happening in the land)

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I got no bites myself and am too busy rn to help you I apologize

proud osprey
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reasonable and respectable. thank you for humouring the idea

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yeah idk i’d just like to have some sort of secret society shit going down

frail hull
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See, the problem is after the first or second level common villagers are grayed put so you don't get any XP from killing them.

tepid crane
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You don’t award xp for killing goblins once the party reaches high level?

frail hull
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Depends, but not per goblin. Maybe if there is a large amount or some sort of boss goblin.

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But I generally do goal post leveling, so just pointless killing dos t do anything. It's very similar to the Monty Cook system.

proud osprey
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huh

arctic yew
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🔫

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gun to your head

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name me 5

level 7 spells

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no looking it up

modest echo
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Planar binding

pure elm
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Force Cage

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Simulacrum

modest echo
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Summon Greater Lesser

frail hull
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Magic missle after i upcaste it

proud osprey
sand hornet
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Biden Blast

sage vector
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Resurrection

dapper fulcrum
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Simulacrum

sage vector
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That druid one about controlling the weather

proud osprey
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ah yes druid weather control

cosmic geyser
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Draconic Transformation

cosmic geyser
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Guys, I just got an idea for a character. What if I do a Giant Barbarian, but instead of raging they do an Ultraman henshin?

The alternative is Gridman, but instead of Giant Barbarian it’s Rune Knight Fighter

dapper fulcrum
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Yesss
Do it

Both my rune knight and giant barb have their giant forms flavored as mecha transformations

next canopy
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Zealot goliath that’s pretty chill when not raging

obsidian jasper
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A friend of mine is making a Goliath paladin and he said he wanted him to be a really kind guy that’s just like 8 feet tall

next canopy
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And if the gnom is tired you can carry them

proud osprey
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always had a bother with calendars

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thinking this new world has

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four “months”, as seasons, and those follow through the year for 365 days or whatever

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so winter-spring-summer-autumn-

sage vector
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it would be kinda funny if there was a calendar that never moved above days and you just have a constant uptick of days

proud osprey
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horrifying

sage vector
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"Oh yeah it's day 2,234,503"

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I kinda like the idea, people would have Big 0 parties

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every 10 days it would a kinda be common to treat yourself, every 100 days it's a holiday, every 1000 days it's a big holiday. And it just kinda grows the higher you get

cosmic geyser
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The big 1,000,000 is just a planet-wide celebration

sage vector
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Oh yeah Billions are... a problem. There's also people who do rituals around that time, or praise gods, and babies born on that day are considered to be exceptionally lucky

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Somehow royalty aaaalways seem to be born on the most recent Big 0 days. Totally not a fabrication to hold up the banner of ineffable right to rule.

proud osprey
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nightmarish

obsidian jasper
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Inverse calendar

sage vector
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Beaming these concepts directly into your brain

obsidian jasper
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Smaller number closer to the new year

frail hull
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A reverse Julian calander? Counting down to the death of the current year and hopefully rebirth of a new one.

proud osprey
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got session 1 on friday for one of my groups

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set in the sleepy village of setille

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tavern brawl opener

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anybody got any ideas for how to make this intro juicy

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haven’t ran a good “successful” d&d session in over a year so a lil rusty

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VERY rusty for me tbh

obsidian jasper
obsidian jasper
sage vector
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Hmmmmm. What's going to start the tavern brawl?

frail hull
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One of fighters gets dragged along the bar, and discovers some of the drinks are magical, the hard way

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Let the party have some light brawling, that ends with a dragon claw punching through the roof taking out the bar tender, then the whole building shudders as it launches off again.

sage vector
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You could have the tavern brawl collapse the floor and drop everyone into the basement, which is infested with a whole bunch of pests and horrid things, then maybe even have it collapse again, into a secret drug lab, then have it collapse again into a cult ritual chamber.

cosmic geyser
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One of the brawlers is a VIP like an adventuring veteran or a noble on the run.

…man, how am I supposed to top that?

sage vector
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:3

proud osprey
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okay lemme recontextualise

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tavern brawl:

  • some recent crusaders, hanging out at the bar, are getting a bit lairy with the locals and the staff, and eventually draw steel and fight the party
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part of the knights mendicant

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  • pretty standard relatively small town of setille in “fantasy france”, mollebranque. party have just met
sage vector
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One of the knights, who was exceptionally drunk, actually turned out to be someone very important's son, and now the players have basically pissed off a very powerful person.

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Alternatively, the ruckus causes a bunch of penned animals at the back of the inn (the place has their own pigs or sheep for food and such) to stampede and suddenly you have stampeding animals in the middle of a bar fight

proud osprey
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i like the essence of both of these

frail hull
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So why does the party jump in if the veterans attack the locals?

sage vector
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Both can certainly happen at once

proud osprey
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because the crusaders are a bunch of thugs who have gone a lil bandit after the war

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  1. this will have consequences, though it’s overridden as after the bar fight i’ll introduce a different character of high standing
  2. spooks the animals, they scamper off, players can wrangle them during the next in-game day or during the night
frail hull
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I mean, do they target the players as well, or is there a reason they would want to get involved other then being good guys?

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I guess what I'm asking, is what happens if the players don't decide to get involved?

proud osprey
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they target the players as well

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it’s a dwarf, a wood elf, another wood elf, and a dragonborn, and a bunch of humans

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so the humans are gonna get fantasy racist at them, especially the dragon man

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and the other party member is a human paladin who has been informed to keep the peace in the tavern

frail hull
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Awesome. Could also have these guys have small bounties on them, or have them be part of a larger band that is camped nearby, get an early plot hook in.

proud osprey
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not explicitly the tavern just keep the peace

sage vector
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I love animal rampages they're actually a horror to deal with

proud osprey
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oh i like that. been looking for something for the players to do in town before they head to the big city

sage vector
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a herd of sheep slamming through the back door and immediately causing issues is very good

frail hull
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Mandatory " wool over eyes" joke if the sheep get used as improvised weapons.

sage vector
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Honestly I'd just run them as a moving hazard that either randomly stampedes around the tavern and tramples anything it runs over or can be directed with animal speech or relevent animal skills

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It also makes wonderful moments of "do you remember that time a the barbarian was just BODIED by sheep"

proud osprey
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i think i’ll leave the sheep stampede situation for another thing

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i like the bandit angle

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“[someone]’s crusaders”

sage vector
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yee

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animalbs good

proud osprey
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troo

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okay so bandit shit

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whatre the bandits up to. there’s a big festival with a big tournament coming up in mollebourg, the second largest city in the empire, and it has a mighty prize. they’re probably trying to win big there. or heist big?

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where abouts are the bandits hiding out nearby? a cave? a ruin? small village?

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campsite?

sage vector
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Hmmmmm...

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how industrial is this world?

proud osprey
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modelled the current area after the HRE

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so

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early second millennium vibe

sage vector
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May I suggest an abandoned series of mills or graineries?

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For one, out of the way and unoccupied for the most part

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for two, if there's still flour around...

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boom

proud osprey
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explain boom

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milling village good

frail hull
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I'd say planning to rob the winner, if they are known as villans probably could not enter.

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Boom prob refers to the fact that loose flour is very combustible

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Exspecilly if it's floating around in the air, say due to Melle fights in the mill

proud osprey
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ooh okay

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me likey

frail hull
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It also give the boss of the group a cinematic escape once the PCs defeat the goons. Have them break open a big container of flour and run away in the ensuing smoke cloud.

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Now you have 1. A recurring villan. 2. Something to send the party to do and 3. An in with a local noble when they turn in the bounties/ return the reward, etc.

sage vector
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Yeah, floating flour is incredibly combustible

proud osprey
sage vector
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The original fireball

tepid crane
proud osprey
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D:

proud osprey
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keen for friday’s session :3

obsidian jasper
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Yall what default alignment would you give a person with the haunted one background?

frail hull
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Lawfully good. Every time they try to do evil the thing haunting them makes them choose the correct path.

obsidian jasper
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What if the shit haunting them is still with them

obsidian jasper
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The event or being

frail hull
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That's what I meant, whatever it was is either actively keeping them good, or the memory of it is driving them in that direction.

obsidian jasper
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I feel like if something bad happened you’re kinda in a dazed state for some time

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But this is just an assumption

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Please correct me

frail hull
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Being fazed is fine, but you asked about alignment, which is much more long term. So if the event is that close in the past, it either has no effect, or is so world shattering that the person is forever changed. But that change takes a while to come out most cases, so they should still be close to what they started as. ..in.my experiences.

obsidian jasper
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Alr

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I mean good make sense to me

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Or neutral

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Or even evil depending on the thing

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Maybe I just look at lawful good as like you don’t do anything wrong or even slightly neutral

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Which it isn’t iirc

modest echo
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correct

proud osprey
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ayo

obsidian jasper
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Alr I think I’ll make my character neutral good then

proud osprey
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patron of the party and lady of the clergy, lissoria helion, is en route to mollebourg, has religious business in setille at the abbey there, how long should i give the players to prat around the town before she needs to head off with them as her new escort after hiring them on after the bar brawl

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needs to be long enough to do some basic low level questing and get up to some town antics

obsidian jasper
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So like days?

tepid crane
proud osprey
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how many days

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we use the term fortnight here all the time

tepid crane
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14

proud osprey
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that ain’t medieval

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it’s just two weeks

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two weeks is too long

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the summer festival is in two weeks

frail hull
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A tenday

proud osprey
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lower

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not even a whole week

cosmic geyser
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Two days, maybe?

frail hull
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Are you specificly trying to add a bitnof a time crunch, or is that just when it's been planned?

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Also, how long will it take to get there?

proud osprey
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it’s a day’s ride

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i want them to feel a little time pressure to do any sort of “local questing”

frail hull
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Okay, so assuming a day of prep on both ends, that's still a week and a half dead time. So I would have her yell them she leaves in about a week or so. Give them time to run around and get lost if needed before they set off. But not so long they go broke staying at the inn.

proud osprey
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a week still seems big

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maybe four days?

frail hull
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Could work, does this lady need to do anything in the big city before the tournament?

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Note, unless it involves the players, it need not be specific, just generic work she has to do at a shrine could be justifiable to the players.

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So when they ask what the rush is, you have an answer ready.

proud osprey
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lady in question is expected at the manse of a local noble

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the duke of mollebranque himself in fact

frail hull
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Good reason.

proud osprey
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probably a bit more than a manse. a palace

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and the emperor will be in attendance

frail hull
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Okay, whatever you do, do not let the PCs into that building.

obsidian jasper
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Can a character go from neutral good to true neutral?

frail hull
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In fact, I would have someone from the Duke ready to escort her at the gate, with directions to the party to stay elsewhere.

frail hull
obsidian jasper
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So like my current characters a child at the start (the one I’m building) bc I often have to make adult characters

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Which kinda sucks cuz I don’t know how it feels to be an adult, anyway

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I thought person goes from neutral good to neutral with a hint of neutral evil

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Bc realising the world isn’t all sunshine and rainbow or black and white

proud osprey
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fuck that

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campaign suicide

frail hull
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😂

proud osprey
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setting suicide even. the other party will hear about that

proud osprey
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and the party will end up having to stay in an inn somewhere

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need to lock in those bandits

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need a name for their leader

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also. need to figure out the exact numbers and kit for the ones in the tavern

cosmic geyser
# obsidian jasper Bc realising the world isn’t all sunshine and rainbow or black and white

Some food for thought: What are some possible events that would kickstart this change in worldview? What type of company is your character surrounded by, including their life before adventuring as well as the people they’re adventuring with now? Because just seeing that the world isn’t so black and white is just as likely to reinforce someone’s innate beliefs as it is to cause someone’s beliefs to change for better or for worse. This is all really something to keep on the back-burner as you play as the character, because you’ll never really know how the story will play out.

obsidian jasper
# cosmic geyser Some food for thought: What are some possible events that would kickstart this c...

So before that I know the cause for the character being haunted is a being “protecting” him
I’m probably gonna play this character in a campaign with a friend, the whole part except maybe the edgy rogue are very nice, the character my friend would play would be this giant Goliath who’s really nice with the character.
The character has two sets of stats (remember yesterday?)
One for the kid and the other for the being protecting him
The thing basically always reacts with violence when something is endangering the boy

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World view would change bc growing up and

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The child probably has or had parents or a home that cared for him

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In the campaigns I’m playing atm the enemies are basically never humans or humanoids

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So if this character sees actual humans or humanoids getting hurt it’s most likely something else

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Also, companions getting hurt or even killed, although they didn’t do anything bad

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…

frail hull
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So the child grew up with an unseen protected that kept the monsters away and a friendly giant? Honestly sounds like the kid would grow up very nieve of the world.

cosmic geyser
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No, the current party includes a friendly giant. But yeah, I think your character would be pretty naive. So it’s something to keep in mind, especially as they grow closer with the rest of the party. Because if they get closer to a specific party member in particular, that party member could also affect your character’s outlook later on in life.

obsidian jasper
obsidian jasper
frail hull
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Seen all the time or only when needed?

obsidian jasper
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Only when shit happens

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But it’s a physical entity

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But it’s always there

frail hull
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Will you play as the kid and become an adult in a few levels? Or only as an adult?

obsidian jasper
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Playing adults is boring

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Imo

frail hull
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alright, then I wouldn't worry about changing alignment, just play what you feel the kid would be at now. Going over what you have said, I would say start at CG, and see how they develope through gameplay.

frail hull
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I think I am going to try to work in some monsters from Flee Mortals. Has anyone had any advice either positive or negative?

proud osprey
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coming up with some homebrew rules to try at my table

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keen to try and slowly integrate a modular armour system of some kind once the ball is rolling with this new group. with the advent of a new half edition, and knowing that i’m largely surrounded by people who want to play explicitly d&d, i’m gonna start homebrewing 5th until it’s functionally my own and i can just run d&d with that forever and play other games with those more inclined

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always wanted to split armour and evasion somehow

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so gonna try and figure out a way for that to work better with this group, since they trust me and i trust them

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the issue with splitting armour in 5e is largely just that some classes play with that already (monk and barb) and i don’t wanna hamper them

tepid crane
proud osprey
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isn’t it

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also wanna do some stuff like

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make it so plate is good against stuff like slashing, piercing, but bad against fire and bludgeoning and lightning

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but again, we shall see

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have worked out an exp calculator inspired by fire emblem

tepid crane
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Damage types should be way more useful right

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I find in 5e the only distinction is magical vs non-magical

proud osprey
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legit

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i did something a few years ago but my laptop died with that info

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where i had a lot more meaningful damage weaknesses

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anything with fur was more flammable, plant creatures were weak to slashing

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applied some basic pokémon logic to the whole thing

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open offer still stands to anybody who wants to continue the war in the south

tepid crane
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Sadly I’m still unable

proud osprey
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i know

arctic yew
cosmic geyser
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My current Paladin is basically a Belmont

proud osprey
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do i become completely criminally insane and make there be six moons in the sky of my world

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or am i taking things a little too far

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no six is preposterous. two

dapper fulcrum
modest echo
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based

proud osprey
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whoa

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nah i dont need to

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diminishes what im gonna do

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:3

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homebrewing continues

craggy cloak
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3 moons

slender nexus
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Split the difference, two moons each of which has two moons of their own

obsidian jasper
cold cloak
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Eberron had 13 moons, then the Giants blew one up.
Lycanthropy is a problem there due to the fact that there's frequently at least one full moon.

obsidian jasper
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Is there a mechanic or spell that lets you remove an enemy and yourself from combat so you basically have a 1v1?

dapper fulcrum
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not in dnd no

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Demiplane if you can grab them

cosmic geyser
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So there’s demiplane, but that’s an 8th level spell and it’s more about making a pocket dimension

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There’s compelled duel, but that doesn’t have the “remove an enemy and yourself” aspect

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I was going to mention banishment, but that’s just “remove your enemy from combat”

obsidian jasper
cosmic geyser
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Not really. Banishment is very literal as far as spells are concerned. Demiplane would be better for domain expansion, but that’s an 8th level spell

mellow rivet
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add an upcast to Compelled Duel

obsidian jasper
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Next time I play dnd I’ll say

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I CAST GUN

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and see what the dm does

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He was fine with my idea of a goblin with a taser

dapper fulcrum
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cage match

obsidian jasper
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Interesting

cosmic geyser
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Is it big enough to fit two people?

dapper fulcrum
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20ft

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yes

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20ft cube

cosmic geyser
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Oh pfft yeah wall of force is good

obsidian jasper
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What if you wall of force something in the sky?

dapper fulcrum
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they in a box

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until you lose conc

obsidian jasper
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Could I wall of force an enemy standing in terrain that deals damage?

dapper fulcrum
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im not sure what you mean

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please elaborate

mellow rivet
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yeah, you could hold an action to make a wall of force dome when someone steps onto a spicy floor

dapper fulcrum
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yea thats doable

obsidian jasper
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Alr

tepid crane
proud osprey
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called the twilight cascade

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when everything aligns cosmically and hell on earth is unleashed

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d&d tomorrow

tepid crane
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Sounds cool

proud osprey
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doesn’t it

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but for now i’m concerned only with tomorrow’s game

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for which i’m very excited

tepid crane
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Will there be jousts?

proud osprey
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no tournament isn’t for a few sessions

obsidian jasper
proud osprey
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so plan rn:

  • Setille arc: brief, probably absolute maximum 3 session, possibly just 1, set in the small walled town of Setille. the party form after a bar brawl that leaves them in the employ of a notable clergy woman who has religious business in town and political business in Mollebourg.
  • Mollebourg arc: several sessions, covering a tournament storyline, as well as broader big city politicking and other gameplay unique to such a setting, with all the fun and games of a festival woven between.
  • see where it goes? war? assassination? hired by mercenaries? involved in criminal enterprise? who’s to say
proud osprey
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the moons of Carn and Inia

tepid crane
proud osprey
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plot hooks we’ve got

  • that some of the livestock were spooked/maybe rustled the night of the game’s start, players go help
  • bandit group had to come from somewhere, players can seek them out and thwart them
  • ???
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need one other low level hook for some easy fun work for the partay

tepid crane
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Maybe some sort of magical hunt/gathering

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Like for potion supplies

obsidian jasper
proud osprey
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okay maybe i’ll tie that in to the bandit situ

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maybe a patron family of the local abbey at which the party’s own patron is staying had their son or daughter go missing

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okay i like that

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Lissoria Helion, patron of the abbey, has business. her escort, the mysterious paladin known as “Anwir Snow” is staying at the tavern with the party, while she is housed by the local abbot. she asks the party to report to her the following morning, and that morning this noble family show up seeking aid from the abbey as representatives of the authority structures of the town

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players happen to be around, get lumped with the task

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noble child last seen at a river crossing

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a ways out of town

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weather on the first day: calm but breezy summer evening
weather on the second day: dreary rumbling thunder after long heat, a hot downpour
weather on the third day: less grim, but cool from the rain
weather on the fourth day: the storm breaks, sunny, rainbow
weather on the fifth day: blue sky and soft white clouds

tepid crane
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But why was the kidnapping

proud osprey
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i’m thinking he maybe joined up? act of youthful rebellion?

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also, rich noble

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ransom otherwise

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well. rob and ransom

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maybe there’s a stagecoach off to the side in the woods, signs of clear struggle

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good lead for the party

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no rangers, but wood elves, a druid, and a barbarian

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so forested terrain could be easy to navigate

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or maybe bandits come to “clean up”, party can capture one and interrogate

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i like that actually

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mounted bandits as well

frail hull
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you mentioned that they used to be crusaders, maybe the bandits old order comes into play somehow?

proud osprey
frail hull
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not sure, was thinking maybe they kidnapped the child of someone higher up in the order to get revenge or something? Reason they are appearing now is they were tracking that person.

proud osprey
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i think this is more just opportunistic banditry to make some money and support their general banditry

tepid crane
proud osprey
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not a prince

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just some young lordling

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back to his family

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count whoever’s son

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Count uhhh

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something french sounding

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Count Marius Renault

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Amos Renault - captured son

proud osprey
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added in some 4th edition racial traits to my 5th edition characters

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because i think they’re good and flavourful and make the species more differentiated rather than just by ability scores/sizes/movement speed and some proriciencies

proud osprey
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juicier

proud osprey
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also gonna cannibalise PF1 since i’ve got the rulebook here

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and maybe even WFRP since i’ve got the rulebook jere also

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and third e-

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etc you get the picture

fossil raven
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crit tally: 8

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now, to be fair I have a weapon that makes me crit on 19s

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but 5 of them were nat 20s

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that's 4d8+4d6 damage once per turn if I crit

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boom

cosmic geyser
proud osprey
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love more crits

fossil raven
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so to this one Orc boss alone, I rolled upwards of 400 damage

proud osprey
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holy fucking shit

fossil raven
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he had a rage-like feature

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so from 232 health, only 44 of the damage went non-resisted

proud osprey
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that is in fact a lot of damage

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i like the idea of giving rages to fun martial bosses

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do i give my bandit leaders rage?

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for tomorrow’s session at least

cosmic geyser
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Maybe if they're like a major boss in the organization?

proud osprey
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Garrick

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he’s notable

fossil raven
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to be fair I've been hasted for most of this

proud osprey
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a lieutenant in harken’s crusaders

cosmic geyser
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Yeah, I'd say that could work. Just keep in mind that rage will make him a little bit bulkier than normal, so it might change the overall balance a little bit

proud osprey
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hmm

fossil raven
# fossil raven that's 4d8+4d6 damage once per turn if I crit

Hunter Ranger, with Dual Wielder for two (twinned and magical) battleaxes that let me crit on nat 19s
my base damage is 1d8+1d6+5 when I have Hunter's Mark up which is basically all the time
Colossus Slayer and Favoured Foe give me another 1d8+1d6 once per turn

frail hull
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might be a mid-fight ability instead of at the beginning, so once he is bloodied he flys into a rage for a turn or two

fossil raven
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aye that seems reasonable

cosmic geyser
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That sounds good

proud osprey
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i’m gonna give him reckless from berserker

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idk about rage

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gave the bandit leader a reaction to command a bandit who just went down to get back up to 1 hp and take an attack if capable of doing so

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that sounds fun right? makes combat a bit more dynamic

modest echo
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I like it

proud osprey
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gonna put a bounty on the members of the harken crusaders

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better incentivise players to pursue this subplot

proud osprey
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and have the currency system in the game world be silver based, with copper as pennies, sort of, and silver as “dollars” or equivalent called a crown

tepid crane
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Silver based is cool

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I feel like gold is too big and fancy to be the staple currency

proud osprey
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legit

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and like

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it works

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love writing about tavern food

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make the whole place feel lived in

tepid crane
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regional foods and other cultural items are always fun to worldbuild

proud osprey
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this is pretty standard tbh

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like stew and roast meats and veggies, breads and fruits and nuts, ales and mead and cider and wines and rum, eggs and bacon and porridge for breakfast

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white peope food, that good kind

frail hull
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no fried halfling fingers?

proud osprey
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mean!

frail hull
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its in the offical cookbook 🙂

proud osprey
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yeah but wotc is lame

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im cool B)

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weve got a roast suckling pig on a spit, and a stew bubbling away in a pot

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a laaaarge cast iron sheet pan of vegetables slowly caramelising together

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man im so keen for tomorrow

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so excited to run

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looong time since i got to start a new game with a new group even though i've played with 2/5 of these people before

frail hull
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man, it seems a shame that tommorows special of roast muttin is going to have to be cancled after all the sheep get out of the pens.

proud osprey
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im not so sure about the cattle rustling anymore, at least not at the inn

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instead, probably something the players can do in their four days

frail hull
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ah

proud osprey
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but think it will also revolve around this bandit crew

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to keep things consistent

tepid crane
proud osprey
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:0 nice

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i like the idea of +1 con save beef stew

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i’ll slowly bleed that in

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i think someone has cooks tools too as a proficiency, so definitely wanna include that and other tool proficiencies as viable mechanical components of the game

proud osprey
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thinking of pivoting that the party will have a friendly local badass NPC every new town they go to

sage vector
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I love having characters who know how to cook

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I feel like every character should have some piece of art or skill or something that isn't just adventuring

proud osprey
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exactly

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i really wanna run some like

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classic outdoorsy shit

sage vector
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One of my favourite builds is making a dwarf artificer guild artisan

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who just gets all the fricking tool skills

proud osprey
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that isn’t strictly to kill a monster or fight bandits or find a dungeon, but maybe just to go hunting, or fishing, or climbing, or painting

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nice

sage vector
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I remember I had one before who was a golem crafter as like his basic job

proud osprey
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oo

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that’s cute

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maaaan i’m so keen for tomorrow!!!! one more sleeep till christmas energy

sage vector
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So had clay sculpting, stone work, calligraphy, and brought his own Golem along as an artificer

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I think he also had painting because who doesn't like a painted golem?

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It was a westmarches game and I also played his wife, who was a Mastermind rogue and all HER skills were potions, poisons and herbalism. So between the two of them they were quite the power couple.

proud osprey
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skill monkey zoo

sage vector
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I am a big fan of having skills

arctic yew
proud osprey
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a ring is some cool ass flavour

arctic yew
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Thanks salamene,you insane woman for blowing up the moon

slender nexus
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Bonus points if the ring's haunted

arctic yew
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Uh

Does the ghost of the moon goddess that was murdered when it blew up count

slender nexus
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Sure!

obsidian jasper
frail hull
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When the sorricer takes lvls in bard

trail ferry
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tell me about puzzles you liked

obsidian jasper
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Dm put me in a room

proud osprey
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so:

  • tavern start
  • bandits cause a brawl
  • local law comes to arrest everyone
  • lady of the church absolves the party
  • room to roam
obsidian jasper
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Or all of the part members

obsidian jasper
proud osprey
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am i good to go for session 1 of this new campaign

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is 5 bandits enough

obsidian jasper
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We had to do a challenge based on the stat we chose

proud osprey
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(1 captain, 1 thug, with toned down HP and altered AC)

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3 other bandits

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all with individualised gear

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are we gonna be okay lads

obsidian jasper
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Mine was strength, machine was an arm wrestling machine
First I wanted to see what happens if you just try wrestling it, then when I failed I just destroyed it bc it said strength can be used in more than one way

trail ferry
trail ferry
obsidian jasper
proud osprey
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yeah

trail ferry
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you could always have the lads run away if their boss dies vicksyAww

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but i think 5 is a good amount

proud osprey
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they will start to flee

dapper fulcrum
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Yea

proud osprey
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they will also start to bail on turn 6, as that’s when the law shows up

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with crossbows

obsidian jasper
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You could make it so they trapped the whole forest

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That would be funny imo

trail ferry
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i think ur good harry

dapper fulcrum
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My lancer brain demands that if you use a map use a lot of cover

trail ferry
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if by some disasters the bandits roll likr 6 crits in a row

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just have the law show up earlier

frail hull
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Do you plan on having g them draw weapons?

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Or just fists?

proud osprey
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it’s a discord session, but in future i’ll be using terrain and minis when in person and there’s always cover there because i use lego and people are always drawn to touch the fun things

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it’s drawing weapons once the players antagonise back sufficiently

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one guy has spiked gauntlets on

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another has high strength

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i think we’re good lads

frail hull
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Sounds good

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Well, at least until oneof the players refuses to be arrested, but we can burn that bridge when we get to it.

obsidian jasper
proud osprey
obsidian jasper
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Don’t let the Bard seduce anything though

proud osprey
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i don’t think i have to worry about that

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for once

frail hull
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A straight faced bard van be one of the most satisfying, and frustrating characters to manage.

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At least that's what my dm kept telling me 😂

tepid crane
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I would give the meme bard many diseases

proud osprey
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my druid player changed his motivation, he needs to find an alchemist to help cure a plague spreading through his home forest

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so he is travelling far and wide

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to help save his tribe

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badass

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meanwhile, bard was cursed by a witch or something, and was forced to slay his band to regain the power of music

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paladin is a returning crusader under a fake name turned to mercenary work

obsidian jasper
proud osprey
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the monk was raised by a tribe of kinda savage elder scroll esque elves who are kinda brutal

obsidian jasper
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Man my characters are like all super selfish or neutral compared to this

proud osprey
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grew bored and head out

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then there’s leonard

obsidian jasper
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Wanna hear about my paladin?

proud osprey
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he’s a dwarf. heard there’s a tourney happening with a big prize and wants to head down there

obsidian jasper
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And the character I’m currently making?

proud osprey
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idk the bard, monk, barbarian, and paladin are mostly pretty selfish

frail hull
obsidian jasper
proud osprey
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yes sorry

frail hull
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Just saying, could be a good reason to get picked on by the bandits. " look, it's little Timmy, went from polishing my shoes to just polishing himself" or something equally dumb.

obsidian jasper
frail hull
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No.

obsidian jasper
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Man I seriously need to start reading

frail hull
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I belive the second sentence was to you about your character

tepid crane
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What is the best mount in dnd

proud osprey
tepid crane
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I’m thinking dragon

proud osprey
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got the paladin set - red dragon - in a booth alone and separate from the rest

obsidian jasper
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So my paladins whole philosophy is to eat his enemies

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To take their power

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And grow stronger

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His name is skoll

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Bc of the wolf that will eat the sun

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He’s also not dumb

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And his patron is a neutral one

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Based on ||blood, death, eating your enemies and war|| cw for a things that come with war n stuff

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And blood

proud osprey
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gnarly

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i’m reminded of those shitposts

tepid crane
obsidian jasper
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the enemies I mean

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couldn't eat a single one of them

worthy plank
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Zentha, Half-Elf Arcana Cleric/Monk of Eilistraee

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proud osprey
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nice

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reading up on my player’s abilities and spells

obsidian jasper
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y'all I need advice

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got the green light for the child character

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should I make it's guardian more monstorous or humanoid?

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inspirations are rika and sukuna

worthy plank
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"Those guys over there are gonna watch me kick your ass."

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tepid crane
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That’s a lot of belts

worthy plank
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it do be four belts lol

trail ferry
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sword

tepid crane
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What class

worthy plank
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character for a Humblewood game my cousin's fiance is theoretically running

proud osprey
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wow! excellent session!!!

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about three and a half hours, tavern brawl was a huge success, got some good NPCs in there with the innkeeper at the tavern they got stuck at after seeing as the original became a crime scene

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got a good plot hook for session 2, and laid the groundwork for this arc where they head to the big city

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and take part in the summer festivities there

modest echo
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🥳🥳

proud osprey
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very keen on this group and this new campaign

worthy plank
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nice

proud osprey
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two of the five bandits survived and things got pretty close there in the tavern

worthy plank
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what's the group's characters?

proud osprey
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so it’ll be fun to see those bandits show back up

  • milo, whose sister died in the fight
  • brask ironjaw, who became the biggest threat at that table save for maybe garrick, the leader who now lays dead in a cart by the town’s sheriff’s office
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will definitely make brask and milo into mini-bosses, even though milo is just a lowly cr1/8 bandit

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aaaaa so excited! that went so good

proud osprey
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good crew

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that monk/barb/paladin combo hits like a truck

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and with the other two running magical interference they’re set

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edgar almost killed everyone with a thunderwave, but it sealed the bandits’ fate

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got two strong leads for next session, leading them towards the abandoned milling village of crusoe:

  • nobleman, count marius renault, whose son has gone missing near there
  • a note on garrick’s corpse read “garrick. meet at the milling village this weekend. we have much to discuss.” signed by “H”
worthy plank
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post some kitbash additions

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proud osprey
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eats this mini

worthy plank
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lol

proud osprey
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crunchy :3

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still feeling very energised

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wanna prep the next chapter in this campaign

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the milling village of crusoe

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we’ve got bosses:

  • BRASK IRONJAW / REMATCH
  • MILO VOSS / REMATCH
  • ELIAS HARKEN: LEADER OF THE HARKEN CRUSADERS
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the mill village raid will be kind of a big deal i think, so i need to think of ways to make it doable for the players

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they also have to potentially rescue Amos Renault

proud osprey
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gonna give mollebourg some dragons

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fuck it

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why not

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were getting fantastical in this bitch

worthy plank
proud osprey
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kicking ass

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and

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butt

worthy plank
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lol

proud osprey
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simultaneously

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im making a map for next session in case the party choose to buy a map

worthy plank
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lol nice

proud osprey
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i’m also reading about dragons

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also! two of my players are such good rpers?? so seamless

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and i’ve got the other three pegged too, one being a little bit more of the older brother backseat gaming to help the newbies vibes, and the new guy clearly wanting some cool badass character moments, and the player for the dwarf being a good inquisitive player who kinda reads her sheet for the details, the random equipment she had, the feats that might be most useful

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had so much FUN man 😭

worthy plank
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I'm glad you had so much fun!

frail hull
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Same

proud osprey
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slapped

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very keen

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idk just felt very neat and tidy

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wrapped up tightly in a neat little bow

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perfect episodic little session, a party formed around a common goal

proud osprey
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i must plan

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and scheme

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mill battle, the party should be able to hire help, there should be flammable dry flour in the air

trail ferry
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Reward them with some cheese

proud osprey
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okay. milling village: crusoe. abandoned for some years now due to flooding from the ille river. recently occupied by bandits known as the harken crusaders, led by elias harken and a mysterious tiefling woman

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among there numbers are the two escaped bandits from the previous evening at the tavern: brask ironjaw, a hired mercenary with little left to lose, and milo voss, whose sister was slain in the proceedings

obsidian jasper
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my DND character just had the biggest character development ever

proud osprey
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what went down

obsidian jasper
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I sacrificed my hp to save a kid

tepid crane
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Like permanently?

obsidian jasper
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no

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but still I did a blood ritual trying to save someone

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which is unusual for this character

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as he's basically the champion of a god of war, blood and other stuff

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the only one might I add

proud osprey
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prepping d&d for next session :3 love random tables

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so far i’ve got a few encounters prepped

  • 3 x horseback bandits
  • brask ironjaw (rematch) mini boss fight
  • milo voss and 5 x infantry bandits mini boss fight
  • boss fight: elias harken and damara, his mysterious arcane tiefling advisor
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should i probably put another squad of bandits in there to pace things out between mini boss encounters and the final battle in the abandoned mill

tepid crane
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Got any bandits with bows?

frail hull
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are the players still lvl 1? if so, 4 fights in one day may be a bit much

proud osprey
proud osprey
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thinking of making some of these bandits more minion-y

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like milo has five guys under his command. those can all be minions

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the 3x and 4x bandits they encounter will be generic low level bandits

frail hull
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minion rules are great for something like that.

proud osprey
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and the ones directly under harken and damara will be minions

frail hull
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could roll the horse back ones and Brask together. use the horse backs to circle the group while Brask engages up close?

proud osprey
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nah that’ll be too rough. brask almost killed one of them before

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if it weren’t for a clutch thunderwave they’d have lost the monk

frail hull
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by himself or with help?

proud osprey
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by himself

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bear in mind it was just those two fighting each other for the most part

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but i wanna make him a cool mini boss that they can feel pretty victorious about defeating for real

frail hull
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so he fought the monk 1 on 1?

proud osprey
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during a combat of 5v5 yeah

frail hull
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so we he have help in the rematch or just try to solo the party?

proud osprey
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it’s 5v1

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i everyone wailing on brask

arctic yew
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alright nerds,heres a hipothetical

what is the dnd creature that would cause the most changes worldwide if brough into this world

with their frequency compared to cr

like,a cr 1/2 abyssal chicken would be a common pest

but a tarrasque?

there would be one

proud osprey
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tarrasque is kind of a godzilla analogue

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so maybe

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but like? dragons?

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giants?

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there isn’t a clear answer

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if you transplanted the concept of drow

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that’s an entire underground civilisation of xenophobic spider loving matriarchal torture enthusiasts

tepid crane
proud osprey
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and that is NOT something i wanna think about existing below my feet

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carrion crawlers? goblins? idk man

cosmic geyser
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Liches/Death Knights suddenly exist? I, for one, welcome out new undead overlords

proud osprey
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thinking about the trajectory of the second arc of this campaign

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the first arc should be succinct. maybe 3 MAYBE 4 sessions

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gets them to level 2 comfortably, on their way up to 3

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and lands them at the prosperous city of Mollebourg

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Mollebourg is ramping up for its Midsummer festival

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there’s a colosseum in town, and a tournament happening, so likely the party will want to participate

slender nexus
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Or possibly Lemures

proud osprey
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need to do some tournament planning

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16 teams and only one can be the champion

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matches against monsters and beasts from across the breadth of the empire and abroad!

arctic yew
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only like,3 will matter

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which will be the ones the party will interact with

proud osprey
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but the 16 teams are there

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they need rivals

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competition

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and it sells the scale of what’s going on

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celebrating from the crusades, celebrating the upcoming 100th year of Emperor Carles Andrassyg on the throne, celebrating the summer festival

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think they need a team who turns them on to the idea of joining the tournament, so some low tier adventuring party equivalent they meet in whatever tavern they’re staying at

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The Merry Mice of Nouforte, The Strangers, and Raden’s Rangers

proud osprey
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now:

  • the party (tbd name)
  • The Merry Mice of Nouforte
  • The Strangers
  • Raden’s Rangers
  • The Tancreek Seven
  • The Firm
  • Wilon’s Emptying Service
  • The Black Dogs
  • Adun Thaìn
  • The Candymen
  • The Strange Bedfellows
  • Yorrick’s Company
  • Peck’s Pikes
  • The Sealswords
  • Last Call
  • Baudelaire Mercenary Company, 7th Division
frail hull
frail hull
mellow rivet
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I'd say Slaadi. They reproduce pretty quickly for such dangerous creatures, and they're smart and can regenerate so it would take a lot of effort to hunt down

proud osprey
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she’s the priestess of a life goddess

frail hull
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ah, yeah. Not the sort to go for these sorts of things. Maybe put in a word to the baron at dinner and they throw them in?

proud osprey
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the baron?

frail hull
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ussaly these sorts of things are invintation only, and a brand new group probly wont have the clout to commpet in such an important event on thier own

proud osprey
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it’s a signup thing actually

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maybe with a qualifier match

frail hull
proud osprey
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that’s a duke

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the duke

frail hull
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ah, ok

proud osprey
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the duke mollebranque. hosting the emperor and a number of other celebrated guests

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notably, not a bunch of foreign sellswords and an upstart knight from a disgraced family

frail hull
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yup, that one. So, is this a tournament that the PCs are expected to have a chance to win? Or are there going to be much higher lvl teams participating?

proud osprey
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they have a chance to win yes :)

frail hull
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hum, seems a rather paltry tournament to honor the 100th year of Emperor Carles Andrassyg on the throne. Oh, well, i'm sure the Duke tried his best 🙂

proud osprey
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it is a sixteen team four round elimination tournament with a final match against the emperor of the defeated nation’s pet DRAGON

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the tournament is mostly to celebrate the war and the summer. the king’s coronation centenary is not until the end of summer

frail hull
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sounds grand. But if a group of lvl 2/3 adventures has good odds to wins, what is the quality of the compation?

proud osprey
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i think they’ll be about level 4 by the time they hit those bigger matches

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it’s gonna span says with days between and plenty of city adventuring to do

frail hull
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ahhhh, that tracks. what type of dragon?

proud osprey
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brass