#Dungeons and Dragons

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pure elm
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something like PAM+GWM, or Sharpshooter + CBE

proud osprey
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this is fascism

worthy plank
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From what I know all of us players like the same role generally speaking

flat gull
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Class Sure

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Ancestry

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chafes

proud osprey
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even then like 5e is so playable that you can manage with a party of all fighters or all rogues or two wizards and two clerics or one barbarian and three sorcerers

worthy plank
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He has also included guns

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So I am very tempted to go Kensei instead

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and just

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be a fucking monk sky pirate

dapper fulcrum
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Kensei sharpshooter monk is fun, do it

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Or Mercy Gunner monk so you have healing utility

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Fun fact mercy monk is one of the only reliable ways to remove stun

worthy plank
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space elves with stupid haircuts gang

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obsidian jasper
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lol

proud osprey
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hell yeah

lament geode
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Hearing good things about the 2024 GM's guide

proud osprey
worthy plank
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Cuz guns exist

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Fuckit

obsidian jasper
craggy cloak
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I like the 2024 guide

modest echo
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How's it looking?

craggy cloak
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im eager to see how they handle the "fully written exploration section" mostly, and the bastion stuff is neat

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the idea of tracker sheets for new DMs also seems promising

modest echo
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Oh that is good

worthy plank
modest echo
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HAHAHAHAHA

craggy cloak
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proud of you

craggy cloak
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thank god v-human is dead

obsidian jasper
craggy cloak
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its overcentralizing design for a feat

obsidian jasper
craggy cloak
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but now you just get a feat as part of your background

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If your DM allows it

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i would not personally allow 2024+vhuman

obsidian jasper
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And custom lineage?

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I also use custom lineage bc it allows me to have more freedom with species n all

craggy cloak
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I've never allowed that in my own games so i cant say

obsidian jasper
craggy cloak
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Theres like 40 species to pick from already, if you cant pick one from all those options I don't know what to tell you

but also im reducing overhead and range of stuff i have to deal with as DM

obsidian jasper
craggy cloak
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The less optional stuff I am juggling as DM, the easier it is for me to DM, since DMing in D&D is already a lot of work.

obsidian jasper
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Alr, thx for answering!

proud osprey
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my setting has like 30+ canonical species, some with subraces, and i give everyone a level 1 feat because 5e is easy anyway and that lets me make combats more ch alleging and dynamic, so if you really don’t wanna play anything i have to offer you can find a different table

errant prairie
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For any who have the patience to read it

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I tried to make ranger good for my in person 5e group and want some opinions and constructive feedback
So far no problems have cropped up (due to there only being a sessions worth of play testing)
But I wanna be sure

tepid crane
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basically just cutting out any that are "Human but X"

errant prairie
proud osprey
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i guess my original plan was it was very low fantasy. humans elves dwarves halflings

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but that just doesn’t play in practice when you’re running 5e. it’s too eclectic by design

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so i figure that the continent that my current campaigns are set on, upper gloria, is that part of the world. and the rest of the world has a bunch of wacky shit in it

tepid crane
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I handle that with just having lots of cultures

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It also comes from hating "The Elf Kingdom" or "Orc Tribe"

proud osprey
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are there perish tribes? sure

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are there perish feudal societies? orcish theocracies? yes

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one of the biggest powers in my world is (well, was) a hobgoblin-centric religious empire whose primary demographics otherwise were dwarves and dragonborn and humans

worthy plank
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the face of a sky pirate kensei who gets drunk and also high

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proud osprey
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badass

worthy plank
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He is following in the great and hallowed milieu of jack sparrow and hondo onaka

obsidian jasper
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You guys think I can mix the atavist with the original necromancer?

tepid crane
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What’s an atavist?

obsidian jasper
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A homebrew class

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Made by swordmeow on Reddit

worthy plank
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gonna be real I don't think most people are gonna know random homebrew

obsidian jasper
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Basically a half caster based on sacrificing HP to be able to go at the enemy

obsidian jasper
worthy plank
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np lol

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I mean is atavist int based?

obsidian jasper
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No not really but it’s more the flavour aspect

obsidian jasper
worthy plank
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Huh

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My immediate shout'd be Sorcerer then

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Iiiiii wish my internet wasn't hot garb rn

obsidian jasper
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Oh mb I need to clarify even more, what I meant is take the flavour and ideas from the atavist and put it together with the wizard school of necromancy for something new (with credit of course)

worthy plank
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? XD

obsidian jasper
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I didn’t read correctly

worthy plank
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that was to the thing you deleted lol

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um

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I mean I would have to see it but based on immediate vibes

obsidian jasper
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I didn’t see the my

worthy plank
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Sacrificing blood for necromantic effects seems On Brand ™️

obsidian jasper
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also the character I’m making is like a guy with some really strong or fucked up powers (dm said he likes making players strong)

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But he carries around really expensive candy for children

proud osprey
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i LOVE hot garb

worthy plank
worthy plank
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I love rolling stats

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obsidian jasper
worthy plank
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monk moment

errant prairie
proud osprey
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fuck balance

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if i wanted balance i wouldn’t be playing d&d

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or at least 5e

craggy cloak
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im a point buy guy

grave hollow
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Point Buy lets players make meaningful choices

tepid crane
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I’m a 3d6 down the line

sand hornet
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I'm of the "roll 4d6 drop the lowest, for each stat" enjoyers

frail hull
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I do 4d6 drip lowest in order, based on what I get will determine my class. Unless I'm joining an already running game, then I will play what is needed and place stats where they fit best.

proud osprey
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i vote let the player choice come in the non-rolling department

grave hollow
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Yes. Like Point Buy

worthy plank
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On'kor Dohna, Githyanki Way of the Kensei Monk

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craggy cloak
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i guess i mostly stick to point buy to keep balance and RAW in mind, makes it easier for me and easier to players to play what they want

tepid crane
craggy cloak
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Very different from my games for sure

tepid crane
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I'm a OSR guy what can I say

dapper fulcrum
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My dm had us do roll 4d6 drop lowest but had us do it 10 times for each 6 spreads, and had us choose which spread to use

craggy cloak
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Thats fun

proud osprey
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sup

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thinking about the big city

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they get there

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it’s uhh

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like a week into the start of summer

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10/91 days in i reckon

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safe average

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maybe 15 ish

arctic yew
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ok,fixed the pronouns

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proud osprey
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i’m thinking the summer festival is underway, then in a month it’s the centenary festival

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they’ll need i’m thinking 500 gold each to enter the tournament

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which is only 5000 silver

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but they’ll have to work out a way to get that

tepid crane
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Tax collecting or robbing tax collectors

prisma sluice
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5e question

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Two-weapon fighting explicitly excludes ranged weapons for the bonus action attack, which is shitty and frankly really fucking stupid, but would offhanding a melee allow for two-weapon fighting?

dapper fulcrum
prisma sluice
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...wait, it would work?

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Also, different how?

dapper fulcrum
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two weapon fighting i think in 2024 allows for hand crossbow shenanigans but disallows regular+regular and regular+light, but allows light+light

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with the right weapon masteries though you can have three attacks without a bonus action with two lights

prisma sluice
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Issue being, I'm planning on two non-lights

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I know I need Dual-Wielding Master at least

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I'm just hoping that I can shoot the pistol and then swing the offhand sword rather than swinging the sword and shooting the offhand pistol

dapper fulcrum
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Gunner lets you ignore the free hand requisite too

prisma sluice
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Eh, I'm making a sword and pistol artificer, so that already isn't a concern

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Repeating Shot go brrrrrrrrrrt

worthy plank
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Apparently my introduction to the party is gonna be as part of a fancy ball the party is attending

prisma sluice
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Oooooooooooooo

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Fancy

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How are you planning on that going?

worthy plank
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Given I'm a githyanki, and one who is intent on exploring and enjoying all the material plane has to offer, probably invited to show up as some sort of oddity

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One of the characters is a bard and will be performing as well

proud osprey
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they can do some work for the iron hand

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which is like a fighters guild type situation

craggy cloak
frail hull
worthy plank
frail hull
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Fair

proud osprey
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downtime today

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the old souflios house went up in smoke (again)

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literally a level 1-3 rite of passage in my games now

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and so did folier’s hunting lodge

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so setille is without any black powder now

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and the local law enforcement are looking into it

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and he’s fucked

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serious brain damage

modest echo
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https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/fiveevil-an-unlikely-winner/

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this is neat

lament geode
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All has gone according to plan

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I now have a full table for my Odyssey of the Dragonlords game

modest echo
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niiiiiiice

lament geode
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We have a Circle of Stars Druid Medusa

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She has a familiar and she's debating which one

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And the winning vote is a snake that fell out of her hair

sand hornet
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Nice

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Hope you enjoy Odyssey, it's a good module

lament geode
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Yeah, we're having our Session 0 in a few weeks

proud osprey
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nice

lament geode
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So far we have a Water Genasi probably Rogue
Druid of Stars Medusa with the Cursed One Path
A Monk of unknown race just yet
Goliath with the Demi-God Path

next canopy
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dumb fuck campaign idea "We're ripping off the Deltora quest series of books"

flat gull
craggy cloak
modest echo
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cook

next canopy
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I mean you havea clear objectif "get pretty stone" a BBEG called the Lord of Darkness, a bunch of monster

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and it's already post apo fantasy

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you can even rip off the books for the pûzzle

grave hollow
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Yee, it's a good source

next canopy
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next up we're fiwing The Knights of Emerald serie

obsidian jasper
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you guys think sorcerer or wizard is better for a subclass that will mix a bit of melee with mostly spellcasting, with themes of necromancy but also mind manipulation type stuff

worthy plank
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sorcerer

next canopy
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i would go warlock

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mind manipulation is a aberrant mind speciallty but i don't think sorcerer have a dedicated spell and sorcery subclass

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wizzard has one but i'm not sure it's adapted to what you ar doing

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you couls also multiclass

dapper fulcrum
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Sorcerer

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They had melee focused subclasses in playtesting in the past

worthy plank
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I love the gunner feat being relevant in the game I'm joining

dapper fulcrum
worthy plank
dapper fulcrum
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Not relevant

worthy plank
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Most of the party has pistol proficiency or is a melee specific class or caster

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lol

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I believe I am the one bringing long guns to the table

dapper fulcrum
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+1 to dex is nice too

worthy plank
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Which

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As a monk

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Is funny

worthy plank
smoky notch
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is there a way to make characters who fight with both strength and dex viable?

dapper fulcrum
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Giant belt-

smoky notch
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also, last night i had a dream where someone was fighting people with three longswords, but the longswords were justified in a very video gamey/dnd rules-y way

dapper fulcrum
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Thri kreen

smoky notch
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not exactly

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it was funny because in the dream ithought "why don't you just zoro it?" and she didn't

proud osprey
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thinkin. about. the gods.

proud osprey
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thinking about the draconic island adventure the party can run

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basically when the emperor dies the city will lock down. they can either wait that out OR smuggle themselves out by working for one of two criminals

  • lucius laquaine, a pirate aspiring to greatness
  • scarmiglione abrutto, a gnome looking to climb the ladder
    either they’ll be going to an exotic island to find treasure or they’ll be asked to uhhhhh [something less cool but still fun]
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dragon island i’m thinking

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big dragon theming

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tortle island villagers, abandoned research station from the glorian empire, hostile animals on the island, antagonistic villagers or hunter gatherer types? something else kind wierd probably

worthy plank
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So

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deeply stupid plan

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2 monk 2 bladesinger

dapper fulcrum
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Doable

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Grab a headband of intellect

smoky notch
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give us real answers man

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like something that we can take for sure for free because the rules say so

modest echo
smoky notch
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oh true

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oh true...

modest echo
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You can do this with a normal Barbarian too but Barbarian Rogue gets the "fusion" effect across better imo

smoky notch
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oh true....

modest echo
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the play with Barb Rogue is crit fishing and sneak attack

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dual wield, reckless attack

smoky notch
smoky notch
modest echo
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To up your odds of getting a sneak crit, don't trigger sneak attack on your first swing unless it's a crit

i did the math for that
but you can ignore it if that's too unintuitive

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as a side effect: if you're ever not dual-wielding, you are now an absurdly good grappler (Athletics Expertise)

smoky notch
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i wanna do shit that Does Not make sense. i wanna make a character who carries around a rapier and a greatsword. a character who duels with a spear as their offhand. i want wacky awesome bullshit. i intend to find it

smoky notch
dapper fulcrum
smoky notch
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ooh i've never thought about shapeshifting pact weapons that's neat

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i'm mostly worried about narratively how to have a character use one weapon (to the degree of looking like a competent swordsman) and then pull out another while still being equally if not more competent with that weapon

dapper fulcrum
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Consummate professional weaponmaster

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practice a thousand weapons once versus practicing one weapon a thousand times? No. Practice a thousand weapons a thousand times

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Something like that

smoky notch
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roll-wise

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i know i can justify it like NARRATIVELY narratively, but what i meant was would my rolls and numbers justify it

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like it's a role playing game yadda yadda, but disconnects between what characters are supposed to be and what the dice make them do can really take u out of the game

next canopy
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Hey what would be a good boss for a mow level (1 to 3) level party ?

dapper fulcrum
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Illusionist Wizard (MotM version)

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err level 3 imo

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its got potent damage and ways to delay an inevitable walloping (various illusion spells that you can replace if you wish)

obsidian jasper
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quick question, what do you guys think of the following character concept:
Rogue assassin, field medic but also combatant, so the character is very good at anatomy and all, but can also use idk bandages or something

dapper fulcrum
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Mercy Monk

craggy cloak
errant prairie
proud osprey
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i think i wanna start working on a whole ass He (harry edition) rule book including the world details and stuff

prisma sluice
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Do y'all think it would be unbalanced to just

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Ignore the two-weapon fighting rule of "It can ONLY be with melee weapons"

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...I don't really understand why it exists to begin with tbh

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What, were they so worried about rogues getting all of one extra chance to proc sneak attack that they had to just ruin it for everyone?

craggy cloak
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Ranged weapons are better because you dont have to be next to the guy stabbing you to death, partly

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some balance niceties and all that

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also if anyone is ruining ranged weapons its fighters

prisma sluice
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glances at spellcasters

craggy cloak
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i dont think it would really hurt any homegame balance if you arent sticking to fully RAW anyways

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as long as someone isnt munchkinning it to hell and back or w/e

prisma sluice
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Not sure how you could munchkin something like this anyway

craggy cloak
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crossbow expert is a hell of a drug

worthy plank
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tonight

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the introduction of the gun monk

craggy cloak
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gonk

prisma sluice
worthy plank
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lmao

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I am joining a party of a kenku* (humblewood corvum race) arcane trickster, an owlin bard/warlock, a dragonborn cleric/sorcerer, a goliath barbarian, and an elf paladin

proud osprey
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sup

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i’m now realising the imminence of the city that the party will reach at the end of session 4

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so

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who wants to help me prep and plan some stuff for that city?

prisma sluice
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What's the basic premise

proud osprey
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it’s the capital city of the province, one of the “big three” cities of the cadric league. so one of the largest cities in the empire. and it’s summer. and the emperor will be here for the centenary of his rule soon

craggy cloak
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you need a big ass church

proud osprey
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when the players arrive, they’ll be separated from the priestess they’re escorting, who will be escorted by the duke’s people

proud osprey
craggy cloak
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and a hot springs

proud osprey
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the cathedral of mollebourg is one of the wonders of the church

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dóthtown (like little italy or chinatown but for dwarves) has hot public baths, and have lent this technology to those living in the fancy parts of town too

prisma sluice
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Hmm

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Could make it a city of technological marvels and wonders

proud osprey
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i can finally be at peace. the campaign is real. i have written in character correspondences between the characters in my world

prisma sluice
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Robots, horseless chariots, cool trains, self-propelled boats

proud osprey
proud osprey
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mollebourg is very much a sprawling metropolis of the empire. very much a melting pot. has a dense urban sprawl with a layer beneath for a more unsavoury element. has docks and fields both. has a castle and a cathedral and a colosseum.

prisma sluice
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Fight club

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Underground fight club

proud osprey
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houses the halls of inquisition. the archives of inquisition

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the cathedral of saaaaaaint

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hm. need a saint name

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matthias

prisma sluice
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Wamly

proud osprey
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nice try crab nerd

prisma sluice
proud osprey
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can you read this

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if this shows up then these are those letters i was talking about

prisma sluice
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Aye

proud osprey
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adding a fun bonus plot hook to the mollebourg of it all

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tying in to the stuff from this starting town “tutorial area” AND the bard’s backstory

tepid crane
proud osprey
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biiiig markets!

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and exclusive guild businesses. magic shops accessible to members of the circle, the magic guild. specialised weapon and armour shops accessible to members of the iron hand, the kind of fighters/mercenaries guild

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but then plenty of other stuff, everything under the sun in cities like this. and black markets underground too

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thinking the party will likely end up staying in dóthtown, on the north side of town just within the walls

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which is a nice working class area of dwarves

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they’ve got a recommended place to stay: the hammer hearth inn, where their brief bounty hunter friend was actually raised (he didn’t tell them as much!)

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but they can get a discount there if they mention rupert, said npc, sent them

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which is right next to the dwarven temple

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there are two dwarven gods in this setting, named stón and skae

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effectively ordinus and exogarus from the imperial pantheon

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which are the two patriarch gods

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law and chaos

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thinking about religion now

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lux primus is a kind of messiah-lite role, of which there are one for each of the approved gods, and the party know one

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then they have a pope and a high benefactor, usually an elected archbishop and the ruling emperor

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and then there are archbishops, elected among bishops for each province

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and then there are bishops, then deacons, then abbots/abbesses and their priors/prioresses, then priests (fathers, mothers) and acolytes (brothers, sisters)

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e z

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dwarves have priests

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dwarves get it

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be like dwarves

tepid crane
proud osprey
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no they have meetings

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not sure of their frequency

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once every few years seems reasonable though. and lots of them show up to big events such as ascensions of new popes, coronations, stuff like what’s gonna happen in mollebourg, big trials if relevant and nearby, etc

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but they mostly act independently within the church

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and sometimes are sent to do stuff on behalf of the empire. diplomacy. military stuff. healing those who are facing plague or blight

worthy plank
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My cousin's partner's kenku has the funniest voice oh my god

proud osprey
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your cousin in law

worthy plank
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not technically married yet but they are engaged lol

proud osprey
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okay so i wasn’t far off

cosmic geyser
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Mmmm Kemku

proud osprey
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bird people

worthy plank
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Oh

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This ball is 100% a coup, isn't it

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oh nooooooooooo

proud osprey
worthy plank
tepid crane
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A ball seems like a really bad place to do a coup. Firstly you can’t really get many of your dudes in and weaponry wise you’re also screwed. Also how are you actually seizing anything to hold power after you kill the leader.

grave hollow
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Conversely, everyone important is likely to be there.

modest echo
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You can have the "real" coup happening simultaneously while you eliminate leadership and declare victory

tepid crane
modest echo
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Which turns into an advantage if the host is on your side

tepid crane
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But the coup is against the person in charge

grave hollow
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So, there was a fine tradition of traveling to other lords places in order to strategically drain some of their resources

proud osprey
tepid crane
worthy plank
errant prairie
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Dnd was funny today

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The dumbass Druid decided to touch the ORB OF UNFATHOMABLE FEAR AND AGONY
Twice after I touched it
Turns out it only stuns you the first time you touch it
So now he plans on using it as a improvised weapon
Because dc13 int save or stunned is comically good

cosmic geyser
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So he has an Orb of Confusion? Nice

proud osprey
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played tonight, the fourth of five downtime sessions

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it was the best of times it was the down of times

proud osprey
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the big bad guy, already in jail, escaped because of the paladin

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the lawful good paladin let the chaotic neutral at best renegade paladin go free from his cell, out of a kind of pity

errant prairie
proud osprey
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but also because he gave him the information he wanted

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he has been demoted. to chaotic good at best, if not chaotic neutral

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an act of extreme self interest

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good / evil: scale from selflessness to selfishness, also from love to hate
law / chaos: scale from order and structure to a lack of that and randomness, also rules versus power

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someone chaotic evil, to me, is someone self interested who thinks might makes right. someone on the opposite end is someone whose interests are selfless who believes that authority should derive from more than simply strength and power, but a code of ethics

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someone neutral is someone just going through the moshe

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anyway point is, gonna give the pally an angry dream

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because the gods are mad

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lightly

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but this puts everything back on the map in an interesting way, as it was also a kindness

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so. the party are going places

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maaaaannnn rly good vibes from this campaign

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was talking earlier with one of them that whenever they complete a sizeable chunk of content, like enough to close a book in a metaphorical sense and say those characters got used to a new status quo, we’d take a little break and run some smaller self contained adventures and one shots

obsidian jasper
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What do you guys think of the reborn?

dapper fulcrum
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they're okay

modest echo
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What are those?

obsidian jasper
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Undead but playable

fossil raven
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yeah, they're really just a step above revenants in terms of sapience I find

trail bane
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awawa

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im trynna decide between a Kobold Swashbuckler or a Tabaxi Ranger

obsidian jasper
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What about plasmoid thief?

obsidian jasper
trail bane
obsidian jasper
trail bane
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so im not exactly gonna be in much darkness

obsidian jasper
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Ah

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Then why not cleric or divine soul? (If this ain’t helpful I’d go ranger if there’s a good subclass from a 3rd source if not I’d go with swashbuckler

trail bane
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more damage, extra attacks, etc

obsidian jasper
trail bane
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they fixed ranger

obsidian jasper
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Ah

trail bane
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and monks are fine

obsidian jasper
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The only martial I’ve like so far was paladin

trail bane
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rangers and monks just need slightly more specific builds to be good

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unlike other classes which are good no matter WHAT you do

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rangers and monks are a little more restricted

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meanwhile monks over here can one-shot Tiamat

obsidian jasper
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With an int of 18

trail bane
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moment

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honestly Kobolds make GREAT Swashbucklers because of Draconic Sorcery

obsidian jasper
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I’ve only played variant humans, custom lineage, warforged and like one other species iirc

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I like custom lineage bc I can say: Human but with dark vision

tepid crane
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I will do Tucker proud

trail bane
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In one round

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you can run up to an enemy, booming blade sneak attack them, then skitter away whilst STILL having a Bonus Action to do stuff

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Kobold Swashbucklers are peak

obsidian jasper
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I just remembered my first and last encounter with kobolds

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I was in a cave with two other guys then all of a sudden someone yeets a rock at me

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Eldritch blast saved me

light moss
cosmic geyser
next canopy
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the sea druid look cool

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i'm actually working on my deltora campaign an read the books plot and Shifting sands is not a lot about the shiftiung sands... more about the weird toutnament

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should focus more on the tournament of keep the desert bit ?

proud osprey
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did it gang

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wrapped up an arc of the campaign with the five downtime sessions

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over only two weeks

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so that’s 3 full group sessions and 5 individual sessions in the span of two months

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onto session 4!!!!

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so. how do you make a session of half travel interesting

tepid crane
proud osprey
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hisssss

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i want one set piece combat, farmers attacked by a pair of ankhegs

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and then a few idle roleplaying encounters

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maybe a dog starts following them

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like dropping them a stray

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maybe i introduce that subplot someone suggested with the pet crow that spies on them

tepid crane
proud osprey
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explain at once cheese

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@tepid crane at ONCE

tepid crane
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If a player ever does that at my table I'm melting all their dice into a giant triangle

dapper fulcrum
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Gun

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pfft i meant to say guh

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But yea, i dont like that

tepid crane
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Gun is also an accurate reaction

dapper fulcrum
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one of those Quirky DnD Things that vexes me

tepid crane
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Shoutout Pille Nillson my goat for deciding goblins were uncapturable in Mork Borg

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This was the reason he gave for it.

proud osprey
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the gnome does not come with them

tepid crane
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They tried to kidnap someone

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they are evil right?

proud osprey
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characters? no

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they didn’t try to steal the gnome

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the players joked about it in that way that starts as a joke and gradually became much less of a joke

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mostly work banter though

dapper fulcrum
proud osprey
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treasure from the time in setille, the party have:

  • a potion of fire breathing
  • spiked gauntlets (for punching)
  • moderately sized barrel of pickles
  • fine formalwear
  • statue of an evil god
  • four-volume set of a historical romance fiction series known as the crimson tapestry (smutty)
  • pocket guide to the empire (not smutty)
  • two healing potions
  • a climbing potion
  • unidentified bracers
  • stolen and retouched light plate mail
  • amulet of thoughts or whatever it is
  • boots of striding n springing
  • adamantine chain shirt
  • no gnome
  • scroll of ice storm (they are level 3)
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thoughts (and prayers?)

tepid crane
dapper fulcrum
proud osprey
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i don’t mind having goblin. like. friends

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you help a goblin tribe or clan or crime family or regular family out of a jam. sure. they might scratch ur back

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but the whole “can we keep it” whenever i introduce a goofball is dumb

dapper fulcrum
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The fucked up power dynamics of murdering a goblin's entire family, press ganging them into slavery and gaslighting them into liking you is

proud osprey
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i have more sympathy for a party torturing an NPC for information than stringing along a creature of dubious willingness

dapper fulcrum
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Eugh

grave hollow
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You know, while I can see how that is a conclusion that's arrived at.

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It's pretty much a group deciding they like a little guy almost every time.

proud osprey
#

but the point is more like

dapper fulcrum
#

The lightest version of that

proud osprey
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yeah. sure. you can keep it. hire it

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i do sorta wanna do a baby yoda thing at least once. cute magical baby needs rescued from eclectic monstrous thugs

grave hollow
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Have you guys actually run into a group that goes "We killed your entire family, but you're our pet now!"

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Because I... Just haven't.

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"You're my friend now, we're getting soft tacos later" sure

proud osprey
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once but the idea is pretty dark

proud osprey
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or at least

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some of this

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lots by comparison

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“can we keep it?”

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cat. dog. dog. bird. cat. cat. weasel. frog. bullywug. some kind of dragon. undead hand. cranium rat. baby purple worm. kenku. pig. imp. quasit. and now. gnome

dapper fulcrum
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i was a late addition to a rime game and my party did that with a duergar

proud osprey
#

anyway moving past the getting angry about tabletop games economy

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with no gnome to keep

dapper fulcrum
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Granted none of us were good people (everyone rolled a pirate for some goddamn reason, individually) but still

proud osprey
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i might give the party a chance to get a pet

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i feel the dwarf might appreciate it

proud osprey
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rime. and maiden

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okay so

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need to think about the road into the city of mollebourg

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they’ll go through leshays to get into town, and then part ways with the lux primus as she is escorted to the castle by the duke’s people. they will then be able to find lodging

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and take in the sights sounds n smells

sand hornet
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Still thinking of the mopdule I wanna play, forever outside my purview PensiveCowboy

tepid crane
tepid crane
light moss
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Is 173 a lot of HP for a lvl 10?

spice hornet
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for a PC? in my experience, yeah

light moss
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So 103 is also decent then

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Cuz I got a Druid with 103 HP and he has a Elemental gem with an Earth Elemental

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So that should be enough chunk to survive most effects i hope

proud osprey
proud osprey
#

anyway session 4:

  • 10th day of summer, party heads out. day six of their time together.
  • need to reach mollebourg, which is three days away 10-11, 11-12, 12-13, arrive on the 13th in the early evening/late afternoon
  • escort mission, accompanying lux primus lissoria to the capital of mollebranque
  • end of the second day they will stop off at a roadside inn for lodgings and food
  • during the second day is likely when i will have the ankheg encounter take place
  • they are provisioned well for the circumstances, though some of them are running low on rations, so they may need to share, or acquire food mid-journey through hunting and trade
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SO

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need a few benign random encounters

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i’ll say d6

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got so far:

  • stray dog
  • travelling merchant
lament geode
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As in like, just random stuff they can find on the way? How big we talking?

proud osprey
lament geode
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-Lost familiar/animal companion
-Remains of a previous camp with something forgotten
-A minstrel out in search of inspiration
-A wizard/witch in some variety of traveling home (I once did this with a large crab that had a small hut on its back)

proud osprey
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i like number 2

lament geode
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His name was Nairos, a traveling potionmaker and scroll scribe, and he lived on the back of an exceedingly large hermit crab who had taken his hut as its home, and he just kinda ran with it.

proud osprey
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don’t like number 3 because i would hate to see a bard-off, 4 is GREAT but not great for this area

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so up north absolutely

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stray dog, travelling merchant, former campsite with something left behind

lament geode
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A ghost seeking an answer for a question it had when it was alive

proud osprey
#

too fantastical

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well

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too supernatural

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good for somewhere more magical but we are in the mundane parts of the world

lament geode
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Fair

proud osprey
#

what did the campsite leave behind

lament geode
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In order of potential interestingness:

  1. Marching orders
  2. A letter aimed at one of the people camping
  3. Their food, they left in a hurry.
  4. An opened, but half-full, bottle of liquor
  5. A scroll with nothing on it
proud osprey
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like for a military?

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can rule that out as it’s relatively peacetimey

lament geode
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Or IS IT? /s

proud osprey
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;)

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i’ll take 2 and 4

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and some other bits

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some ammo in a tree

obsidian jasper
#

How you guys handle crossbow reloading and ammunition?

proud osprey
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the way that it’s handled

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my players have ranged weapons. those ranged weapons have ammunition. i have them mark the ammunition off.

lament geode
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In no game that I have ever run have I made my players track ammunition, but that's just a me thing

proud osprey
#

if you can mark off spell slots you can mark off arrows

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this is not something we’ve ever had a problem with

lament geode
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I agree it's not actually that book-keepy

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I just find it more entertaining not to consider

proud osprey
#

it can be a lil tedious sure but

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yeah like

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there’s nothing wrong with not tracking it

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i’d say tracking in-game time is more meaningful

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and that itself isn’t super duper meaningful

frail hull
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Usually with basic ammo it's assumed you can retrieve enough that it doesn't matter. But I also have played games where each round was tracked and did not slow play down, so I'm indifferent.

tepid crane
proud osprey
next canopy
#

I change DQ book 4 so that the evil guy with the gemme are not discount sand worm, but the mator of the town where they have a tournament. He use the tpurnamznt to send the winners to the Shadow lord for his army of grey guard (wich are more or less grineer when you think about it)

obsidian jasper
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Character idea for dnd: the hollow knight from hollow knight (not the lil guy)

next canopy
#

I am now working on the Maze of the Beast part of the Deltora campaign

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Books 5 part is pretty straight forward, mountain is prison where dwarf mine and forge weapon for the Shadow Lord (you'll never guess whonthe BBEG is...)

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point is to liberated King Dwarf, lead a shortking revolution, with operation asabbotage and kill the green dragon at the en and get the emeraldf

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Book 6 is fun cause it fully introduce The Ols (store brand changelings) and you ghet many ocasion of puting on in the group

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plus pirates and I think that in this case the beast be a beholder that's actually the captain of the pirate.

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Next up would be the Valley of the Lost and the weird old wizard dude tower

obsidian jasper
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What’s Deltora?

next canopy
# obsidian jasper What’s Deltora?

It's a serie of fantasy children book written by Australian Writer Emily Roda. The basis of the story is that a group of 3 heroes (Lief, Barda and Jasmine) must go all over the land to find the 7 gems that would restore the magic of the Belt of Deltora to liberate their country from the influence of the Shadow Lord.

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each book is fairely short and focus on one monster and getting one gem

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they are verry well written and well known in France and even Japan where it got an anime

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And i'm trying to do a dnd campaign that go by the book

dapper fulcrum
#

the anime sadly didnt adapt series 2 and 3

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those things were dark as fuck

obsidian jasper
dapper fulcrum
# obsidian jasper Like compared to the original or in general?

both

series 2 had the gang travel through underwater lakes, talking with magical goblin-esque folk who used to be the original inhabitants of the main antagonist's dark realm, assembling a magic pipe to free the slaves still trapped in said dark realm.

series 3 has the gang tour the land once more to wake up the sleeping dragons and defeat the Four Sisters, a quatro of eldritch horrors who sing an evil song that slowly ruins the land

obsidian jasper
#

Sounds like average DnD stuff imo

dapper fulcrum
# obsidian jasper 2 doesn’t really sound dark

aside from all the giant bugs they have to deal with while traveling in the underground
and the bio-horror that the Shadow Lord does with his genetically-engineered monsters. ||There's a scene where the gang, already in the dark realm, come across a pile of melting bodies of the shadow lord's Gray Guard servants, who were built to have an expiry date. Two of them are conscious enough to grab at the main character and gurgle-laugh, feebly thinking that if they catch him, the shadow lord will save them. They melt just as the characters leave their clutches||

obsidian jasper
next canopy
#

the Shadow Lord was a good antagonist. Always having backup plans and worst his conquest of Dletora is just a step in his world domination plan

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also The main characteers have really good chemistery, begining by barely tolerating each other presence and becoming actuall family

dapper fulcrum
#

for the enemy was cunning and sly
for which a thousand years was but a blink of an eye

obsidian jasper
#

He just seems a bit too much like only evil from what you guys have told me, great for a children’s book but outside of that idk

next canopy
#

yay the prologue is dark too

dapper fulcrum
#

Series 2 also had a romcom misunderstanding subplot that was funny

next canopy
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like it's basacly a post apo fantasy children book

next canopy
obsidian jasper
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Maybe I should give them a try

next canopy
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I think you can find them as paper back for cheap

dapper fulcrum
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yea and theyre very easy to digest

next canopy
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and the anime is not the most faithfull

dapper fulcrum
#

i finished the books as fast as a day, back when i was young

obsidian jasper
dapper fulcrum
dapper fulcrum
obsidian jasper
next canopy
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weirdly enough i'd say it's for a younger audience

obsidian jasper
#

I really want to make a hunger games oneshot some day

next canopy
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||in the campaign I replaced the giant snake of The city of rat by a legal distincrt Skaven Verminlord||

obsidian jasper
#

Also what is grim hollow about?

next canopy
#

also replace The giant toad of book 5 by a green dragon, i hope a level 5 party can take it

obsidian jasper
next canopy
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well then i hope the dwarves i'll give them will be enough... To be faire in the actuall book they don't fight a lot (and they loose often when they do) they usually use their brains

obsidian jasper
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Something I like a lot about one of my DMs is that he rewards you when you think outside the box

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For example

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Pumpkins that come back from the dead each round, I happen to have a shadow being as a player character part, I make it eat the pumpkins

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Took them out of the fight for good

dapper fulcrum
next canopy
#

yay I hope to have them do like sabotage and stuff all around the mountains and weaken the dragon some how

next canopy
dapper fulcrum
#

pyromancer

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wasnt in the books

next canopy
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Oh that's why i don't remember the bastar

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frankly I watch like 5 episodes and i cannot find them on a streaming platform here

dapper fulcrum
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i havent watched most of them too, used to have em on cartoon network but that has a lifetime and a half ago

next canopy
#

now i also want to to do serie to with pseudo phyrexia as the Shadow lands

proud osprey
#

guys how do i handle the evil vampiric conspiracies of baron vlademyr olgimsky

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like. how do i make it so that the players can suss out what the big bad vampire lord’s role is in everything. what kind of paper trail did he leave. how do they trace things

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he’s responsible for the plague and famine in deregost, one of the imperial provinces, and he rules the province to its north

proud osprey
#

had an idea for an extremely endgame item. the philosopher’s stone.

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it would allow for spell slot regeneration, using spells that were actions as bonus actions if desired, that sort of thing

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basically just a fucking BORKED mage nuke

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but it would have limited uses

flat gull
#

so is this just one adventure

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multiple adventures

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i'd look up "The Three clue rule"

proud osprey
#

basically there are elaborate plans in play here by the villains

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duchess corvarian, baron olgimsky, and lord vandrake

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glorattica in the east, smišia in the central north, and somewhere between those two in the mountains of dóth respectively

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aims are to destabilise and debilitate the empire in the wake of the late emperor’s passing, and then use that chaos, and the empire’s resultant weakness, to stage a hellish incursion of the lands of mortals

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primary means of doing so:

  • olgimsky is the reason that the plague and famine in the west is tearing that region apart
  • corvarian, though not killing the emperor, will be there when he dies and will have her forces mobilise from the east fairly promptly at the slightest hint of unrest.
  • unrest has been brewing in the east due to the crusade and the population there being a weird frontiersy mix, and there is talk of “the prophet king” from central/southern kazmi
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so the empire is basically gonna fold in on itself and splinter

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this, itself, is not necessarily a terrible thing, and the groundwork has been laid throughout the worldbuilding

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there’s civil unrest all across the west, including the plague and famine, and the east is still scared of raiders even after the crusade (reasonable ish), and the emperor is about to die

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but it won’t just go straight to shit

frail hull
#

So I guess the question is, do the players need to figure this out? Or is it just going to be stuff going on in the background?

proud osprey
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they don’t need to at all

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i’m just thinking i wanna leave it so that they can figure shit out

light moss
#

Hey how do I have 24 passive preception with this build?

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Another build that a friend is running also has proficiency in perception but they only have a passive perception of 19

modest echo
#

uhhhhhh

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I don't think that's supposed to happen

light moss
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If i have to guess, it must be related to the sentinel shield and the advantage it gives me to preception checks but I'm asking to make sure of it

modest echo
#

Oh yeah

modest echo
light moss
#

I See (preception 24)

tepid crane
#

More people should give their dungeon bosses a love of furniture

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Way cooler then just “you find a pile of gold in a chest”

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Steal their paintings and Endtables

deep rapids
#

if you pick a dragonborn and make them reborn they get necrotic breath instead of their original

next canopy
#

Good for Dungeon and Deltora Book 7 is stupidly easy to adapt... I still don’t know what they’ll fight in the Maze of the beast, but the core of the book was the pirat shenanigans.
Bad news for dungeaon and Deltora Book 8 is really hard to adapt caise most of it revolves around the mystery of the identity of the heir of the belt and it may depend on the pc group

dapper fulcrum
#

Its a pseudo avengers assemble too

next canopy
#

I mean i'll probably pull a TLOZ and make the palace it’s own dungeon woth Farrow as the boss somehow

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Maybe change Farrow to be like an actual Dragon and the Dread mountain one be like a wyrm or a knucker even

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(Like it want to be an actual dragon so it ammassed the riches of the dwarves or something)

dapper fulcrum
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I like it as a toad though

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Dragons have a different narrative vibe in deltora

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And Gellick is just an oversized Cane Toad that the aussie Rodda would have had some background with

next canopy
#

It also explain the undergroung spider and shifting swarm insect

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Yay I know for the gems dragpn but since i'm doing milestone xp, by book 8 the PC are level 8 and ot still dnd so when i think big scary monster i think dragon...

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(Replacing the Ol in the court by a black dragon thay gleefully fucked the country)

obsidian jasper
next canopy
#

Immagine you fight the dragon burst in the main court of the palace.Farrow say something like " You cure, you've been a thorn in my sode for too long" abd then big black cloud form above you red lightings inside. A voice booms from it cold and hateful "Farrow..." the dragon look up, fear in his eyes "Master ?" It muttered.

frail hull
#

I found this as a joke in another server, but you know what? Farscape is probably the best D&D campaign in space that I have ever seen.

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proud osprey
#

devised a prayer system for the gods of my world

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basically:

  • matching (or partly matching) alignments may pray to a higher power and expect a boon
  • level% chance for this to occur as long as the alignments line up
  • boons vary
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thinking the god of natural death would grant for that day advantage on death saving throws

tepid crane
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Seeems like a cool way to get non clerics to interact with the world’s religions

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Should probably add different requirements for each god to satisfy when praying to them

proud osprey
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of course

proud osprey
#

good incentive for me too to lock in some of the other gods, like stón and skay

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or the various nature spirits worshipped by the wood elves

tepid crane
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A rule for my games is that a god of oceans shouldn’t be worshipped in the same way as a god of the mountains

craggy cloak
#

i should play a religious cleric one day

tepid crane
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As opposed to a non-religious cleric?

craggy cloak
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Yeah thats all ive played

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specifically none of the mechanics of 5e cleric require any religion

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ive played a light cleric as a sun shaman, a knowledge cleric as a Vecna cultist (so i guess worship kinda? but more like wizard-but-undead-stuff), and a tempest cleric as just a dude with thunder powers

tepid crane
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This seems bizarre to me but cool

craggy cloak
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how so?

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its just another casting class and i like the spell list

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same as, idk, using a barbarian's rage as a silent samurai's focus

proud osprey
#

okay lads let’s think of those gods

#

improved imperial idolatry:

Vivis: Life
Timos: Time
Ruminus: Tides, Sea, Skies
Gerim: Agriculture and the Land
Palados: Bravery and Victory
Polimis: Community
Termina: Travel and Freedom
Intellius: Learning and Knowledge
Craeotis: Craft and Industry
Nilis: Natural Death
Naturna: Nature
Nebula: Fate and Fortune
Ordinus: Order, Law, Civilisation
Exogarus: Chaos, Disorder, Balance
Lanina: Chaos and Accidents
Amora: Love and Beauty
Alvoris: Art and Entertainment
Solumnis: Peace and Quiet

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Vivis: more potent healing perhaps?

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Termina: bonus to movement?

tepid crane
#

You could easily make your own homebrew or talk with your GM to use spells from the list in other classes if you just like the spell list

craggy cloak
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but im using all the class features, spells, and stats

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and i do not like homebrew

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i.e. for the light cleric shaman, i wanted Warding Flare, i wanted those exact spells and proficiencies, etc etc

flat gull
#

why do you need homebrew if nothing you use needs it

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and tbh none of those refluffs seem particularly out of field

pure elm
#

So apparently in 5.24, the distinction between magical and non magical BPS damage is confirmed gone now

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Ie monsters that have BPS resistance will just have blanket BPS resistance now

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And we also did not in turn get magical weapons dealing force or other types now, as some had speculated

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So martials just have to always deal with resistance now

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Unless you're a Monk I guess, because they just get to deal force damage with their unarmed now

proud osprey
#

dogshit design

proud osprey
proud osprey
#

thinking about the empire

proud osprey
#

thinking about the ancient elven city in the heart of the gostwood

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that grew in step with the natural world around it

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and eventually became a place of great shame due to decadence and infighting many hundreds, nay thousands, of years ago

stable falcon
# proud osprey dogshit design

That's been a factor of playing DnD since 3.5 but it's worse now because we got a tiny glimpse of sorta good design in 4e that Wizards has been trying to bury ever since.

sand hornet
#

Tbf that isnt entirely WotC's fault. There was a culture of hating 4e for some reason. For a while

craggy cloak
#

4e is not and was not without its faults, marketing included

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its my favorite edition but its launch had Issues for sure

grave hollow
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And there is the spongey early HP math.

sand hornet
#

WotC just embraced the culture for a while

craggy cloak
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yeah with the later fixed math its really a fun time

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and i genuinely like the printed adventure path

frail hull
#

I will say that part of the hate came from the jarring switch from 3.5 to 4th. It also felt very much mote like a MMORPG with the way powers were handled/labeled. I will say that labeling enemy types and the minion rules made gming easier.

craggy cloak
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4e DMG is still one of my favorite DMGs of all time

arctic yew
#

i was thinking of what to make of the crew of the ship that will carry my players across the seas to their next objective

what about

captain no-beard,the dwarf that chides away all forms of dwarven culture by both shaving his chin clean and being a sailor,as far away as possible from underground on the high seas

proud osprey
#

dope

frail hull
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Does he have to wear cork armour so he doesn't sink?

tepid crane
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Dwarfs are naturally buoyant

cosmic geyser
#

Counterpoint: Senshi

tepid crane
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He’s covered in metal

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And at least 100 lbs of monster meat

cosmic geyser
#

Touche

smoky notch
#

his hair makes him naturally magic resistant or something

pure elm
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it's because he hasn't washed it in a while

tepid crane
#

Well right and that’s why the water walking spell doesn’t work on him but I think in general dwarfs would be buoyant just due to shape and bmi

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Depends on how dense your dwarfs are though

arctic yew
proud osprey
arctic yew
#

more worldbuilding than a dnd question

....what would be the ramifications of a split sea that goes between two continents

about 20 meters wide

proud osprey
#

what

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a bridge

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a bridge would be the ramification

arctic yew
#

wh

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no

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like

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i will just

use azeroth to illustrate my point

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how would you bridge between THIS

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God I word things horribly

its like

like if when moses split the red seas,that just became a permanent thing

modest echo
#

iiiiinteresting

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okay each side would start developing its own ecosystem more or less independently from that point

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but it wouldn't change too drastically since they're connected from the other side

proud osprey
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i’d pee in both

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people would start peeing in both

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to be like “ha ha, i did the thing”

arctic yew
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trade routes would be

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incredibly fucked,i imagine

grave hollow
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Good news, there's a new trade route that's easier than ship travel!

arctic yew
#

Between those two continents,yes

But what about the rest

proud osprey
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build a city there

mellow rivet
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how wide is the split? Because a big enough ship might be able to use bump over it

frail hull
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Had a world building question come up in another discussion. At what point does a setting go from apocalyptic to post apocalyptic? And when does it go from post apocalyptic to normal I guess? When the last person that remembers the old world dies? Or when the records are lost?

arctic yew
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The difference between apocalyptic and post apocalyptic is

Is it currently happening

Are people still in the process of dying in droves,or are they living in a destroyed wasteland

frail hull
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Good points, when would say a world moves past the PA phase? For context this started because my GM disagrees with the new DMG calling Dark Sun PA due to how long ago the dragons messed the world up, with new civilizations and culters forming since that time.

arctic yew
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thats a pretty dumb point

fallout is like,the default post apocalyptic setting in the minds of the people and we have the NCR,shady sands,diamond city. hell,even the legion is about as advanced as the DS societies irc

mellow rivet
grave hollow
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My favorite post-apocalyptic setting is Creation from Exalted

mellow rivet
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Post apocalyptic is definitely a spectrum. If people are hanging onto the past, wearing scraps and fighting over ruins, that's more PA, and if they're making new stuff and growing their culture it's less so

arctic yew
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that seems fun

spice hornet
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It does show how the world can change, sometimes unrecognizably, but life persists in new forms.

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Old Fallout games are also better at showing off the idea that society will begin anew and will often run into very similar issues. That series gave people less than a century before they went back to building new settlements, and about two centuries to recreate a state.

Things moved on, and pretty quickly. People don't generally want to live in filth, peril and squalor forever, and will try to improve their quality of life however they can manage it

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Now, the distinction sometimes goes from post-apocalyptic and post-post-apocalyptic, but that's semantics. Anytime after the apocalypse can be described as such, but at a certain point it can cease to be defined by the apocalypse and more just a new era with new people and new struggles

tepid crane
frail hull
spice hornet
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It's got a lot of that early 2010s kinda humor and affect. I find it charming but others may not

proud osprey
frail hull
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At only 60 meters across that sea, I'm imaging things like the barges on the Mississippi. Or small ferries

lament geode
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We have uhh, a LARP that's post-post-apoc in a way

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and we've come up with our own definition

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Apocalyptic: The world is actively going to shit, civilization is crumbling, all semblance of order is lost.
Post-Apocalyptic: The world is starting to rebuild, civilization is beginning to order itself, but it's still rocky
Post-Post-Apoc: The rebuilding has gone on long enough that it's no longer REbuilding, but something brand new coming from the ashes.

tepid crane
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Basically every dnd setting is post-post-apocalyptic. Like whole civilizations have collapsed so many times in order to have all these dungeons that there’s some sort of great filter theory going on.

proud osprey
frail hull
arctic yew
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and then the

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potentially futuristic/beyond time mindflayer fallen galactic empires

grave hollow
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Silly Recursive Illithids

ashen hollow
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I think two good points for where a setting is no longer post-apocalyptic is when 1) the average person's concerns are no longer immediate death by violence or scarecity
Or 2) society's culture is no longer strictly looking back at what was lost and instead looking to define their own great monuments, ideals, and stories

frail hull
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One series I just remembered was the Shinaria series. That setting would normally be considered post apocalyptic by us, with the series taking place in the ruins of our world, but to the characters that isnjust the world now. Planet of the apes works in a simular way I belive.

cosmic geyser
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Yeah the Planet of the Apes films (with the exception of the original Rise trilogy) is only post-apocalyptic from the point of view of the humans. To the apes, it’s just life.

arctic yew
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i think that the dark sun setting is

always post apocalyptic since it is more or less defined by it's incredible lack of resources

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immediate survival will never stop being the main goal of their societies

tepid crane
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Yeah it’s a pretty straightforward analogy of industrialism and poisoning the world so it’s going to be a shithole until people stop killing all the plant life just to move up the ladder.

proud osprey
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i’m want play

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deeendee

prisma sluice
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I require advice

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Playing in a gestalt game, I'm trying to decide what I wanna play as

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It's down to either a Warlock/Paladin, Warlock/Sorcerer, Artificer/Fighter, or Artificer/Wizard

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What say ye lot

dapper fulcrum
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Whats a mage

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Whats the char concept

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Whats the setting

prisma sluice
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Character concept is a living suit of armor spellsword, setting is a great big dead jungle that people are exploring to try and figure out what in the fuck happened

dapper fulcrum
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Artificer Fighter

prisma sluice
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It would be the most traditional martial of the lot

sand hornet
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Just used Steel Wind Strike for the first time on my Bladesinger

dapper fulcrum
prisma sluice
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The most anime bullshit spell in all of D&D

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I wanna use it so fucking bad someday

arctic yew
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is a tragedy

rapid finch
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Idle question for everyone who cares to answer: Which pronunciation for "tabaxi" do you use, ta-BAX-ee or tah-BAHSH-ee?

dapper fulcrum
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former

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ta-baks-si

rapid finch
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A fox finds that the latter pronunciation just seems to flow better.

spice hornet
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I'll be a contrarian and throw in ta-box-si

tepid crane
frail hull
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Artificer/ rougue make yourself a magical gun and learn the true meaning of sneak attack at range

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Could flavor it as a finger gun built into yourself

prisma sluice
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Lmao that'd be funny

dapper fulcrum
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Turn your head into a gun

proud osprey
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got d&d tomorrow

arctic yew
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Weirdest question

Anyone got a good picture for a time-sword

proud osprey
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my friend has made the foolish mistake of running the game

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i will be playing a minotaur fighter (eldritch knight) for this one shot

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do i find familiar or do i charm person (i am starting in jail)

arctic yew
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can you have pre-cast find familiar

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if not,charm person

proud osprey
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charm person is what i’ll take

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idk if i’m gonna be able to get the incense

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witch bolt, shield, charm person, thinking fire bolt and toll the dead

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this guy might be fucking unkillable

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thinking of taking tough

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40 HP at level 3 doesn’t hurt

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two bound weapons i can summon at will while in prison

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a good number of spells

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a minotaur with horns

lament geode
arctic yew
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I am aware of ekko

I love his aesthetic,but the giant popsicle doesn't mesh well with the "sword made by the primordial god of time that absorbs the lifespan of the people it kills" thing I have in mind

lament geode
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Fair, I just heard Time Sword

flat gull
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A tale of Souls and Swords, Eternally Retold

frail hull
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SOUL CALIBER!!

errant prairie
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alright
i think my ranger revision should be done
i got inspired by BG3's ranger then added a bit more roleplay sided functionality and moved some underwhelming features around
everything that isn't specified in the google doc stays the same
the last optional feature is what is unfinished but since i'm stuck, i want to make sure at least that everything else is fine

anyone who wants to help, feel free to leave comments on the doc or just reply to this

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YuyfQZdMHj9y1X_1com47SGMy5joJTin4haZKUdsLeU/edit?usp=sharing

Google Docs
Fbaul Revised Ranger:

Fbaul ranger revisions. Favored Enemy 1st-level Ranger feature Through rigorous training, you’ve honed your skills in tracking, understanding, and battling certain types of foes. At 1st level, choose a Favored Enemy from the list below. This choice grants you the following benefits: Skill Profic...

arctic yew
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Make a locathah rogue,call that shit the bass witouth a trace

proud osprey
worthy plank
proud osprey
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bass sans-trace

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that’s his name

pure elm
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It keeps being equally funny and frustrating to me how much people online argue about the new Hide rules

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They are really stupid, but people just keep reading stuff into it that's not there

proud osprey
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what’s the new ruling

pure elm
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So basically the way it works now
When you take the Hide action, which you still need to be behind cover or heavily obscured to do, you make a DC 15 Stealth check
On a success, you become Invisible
Until you attack, cast a spell, deal damage, or get found by someone by making a Perception check against your Hide result

proud osprey
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okay tbh

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that sounds like decent enough design

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like i don’t hate this. not in love

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but it’s good enough to work in 5e

errant prairie
proud osprey
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the original ruling was fine of like

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beat enemy passive perception

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or arbitrary DM-chosen DC that’s appropriate

tepid crane
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wait like magically invisible until spotted?

mellow rivet
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Not literally invisible, but they don't know where you are so it's the same as being invisible

pure elm
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as written

proud osprey
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basically the invisible condition

pure elm
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the spell and the Hide action have the exact same wording actually
both just say "you gain the Invisible condition"

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but this does in effect mean you can now Hide behind cover, become Invisible, and then when someone walks around the cover you continue being hidden because you're Invisible so they can't see you

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you can even move around like this too

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until someone makes an active check to find you, or you break it yourself, you continue being Invisible

arctic yew
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yeah no thats

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objectively stupid

craggy cloak
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i prefer it tbh i didnt like trying to work around original hiding stuff

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just Invis and go, ez pz

proud osprey
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eh

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too skyrim

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i already think stealth, the way it tends to be used, is shit

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i am personally halfway tempted to stop letting players roll stealth themselves and doing it behind the screen,

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or in their own rolls telling them “sure you attempt to hide”

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because you don’t know if you’re being hidden

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gonna take a crack at building some terrain shortly i think

tepid crane
proud osprey
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yeah same

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sorta

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the second part

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like unless you absolutely nail the numbers and then i’m like “yeah he’s fucking lying”

tepid crane
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Well if a NPC is lying and insight is rolled but the DC is not met then I would just tell the player “You don’t think they are lying.”

proud osprey
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i hit em with a “sure”

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like

tepid crane
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They have no idea if they rolled over or under the DC but if the character is fairly smart then I guess they would assume they are right.

proud osprey
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“come, friends, let us dine tonight on a great feast to celebrate your victory”
“seems sus. insight check. 12”
“seems legit”

tepid crane
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I would rather roll the insight check for them and ask their mods unless it’s an opposed check where I hide the NPCs score

proud osprey
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back to sorting lego for me

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good d&discourse for now tho

craggy cloak
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I will always support players rolling, i want to minimize the amount of times i roll as dm

proud osprey
tepid crane
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Okay so I have this mega dungeon I’ve talked about before. It’s 4 castles stacked on top of each other in a swamp and I’ve ran into a problem. How could I make flooded areas on the third castle but keep the fourth castle relatively dry?

craggy cloak
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water elementals on strike

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magic mirror tied to a water source malfunctioning, or frog folk moved in with it

tepid crane
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I don’t follow on how any of these stop water from leaking/flooding down into the 4th castle

craggy cloak
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Magic water, so it doesnt need to follow the rules

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You could have the flooded areas slightly lower than the entrances/exits between floors?

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so it forms a sort of lake

proud osprey
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water flowing upwards into the land

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some kind of magical effect that’s maybe not a big deal in the grand scheme of the megadungeon’s ecology but has drastic effects for the terrestrial ecology

craggy cloak
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yeah dungeons are a fun place to mess around with that sort of stuff

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old castle had a small portal to the elemental plane of water for the lord's convinience? well oops its been abandoned for a few decades and that shit needs a plumber

arctic yew
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Hey I need some ideas

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My players are hopefully on the next session gonna find a invitation

That invitation is for a magical restaurant that constantly changes location,and also the only way to find it

How should it lead then there

craggy cloak
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the invitation folds itself into an elegant origami bird/animal to lead them

tepid crane
proud osprey
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i’m thinking i may play some solo D&D tonight after i go do my grocery shopping

lament geode
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Okay

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The 2024 DM's guide is actually really fucking solid

sand hornet
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I finally got a slot in the module I've been wanting to play 😌

sand hornet
lament geode
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It gives solid advice on handling inter-player conflicts

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and isn't just "here's mechanics"

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Lots of stuff about respecting players and social contracts

sand hornet
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Fair

lament geode
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It's the kind of stuff a DM really needs to learn rather than just being a mechanical guide, which is important

proud osprey
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i think the DMG should basically be two halves

  1. running the game
  2. running the game
lament geode
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Yeah, the entire first chapter is "How to interact with other human beings in a respectful manner while playing D&D"

proud osprey
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shame that has to be written tbh

lament geode
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I mean honestly

proud osprey
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i think if i end up making a DMG at all for journeyman, that’ll all be covered in the introduction as succinctly as possible

lament geode
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my autistic ass would have appreciated that chapter when I was first learning

proud osprey
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i am not the prospective players’ father, nor really any authority or responsibility in their life. they and their friends are to establish the same boundaries and respect that they would extend to each other normally, and the same should go for players who are otherwise not so close

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but i also doubt journeyman will need a GM guide

tepid crane
lament geode
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It should

craggy cloak
arctic yew
# lament geode

Man,that just

Makes me want to play a evil character again

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I never got the opportunity to

proud osprey
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i would raise a mighty army as a lawful evil character

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and seize the throne

craggy cloak
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one of my favorite characters was evil

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I really wanted to do the "monster who hunts monsters" angle and have a spicy relationship with other party members

proud osprey
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one of my characters was evil

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oh mine was just an evil shitbag

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chaotic evil really

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hated gnomes

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dwarf with gnome beef

arctic yew
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I don't even want to go that far

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Just

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"leader of a crime syndicate"

Not any plans for world domination

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Just make money being evil

craggy cloak
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yeah mine was just a cultist who found themselves stuck with the party to kill a vampire

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raised the fun question of "can a cultist of vecna and an agent of the raven queen work together"

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which was fun because the moment the vampire was dead, the dm let us pvp

arctic yew
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Also,I want some opinions on a DND character Idea I had

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Barbarian

Noble background

Haughty,prim and proper 90% of the time
Psychotic Murder blender during rage
Like, she fights with a little rapier normally

but then the giggling starts

and gets progressively worse

until the rapier dissapears,two axes come out and you have a crazed maniac running at you in a dress worth more than your house covered in blood screaming some borderlands psycho tier lines

arctic yew
craggy cloak
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they did indeed work together from levels 2 to 10

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very tentatively

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then after we killed the vampire we faced off and my cleric was left for dead </3

arctic yew
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Damn

proud osprey
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that goes kinda hard tho

tepid crane
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sounds about right

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I've seen a few parties turn on each other once it comes time to divy up the loot or the big bad is dead

craggy cloak
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it was neat because we had asked permission to do it at character creation, and finally getting to pull it off felt so sweet

proud osprey
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realising that the party of seven, four of whom work towards different goals but all of whom allied to fight the dragon

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are now victorious

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and it’s only a matter of time before someone makes the first strike

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could be right now as we rummage through the coins

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could be while we sleep on our way back through Rannock Stead

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could be they slip out with the artefact this very moment

arctic yew
smoky notch
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it's gas

lament geode
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First session of my Dragonlords game is today

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very hype

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My party is:
-Water Genasi Divination Wizard, Demigod, son of Pythor, the God of Battle. Pythor's ex-wife and adopted sister killed his mother in jealousy.
-Thylean Medusa Druid, Circle of Stars, Cursed one path, cursed to be a Medusa and hunted by her once lover, who is unaware of who she is.
-Goliath Barbarian/Bard, a warrior-philosopher with the visage of a moving marble statue, alabaster skin and well-maintained physique.
-Thylean Minotaur Barbarian/Monk, cursed to be a minotaur by Sydon rather than being born as one, he seeks to end the curse and prove his worth.

flat gull
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let's gooo

frail hull
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You know. At first I thought the steady aim feature of the new rouge was kind of not great, until I built one with sharp shooter and a long bow...that is just a mean combo. Especially once you get the ability to knock someone prone with a sneak attack die.

proud osprey
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i may play some solo d&d tonight if i wrap up sorting now

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ima do it

arctic yew
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Hey anyone know a good way to upgrade item magical items

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Like,I want to have my players invest in upgrading their weapons rather than

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Replacing then

proud osprey
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solo d&d update: things looked pretty fuckin bad there for a second, but we prevailed. at level one, i slew like. four spiders in one turn due to a mix of Cleave and Great Weapon Master and a crit

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shit was crazy

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so marx was able to protect his hunting buddy (useless), peyton, and his newfound ally in distress (less useless on paper but still got hit real bad from the spiders), linhart

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we are currently taking a diversion from our hunting trip to seek out hilde, linhart’s lady friend who was taken during the night

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by a phase spider ooooooooo

tepid crane
proud osprey
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we also found 50 gp and a potion of mage armour among the bodies in this spider den

proud osprey
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doodled

IMG_1306.jpg
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might play some more

craggy cloak
arctic yew
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Kinda

craggy cloak
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The slumbering dragon items are a nice weird way to do upgrades on a magic item without making a whole new ruleset imo