dnd-discussion

[uncut zenith]

It makes sense imo, considering their lore is so tied to the setting

Otherwise they’d just be robots

Also, Kalashtar weren’t in MotM either for the same reason

[crimson gulch]

yeah i just realised that

problems arise when folks see every single option in a drop down menu and dont know where they come from

[inner silo]

What are Kalashtar?

[uncut zenith]

Their base written lore was just too tied to the setting, it wasn’t worth trying to rewrite them to be more setting agnostic when they’re so iconic to the world of Eberron

[uncut zenith]

They’re a species of people who have an innate connection to a dream spirit called a “quori”.

So they have innate psionic abilities, but they’re dependent on the connection they have with the dream spirit.

[inner silo]

Sound pretty cool!

Thanks for telling!

[lean wigeon]

i love hyenas

[sharp fulcrum]

This might be wrong place

Has anyone looked into a the projector map.and if so all I need hypothetically is laptop and a projector and just projector what ever map.i want from what ever ttrpg site I perfer? (cause I can just use my TV for sound and I have a light changer in my room)

[clear lark]

I just watched a video,posted four years ago, of Jeremy Crawford explaining that even if you can see Invisible, you have disadvantage, because you are only seeing a slight shimmer like cloaking. It was called something like "Sage Answers". He went on to say that only Fairie Fire, allows you to actually see the person to hit them without a disadvantage

[marble lion]

Owlbear Rodeo my beloved

[sharp fulcrum]

Aye my go to

I hate the newer version I mis the old one honestly

[lyric viper]

Yep. Because it's more like seeing the alien in 'Predator' where you can see the blur of where they are. Which apparently is the explanation as to why See Invisibility lets you target invisible creatures (because you can see them), but doesn't nullify the 'disadvantage to hit' part of the condition.

[marble lion]

i dont get that

[foggy raft]

Has anyone played the Borderlands D&D thing? bunkers and badasses?

[still plover]

Can be done. You run up Owlbear or Roll20, move the tokens around. Might be a trick to get a clear image and enough light in the room, but I don't know what modern home projectors are like.

[sharp fulcrum]

U can use almost any projector and obs it seems like but if this is case i might just get a projector

[robust acorn]

Did 2024 change anything about paladins? In my last session the Paladins find steed mount did an other worldly slam attack while being a controlled mount. Is that possible?

I couldnt find a section in the new handbook that addresses controlled mounts.

[slow island]

Page 26

The Initiative of a controlled mount changes to match yours when you mount it. It moves on your turn as you direct it, and it has only three action options during that turn: Dash, Disengage, and Dodge. A controlled mount can move and act even on the turn that you mount it.

[still plover]

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/br-2024/playing-the-game#MountedCombat

[robust acorn]

I have the book on the dndbeyond app and cant see page numbers. Do you know the heading of the section?

[slow island]

Combat in chapter 1

[robust acorn]

ok thanks

[old sluice]

Technically right. The invisible condition gives disadvantage on attacks against you regardless of whether or not the attacker can see you

As a result, see invisibility is kind of a useless spell.

The only meaningful effect is that you become able to target the invisible creature with spells

[atomic kayak]

this is definitely not true

[slow island]

you can ask this in #dnd-rules but as far as i understand it the mount can use its slam when the rider is incap or not riding it during the combat

[robust acorn]

I didn’t realize we had a rules channel. Nice.

[slow island]

but others might know more because my paladin in our group doesnt use its mount in combats

[robust acorn]

We found it. It’s in the combat mounted combat section. They can’t attack while controlled.

[somber mesa]

I just realized Armorer also lost this entire bullet point:

The armor attaches to you and can't be removed against your will. It also expands to cover your entire body, although you can retract or deploy the helmet as a bonus action. The armor replaces any missing limbs, functioning identically to a limb it replaces.
On the bright side, Guardian doesn't have limited uses of THP per day. It just requires being bloodied now.

[slow island]

like the teleport bonus action is nice to get out of a risky situation with the rider on top but the base rules say it cant use a bonus action so better ask in rules channel

[atomic kayak]

They don't however need to function as a controlled mount

[uncut zenith]

The only things that were lost from this bullet point are largely flavor anyways. Needing to use a BA to remove your helmet only mattered when Artificers had special helmet infusions, and as far as missing limbs go, the Prosthetic Limb Magic item exists now, so… another not big deal imo.

[somber mesa]

the removal of it expanding to cover your body at least means people can't argue against you wearing magical boots

[rugged hawk]

Dangit, I wish my Helm of Underwater Action had an ability like that. Enemies always trying to just yank it off my head so I drown.

Actually, that gives me an idea. If I put a minor curse on it, no one can forcibly remove it.

Welp. Guess I gotta go research how to curse an existing magic item now.

[uncut zenith]

I don’t think there are any official rules for cursing magic items in-character

The curses applied on magic items are a DM tool, not really a PC tool

[daring moon]

was there no announcement for the Forgotten realms Q&A? don't see it in server announcements or dnd announcements

[ivory shale]

Hi

[old sluice]

How do your enemies know you need that helm to breathe?

[uncut zenith]

You mean this one? #dnd-announcements message

[ivory shale]

Anyone have experience with hombrewing?

[old sluice]

And how will you eat? Wash your face? Treat wounds?

[uncut zenith]

Plenty of people here do. We even have a channel dedicated to it #homebrew

[rugged hawk]

With difficulty disadvantage, I assume.

[old sluice]

In Tyranny there's a guy who is forcefully fused with his armor. He smells like death itself, cannot treat his wounds, and must adapt to eat. Not to mention waste management

[ivory shale]

I wanted to run a fallout themed game.

But i think i should change lot of the classes

[old sluice]

It's a miracle he's not dead of infection

[ivory shale]

Like guns and stuff and rads

[old sluice]

I'd recommend using another game, D&D is quite unsuited for that

[ivory shale]

Other games?

[old sluice]

Try Cyberpunk or Shadowrun. I think both have rules for radiation

[uncut zenith]

There are other TTRPGs better suited for playing something reminiscent of Fallout. Including the official Fallout TTRPG itself.

[old sluice]

I did not know there was a fallout ttrpg

[uncut zenith]

Yep

[rugged hawk]

Actually, eating shouldn't be an issue https://i.imgur.com/BGtnd0r.jpeg <helm of underwater action

[old sluice]

Forget what I said about Shadowrun and Cyberpunk

[ivory shale]

Theres other games like DnD?

[old sluice]

Oh yeah that's alright then

[uncut zenith]

Yes. D&D is one of endless tabletop RPG games.

[ivory shale]

I thought DnD is the only one ngl

[old sluice]

Well your hair will be a horrifying mess though

[uncut zenith]

D&D is only one of the most popular, but there’s a TTRPG out there for almost everything you can imagine. Especially when it comes to “nerdy/geeky” IPs.

[ivory shale]

And Pathfinder iirc

[rugged hawk]

My hair would be a horrifying mess regardless because SEAWATER

[old sluice]

Expect an infection on the right ear too

[ivory shale]

I'm gonna check in with my players. Thanks guys

[uncut zenith]

D&D 5E is best at its base for heroic fantasy, but any time I think of someone wanting to do something more sci-fi leaning, I always suggest exploring other options. It can be hacked for other genres, but imo the more you stray from heroic fantasy, the better you are exploring other games.

[old sluice]

Just so you know:
Just about everything has a TTRPG.
Want to play high society courtship intrigues in a Jane Austen-inspired setting? Good Society.
You like Lovecraft? Call of Cthulhu
Urban fantasy gothic horror? Vampire the Masquerade
Epic mythological conflicts? Exalted

Find a genre, I will find a TTRPG

Any time you want to do something other than heroic fantasy, avoid D&D

[clear lark]

It may as well be. Other than superhero rpg's, I see no reason to play any other unless it's OSR/OCR

[uncut zenith]

It’s not impossible to hack 5E into another genre, but if you don’t mind spending money on another TTRPG, you’re making a lot more work for yourself by choosing to homebrew instead.

[ivory shale]

One of my players said why do they need to learn different games when you can just reskin dnd?

[uncut zenith]

Because reskinning D&D to fit other games can be a lot of work

[old sluice]

That statement is... Ignorant is the kindest word I can think of

[uncut zenith]

And honestly, other games out there are easier to learn than 5E

[idle oar]

Because sometimes the effort to get to the kind of game you want to play is more work than just using a game that has been designed from the get go for that type of game.

[shy stirrup]

Evertying, you might say, is a reskin of D&D to greater or lesser extent, but yea why reinvent the wheel if someone else has already done it

[uncut zenith]

D&D may be the most popular TTRPG out there, but it’s definitely not the easiest to learn.

[old sluice]

D&D cannot do Good Society or Call of Cthulhu or Shadowrun or Vampire the Masquerade

[shy stirrup]

And as noted, somebody else has likely done it

[raw ocean]

I think of it as cars, sure you can put an 8 cylinder engine into a Honda civic, but why not just buy an 8 cylinder engine car?

[old sluice]

There is no amount of reskinning that will make D&D do better than horribly at being Cthulhu

[uncut zenith]

If it works for people to just hack D&D, great, I’m not gonna discourage you. That being said, I’m not gonna discourage anybody from trying other games that are better suited for what you’re looking for instead.

[clear lark]

That's because D&D is still AD&D, with the "A" removed. It's not "Basic" D&D which came out six months earlier, and was much more simple and easier to apply.

[old sluice]

I'd go farther. This is an attempt to turn a Honda civic into a schoolbus. Or a bicycle

[raw ocean]

Exactly

Some TTRPG's just run different, no matter how hard you try

[ivory shale]

Noted

[raw ocean]

Even D&D has multiple versions of itself that are crazily different to learn

I just started a 3.5 campaign and learned that clerics get two domains

[uncut zenith]

Hacking D&D is often times a lot of additional work for the DM, who already has a lot of work to do

[raw ocean]

(I took time and portal)

[old sluice]

Most RPGs eventually go through multiple editions, that's normal

[raw ocean]

Exactly, That's why im saying if you wan't to do something, just find the version or TTRPG for it

[old sluice]

Vampire the masquerade is on its fifth, Exalted on its third, Shadowrun on its sixth...

[uncut zenith]

Yeah, it’s very common for TTRPGs to get new editions. Either because the current edition isn’t selling anymore or because it got too convoluted/messy to use anymore.

[old sluice]

Saying all rpgs are a reskin of D&D is as nonsensical as saying that a bullet train is a reskin of a horse chariot, though. Just because the base principle is still "wheels go fast" does not make something a reskin

[inner silo]

What's the best aasimar transformation in the mordekainens version

[marble lion]

actually

[inner silo]

For rogues

[marble lion]

both horses and trains are just anime girls so they are quite literally reskins yeah

[clear lark]

the one that flies for a whole minute before a long rest. lol

[inner silo]

Alrighty

They'll get fixed in 6e

[old sluice]

I would honestly be fine if the next D&D edition just removed flight from PCs altogether. No flight spell, nothing. Get friendly with a pegasus

[crimson gulch]

nah, flight has been a spell since forever, its fun

[marble lion]

i like flying

[crimson gulch]

flying players are in so much danger, a level 1 fairy wizard flew up 30 feet, a goblin shot her, instant death to 3d6 falling damage when on 0 hp

[clear lark]

To this date, do we know how high you can actually fly with a spell or ability?

[old sluice]

It's fine, but I think the game is tactically more fun if you remain bound to the ground.

[uncut zenith]

Honestly aasimar only getting a minute of flight isn’t the end of the world to me. How many times between a long rest does an average PC find themselves needing more than a minute of flight?

[marble lion]

it also makes sense

[inner silo]

It would remove a lot of flavour from aasimar and especially dragonborn

[crimson gulch]

nah, super fun times happen when everyone is flying

[marble lion]

dragonborn can fly?

[clear lark]

ten minutes!

[marble lion]

must be a subrace or something

[hidden briar]

Hi, sorry to bother you, but does anyone know the slogan for DND, please? It's for an assignment.

[crimson gulch]

2024 dragonborn can fly

[old sluice]

? Dragonborn can't fly

[uncut zenith]

They get a temp flight speed in 2024

[crimson gulch]

the worlds greatest roleplaying game

[stoic obsidian]

I wish soul knife psychic blades were better

[hidden briar]

thank's

[old sluice]

Oh. Really now? How do I keep missing these things?

[clear lark]

Assimar were ripped off. lol

[inner silo]

2024 ones can

[crimson gulch]

the new players handbook is nearly 400 pages, easy to miss a few things

[stoic obsidian]

It doesn’t scale like magic weapons

[old sluice]

Oh yeah spectral wings. Bayle style

[crimson gulch]

I have ran over 400 sessions with the new Players handbook so far, overall i like it

[inner silo]

They should be able to like absorb/mimic magic weapons perhaps

[stoic obsidian]

What your opinion on soul knife rogue?

[old sluice]

(Bayle is an elden ring boss notable for having arguably the most cinematic fight in the game. In his second phase, he roars and gets spectral wings made of fire lightning)

[crimson gulch]

its the worst rogue subclass in the new PHB in my opinion. any subclass that gives you an item is going to have scaling issues when get a better weapon and all of a sudden your subclass is like not being used

[stoic obsidian]

Or just scale, like extra damage at certain levels

[stoic obsidian]

I agree, it should have extra damage to at least keep up in that way

[inner silo]

It'll still miss out on the additional features of magic items i think. Could also let them in addition to scaling create and throw them with only your mind, without hands

[stoic obsidian]

Tho they do work with items that increase weapon damage like (blood fury tattoo) since it count as a simple weapon

[inner silo]

Ah, right

[inner silo]

Then yeah, just give it scaling and more abilities around the blade

Because right now it feels like one of the features, not the soulknife feature

[stoic obsidian]

Also homing blade kinda solve the hit problem kinda

Tho you can attack twice

With them

But yeah psychic blades is meh

Best use is for rend mind

Or you stuck somewhere without your gear

[inner silo]

Also it's probably the coolest subclass thematically i think

[stoic obsidian]

Psycho Rogue is always cool

[inner silo]

Their soul knifes should be the same as the mage hand for arcane trickster i think

[stoic obsidian]

Yeah

I wanted to play it, but psychic blades not being good, kinda makes me not want to play it now

[rigid lark]

hey, does anyone have any campaigns they would reccomend running? im in the middle of running waterdeep dragon heist, and have read through curse of strahd, any that ya'll would reccomend

[karmic pendant]

are you a new dm?

[rigid lark]

define new dm? ive run many one shots and short shots, am in the middle of my first long campaign that i ran

[inner silo]

You could ask the dm to just scale the die with levels and stuff

[harsh hinge]

How many hours of play have you run the game for?

[rigid lark]

um, alot, proboly somewhere between 60-100+

actully proboloy more

[harsh hinge]

Then you could probably handle Strahd, though I know it's not the easiest thing to run. But lots of folks talk highly of it.

[rigid lark]

ive read through it, seems cool but a bit to gothic for my personal taste

[karmic pendant]

there's also wild beyond the witchlight

[rigid lark]

oh ya, i recently got that and am planning to read through it soon

[harsh hinge]

CoS's one of the most popular 5e hardcover adventures. After that, it gets pretty idiosyncratic for who likes what.

[rigid lark]

nice vocab

hmmmm, is keys from the golden vault any good? ive heard you can run parts of it in ch 2 of waterdeep dragon heist

[harsh hinge]

I think the anthologies are, by their nature, a mixed bag. You can probably get better recommendations in #dm-discussion, as folks there may have more DM-centric insight.

[uncut zenith]

RIP Battlerager

[rigid lark]

i asked but they ignored me

[old sluice]

Keys from the golden vault is an anthology so it's unequal by nature

[crimson gulch]

never had one of those in any of my games

[old sluice]

Great ones, good ones, mediocre ones, terrible ones

[rigid lark]

what are the magority?

[old sluice]

Not sure there's any great one in keys from the golden vault

[rigid lark]

ah, thats a shame

[old sluice]

But there are good ones.

[uncut zenith]

It’s pretty bad. It’s a subclass that’s entirely built around a mundane piece of spiked armor, but never offers any features or alternative magic items to make the spiked armor stronger

[rigid lark]

good to know, is there a diffrent one youd reccomend?

[old sluice]

It is so bad in fact that your character might be stronger without a subclass

[old sluice]

Well you are almost done with Waterdeep so... Tomb of Annihilation might be a good continuation.

That or Out of the Abyss, if you're willing to work on it

[rigid lark]

wdym willing to work on it

also if i would be continueing the campaign then shouldnt i go with the mad mage one

[crimson gulch]

oh yeah im familiar with it, Pwent was the GOAT in the novels but no one ever took it in my games

[harsh hinge]

You can link any module to any other if you create the connective tissue. Plus, not every group wants a mega-dungeon.

[crimson gulch]

i had several 2014 brezerkers go to max level

[rigid lark]

True

[idle oar]

Mad Mage is just a giant mega dungeon crawl - It's not as story focused as other adventures.

[rigid lark]

Oh, that sucks

[crimson gulch]

i love the story thats emererged from the dungeon of the mad mage in my game, i ran dragon heist into it and its been a brilliant combination

so many different factions in there are toys to play with, and thats where the great story comes from, letting the players play with the toys that are present in the dungeon

[rigid lark]

Wdym by toys?

[crimson gulch]

theres so much happening in the dungeon of the mad mage, its like a box full of toys, so many things that do different things

[rigid lark]

Ooh

[uncut zenith]

I honestly think DotMM works better as a dungeon crawl first, the plot itself didn’t impress me much

[crimson gulch]

the story that has emerged is not a plot written in the book at all, its the combination of emergent factors and the players imput.
and that is magical

[idle oar]

If 3rd party is on the table, Dungeons of Drakkenheim really impressed me - took my party from Ghosts of Saltmarsh and tied it into DRakkenheim.

The players enjoyed it - delerium contamination, eldritch horrors, trying not to get lost in the deep haze...

[inner silo]

What do you think of telepathic as an arcane trickster?

[glass granite]

Fun

[inner silo]

Telekinetic i meant

Since it's kind of anti synergy but also synergy

[crimson gulch]

thats kind of how i run all my campaigns, i have ran or am running every 5e campaign book from Wotc (exept i havent started princes of the apocolypse yet) and the plot in any of these books is never what happens but the story that emerges as we play

[inner silo]

That sounds pretty cool ngl

[old sluice]

Out of the Abyss can be... shaky. It has a great concept but a less than stellar execution

[shy stirrup]

I've never encountered a published module I didn't want to change in one way, or another

[old sluice]

As a result it requires some work as a DM. Ambiance is everything

More work than average. Less work than it takes to make Storm King's Thunder work though

[idle oar]

Don't get me started on Princes of the Apocalypse...

[old sluice]

Better to avoid opening this Pandora's Box

[raw ocean]

I just got dragon's wrath, what dragon horde should I dip it in?

[idle oar]

What? Are you looking for AL rules about steeping? Check #adventurers-league

[raw ocean]

Oh basically just asking which dragon has the best breath

[idle oar]

Usually you just get the Dragons Wrath weapon from a specific dragon's hoard and thus has what it has

Ah okay

[old sluice]

On the third party ones... There's Dungeons of Drakkenheim, Odyssey of the Dragonlords...

[idle oar]

Force is always a fun one (Dragons Wrath weapon)

[old sluice]

Force is unresisted sure. But consider the form the breath takes. Cones and lines change your positioning

[raw ocean]

I see

[old sluice]

Wait nevermind it's always a cone

Then force is best. Followed by radiant, thunder, lightning, cold, necrotic, fire and poison

Poison is generally the worst damage type. It is well-resisted

Almost all undead, constructs and fiends are immune to it.

[frank gust]

hello how are you guys

[old sluice]

Also fun fact: did you know that by RAW, a petrified creature starves to death?

[rugged hawk]

Pretty sure a petrified creature ceases biological functions until un-stoned

[old sluice]

Nope!

RAW, they just die. If they can't breathe while petrified, then they'll suffocate to death in minutes

That's just the RAW. Of course no DM will likely play it like that. But the rules are clear

[raw ocean]

Im gonna find a time dragon

[old sluice]

Normally I would ask where. But in this case "when" is also a valid question

[rugged hawk]

Given you cease aging, become immune to poison, and completely turn to stone, it sure don't look like RAW petrification needs to breath or eat.

[clear lark]

Pretty sure none of that is true regarding Petrification. You are just an inanimate substance at that point.

[old sluice]

Actually that's exactly why RAW petrified creatures need to breathe and eat

[clear lark]

Sounds like they are confusing paralyzation with petrification

[old sluice]

Look at the petrified condition. Does it state the creatures no longer need to eat, drink and breathe? No. Therefore they still do. That's how RAW works

You should ignore it though

That's why it's just a fun thing

[rugged hawk]

It literally says they are an INANIMATE, SOLID STONE.

Clearly, they're not a creature at that point.

[empty thicket]

Question, the Sphere of Annihilation is even a good item?

[old sluice]

Actually yes, it is a creature. Because petrified is a condition that applies to a creature

[rugged hawk]

That depends, how's your mental stats?

[old sluice]

And to depetrify something, you might cast a spell that only applies to a creature

If the petrified creature is no longer a creature, the spell would not work

[atomic kayak]

unfortunately they very specifically are still a creature

[rugged hawk]

Clearly, biological time is effectively stopped while petrified. That's why they can't age or suffer from poison when petrified

[old sluice]

Normally you would be right! But the person who wrote the condition forgot to make it part of the rules. Therefore, RAW, they suffocate or die of thirst and hunger

[empty thicket]

i mean in general. I saw its a D100 and i dont get how it work in general that item. I read that deal 4d10force damage and for controlling it you should make a DC 25 INT (Arcana). Its that worth? it does something else?

[atomic kayak]

notably Praetor was just talking about the RAW

I'm fairly certain that when some petrified things have shown up in adventures they ignore the RAW even there

[empty thicket]

any roll under 50 is literally Gif of guy disappearing. So....

[rugged hawk]

It's literally 'Touch it and die', with the caveat that it homes in on whoever's nearest unless actively controlled at all times, and control can be stolen from you.

It's a great item, right up until you're in its path.

[old sluice]

Right up until someone with a better arcana check than you usurps control and uses it to kill you

[rugged hawk]

Exactly.

[still plover]

The Sphere doesn't technically have a mind... but some scholars say otherwise. Regardless, it definitely has an agenda. Two guesses what it craves.

[rugged hawk]

Also, Sphere of Annihilation is a good example of why the Negative Energy Plane is so deadly. There's landmass-sized CHUNKS of annihilation floating around the NEP which do the same homing and utter obliteration thing.

[north shoal]

Yo, I’m new to dnd. What is it like. I always kinda wanted to get into it

[rough basalt]

I think ima throw an occasional natural disaster at my Monday party

[vale sage]

"You must reside in eligible countries: USA, Canada, UK, Germany, or France."
quietly seethes in Australian

[north shoal]

How is everyone day btw?

[rough basalt]

Stuff happens and you sometimes roll dice for more stuff happening.

[rugged hawk]

It doesn't need a mind, it has an Idea: to C O N S U M E A L L

[north shoal]

Ohhhh, so it basically increases chances the higher the roll?

[rough basalt]

Yeah it's a system where you wanna roll as high as possible and you get modifiers that add or subtract to the roll

[old sluice]

It's not that scary though. Easy to dodge. Easy to usurp control. I wouldn't want to use it, but I'm not too scared of enemies using it

Unless you purposefully want to fail a save!

[rough basalt]

Usually add, subtract is only for stats you're not good in and what rolls those stats affect

[old sluice]

Very niche situation though

[north shoal]

Nice, so like how RPG games are

[rough basalt]

Best thing to do would be to read the rules on DnD beyond

[rugged hawk]

The real gamer play is to use the Sphere of Annihilation on the planet, not on a particular creature

[rough basalt]

As for how DnD plays it's very table dependent.

[old sluice]

The planet is not an object though

[marble lion]

Doesnt the spell specify youre inanimate?

[rugged hawk]

I mean, technically the world is one huge object

[rough basalt]

Some tables do a lot of social and planning.
Some tables are just combat gauntlets, some meet in thenmiddle

[marble lion]

Or rather, condition

[rugged hawk]

Yes

[rough basalt]

Some DMs like running world ending threats with Titan monsters like the Kraken, other DMs like running people

[marble lion]

Being inanimate means having no life

[old sluice]

Yes.

[marble lion]

You dont need to breathe if you arent alive

[clear lark]

Yeah, and specifically (usually Stone). Last time I checked stones don't drink or eat.

[old sluice]

That... Might be a good argument. Regardless, the precision would have been needed

[marble lion]

An inanimate thing has no processes required to stay alive

Its not needed imo

[old sluice]

Stone elementals do eat! Rocks most of the time.

[rugged hawk]

Turned to Inanimate Substance

[marble lion]

Specifying inanimate already is precise

[clear lark]

Elementals are not inanimate

[rugged hawk]

Also, it's very specific: petrification isn't just surface-level. It's SOLID. solid inanimate substance

So yeah, you're just one big non-living rock held in biological stasis.

[old sluice]

The problem is that the condition feels the need to say that the aging ceases. You know the rule, you say something if it's not obvious

[valid geyser]

I think if you’re assuming that a creature needs to state that it doesn’t need to eat/sleep/etc then yeah being petrified doesn’t state that

[old sluice]

If it isn't obvious that the aging process stops, then it also isn't obvious that the requirements of air, water and food stop

But yeah. The inanimate part... Is doing a lot of work but it works

[empty thicket]

so its a double edge knife

Okey okey, useful if you are sure you are going to encounter low int enemies but risky if any enemy try to take the control over it. Nice nice

[old sluice]

Honestly I just don't think the sphere is worth it

[rugged hawk]

Teleport enemies into Sphere, problem solved

[empty thicket]

Give invulnerability to the Fighter with throwing objects
Throw the sphere to the face of the BBEG like being in baseball.
BBEG cant even react.
Funnies

[rugged hawk]

There's no possible protection against SoA's on-touch obliteration, I'm pretty sure.

It's basically a You Stop Existing doomball with malevolence and a hunger to end all things

[empty thicket]

Damn.... then infinite size trashcan

[rugged hawk]

Which makes me wonder why SoA doesn't consume the atmosphere when it's around

[crimson gulch]

Anything else that touches the sphere but isn’t wholly engulfed and obliterated by it takes 8d10 Force damage.

[empty thicket]

"Where i throw this dead body?"
To the pit, all the things get lsot in the pit

[mighty kestrel]

I'm reading up on the planes of existence and am on the feywild/shadowfell. A lot of what I read is "creature x inhabits the feywild" and whatnot, but there's not much about how/if they've interacted. Are there groups that have beef with each other? Like the fey hate the shadar-kai or vice versa? Just trying to figure out if a conflict broke out who the most likely culprits on each side would be...

[old sluice]

It can indeed be useful to have one hidden in your home base. For garbage disposal

Garbage includes stuff like evil magic items

[empty thicket]

or a trap, the pit of annihilation

[rugged hawk]

Which brings me back to my question: Why doesn't SoA destroy the atmosphere? It's touching the atmosphere's atoms, which are, obviously, then being obliterated by it. This creates an obvious pressure differential which pulls in more atmosphere, which gets destroyed.....

[old sluice]

Not really. The Shadowfell and the Feywilds are just as disconnected from each other as they are from the material. More in fact

[clear lark]

It's an anomoly

that only affects matter, not gasses

[rugged hawk]

Gas is matter

[old sluice]

Gases are matter. But the answer is that fantasy writers generally failed physics in high school

[mighty kestrel]

Makes sense, thank you!

[clear lark]

solid matter

[empty thicket]

Make the ball of destruction into a creature, a mascot that is hungry and eat waste and stuff

[old sluice]

So liquids are unaffected? Good to know, i have a water elemental that can juggle with it then

[rugged hawk]

SoA is basically 'malevolent black hole', so logically, it should be vacuuming up the atmosphere

[empty thicket]

A cute furball of destruction

[clear lark]

I don't know if it affects liquid. Does the description say it does?

[marble lion]

Feed it goblins after midnight see what happens

[old sluice]

What about reactions? Fire elementals are also immune!

[marble lion]

And dont let it touch mead

[old sluice]

Shadows? Not matter. Immune.

[rugged hawk]

The sphere obliterates all matter it passes through and all matter that passes through it. Artifacts are the exception. Unless an artifact is susceptible to damage from a sphere of annihilation, it passes through the sphere unscathed. Anything else that touches the sphere but isn't wholly engulfed and obliterated by it takes 4d10 force damage.

[old sluice]

Which other creatures are not made of solid matter?

[marble lion]

Its magic

[old sluice]

Oozes?

[clear lark]

The 2024 version of the Sphere does 8d10 force damage

[marble lion]

"Anything else that touches the sphere"

So not just matter i guess

[scenic zinc]

Significantly better. 4d10 is a joke

[marble lion]

But rather anything

[past blaze]

still less damage than illithid tentacles

[rugged hawk]

Yes, but the important bit is that ALL MATTER part. Not SOLID MATTER, not LIQUID MATTER, ALL

[old sluice]

Jokes aside, for the purposes of a sphere of annihilation, air probably doesn't count as matter.

[rugged hawk]

Teleport SoA to bottom of ocean, watch ocean empty

[scenic zinc]

Why wouldn't it?

[old sluice]

Because then a sphere of annihilation present in the atmosphere would just destroy the world

[marble lion]

I dont think it refers to all space but rather things perceived by people in a fantasy setting as something

[rugged hawk]

Not all at once, but it'd slowly consume the atmosphere, yeah

[marble lion]

Its about essential theory probably

[clear lark]

Presumably if it affected gas, then it would obviously suck the air from area along with everyone or thing not anchored to something

[scenic zinc]

You're assuming physics is the same in a fantastical world as the real world

[marble lion]

Air and water are generally seen as empty spaces

[old sluice]

No. Which is why I am saying that air doesn't count as matter for a sphere of annihilation. That's assuming physics are not the same

[marble lion]

Maybe not water, but definitely air

[fossil summit]

Do you reckon the several gods that look over the material plane would allow any shmuck mage to destroy the world with one spell?

[scenic zinc]

Exactly.

[old sluice]

I am saying "Physics are not the same because if they were, this would happen"

[rugged hawk]

Yes, or have you already forgotten Karsus?

[old sluice]

It's not a spell actually

So the solution is simply that air does not count for the sphere.

But elementals do, because they're creatures

[rugged hawk]

Ackshually, that's not specified in RAW, so therefore, it must eat atmo

[halcyon forum]

that is not how things would work actually. if a sphere of anihilation is a physical object and not a vaccuum, it would not "suck" in the air

[clear lark]

It would not matter if they are creatures or objects, they are matter. Matter gets destroyed

[old sluice]

Of course, RAW, it does. But RAW is written by people who failed physics

Ignore them.

[old sluice]

No, fire elementals are fire. Fire is not matter, it's a reaction. Shadows are also not matter

[rugged hawk]

The total obliteration of nearby air molecules would itself generate the vacuum necessary as pressure differential.

[clear lark]

Where is it called an object? It's described as a "hole in the multiverse".

[clear lark]

Can you hit a fire elemental with a sword? If so, then they are matter

[rugged hawk]

Okay, we'll just ignore your petrification RAW nonsense 👀

[old sluice]

Yes. You should ignore it. It is nonsense that someone did not think of adding that they don't need air, food and water

[halcyon forum]

it would create a small amount of density differential sure but not a near vaccum.

[halcyon forum]

its a magic item

[old sluice]

You can't seriously have believed for a second that I thought it was good that, RAW, they die of starvation or suffocation?

[clear lark]

It's a hole, you can control with mental thought

[atomic kayak]

Especially not with you saying almost immediately to ignore it

[rugged hawk]

I'm not suggesting it would create a strong or even noticeable vacuum, but it should be at least very slowly consuming any available oxygen, especially if it's in a sealed place with no air supply.

[old sluice]

It could be an item but not an object though.

[halcyon forum]

all items are objects

[atomic kayak]

unfortunately no

[old sluice]

Are they?

[halcyon forum]

no?

[old sluice]

I'm not sure I ever saw a rule state that

[atomic kayak]

items include a wide range of things- including vehicles

(which are not a singular object)

[errant flicker]

I'm confused

[old sluice]

Oh yeah! An armor is a single magic item but multiple objects.

[halcyon forum]

okay but that is not an exception that is refuting my "not a vaccum" argument

[old sluice]

I'm not sure you understand why people are saying that realistically it would create a vacuum?

[halcyon forum]

I am saying it realistically wouldnt

not a significant vaccum

[old sluice]

Yes. But do you understand why people are saying it would create one?

[halcyon forum]

misunderstanding of how vaccums work?

[old sluice]

Whether or not you believe it to be a misunderstanding does not answer whether or not you understand what they are saying

[errant flicker]

depends entirely on dm, I'd believe it'd still operate on a "energy doesn't dissapear, it just transfers" otherwise you have something that would overtime become a big issue for every creature on that plane of existence

[marble lion]

do they ever actually specify that air in dnd is molecules and gaseous matter?

[old sluice]

Let's see... It's a two foot diameter hole so... Let me see if what kind of vacuum it would create

[marble lion]

considering more and more atoms would move into it, it would end up causing a whole lot more than that space though

[errant flicker]

where does it say that it creates a vacuum btw, I'm confused on this topic

[marble lion]

its about doing a little science thinking

a what if

[errant flicker]

Once more and it shouldn't have to be specified this much.

DnD is not a Physics simulatorrrrrrrr.

[marble lion]

yeah

[errant flicker]

magic stuff does what it does an no more than that

[marble lion]

its not that easy sometimes but i agree overall

[rugged hawk]

Well, duh. It's clearly a Bard child support speedrun challenge, not a physics sim

[old sluice]

Okay so if real life physics were applied... We're talking about 70 kg of air pumped into it per second.

[rugged hawk]

Oof, rest in no atmo

[old sluice]

Basically anything near the sphere is just torn apart by the wind before touching it.

We're talking supersonic speeds

[rugged hawk]

I knew it

Ah, but I have a solution Artifacts not explicitly damageable by SoA are immune to obliteration by it, so just get one bigger than the SoA and stuff the SoA inside it.

[old sluice]

That artifact would need to be completely hermetically sealed. But yes, that would work

[clear lark]

If you can keep it still, otherwise the Sphere passes through the artifact

[old sluice]

Now for the reminder: No that is not how the sphere works in actual D&D

[rugged hawk]

But it should

[stoic obsidian]

Theif reflexes on their rogue is interesting

You practically have a action surge per combat at the start

[eternal brook]

Hi guys me and my friend are new to dnd and trying to find a way to play online, how do we go about playing in this server or online at all because we have no DM

[old sluice]

Also I missed this one. Yes you can, but that doesn't mean they are matter. I can hit a flame with a sword, I can even extinguish a candle by swinging my sword at the flame. But fire is not matter, it's a reaction

It is a reaction that happens to matter though.

[stoic obsidian]

#dnd-newcomers might be what you are looking

[rugged hawk]

The elemental planes are obviously matter tho

[eternal brook]

well we know how to play we just dont know how to play online cause we have no DM

[old sluice]

Well yeah. Water, stone and air are all matter. Fire isn't, but my guess is that there is something that's burning

[orchid marsh]

all it takes is some one to step up and dm

[stoic obsidian]

You play online by using roll20, dndbeyond, owlbear, and spread sheets

[stoic obsidian]

But yeah get a dm first

[old sluice]

Truth is, we are employing concepts from an atomist conception of the world. Most likely D&D physics are continuists

[stoic obsidian]

#looking-for-players have dms recruiting players for their campaigns

Or you put up a looking for dm post in #looking-for-dm

Tho looking for players is quicker option

[old sluice]

(Atomism is the belief that matter eventually reaches a small, undivisible unit, the atom. Continuism is the belief that matter can be eternally divided. Element theory is that. Thales believed water was the single eternally divisible elemental substance, Heraclites believed it was fire, Anaximenes that it was air.)

My guess is that the physics of D&D are continuist and have multiple elements as the fundamentals. Air, fire, water, earth (which doesn't fit but nevermind), necrotic and radiant

[orchid marsh]

incrediblt interesting for a genesis society. maybe a fued that istead of being about religion but about existance

genasi

[old sluice]

Could be, actually!

[rugged hazel]

Is the new remastered 2024 adventures coming to Roll20?

[old sluice]

It's essentially what happened in real life between the philosophy schools of Greece. Well, to be fair, the continuists all argued that the atomists were idiots. Mostly because most atomists also believed the earth was flat, while continuists generally agreed it was a sphere

Can't be right on everything

[orchid marsh]

i feel like the discovery of the atom disproves flate earth tho with the gold foil expierments

[rugged hawk]

Then explain the elephants and the great turtle

[marble lion]

especially the turtle

[old sluice]

It's complicated. Epicurus, who was an atomist, argued that it was flat and that there was a universal "down" direction. And that all atoms fell towards that direction in a straight line. And that universes (yes, plural) existed because some atoms had been deviated, colliding with other atoms in chain reactions that resulted in multiple separate universes. All of whom were anomalies that would eventually disappear

And new universes would appear from the same anomalies, etc.

... Might actually explain the D&D multiverse...

[cursive pelican]

Helloooo I'm new here. Idk what's going on in here but looks like some deep dive stuff

[old sluice]

I got nerdy talking about greek philosophers and physics, don't mind me

[clear lark]

To be fair, the description of the Multiverse is just a model and in no way is representation of how it is intended to look.

[cursive pelican]

haha we're all nerds here, don't feel shy

[rugged hawk]

Long story short, Sphere of Annihilation destroys the atmosphere.

[orchid marsh]

im normally of an opinion that dnd an physics dont but also ive been caught up in forgotten realms thinking of planes and having realms prexisting gods instead of being their domain would be fun. like they are all just squatters

[clear lark]

speak for yourself. lol

[marble lion]

ok nerd

[cursive pelican]

Is playing a tabletop RPG as various different fantasy creatures not objectively nerdy?

[clear lark]

nope

[cursive pelican]

dang

[orchid marsh]

loving it

[rugged hawk]

It is. Bruce is still in the denial phase.

[cursive pelican]

ah that's okay bruce. you'll get through it. I'm here for you

[rugged hawk]

I'm here to enjoy popcorn at his delusions

[cursive pelican]

It's not easy accepting ones self as a raging nerd

[old sluice]

Eh, my nerdiness means philosophy teachers love me.

Or hate me. More often that actually

[cursive pelican]

kinda miss my student days

[clear lark]

I haven't opened a book since Graduate school. Well I did have to help my son with his studies growing up

[orchid marsh]

it was deffinatly easier finiding people to play dnd with during college

[cursive pelican]

a'ight roommates are calling me for some nerd time. was nice to meet ya fellas! toodloo

[rugged hawk]

Speaking of philosophy, see: #dnd-discussion message

[old sluice]

How dumb was that goblin?

[rugged hawk]

Average for a goblin, probably, but that was a maximized Int / Wis pair of spells I slapped him with

[orchid marsh]

anyone play through lost mines of phandelver and below?

[lean wigeon]

the idea of some peoples/ancestries being depicted as being less intelligent than other peoples/ancestries leaves a really bad taste in my mouth, even if it's under a fantasy context

[rugged hawk]

You can ICK all you want, species Int scores don't lie

[old sluice]

Yeah. Even when racial adjustment existed in 5e, nobody had a penalty

(Except in Volo's but it was promptly corrected)

[old sluice]

They don't but they also don't exist anymore

[rugged hawk]

I'm having a hard time hearing you over the 2 Int that dinosaur I fought yesterday had

[zinc hare]

With the material components in spells, are some of the rare gems used for stronger spells? I'm trying to find a list of uses for things like sapphires and diamonds but cant

[lyric idol]

Some races are just more unga bunga. You dont see humans going around throwing boulders and tripping giants by kicking their leg.

[orchid marsh]

its so setting specific. orc from LOTR or pretty dumb but have tons of con. you cant really have societies with bonuses without having some with negatives

even if it isnt a mechanical negative

[meager fractal]

kobolds still have 8 int (both the typical warrior and winged type) in the 2024 monster manual

[lyric idol]

Negatives dont hurt anything really. Just balance it. Orcs and half giants get their advantages from the start when humans to match their strength with magic take upwards of half their lifespan. Sure sorcerers and divine beings that make clerics exist but an Orc cleric can exist.

[old sluice]

Dinosaurs are one thing. Goblins are another. The T-Rex statblock is representative of an animal species. The goblin statblock represents only a goblin warrior

The archmage statblock can be any species. Including goblin

But not t-rex

[zinc hare]

What level should my party members be to recieve a crystal ball of storms do you think

[rugged hawk]

Level 1, nothing could go wrong.

[zinc hare]

Nahh that's when I give them the orb of dragonkind silly, different orb

[rugged hawk]

iunno what I'm looking at but I don't like it. <@&516370028053004306>

[north shoal]

Biggest lie every told lol

Everything goes wrong when your level 1 at anything

[zinc hare]

SOMEONE STOP HIM BEFORE HE MAKES A PROFIT

[old sluice]

Ignore the scammer.

[meager fractal]

<@&516370028053004306> spammer

[old sluice]

No need to ping the mods. Use the alert mod thing. And post in #moderator-support if it's urgent

[meager fractal]

oops didn't see that you'd already been pinged sorry

[cinder timber]

how is everyone doing?

[zinc hare]

Peachy

[lean wigeon]

my issue is that it touches on and validates some incredibly racist worldviews people in the past and, unfortunately, some people today still hold
exploring themes of racism is one thing, validating those racist worldviews and ideas is another thing entirely

[meager fractal]

sick as a blink dog

[cinder timber]

I hope you feel better soon

[rugged hawk]

No no, see, you start them out with a super item, then because they're level 1, they either have to give it up to save their lives, or die because they won't give it up, or it gets stolen (again, because they're too weak to stop anyone from taking it)

Then you've got an adventure right there if they wannna try to get it back

[zinc hare]

They just gotta get good lmai

Don't die for the orb

[old sluice]

The most foundational story of the genre starts because a level 1 nobody inherits the most significant magic item in that world

[rugged hawk]

That's literally the Inheritor background

[orchid marsh]

doesnt it just come to how much education/other people they are exposed to. Most people see goblins as monsters, ideas dont get trraded with them. they are dumber for it

[rugged hawk]

Goblins don't see the value in ideas

[old sluice]

Actually you do see humans doing that. It's called Scotland.

[tame estuary]

Fiction is not reality, characters exist to fill a narrative

[orchid marsh]

im reading wandering inn right now and some goblins in that see alot of value ion ideas and are awesome in that setting

[past blaze]

and is referenced, at least in the 2014 DMG:

A character doesn’t typically find a rare magic item, for example, until around 5th level. That said, rarity shouldn’t get in the way of your campaign’s story. If you want a ring of invisibility to fall into the hands of a 1st-level character, so be it. No doubt a great story will arise from that event.

[umbral girder]

Yeah and those narratives are derived from reality

[rugged hawk]

Goblin Slayer wishes to know your location.

[old sluice]

Define "ideas".

[tame estuary]

Goblin slayer did so much harm

[marble lion]

humans love throwing things around, including boulders. its called a catapult

[meager fractal]

throwing things around is underrated tbh

[old sluice]

Are goblins not religious? (They are)
Do they not use metallurgy? (They do)
Do they not practice animal husbandry? (They do)
All those things require a solid grasp of theory

[rugged hawk]

Throwing things is why we're at the top of the food chain. It's what killed off the mammoths and smilodons. That and our persistence predation.

[marble lion]

thumbs rule

[rugged hawk]

Also our wolves and dogs, those helped.

[marble lion]

human gang

[old sluice]

Don't forget the ice age. That helped us a lot

Eliminated many competitors.

[rugged hawk]

And Giant Asteroid, my beloved

[meager fractal]

dogs and wolves didn't help nearly as much as cats doing pest control tbh

[rugged hawk]

Dogs and wolves radically changed hunting for humanity.

[meager fractal]

made the change from h+g to agriculture ezpz

[old sluice]

That's after agriculture. Before agriculture, dogs were the more important

[orchid marsh]

this guy is smart and i like it

[velvet shadow]

also another form of goblinoids, hobgoblins, explicitly create societies with military theory 😭

[inner silo]

Is a booming blade rapier arcane trickster a good idea?

[orchid marsh]

less good in 2024

[inner silo]

So more good in 2014?

[velvet shadow]

booming blade is generally one of the better options for cantrips and melee attacks. Especially for rogue cause you dont have extra attack

[rugged hawk]

2014 > 2024

[meager fractal]

anyone got any high level monsters I can reskin into a giant turkey for a one shot later this week

[inner silo]

Alrighty

[rugged hawk]

Tarrasque reminds you it exists.

[orchid marsh]

dming is more fun in 2024

[velvet shadow]

T-Rex? Not super high level tho

[umbral girder]

Drastically yes

[inner silo]

Is detect magic good on an arcane trickster?

[umbral girder]

Sure

[meager fractal]

doesn't need to be super high level, T-Rex CR 8-12 I'm thinking. T-Rex probably works, thanks

[inner silo]

Alrighty!

[old sluice]

Absolutely. It's good on everyone

[rugged hawk]

Okay, but what if it was an Ancient Beholder in disguise, instead?

[inner silo]

Great, thanks!

[orchid marsh]

turkey beholder with feather eyestalks

[cursive pelican]

detect magic has come in clutch a good few times in my current campaign

[rugged hawk]

What you really need is 'Detect Mimic'

[old sluice]

There's a trick to mimics

[rugged hawk]

Poke everything with a stick?

[old sluice]

Okay yeah but I have something else

[rugged hawk]

Fireball?

[umbral girder]

Everything automatically gets stuck to mimics on contact.

[old sluice]

Dust. A mimic will generally have less dust and different dust patterns than the rest of the room

[rugged hawk]

If you're close enough to see the dust, you're already dead

[umbral girder]

Yeah but dust also isn’t where mimics are

[frigid sundial]

Hello guys!

[umbral girder]

Mimics go to where people frequently go to so they can eat

They don’t go to places where people are not because then they can’t eat.

[rugged hawk]

And places with frequent visitors tend to not be so dusty

[marble lion]

dusty enough

[frigid sundial]

I am currently creating a wiki-like Notion page for my campaign as a player. Kinda proud of how much I got

[marble lion]

especially considering its not like mimics stand around actual hangouts

[frigid sundial]

Just wanted to share this somehow haha

[orchid marsh]

you guys ever think about running familars more like summon spells (summon fey, abberation) i find familars in dnd kinda boring

[marble lion]

mimics are in places where prey visits yes but not where it lives

[old sluice]

True. The trick is not perfect, but if you come in a dusty room where a chest is noticeably less dusty, that is definitely a mimic

[meager fractal]

detect magic is a walking story hook finder. I love it

[umbral girder]

If you get some toxic gas it’s an easy mimic finder

[rugged hawk]

Cultist's Bed, Cultist's Wardrobe, and Cultist's Footstool beg to differ

[umbral girder]

Because they breath

[orchid marsh]

do they tho?

[umbral girder]

Yes

[marble lion]

are those actual things?

[umbral girder]

Yes

[rugged hawk]

In PF: WotR, they absolutely were. An adventuring mimic party of three mimics who took those shapes to hunt the cultists

[umbral girder]

Mimics just become an object simple as that

[marble lion]

pretty specific case

i still think claiming the places you normally come across mimics cant have dust

is reaching

[umbral girder]

Mimics can become an entire Dragon’s hoard

[rugged hawk]

I've seen dragons who keep a mimic or two in their hoard

[vale seal]

On mordekains monsters of the multiverse it's got a bunch of races to pick as a player but it doesn't actually give stats (from what I read), how do I find out what saving throws the araacokra is proficient in

[umbral girder]

I love the Hoard Mimic stat block

[umbral girder]

They aren’t

Races aren’t proficient in saving throws.

Classes are.

[vale seal]

God I'm dumb

[marble lion]

monsters can be though i think

[orchid marsh]

i feel like a mimc needs to breathe but they could hold their breath for hours like a crocdile or a whaale

[old sluice]

A mimic can become a single object. A dragon's hoard requires a lot of mimics

[umbral girder]

No it’s just 1 big mimic

[marble lion]

so a monster race could have a saving proficiency. not if you use the player race variant though

[rugged hawk]

You only need one or two mimics to pretend to be objects in the actual hoard to make the players ultra-paranoid about their loot, though

[umbral girder]

It’s an official stat block. In Fizban’s.

[old sluice]

Oh yeah, the hoard mimic

But that one is very easy to spot.

[umbral girder]

It isn’t actually interestingly until it’s too late

[marble lion]

i dont like this

[umbral girder]

Gotta love the False Appearance feature

[old sluice]

Isn't it? It's shapeshifting into multiple objects. Just move a single one. If it is stuck to the rest, that's a mimic

[umbral girder]

Interesting that they can look like groups of objects

Like that old lady selling ice cream in the SpongeBob Movie

[orchid marsh]

do you guys allow checks to pickj something up with false appearance?

[umbral girder]

Yeah and you get stuck for touching the object

[orchid marsh]

roper mimics ect?

[old sluice]

Throw a rock at it

[uncut zenith]

I imagine they also use similar tactics to undersea creatures where they burrow beneath things

[cursive pelican]

i once saw someone talk about a big reveal where the entire mansion the party were exploring was itself a mimic and they had to fight their way out

[umbral girder]

Congrats you are in attacking distance still

[old sluice]

That to me is just a cheap trick.

[uncut zenith]

Like a hoard mimic that looks like a pile of gold can probably get away with just tossing some loose coins over it and wait for something to get a little too close

[orchid marsh]

make death house from curse of strahd a mimc

[cursive pelican]

if done poorly, yeah. but a good enough DM would be able to make it work

[uncut zenith]

You could officially make it a revenant now actually

[umbral girder]

I like that WOTC didn’t make a House mimic in 2025 MM but did a Revenant House instead

[orchid marsh]

thats more fitting

[uncut zenith]

There’s a new revenant in the Monster Manual that looks like large objects, including houses

[umbral girder]

The boss fight is a haunted house instead of a thing that looks like a house

[marble lion]

that sounds like a very fun homebrew and not at all a problem if run by someone who isnt doing it to gotcha the players in a versus

[clear lark]

Gotcha seems to be an in thing in DM'ing now

[marble lion]

it is one of those youtube shorts ghosting around though

[umbral girder]

I should use that Revenant House at some point

It’s what, Cr10?

[orchid marsh]

tpk'd by a house revenant and end up in death house for CoS

[uncut zenith]

It always has been. Look at Tomb of Horrors. The entire dungeon is one endless chain of “gotchas” that Gygax threw at his party.

[marble lion]

it always was. it just gets a stage in 20 second clip comedy content on youtube

old dnd killed way more players too

[orchid marsh]

holy crap what a sick way to end up in ravenloft

[cursive pelican]

i'm still kinda new to DnD but I'd like to run my own campaign some time. been in my current campaign as a player for about a year now

[old sluice]

In Castle Ravenloft?! Damn

Sorry. I kept having my character say "What about castle Ravenloft?" when the other players said Ravenloft instead of Barovia when we played CoS

[orchid marsh]

yuou fight a house revant get tpkd and come out of the death house from CoS

[shy stirrup]

Only the strong, the lucky, and the clever survived 🙂

[past blaze]

Less a monster race having the proficiency and more... the monster having proficiency.

a Bandit Crime Lord having better dex saves doesn't make humanoids have good dex saves.

[umbral girder]

Ravenloft is the setting

[old sluice]

My joke failed apparently

[umbral girder]

Barovia is a piece of Ravenloft

[old sluice]

Maybe. But to the characters, Ravenloft is just the name of a castle

[orchid marsh]

i got it after reading in a couple times

[uncut zenith]

Yeah, Ravenloft is the non-diegetic name of the setting

[orchid marsh]

i ran some 3.5 ravenloft recently. 3.5 was brutal

[umbral girder]

3.5e also had a lot of bloat.

[old sluice]

Very low floor, but very high ceiling

[orchid marsh]

maybe it was 2e

i forget. i just converted the adventure

[snow agate]

Do you guys have a favorite stock character trope?

[orchid marsh]

it was using Thac0

[old sluice]

Then it was 2e

[orchid marsh]

then 2e was brutal

[shy stirrup]

I6 Ravenloft was an 1e module, 1e content was compatible with 2e, more or less

[clear lark]

I was never a fan of THAC0. I still think the AC chart was the best to this day.

[orchid marsh]

fs I was just running the adventure but in 5e

[gleaming dock]

Am I missing something or is the 2025 Warforged just weaker in every way?

No real reason to choose it over most other races

[marble lion]

my point was that aarakocra and aarakocra have different things, depending on if youre looking at player race or monster stat block of the same name

[fast latch]

Big dumb idiot who is unequivocally a good and kind person

[orchid marsh]

honorbound fighter that gets very attached to the goblin, gnome ect

[meager fractal]

Speak with animals is a wonderful spell. Bg3 does a good job of giving players interesting hooks and conversations for speaking with animals, but it barely breaks the surface of it.
Imagine goats serving as early warning systems for giants thanks to early dwarven breeding techniques.
Or a cat tattling on small fey infiltrating their village.

[old sluice]

Why use speak with animals for that? You can train the goat to do that without needing speak with animals

[snow agate]

True

[snow agate]

For similar reasons I think wild shape gets undervalued because people remember the combat role of it more than the recon role

[old sluice]

Now that is true

[orchid marsh]

2014 or 2024?

[snow agate]

I don’t think it makes a difference?

[old sluice]

For spying, wild shape is the best. Nobody interrupts a conversation because of a pigeon

[orchid marsh]

its terrible for combat in 2024\

[marble lion]

in a world with wildshape, you gotta rethink that tbh

[meager fractal]

A goblin or kobold would see a pigeon as a quick meal maybe

[snow agate]

I’m a moon druid fan so I didn’t know so I’ll take ur word for it

[marble lion]

if i was doing something really secret in forgotten realms, i might stop talking if i see any animal within earshot

[meager fractal]

Oops didn't mean to ping you I particular mb

[old sluice]

Sure but it's still a world where the streets are full of rats, pigeons, cats, dogs, sparrows...

[marble lion]

its still good for recon dont get me wrong

[snow agate]

I think that’s why villains have towers and kings have throne rooms and temples have hidden chambers

[marble lion]

just saying people would stop their dialogue if a pigeon flew in

[old sluice]

Flew in, sure. But at the window?

You get ten pigeons at your window a day minimum in certain places

[marble lion]

competent criminals are careful

[snow agate]

Indoors is where I pull the spider wild shape and then they smush me and now they have a big scary druid with an axe in front of them

[marble lion]

then you talk in a way that wont let the pigeons hear that are at your window

[orchid marsh]

compentant c riminals are rare

[cursive pelican]

become a moth and just flop around a light for a bit

[old sluice]

Absolutely but even careful people can get distracted.

[marble lion]

just turn into an ant and never be found

dont be a pigeon somthing so tangible and obvious

[meager fractal]

Nooooo other ants are going to try and dismember you

[snow agate]

I think ultimately what truly saves you is Druids are too busy being hippies to worry about law enforcement most of the time

They’re also rare (relatively)

[marble lion]

and criminals have magic too

[old sluice]

Thing is, if the city is infested with pigeons, hiding in plain sight is best

A pigeon is inconspicuous if they're everywhere

[marble lion]

yeah

its still a risk if you know people can wildshape and youd just talk somewhere without pigeons honestly

[meager fractal]

Yeah pigeons a good choice.

[old sluice]

Though to be fair, in real life, our overabundance of pigeons is kind of the product of our excessive use and then discarding of messenger birds

[snow agate]

Now I kinda wanna play a Druid again so I can roleplay as a rat again

[marble lion]

for recon yes, for looking at public things by low-level people yes
for spying on a secretive talk of very cautious masterminds? no

[orchid marsh]

wait is this true?

[old sluice]

Sure. For the mastermind, be a spider.

[snow agate]

Yeah it’s much more relevant for other stuff

If you’re spying on masterminds cast clairvoyance instead :p

[marble lion]

only reason i said anything

[snow agate]

What if I pay off a regular spider to do it

“Hey here’s a cricket I caught”

[cursive pelican]

now there's a plan

[old sluice]

Yes!

[orchid marsh]

could this be done with animal friend ship? cast it on something with a hive personality like bees. they you have a network of spys

[snow agate]

You can only friendship one creature, so mechanically speaking your best option is to be a Druid who actually cares for nature so the nature likes you

[meager fractal]

Just be a cat. They are everywhere in a city and rarely will ppl kick you out of places out of fear of rat infestations. Some might even feed or pet you.

[orchid marsh]

or use it on the mom/queen

[snow agate]

If you can find it

[snow agate]

My druid turned into a cat once to sneak past guards and the guard grabbed and started petting them and we didn’t get anywhere 😭

[cursive pelican]

cast animal friendship on a wasp queen. get her to send the troops in

[old sluice]

Actually queens of hive insects do not give orders. If anything they are the slave of the colony

[orchid marsh]

then you mass polymorph the bees

[cursive pelican]

damn

they do follow the queen tho. and attack anything the percieve as a threat to her. could tell the queen to go sit on the dudes head

[snow agate]

I would also encourage the sailing fans to bring a druid aboard your pirate ship so you can befriend the sharks and seagulls

[old sluice]

That could work yes

[meager fractal]

Seagulls would be a better bet imo

[cursive pelican]

omg seagulls are tyrants

[old sluice]

I'd go with orcas

[snow agate]

Orcas are more rare

[cursive pelican]

herring gulls specifically you do not wanna mess with

[old sluice]

Smarter than a lot of people, already communicate a lot...

[orchid marsh]

but have you ever watched a seagull try to fly in the wind? useless

[snow agate]

But a shark you will frequently encounter because I’m gonna be honest if you’re on the ocean the dm will include the sharks to prevent too much going away from the boat

[cursive pelican]

i'm not messing with a flock of herring gulls rocking up to my evil dungeon

[old sluice]

DM tried, once. I played sea elf. The sharks became my crew.

[meager fractal]

Sharks could have connections to evil casters / demon lords. Safer to go with the sea gull. Everyone underestimates a sea gull

[snow agate]

An idea I stole is that there are titanic crabs and lobsters deep in the ocean so if you get in good with the crustaceans you can get the kaiju

[cursive pelican]

they're menaces. have you ever been bonked on the head by a hungry seagull.

[old sluice]

Or, hear me out: Buttersauce.

[snow agate]

Demons? Like nature? Preposterous

[orchid marsh]

arnt seaguls just annoying pidgeons which are just sky rats

[cursive pelican]

they're pretty vicious actually

[snow agate]

Your greed denies you a cr 8 crab ally

[cursive pelican]

and they're also huge

[orchid marsh]

they are like the least aerodynamic bird

my irl city is a seagul breadfing ground

[cursive pelican]

they're built to hover and dive

[old sluice]

But it grants me a meal fit for a king.

A very fat king.

[snow agate]

You already could have that

[old sluice]

A hill giant king.

[snow agate]

Actually similarly relevant, I imagine famine and food boredom is less of a problem in dnd

Because magical agriculture

[cursive pelican]

seems a reasonable assumption yeah

[snow agate]

The peasants are probably actually eating good

[old sluice]

I don't know. I don't see any spells or abilities that would create magical agriculture

A decanter of endless water would help I guess?

[orchid marsh]

doubt greed is greed. poor people wioll go hungry

[snow agate]

Plant growth, detect poison+disease, purify food+drink

[old sluice]

Also, yeah. The cause of almost every famine in history was mismanagement from the upper ups

[old sluice]

Yeah that kind of works actually

[snow agate]

The latter two are also ritual spells

[orchid marsh]

but druids are semi rare how many are going around casting plant growth of fields n stuff

[snow agate]

So npc level 1 priest/druid can spam em

[old sluice]

Famines are generally entirely manufactured suffering. Burn the granaries to starve the rebels, you know?

[snow agate]

Yeah that’s true they usually result from like sacking villages

[old sluice]

The english in particular were known to instrumentalize famine as their default tactic

[snow agate]

But outside of war* at least wouldn’t be so bad

[tame estuary]

Fantasy medival world is just very funny

[cedar pelican]

Hello chat :3

[meager fractal]

Hi

[tame estuary]

If magic is real, the medival stuff only stays for aesthetic purposes

[orchid marsh]

right like you expect everything to go perfectly but it just cant

[snow agate]

I imagine it just stays because most people don’t know magic and the people who do know magic are too busy killing eachother

[old sluice]

Anyways, famines are a way to neutralize resistance. Keep people hungry, keep them desperate.

So even in a fantasy world, famines can happen.

[cursive pelican]

my DM likes to mix some modern tech into the world that runs on magic. basically reskinning sending stones as actual phones etc

[orchid marsh]

just like in america rn

[old sluice]

I would advise avoiding modern day politics

[orchid marsh]

...sorry

was just agreeing with the point

[tame estuary]

I like the way konosuba does it, everyone has an adventurer card and they can level up from just eating instead of killing. But most people just won't have enough levels to be proper adventurers and ones that want to be adventurers are given as much resources they can to start

[cursive pelican]

I recently came to america. enjoying the food options here. England is rough for options

[old sluice]

You were, yes. But you know how conversations can easily degenerate

[rugged hawk]

Coffee and donuts > tea and crumpets

[raw ocean]

Have you tried salt yet, it's quite good

[cursive pelican]

bro you don't understand the fast food places in england don't season ANYTHING

[rugged hawk]

Okay, but did you know that Va- 👀

[raw ocean]

I was joking but oh my lord, they actually don't season fast food?

Do you know what taco bell is?

[cursive pelican]

i'd actually really like to try making some of the meals from the dnd cookbook

[orchid marsh]

do they serve bean and toast at fast food places in england or?

[snow agate]

I know konosuba is a parody but I think it actually has a pretty cohesive world logic to it

[raw ocean]

Do you guys have fish head pies?

[cursive pelican]

I do ye. have yet to try it tho

[orchid marsh]

its very difficult to get some of the ingrtedants

[cursive pelican]

so far I've been to canes, chilis and TJ flats

[last kindle]

So Rock Golem with a mix of 4th and 5th level players... doable?

[snow agate]

Yes they have Taco Bell

[raw ocean]

Tbh, I want to return to being a low level PC again

[snow agate]

Depends on the environment and if they are casters

[orchid marsh]

dependss if your martials have magic items. i believe mosty golems are immune to non magic damage in 2014

[south tendon]

Salt is bad for your health. It’s not good to eat a lot of it anyway. Do American fast food is twice as deadly because it’s loaded with salt.

[scenic zinc]

why is the party mixed levels

[snow agate]

Wait until you learn about East Asian food

[scenic zinc]

Salt is literally a necessity to live.

[cursive pelican]

mhm seems like it. though some of the meals in the dwarf cuisine category looked tastyyyyy and simple

[rugged hawk]

Iodine*

[south tendon]

Yes a tiny amount of it. I think it’s 5mg per day or something for an adult

[scenic zinc]

*who cares

[orchid marsh]

i run a yearly session at my house where we are in an inn and ii cook a bunch ofd food from the dnd cook books

[rugged hawk]

*the people who wanna live, obviously

[snow agate]

Dwarf diet sounds like simple hearty meals

[last kindle]

Paladin 5th, Monk 4th, 5th Rogue, 4th Magician, and 4th Magician

[cursive pelican]

that sounds so nice dude hell yeah

[scenic zinc]

Most salt is iodized so there's not a real difference to bother pointing it out

[old sluice]

Anything is bad in large amounts. But you will die without salt.

[orchid marsh]

its a good time. then just alot of inn shenanageans happen

[snow agate]

Idk what class magician is and it’s also odd that they have different levels but they should be fine as long as they’re not trapped in a small room

[last kindle]

Some people didn't show up a few weeks. We have been playing for weeks and weeks now. So they didn't level yet

[cursive pelican]

I only briefly flicked through the book but they looked to be mostly meats and stews yeye

[scenic zinc]

I heavily suggest not doing this.

[rugged hawk]

Unless you're trying to subsist on the salty tears of your enemies, which do NOT have iodine.

[south tendon]

Not disagreeing but the amount of salt allowed in fast food in America is at danger levels lol.

[scenic zinc]

The party should all be the same level regardless of being present for all sessions

[old sluice]

I would not know, but I believe you I guess.

[last kindle]

Wide open space but it is across a bridge on the other side. I can make a magic steed and ride a couple close.

Wizards both of them

[cursive pelican]

maybe I can get my roommates interested in something similar. one of my roommates is also a pro chef. reckon I could convince her to try after thanksgiving (my first ever thanksgiving btw yayy)

[snow agate]

You might not believe this but most people don’t eat fast food for every meal or even every day because A it’s expensive and B cooking is often higher quality

[south tendon]

That said, even fast food in the uk has far too much salt in it and we pretty much have government guidelines that state how much can go in.

[last kindle]

Interesting... we are just playing for the first time so that is probably our mistake

[rugged hawk]

Also, frozen meals are a Thing

[orchid marsh]

enjoys the coma

[cursive pelican]

i shallll she's cooking and it smells delightful

[tame estuary]

There is so much cohesion in the worldbuilding, for example, you're not allowed to kill every monster in the area so that you can later feed xp to other adventures. Because the point is to be safe bt also having enough people to go around who will eventually defeat the demon king. The entire country's main militaristic force is independet groups and the world seemlessly contribute everything to make that makes sense

[orchid marsh]

ive done the same thing for the same reasons but generally i have them catch up after a session. it can be a nice reminder that dnd is a commitment to your friends and shows respect for everyones time.

[snow agate]

Yeah if I’m being lazy I mostly eat either 5-10 minute effort meals or frozen pizza or raw/prepared food

[old sluice]

What in the Dungeon Meshi + Frieren is that?

[scenic zinc]

It's fine - I understand the idea as to why you'd do it the way you've been doing it, but mechanically the system isn't really meant to deal with that. It works on the assumption everyone is the same level.

[snow agate]

Yeah agreed it’s cool

[cursive pelican]

when I lived in england I also mostly lived on frozen food ye. that's what you gotta do on well below minimum wage eh

[south tendon]

I don’t disbelieve but the amount of TikTok’s made by Americans who move or visit the uk about how they need their salt in their McDonald’s or what’s the point of having it, does make me scared for everyone over there lol

[last kindle]

They will probably progress this week while the two that are 5th wont... takes longer to get XP the higher the level is the thinking. We have been fighting well, but a rock golem seems hard

[orchid marsh]

i would agree if tyhe cr system worked at all

[old sluice]

I agree but the game does not break for a one level difference

[snow agate]

I wouldn’t get your health and dietary information from tiktok

[scenic zinc]

One level can become 2 can become 3 if the idea that level discrepancy is okay is present

[cursive pelican]

let me tell you. the first time I had american mcdonalds was a wild experience. like, the nuggets actually tasted of something. I legit had to SMUTHER em in sauce just for some flavour in england

[old sluice]

I get what you mean but it's a slippery slope fallacy.

[snow agate]

Tbf if they’re 3 levels apart they’re missing a ton of sessions

[south tendon]

Yep if salt lol.

[last kindle]

Yeah ours is 4th and two 5th as they made two sessions the others didn't

[old sluice]

If it stops at a discrepancy of one level, it's fine.

[scenic zinc]

Not every "things can get worse" argument is a fallacy

[south tendon]

Don’t they even put salt on the burgers in the US

[orchid marsh]

i feel like that is taking things out of porption ive started campaing where charaters start between 1-3 and its fine

[snow agate]

Yes we salt our meat lmao

Like every society in history

[cursive pelican]

no I know. it's just so wild to me that it's not the standard in england like, dude please just flavour my food. so glad to nolonger be there

[old sluice]

People, maybe the conversation about food and the dire habits of the american public can move to #non-dnd-topics?

[last kindle]

Never played before though and my paladin just went level 5 and it seems to change a lot so I worry I won't fight to my ability and I am starting with a rock golem. I have a plus 1 sword so thinking run in and get close and hack the crap out of it

[south tendon]

I mean like literally extra salt. Not the salt required to make them in the factory but extra salt

[scenic zinc]

-# "Dire"

[cursive pelican]

ahh yeye my bad gamer

[snow agate]

That is how cooking works yes you add it while cooking

[orchid marsh]

#praetorslimmy for mod

[snow agate]

True

[old sluice]

I said what I said

[snow agate]

Oh I thought you were the dm

[cursive pelican]

started off as dnd meals and just kinda got taken away from there

[last kindle]

No hahaha Trying to survive and I have a feeling he might have two rock golems

[south tendon]

Not in my house lol. If a rosette requires salt, the salt goes in during the period of time when ingredients are combined and then no other salt gets added

I actually get upset if people ask for it

[snow agate]

I would advise to not go into melee with the rock golems and encourage your mages to do some kiting

[old sluice]

Do we need the modrons to get involved here?

This is not a D&D topic. Put it where it belongs.

[orchid marsh]

PRAROT SLIMMY for mod

[old sluice]

Oh no, please. I would not have the patience and I would abuse all privileges like a maniac

[last kindle]

So my thinking is I can bless, AC, I get two attacks and level two divine smite plus I can heal multiple times while they magic from a distance

[old sluice]

Before long it would turn into a reign of terror

[snow agate]

No I really just wouldn’t get in melee. That is where theyre strongest, the more rounds you avoid being in melee the less rounds they can actually hurt anybody

If you need to get in melee buff your ac with shield of faith and just focus on bogging them down

[last kindle]

I thought their throw damage or force shock was stronger than melee?

[orchid marsh]

every advantage is given to the players i would stress too much about what your dm is doing

[snow agate]

Since when do golems have those…?

[last kindle]

I don't know... it picked up a rock or it force attacked my magic steed I ran to see how strong it was. It was strong

[snow agate]

Yeah then don’t mess with it lmao

[solar crow]

My dm friend just texted me back finally and we're chillin and good!!

[marble lion]

yippie

[solar crow]

Thank God

[last kindle]

I mean we are going to get paid 1000 gp and it is the only way to the city without going 7 days around

[south tendon]

Best way to deal with a golem is sacrifice the weakest character to lure it into a pit it can’t get out of, then everyone can just stand there and shoot arrows at it till it dies

[orchid marsh]

fight only if everyone has some sort of magic damaage

[last kindle]

Ok I don't think there is, but I like this thinking

[south tendon]

Which was obviously a joke btw just in case people didn’t get the silliness of it

[old sluice]

Best way to deal with a golem is to not provoke it. If that fails, second best way is to get somewhere it can't follow and deal with it from range

[orchid marsh]

it was a good plan tho

[old sluice]

Golems, due to their nature, are generally not worth the trouble. They don't present a danger unless they malfunction or are given ill-intentioned orders

[south tendon]

It just have the wizard fireball it to death

[snow agate]

I would also say golems are actually great candidates for sneaking around but your party seems to lack the ability to do so based on the comp

[orchid marsh]

but if it a sorce book wizard will just have text thjat says golem attacks any intruder

[last kindle]

They are blocking a road to the major city and people are stuck outside about 2 miles before the bridge. It might not be able to cross the bridge, but somehow it hit from from 100 ft away so not even sure how far I have to be

[orchid marsh]

blow up the bridge

[last kindle]

Based on our experience playing also hahahaha

[south tendon]

Honestly the real way to deal with a golem is sneak some kind of spell that prevents it from moving and then just run past it.

[snow agate]

Ok if you have a wide open space before the bridge I’d tell the commoners to clear the area, maybe requisition a horse or two, and just snipe it

[hollow stone]

i once had to fight two golems because they were rigged to a metal detector and me was playing a warforged 😭

[orchid marsh]

]look up the peasent cannon

[snow agate]

If you can kite it with higher speed and longer range that’d help the most

[orchid marsh]

its a great opprtunioty for it

[snow agate]

It is cheesing the encounter, but your dm put two golems on a bridge, he’s asking for it

[last kindle]

We have horses and a magic steed or direwolf, but it hit that from from 100 ft away with no issues

[snow agate]

Longbows can shoot from 600

[last kindle]

What about shrinking it?

[south tendon]

How?

[orchid marsh]

you could move earth repeatedly and bury them

[last kindle]

I don't know some spell hahaha

ONe of our players have it

[south tendon]

Seems sus can golems even cast spells?

[last kindle]

I love this!

[last kindle]

He may have picked up a rock and threw it at me, but that seemed far

[south tendon]

Well mes not your dm but that freaking thing must be strong to throw a rock 100 ft. Like can even a giant do that?

[hollow stone]

i think any sufficiently intelligent manner of creature can use magic

[orchid marsh]

i dont think so but its close

[hollow stone]

it just needs a tongue, hands, and supplies

[last kindle]

I said that and he said... He hit you and I was like from 100 ft away!! he said yep. I see videos that say don't argue with DM so I don't

[raw ocean]

Im currently in the process of teaching a horse on how to become a wizard

[orchid marsh]

my party currently own an operate a mine and blowing stuff up with dynamite is a goto plan when they cant figure anything else out

[raw ocean]

And yes, I paid 1000 gold to get him a custom tailored wizard cloak

[south tendon]

Ahh I guess this is true. And I guess there can be more intelligent golems. Sorry I was assuming this was the basic “made to do one thing” kind

[raw ocean]

Anything in D&D can learn magic if you try hard enough

[last kindle]

Thanks for the help... I guess we will see what happens next Thursday hahaha

[south tendon]

Best thing to do though if you think it’s unfair is to honestly mention it to the dm.

Buuuut if it’s Ona bridge … does your local town have a supply of gunpowder lol

[vast pelican]

Multiple kinds of golem have ranged attacks that can go that far

It could be as simple as reskinning a ranged attack that is on the default stat block

[old sluice]

OK see, that's the golem-maker's fault

[last kindle]

The town is on the other side, BUT there is a lot of people trying to get in... I wonder if there is some there

[old sluice]

I say you can sue

You're entitled to reparations

[orchid marsh]

just blow up the bridge someone else will pay to fix it

[vast pelican]

Flanking? An optional rule? Not at our table!

[hollow stone]

probably could, yea, but i was down for it tbh, since the device was meant to detect weapons and the character's entire ball was that they were made exclusively to be a weapon

[tawdry kestrel]

I can get behind that

[vast pelican]

Oh, neat character.

The Iron Medium Creature

[south tendon]

Nah I meant tie a bunch of it to a murder of kenku and have them divebomb said evil golem lol.

So like you’d need to go on a quest to find said kenku far away from where said evil rock person was right?

Iike maybe even off the map …. Here be dragons people

Sorry I got a bit carried away

[raw ocean]

Im going to awaken a horse to give it an intelligence of 10

Then im going to explain to it what magic is

Then turn it into a Ki-Rin

[south tendon]

Why not explain to it how it’s just a poor man’s unicorn so it gets super sad and decides to go in a quest to find its own horn … and then because an adventurer

[raw ocean]

Your so right

[marble lion]

give it a wish sword

[south tendon]

This is how you get an awakened animal as your backup character lol

Wait though is this like pathfinder where if you awaken an animal it’s forced into a humanoid type form because of how the rules are written for it having “hands” and such

Please say D&D doesn’t do this absurd thing lol

[rugged hawk]

Better, give it a cursed sword of alertness. Sure, you can't be surprised anymore....but enemies within 300 feet now always know your exact location

[south tendon]

Sorry everyone I see what attempt to be fun isn’t landing. I’ll leave you all in peace. Enjoy you night all 👋

[upper lily]

Just wanted to shout out my Dhampir Lycan Bloodhuter build I haven't seen much attention paid to the combination and it's super fun and incredibly thematic

[rugged hawk]

Uh huh. Do you sparkle, too?

[upper lily]

Nope lol

[grand siren]

• Suggestions Welcome -

So, I’m hosting a Feywild Fantasy D&D Prom next month to celebrate my local community adventurers and game masters of the year.

I’m putting together mystery boxes to give away to our patrons and special guests and making about 50 of them.

Are there any products or trinket ideas you have that might delight you if you were to open a D&D mystery box? Ideally trying to keep it under $50 a box. An example is I made little potion bottles with pop rock candy in them!

Additionally, any clever ideas for decorations or interactive elements? We have a Court of Blades Axe Throwing Tournament and a Glamour Gate Photo Booth but I love the idea of more D&D interactive activities one can participate in at this type of event! ✨ Thanks in advance for any ideas!

[upper lily]

I do change under a full moon though 💪🏻

Ty Van richtens guide

[last kindle]

Those chocolate gold coins maybe?

[upper lily]

I also have a sentient left hand like Vampire hunter D

[last kindle]

Obviously Dice right

[upper lily]

Little party tophats!

[grand siren]

Yes! Gold and black metal dice already ordered!

[upper lily]

You could also do little doodles of faires and pixes ! Those are always a vibe, stickers and rhinestones are always fun too

[grand siren]

Oh that’s a cute idea! We love a good sticker

[cursive fjord]

I wonder if asking my DM to let me put Repeating Shot on a Club, though technically you cant, would be a big ask

I like the idea of a cane that has the ability to shoot out of it if need be

Specifically for an Artificer, seems very Artificer-y

[neat sable]

How many wolves can a level 3 party handle with difficulty? Plus 1 dire wolf

[wind oriole]

I mean

As as terrible dm myself

I would have to say 20 tarrasques

[neat sable]

I need a serious answer xD

[wind oriole]

Depends on the party size and how much they metagame

[neat sable]

Oh I forgot to say 6 players level 3, don't metagame

[wind oriole]

Magic items?