dnd-discussion

[marble lion]

As you are literally the game engine, you work harder than any one player obviously because youre involved in everything except playertoplayer rp and even then you need to pay attention to keep it consistent

[lyric viper]

I guess it's which aspects of DMing that if the focus. Narrative is personal, but mechanics is on the system and it's support.
There's one system I have that has no DMG at all to it. It has preset adventures, and no notes, at all, on how to decide how to make a story yourself- balancing resources, rests, character points, fights, anything. I would not be able to make my own story for that system, without having played it's adventures a bunch- and it does not have enough of those to get that experience.

For other systems like 1e I find a lot of my prep time for VTTs is just making sure I've got sheets set up. There's no easy compendium online to drag from, I've got to make that all myself. But honestly, a lot of the creatures just need a post it note to run. A lot of my time was just flipping through 3 different books and various forum posts to understand a single weird rule. Could I make my own adventure for this?... actually probably yes? There's enough random tables to work from and I could spitball difficulty.

5e was real easy to run as a DM in a VTT because of the massive amounts of support for it- compendiums, auto fillers, so many maps and art available. I ended up spitballing difficulty more than relying on CR, although it was a helpful guideline.

[worn lagoon]

I just began to hate vtts tbh

every tool i try feels like its sorely lacking the 1-2 key features from the other one i tried

[wanton sorrel]

I have a question. is beating the dungeon master truly the end game of D&D?

[still plover]

Hah! No.

[worn lagoon]

Please don't beat up your dungeon master

[wanton sorrel]

ok I was wondering since some DM do that sometimes.

[worn lagoon]

serious answer, i've had openly hostile dms trying their hardest to kill me, the best option is just to leave if it turns into a dm vs player competition

[rough basalt]

I probably wouldn't be dming/playing if it weren't for VTTs tbh

[marble lion]

They werent trying their hardest

Otherwise you would have died

Definitely sounds like you were right to leave though

Takes strength to admit that

[lyric viper]

The secret is D&D is a team game and the DM is on your team.

[worn lagoon]

i managed to manuever around it ingame despite their efforts

[marble lion]

Did you make up?

[worn lagoon]

yuh

anyway

[marble lion]

If he openly said that, it sounds like there is some personal growth going on. Nice to hear

[worn lagoon]

being forced to use 5 defensive spells out of the 6 i can prepare was an experience

[rough basalt]

My desire to play my paladin is hitting meltdown levels

[worn lagoon]

that was me with my wizard earlier

[marble lion]

Thats me with playing literally anything

games i need gamesssssss

None of my friends DMing rn

[regal gulch]

I just witnessed what happens when a wizard child spends all his spell slots overcharging a rune.

The magic shop is no more.

[crimson gulch]

Agreed, offloading the game onto the system causes problems

[worn lagoon]

one of our party members just poofed, waddup

[marble lion]

Rip party member

Theyre fine right?

[burnt valley]

Depends on the campaign, if its a consequence heavy or a meat grinder one then yes the goal is to "beat" the DM

[worn lagoon]

no idea

[coarse ravine]

Exactly sometimes or most of the time players have plot armor

Spiderman beat the entirety of xmen by himself...

Yes plot armor is real.

[lyric viper]

I tend to say 'The enemies are trying to kill you, I am not'.

[coarse ravine]

Cheering for your players lol

[lyric viper]

Saying that, I will 'try' to kill them in the sense enemies will do their darnedest to survive / kill them.
But my players are typically very good at doing the same >.>

[coarse ravine]

Ever through a nasty save or tpk save at the party. Then cringed as dice was being rolled

Thats the banshee for me lol.

[lyric viper]

I have joined in with the party going 'nooooo' when an enemy rolls a li'l too well against a PC

[rough basalt]

My DM rolls make me nervous

Cause I either roll 1s or completely obliterate players, there's little in between

[clear trellis]

man i cant find a campaign

[silk hare]

thats a common phenomenon ngl

youll find people eventually, remember:

no dnd is better than bad dnd

[glossy otter]

Ngl after digging into lorwyn, I think I know what I'm going to run for college lol

[devout plume]

I just found the spell that will make every dm instantly hate the player casting it lol

[blissful ibex]

Silvery Barbs?

[devout plume]

Dream of the Blue Veil

[rough basalt]

Only thing I know about it is being banned in some west marches I've seen around

[crimson gulch]

I had 8d6 handy last night and when I finished counting the third Toss and then went for another for ancient red dragons breath the party was in hysterics

[devout plume]

Dont like the current campaign? Send you and the rest of the party to a totally different world

[twilit ravine]

Guys, do you guys consider a paladin fairy kind of a "OP" combination?

[rough basalt]

No

[blissful ibex]

Just a silly planeshift varriant

[devout plume]

Make the dm create an entirely different campaign XD

[rough basalt]

That's when the dm just says no

Or tells you to make a new party

[twilit ravine]

I'm new to D&D, and my friend is creating a character like this

[devout plume]

Thats when you triple dog dare em to do it

[blissful ibex]

or gate, or plane shift, or teleportation circle, etc. etc.

[crimson gulch]

Dream of the blue veil can't be cast like ever raw, because you need evidence of other worlds and the dm can easily just say you don't have that

[rough basalt]

And if you do, it's likely already a plane hopping campaign so it's accounted for by the games nature.

[blissful ibex]

it's more there as a plot device than anything

[crimson gulch]

Exactly

[devout plume]

The funny part about the spell is that its a free cast

The bard's focus negates the material component

[blissful ibex]

Having access to an extraplanar entity or magic item is a far higher bar than a few GP in materials though

spells like this can't really have their material component substituted though

because the effect of the spell is dependant on the material used; it's like how you can't shillelagh nothing if you use a focus

[crimson gulch]

Not this time it dosent

[eager marsh]

A focus negates the material component only when the component listed has no gp value stated

[devout plume]

Even then have your character be a riftwalker or not originate from the world theyre currently in

If the dm is nice theyll let you take an umbrella with you

[eager marsh]

Travelling from another plane within teh crystal sphere is one thing. It's actually a different spell/method entirely to go between settings and realities

[rough basalt]

Nah.

You can be a farmer in this random small town tho

[devout plume]

Or roleplay your bard irl

[storm magnet]

How would a rural village go about attracting an adventurer?

[devout plume]

Mine uses a wargong :3

[storm magnet]

Send a commission to a neighboring bigger kingdom?

[eager marsh]

Being between their current location and their next destination

[devout plume]

Vampires

[crimson gulch]

By letting the keep just out of town fall to negligent dungeonificarion

[blissful ibex]

Or sending someone to put up notices in taverns and such in the nearest cities and along the more well traveled routes in the area

[devout plume]

Rural villages are easy pickings for em

[storm magnet]

I feel like they’re so reliant on adventures to solve monster problems that there must be a more reliable way than notices

[blissful ibex]

or criers

[devout plume]

Vampire murder mystery in an old farming town that is also a mimic nest and a false hydra hunting ground

[blissful ibex]

or have the local lord have the guards be on the lookout for mercs they can throw at the problem

[devout plume]

Boom 3 easy plot points in an otherwise boring town

[storm magnet]

An example I’m thinking of is an Ankheg infestation. Although idk if that’s common or not

[rough basalt]

False Hydras aren't a viable plot piece.
They're more of a meme.

[devout plume]

If you play your cards right you can even use each one to misdirect them from the real killer

[blissful ibex]

fun for a one shot though

[rough basalt]

Eh can be.

Mostly the way it functions just leads to frustration.

[devout plume]

Alone yes but false hydra could easily throw the party off a killer's trail by muddling the facts

[rough basalt]

I'm saying you don't use one at all

Cause it wouldn't just be muddling the facts, it'd be changing reality

[devout plume]

Alone a false hydra is weak but when used to influence the actual main plot point it can be good

[rough basalt]

And now your players have to deal with information they can't act on cause of how that meme works

Except not cause it removes information from the equation entirely in character which makes the game a pain in the ass.

[devout plume]

And im saying its good when used right

[rough basalt]

Even when used right its not good

[eager marsh]

The False Hydra is interesting in theory and garbage in practice basically. please dont use it in a game, that's a creative writing tool

[devout plume]

Sounds like a skill issue tbh

[still plover]

False hydra, again? I hope someone marked the bingo card.

[rough basalt]

Nah it's just a garbage thing that doesn't work with how dnd is meant to be played.

[devout plume]

Ive used it several times to make greater plot points better

[rough basalt]

Cause you have to metagame to deal with it, but metagaming renders it useless

[devout plume]

I didnt metagame to make it work

[pure nymph]

Hello

[storm magnet]

What factors would lead to a large kingdom abandoning a small village under their province, assuming funding and lack of resources aren’t a factor? Like maybe the monster problem is more trouble than the village is worth? Is that realistic?

[rough basalt]

Then you likely didn't use it as it's intended

Cause of how it works, there's some level of metagaming that's required even if you don't realize it.

Cause how can a killers trail be thrown off if the thing being used to throw off the trail never existed

And the characters can't know about that, only the players

[devout plume]

The easiest way to make it work is have the players be immune for some reason

[rough basalt]

Which renders it inept

[crimson gulch]

Nah, false hydra is bad homebrew

[eager marsh]

Anything you need a False Hydra for, an NPC using Modify Memory handles better

[rough basalt]

It was a creepypasta that someone made a bad statblock for.

[still plover]

Natural disaster?

[storm magnet]

Like a giant earthquake creating a huge fissure between the kingdom and the village?

[keen hornet]

Hey chat
I'm new to the community

[severe rampart]

Sounds good, and they just didn't build a bridge because no one goes there

[devout plume]

I beg to differ the way i see the false hydra isnt as a driving force but as one of many things used to mask the main plot

[rough basalt]

Except it's not masking, it's removal entirely which means the players need to cheat

[devout plume]

To that end it is a tool used to directly misdirect the players

[eager marsh]

It's the exact same as just creating a plot hole

[rough basalt]

And making them immune defeats the purpose of the bad homebrew

[storm magnet]

Or maybe the kingdom is in on the monster “Attack,” like sacrificing a village to a hag for the sake of prosperity? Or is there a better monster for that role?

[sly vale]

I know that travel is always the worst part of dnd, but does anyone have any good third party sources with lots of interesting travel mechanics?

[eager marsh]

you cant be 'in' on a false hydra attack though

[devout plume]

Thats why i set up an immunity prior to running a false hydra as well as for certain npcs ill then use as a second misdirect

[rough basalt]

A Hag alone I doubt a kingdom would give into unless she had the ruling family by the neck

[fickle heart]

IMO, this largely comes down to how 5e itself is played these days, tbh. False hydras require the players to engage in a style of play that doesn't allow them to approach the game normally, and thus is easily foiled if you allow that normal approach.

[devout plume]

You thinking that a false hydra needs to affect the players to work is the problem lol

[rough basalt]

Nah the problem is its bad homebrew that's way too popular

[eager marsh]

if it's not effecting the players, then you're still just creating plot holes they cant interact with

[devout plume]

Nah the problem is that you arent creative enough to actually run it lol

[rough basalt]

It's not that hard to just make plot holes that aren't meant to be answered.
It's just not good for a story nor a game.

[devout plume]

There are plenty of ways to run it

[fickle heart]

Can you elaborate on this? I would say a plot hole is a bad thing, not a good one.

[rough basalt]

Well that's what they're saying. That plot holes are good

[devout plume]

You call them plot holes i call em misdirects that confuse the players on purpose

[eager marsh]

intentionally jumping hoops just so you can say you used something poorly designed for D&D is not really a good argument to call us uncreative either

[rough basalt]

Plot holes are plot holes

[eager marsh]

misdirection and mystery are generally only good if they can eventually be solved and understood

[rough basalt]

A misdirecting plot is a plot that disguises itself as a plot hole that is later revealed to be a twist.

[devout plume]

Its not plot holes if they can be explained in game

[rough basalt]

Above table because of the nature of the monster.

[devout plume]

You just explained exactly how i run false hydras in my games lol

I never explain things above table

[rough basalt]

Tbh it can come off as a cop out too.
"Uh no I didn't have any plot holes it was just a false hydra"

[storm magnet]

Hmm what monster would work? Also is a hag really powerful enough to give a whole kingdom prosperity?

[rough basalt]

An arch-hag maybe but not your run of the mill ones

[fickle heart]

A false hydra isn't an actual plot hole, though, because it has an explanation. If anything, the reason it can be bad for D&D is because it's a bit too cerebral, which D&D doesn't expect too much normally. At the same time, that's not necessarily because of the monster itself, but because of the expectations of the players.

I think a lot of players would get frustrated by a false hydra because it challenges their notions on how they engage with the game, because the challenge deviates from how normal expectations are.

[woven flint]

A coven of hags probably could be?

[rough basalt]

Which is what happens.

[devout plume]

Which imo isnt a bad thing

[eager marsh]

a Coven would be 3, but giving an entire kingdom 'propserity' is generally a pretty big ask. Even the spell Wish can't get you more than 25,000 gp in raw value

[fickle heart]

Without trying to sound too detracting of the 5e community, I don't think the community is normally good enough at TTRPGs for something like a false hydra to work. Simply, a false hydra is above most people's skill levels, so shouldn't be used with unskilled players, else it causes frustration that isn't integrated into the experience as positive.

That doesn't mean the false hydra itself is flawed, but that it's an expectation mismatch.

[rough basalt]

I'm surprised you like it.

[drifting cobalt]

Yo

[rose iron]

hello!

[fickle heart]

I'm a fan of more cerebral stuff in my campaigns, so a false hydra is totally on point for me. I'd also be entirely fine to dying to one, because that just means I wasn't good enough to determine a way my PC could understand what's happening through their own lens of reality (e.g. not metagaming, but engaging as the PC.)

[rough basalt]

Personally I wouldn't even use it with skilled players, because of how much of a pain it'd be keeping track of plot holes, and what is in and out of character knowledge.
I think better off just using an enchanter enemy with modify memory.

[storm magnet]

What monster could give a kingdom prosperity then in exchange for a sacrifice?

[rough basalt]

Yeah I can't agree. I think it's one of the worst popular homebrew things for 5e

[fickle heart]

I think the most important thing with something like a false hydra is that the PCs should be keeping track of what is IC vs OC knowledge. If the PCs are making the DM do it, it's a skill issue.

[rough basalt]

I wouldn't expect people to not get frustrated with all that tho.

[drifting cobalt]

I just had a crazy Idea.
If I cast Immovable object on a cookie and make a person eat it, then take my hand off of them to make them no longer be able to move the cookie, will it be stuck in place inside their belly? And what if it’s like already digested? Would the tiny nutrients suddenly stop moving?

[rough basalt]

A lot of people wanna play in character

[eager marsh]

A whole kingdom ? Was it poor and destitute before? is it a continuous sacrifice or 1 time payment? How much prosperity? And how massive a kingdom?

[eager marsh]

No

your hand isnt on teh cookie as they eat it and they cant even bite it if it cant move

[rough basalt]

Longer the game goes on, the more above table it gets cause of all the plot being eaten

[drifting cobalt]

Ohh my hand has to be on teh cookie

[fickle heart]

To me, the frustration is part of the point. You are frustrated out-of-character and clueless in-character, which gives you external motivation to solve the problem, despite your heavy limitations in-character.

[drifting cobalt]

Not on the person

[wispy flare]

Crazy thing about me is I’ve never encountered a mimic

[rough basalt]

Ig my point is that a game isn't meant to make your life harder

[wispy flare]

When I was playing DnD in 2024

[storm magnet]

It was struggling, Continuous, a village ever 5 years or so, prosperous enough to be weirdly self sustaining (not overly reliant on crops sales or other goods to make profit), Pretty big I think, I don’t have a reference

[rough basalt]

Spending months being constantly frustrated by what's meant to be your leisure activity is something that rightfully not everyone will advocate for.

[crimson gulch]

Frustration is not wait I aim for, the illusion of peril is what gets players hooked

[eager marsh]

sacrificing a whole village every few years would certainly result in the whole kingdom not being a kingdom after 2-3 generations tops. But such a cruel continued sacrifice could easily be managed by demons or devils. more likely devils for all the intelligent forethought and organization they'd likely need to run whatever underhanded method they use to grant them prosperity

[rough basalt]

Not to mention, you're gonna potentially lose players cause not everyone has the capability to handle being frustrated for months or having to use two brains instead of one.

[storm magnet]

Ah yeah 5 years seems too much. What time frame do you think? 25 years?

[fickle heart]

Maybe a different way to describe what I'm getting at is that I'm all on board for PCs making decisions the players know are terrible, because that's actually playing the character to who they are. It sounds contradictory, because you're actively making your game experience "worse", but that's one of the reasons that D&D is an RPG. If you were just playing "yourself", you could bypass all of that but that would generally be frowned upon due to metagaming.

[drifting cobalt]

One thing I did once was take a big ass book, put a fireball on a sheet of paper with Glyph of warding and inserted it into the book, then when the Evil God of Calamity fight started I opened the book in his direction and yelled “In your face”
He took 27 fireballs to the face and died instantly

[storm magnet]

Or maybe that forces the kingdom to be very enterprising and gathering regions quickly with their wealth

[rough basalt]

Yeah actions have consequences, but the whole campaign being a consequence just for signing up is a much bigger thing

[eager marsh]

I mean I'd generally avoid it myself, but also 'self sufficient' kingdoms are very standard for higher magic fantasy. you just need a bunch of magic users to handle crop growth on a massive organized scale for example. so instead, you likely have a lot of warlocks running the infrastructure as part of a large overarching pact arrangement

[rough basalt]

Cause either you tell everyone up front so they spend the whole game trying not to metagame, or you keep gaslighting them until someone holds their PCs hands over their ears because "oh uh my ears are cold" just so they can be done with it.

[worn lagoon]

10 years works, it worked in FFX so it can work here

[storm magnet]

Oh. I just wanted to create a setting where everything seems too good/well iff without a discernible cause. Ig a huge devil pact is a bit too dramatic when stuff like criminal underworlds work too, or magic like you said

[fickle heart]

I think this is where the cultivation of players is necessary. There's tons of campaign styles that I would find exceedingly boring if I only played them because there's no decisionmaking involved, just button-pressing. That's not saying those campaigns are bad, just that I couldn't subsist solely on them and enjoy D&D. I need a bit of depth, otherwise I'd just go play a videogame that offered the same strategic offerings without the delay of having to wait my turn for up to 10 minutes in combat.

[eager marsh]

10 didnt sac villages they sacced the summoner technically

[rough basalt]

Alright so you're saying you would find people who wanna be angry, frustrated, tortured

[wanton frigate]

In which channel are the times in. Like 5.00 PM or yea

[fickle heart]

I would replace all of those things with "challenged", but yes.

[minor lake]

Times for what?

[rough basalt]

Challenged doesn't equal being tortured tho

[slim root]

OMG

[rough basalt]

Sure a challenge can feel like those things, but a challenge also ends

[slim root]

Sorry 😅

[rough basalt]

Not all challenges are months to years of ramping up frustrations and workload.

[fickle heart]

A false hydra isn't inherently torture, though. It's a challenge. Some people may hate that type of challenge, but some people may be entirely fine with it and even celebrate it.

[rough basalt]

Personally I'd rather be in the game that nearly traumatized me over seeing that thing in a longer than one shot game

[minor lake]

Reads Foucault's Discipline and Punish
"I'm prepping for the session

[rough basalt]

Breaking every finger to prepare for my 67th session of my 700 page journal of out of character information.

[fickle heart]

I think that player skill should be more of a factor in the game, for example, but I think player skill is often conflated with "ability to build a strong character", when it should be more related to the ability to use one's tools properly to advance and deepen the story.

[minor lake]

Hahaha

[rough basalt]

I think that puzzles is where it ends for me.
If the player has to endanger their own mental health just to play is where I draw the line.

[fickle heart]

If a false hydra endangers someone's mental health they're probably vastly outside the target audience of the creator 😅

[rough basalt]

I'm talking about how it forces you to play

[wanton sorrel]

any monster immune to all magic attacks?

[rough basalt]

Some people physically can't handle that much ramping mental workload

[fickle heart]

In that case, they'd also be outside the target audience, ye.

[severe rampart]

no monster is that powerful, but the closest is like Devils and Liches

[fossil hollow]

nope. At most, i can remember a monster thats Resistant to magical damage

[severe rampart]

You could give them a magic item that does it, and when they die the ring also disappears so the players wont take it from their corpse

[fossil hollow]

at that point tell your spellcasters theyre just useless

[severe rampart]

or cast an anti magic zone

[rough basalt]

Yeah, and isn't the point of frustration that you use it anyways?

[fickle heart]

Trying to use it well against people who aren't the target audience is likely to fail.

[scenic gyro]

Rakshasa are immune to spells under a certain level.

[wanton sorrel]

ah under a certain level.. ah ok.... that makes perfect sense...

[rough basalt]

And imo won't always work with people who think they'll enjoy it either.

Lot of people try Souls-likes thinking they'll enjoy the bashing their head against the wall difficulty, but it's not for everyone.

And I equate the False Hydra in that same category. Since it is about bashing your head against the wall until you're lucky enough to catch it without metagaming.

[fickle heart]

That's a perfect example, actually, and is arguably better than the one I was going to use.

If we equate a false hydra to a soulslike, we could attempt to transitively say that soulslike games are bad, which I think immediately brings up flaws with that conclusion, despite the comparison between a soulslike and a false hydra being really spot on.

[fossil hollow]

munching on popcorn

[fickle heart]

Ergo, if a false hydra is bad homebrew, soulslike games are bad games.

[rough basalt]

A lot of souls like games have a lot of flaws their fans won't admit

Even Elden Ring

[fickle heart]

Every game has flaws to certain people, though. The fact that 5e isn't very cerebral is something I see as a flaw that the community "won't admit", though I would posit that the community doesn't see it as a flaw.

[woven flint]

munching on your empty head

[rough basalt]

Well I'm talking mainly bugs and unfinished design.

[fossil hollow]

releasing the pent up pressure inside my cranium is going to obliterate everything in a 30 ft Emanation

[rough basalt]

Which ig you could work that in with the False Hydra

[fickle heart]

I think this is a bug and unfinished design of 5e, tbf.

[rough basalt]

So 5e should only be for people who wanna spend a year of their life taking journal entries to prevent cheating?

[woven flint]

Noggin of annihilation

[stoic haven]

dang

[clear trellis]

anybody doing a campaign that i can join

[fickle heart]

Nope, because I don't think everyone wants something so dramatic. On the flipside of being reductive, could we not say that 5e is for people who don't want to read their character sheet?

I don't think either of those views is particularly helpful (or accurate) for determining what is or isn't good, because it approaches design in a way of what to avoid, not what to embrace.

[rough basalt]

I don't understand you then.
Cause you want people to be frustrated and to take giant journals to prevent cheating against a meta monster, but you don't want people to be that?

[worn lagoon]

still did a very good job at setting the tone and making you really want to break the cycle forever

[slim root]

Uh hi

[fickle heart]

I don't want everyone to be frustrated, or take giant journals, but I also don't think that some people disliking the idea of that means something is a bad idea holistically, and that instead it's a bad idea for them. It's not black and white thinking; it's shades of gray. If we can say something is a bad idea based on not being in the target audience and thus not being interested in something at all, we can make some pretty ridiculous broad claims.

[rough basalt]

Like "yall are uncreative" cause it's a well supported claim that it's not for how 5e is generally played

[fickle heart]

I don't think it's a lack of creativity, and more that it's a lack of skill IF someone is truly in the target audience and wants to engage with it.

The part I take umbrage with is the idea that the assertion that something is bad homebrew isn't a statement that relies on burden of proof.

[rough basalt]

So you'd tell all new players to use the false hydra?

[fickle heart]

I would not tell new players to use the false hydra at all, no. Considering I've said it's a high-skill type of encounter, I can't see how you'd get that from what I've been saying.

[rough basalt]

What I'm getting is that you want it official.

[fickle heart]

I never said I want it official, no.

I'm saying that calling it bad homebrew with the reasoning being a matter of taste as opposed to something more substantial is merely an opinion, not really a compelling statement beyond that.

[rough basalt]

So what if it's "most people believe it's a bad homebrew because it doesn't entirely work with how 5e is designed or typically played"

[fickle heart]

I think most of that is totally fair, yeah, though the primary thing that I think a false hydra relies on that isn't really in the realm of any particular game system is the player skill necessary to root it out. Overall, the false hydra isn't something limited to 5e and could be slapped into a lot of systems with minimal changes. It's like The Silence from Dr. Who, in that it's a puzzle, not necessarily just an enemy.

[rough basalt]

And I think that's what makes it such an issue for 5e

[fickle heart]

In more concise terms: The primary avenue of engagement for a false hydra has nothing to do with mechanics and has everything to do with the RPG aspect of engaging in a fantasy world and playing a fantasy character.

[serene jolt]

Does anyone else wish that in 2024, Cleric's Divine Intervention can be a choice between casting a spell without a spell slot (like the current one) or they can choose to roll a d100 to get assistance from their deity?
Just me?

[fickle heart]

That avenue is largely agnostic, and has nothing to do with 5e by itself.

[rough basalt]

But the issue is your character can't engage with it easily without compromise.

[fickle heart]

Why is this an issue, though?

[rough basalt]

If they can't engage then there's no game.

DM wins victory music

[fickle heart]

See, but "can't engage without compromise" and "can't engage" are entirely different things that I don't think you should be so easily equating.

[rough basalt]

But if you compromise, it's very easy to end the adventure anyways

[fickle heart]

So is compromise itself the flaw in this equation? Should compromise be seen as a flaw in 5e itself?

[rough basalt]

It can be if you're compromising too much

[fickle heart]

So now we have to define "too much", and I'm sure that will be a huge matter of taste.

[rough basalt]

Just big difference between movie ammo and "alright you can metagame a little, ah crap adventures over"

[fossil hollow]

i think youre too quick to assume the extremes here

[rough basalt]

Movie ammo likely won't cause a significant issue, tho it's not something I agree with, but you need to add a little metagaming to make the metagame monster work, but metagaming renders the metagaming monster useless.

[fickle heart]

This type of thing is all gray area, not black and white.

[trim cradle]

Hey there, is the jump action just str or acrobatic/atheltics

[rough basalt]

It's movement

[fossil hollow]

theres no jump action. Jumping is part of your movement

[trim cradle]

first time dnd oop

[fickle heart]

Again, this is a player skill issue if they are metagaming too much. This literally wouldn't be an issue if the players were better.

[rough basalt]

And that's what I can't understand.
How can you metagame the metagaming monster without metagaming too much when you do need to metagame.

[trim cradle]

So lets say i wanna make a jump over a ravene. How does that work

[rough basalt]

Depends on the size of the gap

[trim cradle]

Uhh could you explain?

[fickle heart]

Well, you don't actually need to metagame, that's the thing. I think a lot of this comes from an overreliance on buttons to press within the game as opposed to engaging in the roleplay of the game.

[rough basalt]

How do you roleplay with something that can't be roleplayed with?

[fickle heart]

I reject the notion that it (meaning the whole dynamic) can't be roleplayed with, so I can't answer that question.

[severe rampart]

Would a changeling inspired by Narcissus be any good? no matter what form they take they are bound to fall in love with theirself

[fossil hollow]

#find-a-game

[rough basalt]

And I don't see how it can be roleplayed with.
How can you roleplay with something that does not exist as far as your CHARACTER knowledge is considered?

[worn lagoon]

What are you onto?

[fossil hollow]

seems like a decent flaw

[bronze wave]

Sounds fun, I’d go with it

[severe rampart]

More like what am I on, I've been spending a lot of time on picrew, and oh boy my mind raced with ideas, let me DM you

[storm magnet]

Are fea more powerful than devils?

[trim cradle]

If i jump over a log lets say. Is that acrobatics or still just movement

[rough basalt]

Cause your character can't know what gets erased, from where they're sitting, they never existed in the first place.

[worn lagoon]

I actually had an npc you missed who'd talk about things of this nature with a changeling pc

[fossil hollow]

assuming you mean fey, thats like asking if Canadians are stronger than Americans

[rough basalt]

Only time I've seen it work is the DM put a deaf npc in the town

[severe rampart]

Oh wow

[storm magnet]

Yeah fey. And wdym?

[rough basalt]

So ig deaf npc is the ace in the hole

[fickle heart]

Apparent nonexistence can, and has been, used to prove things exist, so we have actual examples of this in reality.

An easy example is the idea that this town has suspiciously clean (and empty) houses for such a low population and the houses seem recently lived in.

[fossil hollow]

Fey and Devils are categories of monsters

[rough basalt]

Wouldn't the FHs abilities just make you intrinsically without a doubt believe that the town just has clean new buildings?

[storm magnet]

I mean like on average ig

[jagged vigil]

Hey folks, I never really paid attention to the 5e 2014 Mystic UA, does this new Mystic Subclasses UA look at all like the old Mystic?

[storm magnet]

Or comparing lowest lows to highest highs

[fossil hollow]

compare the statblocks and see how it turns out

[rough basalt]

Mystic was an old unbalanced class.
The new UA is just a name for the UA

[fossil hollow]

easiest answer i can give you

[clear trellis]

what can i use to find a campaign

[storm magnet]

That’s fair

[fossil hollow]

#find-a-game

[jagged vigil]

Thanks Ti- I mean, Sora

[storm magnet]

Kind of my fault for trying to power scale DND anyway

[clear trellis]

like what websites or something

[jagged vigil]

Knock on your neighbor's doors is my best suggestion

[fossil hollow]

theyre not me no

[storm magnet]

Is salt a monster deterrent in anyway?

[rough basalt]

Ig I can start seeing how it could work, but I reject the idea of recommending it to new players and that you're uncreative for thinking it'd be a pain to use.

[fossil hollow]

unless its explicitly said that salt is a deterent, it isnt

[fickle heart]

No. If anything, the original idea of the false hydra has you able to tell SOMETHING is very very wrong, as explained in the original blogpost about it:

https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2014/09/false-hydra.html?m=1

[fossil hollow]

Not every little tidbit of our folklore is also translated in dnd

for example, vampires dont get the urge to count rice

[fickle heart]

I do always forget that people have a ton of misconceptions about how the false hydra was originally made to be, though.

[fossil hollow]

or are repulsed by garlic

[rough basalt]

I didn't know the original had that in place so that does change things a bit

[fossil hollow]

the bakunawa doesnt have anything that represents eating the moon...

[rough basalt]

My belief is that is basically always rewrites reality perfectly so it can never be suspected.

And that's what I've always been told/heard

[storm magnet]

What are your guys top three snow environment based monsters?

I only know one

[fickle heart]

It doesn't really rewrite reality, no. Here's a paragraph from the blogpost explaining some bits of it:

Dissonance

The false hydra's song hides the memories of the devoured victims in the same way that it hides the false hydra, but this is not a perfect system.

Wives will wonder why there are men's clothes in her closet. People will notice that no one has lit the street lanterns these last few nights. Churches suddenly find themselves without a bell ringer.

By and large, these gaps close themselves up. The wife will forget about the clothes as soon as she stops looking at them. Or she will conveniently remember how her brother left them there the last time he visited. Or she will, on some level, recognize the wrongness implicit in the clothes, and throw them away one moonless night. She will confabulate, powerfully and constantly.

But part of her mind is cognizant of the disturbance. That part of her mind is distrusted, and sealed away. But that primordial cluster of neurons still fires. A syphilitic madman who has been locked in the attic by his family, but whose mutters can sometimes be heard during the lulls in the dinner party downstairs.

This creates pressure. In the early stages, this feels like paranoia, especially the sense that someone is watching you (and the hydra is watching you, pressing its moony face up against the window and fogging up the glass). More severe symptoms develop. Reminiscing becomes a stressful and uneasy experience, and so is avoided. Distortions of memory. The confabulations pile up, identities become muddled. Friend's faces seems subtly deformed.

Human brains were not meant to bear this weight. Mundane insanities sprout like mushrooms. Nervous disorders. Psychotic breaks.

[fossil hollow]

Remorhaz, White Dragons, Mammoths

[rough basalt]

Yeah that really changes things

Still I wouldn't recommend it to new players, call people who won't use it uncreative and will keep warning people against using it just cause it's popular.

[dark pewter]

Remorhaz has gotta be my favorite cold climate encounter

[fickle heart]

I gotta remember that I should link the original blogpost at the start of every false hydra discussion

[fickle heart]

Yeah, I'd never recommend it to new players.

[rough basalt]

Ye original post makes it sound like a decent horror mystery monster

[fossil hollow]

hot blooded centipede that burrows through the ice and snow by sheer heat alone will never stop living rent free

[hollow path]

hi

[severe rampart]

Tryna find another campaign because one of the campaigns I'm in feels like a sinking boat (Not yours Evren, <3)

[hollow path]

ehh i'm new is there anyone wants to teach me?

[blissful ibex]

Read the information in #learn-to-play and 'Playing the Game'; Then follow allong with 'Creating A Character' using either the dnd beyond character builder or roll20 to make a practice character before heading over to #character-discussion to have it looked over.

Feel free to ask any questions you still have in #dnd-newcomers; There's a short interactive module you can play to get a feel for the game, or you could seek out gameplay videos online. Once you're ready to play, head over to #find-a-game, one of the many LFG discord servers, r/lfg on reddit, or your friendly local game store. If you'd like a printable character sheet, those can be found here.

[severe rampart]

#dnd-newcomers can help

[dark pewter]

My favorite encounter with 'em was in a Spine of the World campaign. We'd been travelling for days through a blizzard when we happened upon a hot spring. We all succeeded every check to determine that it wasn't an illusion or mirage, but none of us expected monsters

[fossil hollow]

ohohoho

... might steal that

[fickle heart]

Arguably the most important thing about the original false hydra blogpost is that it doesn't include a statblock. It's purely approaching the idea as a campaign plot-point, so I wouldn't even categorize the original blogpost as what people commonly think of as "homebrew". It's more akin to the idea of saying a hostile location is homebrew, if that makes sense.

[jagged vigil]

We have a Many-Arrows orc in my current campaign (Homebringer's reign, not Obould) so I imagine heading back to the Spine is going to be somewhere in my future. Excited to run that

[dark pewter]

I'm glad I could pass on the sheer dread instilled by my GM and inspire y'all

[stoic haven]

Hey, in homebrew settings, how do yall rule the Spell Dream of the Blue Veil

[fallen light]

Remorhaz, frost giant, yeti

[fossil hollow]

what exactly is there to rule?

[crimson gulch]

if im not running a multi setting game i tell folks not to use it

[jagged vigil]

Makes me think of the 16 HP dragon

[crimson gulch]

because if they take the spell its just a waste if they have no access to items from other places

[fossil hollow]

yeah, thats like the biggest thing to even use that spell

[crimson gulch]

RAW prevails

[stoic haven]

Oh yea, I forgot about that tidbit of the requirement

[crimson gulch]

and i have actually ran selveral multiplanar campaigns

but that spell has never come up

[rough basalt]

Right someone made the homebrew statblock based off of it

[empty thicket]

Can we have this pinned so we can copy paste for any new person to read it?

[blissful ibex]

Thanks for noticing XD
put some solid work into getting as much relevant info stuffed into those two paragraphs as possible

[hollow path]

wait

why😭😭

[jolly dagger]

@valid zealot hi

[empty thicket]

why what?

[hollow path]

i just tagged him on the server because he speaks my language.

[fossil hollow]

read the server rules mate

[hollow path]

alright sorry😭

[storm magnet]

What sound do Remorhez make?

Chittering and sounds of hissing from their body temperature?

[fossil hollow]

i imagine clicking and general bug sounds

[storm magnet]

Maybe like a tea kettle

Or sizzling from the snow melting on them

[fossil hollow]

i dont think thats a sound the remorhaz is making than just the sound of snow melting (and water evaporating) in general

[storm magnet]

I don’t know. I just wanted something unique for it other than bug sounds.

[fossil hollow]

i mean. It doesnt seem like it even has lungs

only mention of their innards is just the heat sac

[crimson gulch]

Oh man the noise I make makes my players fear

[storm magnet]

Is it kettle hissing?

[blissful ibex]

Kettles are described as whistling or hissing, ye

[still plover]

I love that story.

[storm magnet]

Are there any low level/cr cold based monsters for a campaign starting in the tundra?

[fossil hollow]

yetis, ice mephits

the monster manual has lists of monsters by CR and habitat

[storm magnet]

Oh I thought Yetis were CR5 just based on vibes.

[fossil hollow]

always best to actually check out the thing before assuming

[storm magnet]

True I just assumed based on popular culture yetis that are super big

[fossil hollow]

I mean... they are Large creatures...

Abominable Yetis are Huge

[rough basalt]

A lot of Beasts can work

[wintry spindle]

It's because they were up close so they look bigger

[stoic haven]

Hey, are Astral arms (Astral self monk) attached to my body? I know they appear either around my arms or from my shoulders, but if someone grabbed them, would it pull me with it?

[fossil hollow]

exact flavor is up to you

and Grapples dont aim for a specific part of the body

[stoic haven]

Mk, because I didn't know about that, also, if I am grappling 2 enemies already with the astral arms, can I still unarmed strike them with the arms? Because they are out of my regular reach

[fossil hollow]

you can always still punch even when grappling

[empty thicket]

crush their heads with each other for high damage to both enemies

[covert root]

An unarmed strike is pretty vague. As long as they're in melee range, just headbutt or whatever.

[empty thicket]

Unless your Dm have a special rule of Grapple and break necks

[stoic haven]

I can only attack with the arms because I grappled them at 10 ft away, so too far for headbutt or kicks, cause only unarmed strikes with astral arms are 10 ft

[covert root]

Well, you have more than one, right? One holds them for Grappled, the other just hits them for Unarmed Strike.

No, wait, you said both are grappling. Then no, only your normal range if you're only using your regular arms. You could just pull them closer to you, though.

Part of grappling includes forcibly moving the thing you're holding. It would just cost double your own movement.

[stoic haven]

Had 2 grappled enemies

So I can move them around with me actually moving?

Cause I know that's a thing for debate for lots of people

[covert root]

It shouldn't be a thing of debate; the rules account for it. Your speed is just halved per creature grappled.

[fossil hollow]

You cant move creatures around without moving if youre grappling them

[eager marsh]

There is not any official rule for moving enemies around your space to 'reorient' them while grappling. I consider this an oversight personally and the rule my DM and me agreed on for my Monk with Grappler is that every 5 ft you move your grappled targets, is just teh same as if you moved with them normally. 5 ft with Grappler, 10 ft without

[covert root]

That's what the tables I'm in do, too.

[stoic haven]

2014 rules, so grappler sucks

[eager marsh]

imagine using 2014 rules smh

[stoic haven]

But even if I move them, they are still 10 ft away

[stoic haven]

I know TvT, I wish we were playing 2024

[covert root]

Just ask your DM and suggest you consume your own movement to pull them closer to you. It seems like a fair exchange. The enemy movement's already 0 while Grappled by you, anyway.

[eager marsh]

I've been spending the whole campaign using Grappler with my monk to control positioning for the party and it's great.

[covert root]

It's the right way to use it, for sure. I always try to tell newbie monks that they don't need magic to drag people around. The gods gave wizards spells, and they gave you deez hands.

[eager marsh]

Oh yea, we arent outside super often but being a dragonborn + ascendant dragon means I have managed to drop enemies from really high a few times

[hidden spindle]

You can reorient the Grappled Target by simply reorienting yourself without moving them

[eager marsh]

generally thats technically true but deoending on the movement intent, vastly worse than the frequently agreed upon houserule

[young dew]

hi!

[severe rampart]

I'm wondering if anyone else here knows about a certain guy that does really simplistic dnd campaigns on Google Slides, it is really impressive I'm ngl

I'm not saying his name so I dont come off as advertising

[lean lark]

You're seeing if anyone happens to noah guy?

[severe rampart]

yeah let's just call him Noah, very impressive stuff

it shows how bare a DnD Game could be

just google slides and a "spin the wheel" mechanic for everything else

[icy crag]

Hello guys Happy Weekend

[lean lark]

I heard a story from someone else about a person who managed to play D&D while in prison with nothing but their memory and pencils, not sure how true the story is

[topaz eagle]

Hey. I'm a new dm and I have a question. For example, the players encounter an orc swarm. I separated the orcs into 2 groups, connected together. (like if the player hit an orc, it does the damage to every orc in the group) How do I run the fight ?

[silk hare]

oh yeah saw one of those, really nice

[severe rampart]

the favorite group that I watched of his were called the Party Crashers, insanely good dynamics, just a brute of a barbarian, a rogue who cant seem to aim, a cleric and an evil wizard

[silk hare]

less attacks, describe how the orcs try to step in for eachother

they stay alive for long (everyone) but get visibly progressively weaker

less damage, less AC sth like that maybe

give both sides a max hp pool, if it runs out for one group they are defeated and that damages the morale (in turn making the scond one weaker too, as they share a statblock)

or rather, half the hp pool (total) and give one half to each side, if they regroup, their total HP are added together again

[topaz eagle]

Oh ok and it's just the orc gang attacking, the players attacking (depending on the initiative), etc. until the orcs are defeated ?

[topaz eagle]

Oh and also for the HP, should the group have the total of every orc hp ? For example orcs have 15 hp, and there is two groups of 5, so every group have 75 HP ?

[silk hare]

that doesnt matter as much as lvl of the party, your creatures should have a CR rating, iirc Each CR roughly corresponds to a party of 4 of that lvl

so CR5 = 4 people at lvl 5

[silk hare]

sure, you could also give the swarm 2 turns (one for each group)

[topaz eagle]

oh ok

[topaz eagle]

yeah makes sense

[silk hare]

but tbh Im not that experienced in dming, so check out #dm-discussion they might be of better help

[topaz eagle]

ok thanks :D

[silk hare]

np, hope it goes well

[humble cairn]

So squeeze them with the Arms in a crushing attack. That, too, is an unarmed attack.

Or bash them into one another.

[trim cradle]

The youtube dude?

[stark tundra]

Kraken what vyl8n said is the best way to do it

Half the orcs then party then the other half

[fossil hollow]

already answered in #dm-discussion

[dense nacelle]

I’ve been tinkering with some funny dnd character ideas and may have made something a bit too large to chew

[severe rampart]

do tell, in #character-discussion

[vague bison]

Guys just asking for some advice I have some new players coming to my table and I'm trying to decide whether or not to start them at level 1 then get the plot going at around level 3 or just to start them at level 3 and get straight on with the main story

[halcyon forum]

level 1-2 are sort of tutorial levels and leveling up should be done quickly, but they help new players to not be too overwhelmed

[silk hare]

depends, I personally dont like lvl 1-2 but if they are completely new, sure why not

especially to teach them mechanics of e.g. combat and such

[severe rampart]

Sounds great to start at level 1

[halcyon forum]

i tend to do these levels with newbies but start higher with experienced players

[silk hare]

also if you notice they learn/ learned quickly you can just lvl them up faster than intended originally

[fossil hollow]

ive recently become very fond of the near death experiences at tier 1 recently

[halcyon forum]

has flashbacks in goblin ambushes

[severe rampart]

Those were... horrible times

[fossil hollow]

exactly

[severe rampart]

and playing with new players and the DM sending the goblin ambush brings me nostalgia as well

[silk hare]

30 baboons...

[severe rampart]

(the group skinned the goblins for goblin leather)

[silk hare]

guess you somehow missed the road..

[eager marsh]

humanoid 'leather' in general isnt going to be much for usable quality. points for pragmatism tho

[severe rampart]

I wish that was ALL that they did...

[eager marsh]

congrats on your psychopath players then

[severe rampart]

they collected heads

[eager marsh]

thats more normal than skinning tbh

[fossil hollow]

ears are easier to carry

[severe rampart]

I'M PARTY MEMBERS WITH THEM, I killed the most goblins and they just kept going after the goblins were dead

[eager marsh]

Congrats on your psychopath party then*

[severe rampart]

and then of course they pissed off an old lady in the woods who turned out to be the goblin queen and then nearly died

[silk hare]

I mean the thickness isnt too far off...

[severe rampart]

Please don't give them ideas

My Lawful Good ranger can't take it anymore

[fossil hollow]

unless they're here, my point still stands

[silk hare]

if you dehydrate the heads they should "shrink" a bit (at least if they kept them intact)

makes them easier to carry

[woven flint]

Hope you're ready for my Centaur Barbarian to collect devil fingers

[fossil hollow]

... i need a moment to research wether devil amputation means they stick around

[silk hare]

so cattle skin is about 6-10mm in thickness while human skin is 0.4-2.6, so roughly a third at max

[severe rampart]

I would not heal them at all if they did that

[silk hare]

just means you might have to take multiple layers to make usable leather

[eager marsh]

thickness isnt the only issue here but the quality of the skin/hide. And humanoids without scales would have an epidermus equatable to humans, which is famously a terrible leather replacement.

[woven flint]

I'm sure if we're in hell then they would, as if they die in the hells, I think they genuinely just die there instead of poofing

[silk hare]

mhhh fair enough I guess

[severe rampart]

When the time was critical, the druid hid behind cover, the barbarian was unconscious, the warlock was half dead, and I kept spamming arrows to giant goblins and using horde breaker

[vagrant quartz]

guys i need an opinion

[fossil hollow]

yeah, im just not sure if they end up dying the rest of it turns into ichor

[silk hare]

but then again, who is to say that humanoids have the same stuff as humans, oh the implications haahha

[silk hare]

shoot :))

[fossil hollow]

who is to say they dont

[severe rampart]

Also this party is bound to break

[woven flint]

Each finger taken is a Devil Conquered in the name of BANE!

[silk hare]

better have "mending" ready then :))))

[fossil hollow]

wait, youre bannite now?

[woven flint]

He's Zhentarim... of course he is 💀

[vagrant quartz]

a party member of mine separeted from the group and did some demon summoning with a really strong necromancer, i went in and talked with the necromancer and all chillax, i did an arcana roll to try and copy / understand the summoning circle, got a nat 20+6 and now i have it fully memorized, should i blackmail them ?

[fossil hollow]

i forgot the Zhents had him as one of their main gods

[woven flint]

Bane was their Patron Deities for a long time, he doesn't accept Cyric as he views him as slimy and dishonorable

[severe rampart]

I'm only a half caster

[fossil hollow]

too used to them just being black market mercs

[silk hare]

blackmail who

[silk hare]

get MI or ask a party member then :DDDDDD

[vagrant quartz]

party member that went behind our backs to summon a fiend

[silk hare]

I mean, if you want to sure, what benefit would that blackmail have tho?

[woven flint]

Is Bane dead by the time the events of DIA happens? 🤔

[fossil hollow]

no

their cult is still alive and well

[woven flint]

Swag, my Zhentarim Bannite is gonna slaughter them Devils

[vagrant quartz]

i dunno, but they let me know to not tell anyone sooo

[woven flint]

I think he'd still continue his Worship of Bane even if he was dead lol

[silk hare]

alright, so what would u blackmail them for? if theres no point

[vagrant quartz]

i need my wizard money

[fossil hollow]

-# after some plot related reasons, you are not a Vestige Warlock

[silk hare]

do they have money?

[woven flint]

You can... read their name, right?

[vagrant quartz]

yeah

[fossil hollow]

dude.

[silk hare]

alright sure then, if thats what you want to do why not

[vagrant quartz]

i can finally copy some spell scrolls :D

[severe rampart]

I wouldn't count on it

[fossil hollow]

do also wanna point out randomly pinging people for no reason isnt good here

[woven flint]

Listen, he doesn't have the Charisma for allat 💀

[silk hare]

"-" here

[woven flint]

Funny

[fossil hollow]

i beseech to you, a Tome of Building your Confidence, written by Robin Windiams

[woven flint]

It's not that he's not confident lmao, he just dislikes people smh

[fossil hollow]

the lastest hit writer from the Elemental Plane of Air

oh he also has the Tome of How to be a People Person

[severe rampart]

thinking about getting Steel Wind Strike and Banishment for my lore bard

[fossil hollow]

dude, stop pinging him

[woven flint]

Does he have the Tome of "Reasons why you should piss off and leave me alone"?

[fossil hollow]

hmmm... no. He might be interested in investing though

(I will also say, this genie has also started Wish Coin)

[woven flint]

Ti...
I'm leaving all your campaigns 🗿

[fossil hollow]

what?

[woven flint]

WishCoin?!

[fossil hollow]

Blame Nano for introducing the concept of crypto currency to him

[woven flint]

The audacity of this guy and having bitcoin genies

[fossil hollow]

I am Yu

[fossil hollow]

again blame Nano and the Storm King's Thunder crew

[silk hare]

[woven flint]

Tell them that I'm hunting them down

[fossil hollow]

is that why your Rogue went on board lmao

[woven flint]

Lmao what

[naive cedar]

What did I walk into

[silk hare]

what is wrong with people

[fossil hollow]

actually, the Genie was last known to be in the airship....

[naive cedar]

Also which god is the god of bitcoin

[silk hare]

seriously

[woven flint]

A troll, ignore them, they'll starve if they don't have mental stimulation

[fossil hollow]

So... Mr WishCoin can still be in the airship...

[severe rampart]

Just like the dragon, don't feed it attention

[woven flint]

He's killing that Genie now

[naive cedar]

But I like feeding dragons 😭

[fossil hollow]

hes offering you his share of 50 WishCoin (currently going for 500 EP each)

[severe rampart]

Please dont feed the dragons, they will become overweight and will not be able to fly

[naive cedar]

Huh good point

[silk hare]

who even uses electrum

[fossil hollow]

whats wrong with my bois body plan

[woven flint]

Lockpick doesn't accept the offers of frauds

[severe rampart]

Electrum is stupid

[silk hare]

fr

[fossil hollow]

The true NFT of the DND world; electrum

[naive cedar]

I bet Bane would be into crypto

[silk hare]

mh true I guess xD

[fossil hollow]

once converted all the gold in my players inventory to Electrum because his human was in cryogenic freeze for 2 thousand years

[woven flint]

I don't think he has time for such miniscule things, he's too busy being a conqueror

[fossil hollow]

he gotta conquer the NFT space too man

[naive cedar]

He would use it to conquer the masses

[fossil hollow]

people who did NFTs have the weakest of wills. Which means easier subjugation

[naive cedar]

Also Gortash is 100% a crypto bro so it fits

[woven flint]

NO, STOP IT!
Cease this dark Whimsy! Come back to the light Whimsy

[fossil hollow]

Ok. You have canonized something in my BG games now

[naive cedar]

That wasn’t already canon?

[fossil hollow]

Not only does he play League now... he does crypto

[silk hare]

so he (doesnt shower)^2?

[fossil hollow]

look at the man, does he look like he showers??

[naive cedar]

||He tried to get the other two in on th crypto scheme. Ketheric fell for it. Durge didnt. ||

[naive cedar]

||His boyfriend died, give him a break||

[fossil hollow]

restart, my poor girl didnt deserve the death

[silk hare]

start a new game

[blissful dragon]

is anyone else confused why 2024 manshoon was turned into dnd bane?

[woven flint]

Karlach deserved it

[fossil hollow]

what? Hes still DND Doctor Doom

[fossil hollow]

you take that back you monster

[blissful dragon]

like aside from need muscles he look hlike tom hardy bane

[woven flint]

I'm embracing my Evil Arc

[blissful dragon]

not a critism just confused

[glass granite]

Hi embracing my evil arc, I’m Nugget

[naive cedar]

||I’m a stake bro but instead of staking astarion every playthrough I chop off Karlach’s head every playthrough ||

[woven flint]

I'm blocking nugget!!!

[glass granite]

Hi blocking Nugget, I’m Nugget

[silk hare]

ah beat me to it xD

[woven flint]

Too long has his plagued me with DAD JOKES!!!

Heresy! HERESY!

[fossil hollow]

side note, i need to see this now in my waterdeep game

[woven flint]

Manshoon? More like...

Midshoon

[fossil hollow]

power word kill

[woven flint]

I'll proudly die

[fossil hollow]

also, why am i seeing hot boy art of manshoon

[woven flint]

Time to make another character

[fossil hollow]

where does the emo boy art come from??

[blissful dragon]

are you taking about the new forgotten realm dm book?

[naive cedar]

Have you guys seen the mtg art of bane

[fossil hollow]

OH!

Wait, is it this one? Manshoon

[blissful dragon]

thats old one

[woven flint]

Manshoon?
More like...
Manshit.

[fossil hollow]

oh. Thats the one i was thinking of

... now im seeing yao i of him with a mind flayer

[woven flint]

Ti! Bad Ti, get back in the cage!

[fossil hollow]

its not anything spicy, to clarify

[severe rampart]

Ti, have you been reading online again? bad Ti

[fossil hollow]

its too late, my faith in humanity is crubmled to ash

[severe rampart]

I hope my DM implements a rule so that the players get damaged when one of them says 67, I'm tired of hearing it

[fossil hollow]

its a free vicious mockery on the DM side

[severe rampart]

oh it's a mockery alright

[fiery nimbus]

I explained to my party that there is around 20% chance for my spell to turn against the party

[woven flint]

Why

[fiery nimbus]

Summon Greater Demon with spell DC of 14

[woven flint]

I hope it feasts upon you all

[severe rampart]

Do it

you know you want to summon it

[fiery nimbus]

oh DM gave me the list

[woven flint]

If anyone makes a 67 joke, their character instantly dies as the Lady of Pain destroys them for their insolence

[glass granite]

I just death stare them and remove all heroic inspiration

[fossil hollow]

theyre getting villianous inspiration

[worn lagoon]

next time i see a 67 joke im killing the entire party

[fossil hollow]

at my choosing, i can turn any dice roll into a nat 1

[severe rampart]

Remember when you lagged out and came back to the whole party saying 67

[woven flint]

67 67 67!!!

[glass granite]

Gasp

[worn lagoon]

i'm upcasting power word kill to 14th level, idgad what limits mystra enforces nowadays

[woven flint]

Kill them, kill them!!!

[severe rampart]

it was because I had a maximum of 67 hp due to the temporary +15

[severe rampart]

Counterspell

[fossil hollow]

whoever casted aid is dying

[severe rampart]

it was Evren (The DM)

[woven flint]

Kill the DM

[worn lagoon]

no </3

[fossil hollow]

Kill the DM

[glass granite]

Kill everyone

[worn lagoon]

god forbid a man give his players a very relaxing and slightly magical spa experience

[woven flint]

Kill your players and then die

[severe rampart]

I am super lucky Evren picked me up out of the litter, the other campaign I'm in is very... less than ideal

[worn lagoon]

peace at last

[worn lagoon]

storytime in dms?

[glass granite]

Oh yall play together?

[severe rampart]

bet

[worn lagoon]

I am the best DM in the world. (Do not fact check this.)

[glass granite]

tempted to make a dad joke rn

[fossil hollow]

Hi i am the best dm in the world, im ti moth

[fossil hollow]

also, i see what you did there.. removing the "I'm"...

[glass granite]

Whatever do you mean…

[hard crystal]

I’m creating my new dnd character, it’s a bard and I have 50 spare gold: what to spend it on? Bard is a class that looks like doesn’t need to spend money on anything, ever… so what?

[severe rampart]

save up

[noble basin]

either save or exchange your leather armor for studded leather

[hard plaza]

heyoooo. new to D&D and did my first session and had a blast :)) me and my roommate are doing the heroes of the borderlands!

[fair summit]

50 bags of Caltrops

[hard crystal]

I alr have a studded leather armor

[hard crystal]

for what?

chatgpt said to buy influence but is that a thing?

[glass granite]

Bribery probably

[severe rampart]

Never use Chatgpt for DnD

[noble basin]

dont listne to chatgpt it doesnt know anything lol

[hard crystal]

ik but I had no one to ask to lol

[severe rampart]

You have a lot of people to ask... it's the thing you're using to talk to us, the discord server

[loud tendon]

what level is this bard? it seems strange that you have 50gp

[glass granite]

There are 300k people on this server

[hard crystal]

all my beautiful gold is just going basically unused then? sigh

[hard crystal]

ik

[hard crystal]

lvl 1
rolled 120 gp and got a rapier and studded leather armor

which amount to 70

[fair summit]

Potion of healing is exactly 50 gold, and always useful 😎

[hard crystal]

lifestyle is something that I need to buy for sure

[glass granite]

Rations

[hard crystal]

but besides that?

[hard crystal]

aren’t they included in the lifestyle?

[fair summit]

Lifestyle is more about your lifestyle in a town, rations are for when you need to eat on the road. Can't bring your favourite tavern with you generally 😛

[hard crystal]

but then what’s the point of paying upfront for lifestyle?

[loud tendon]

did chatgpt tell you to roll for gold?

[minor cargo]

Don’t forget you can add your healing potion to your borscht to give it a bit more colour and some kick!

[hard crystal]

if I go to a tavern once or twice it shouldn’t be the same

[hard crystal]

no, the manual

I always roll for gold cause preselected stuff is boring

the bard has 5d4 • 10

[worn lagoon]

dndbeyond has rolling for gold as a visible option

i think it's like 40 to 160 variance

[hard crystal]

depends on the class

[severe rampart]

Holy crap I am broke

[worn lagoon]

you are all broke, mate

[loud tendon]

Sorry I'm used to seeing the set amountGP + Gear OR Xgp
rather than gear AND rolling for gold

[hard crystal]

the lowest is 20 and the highest is 200

[worn lagoon]

then i remember sorcerer.

[fair summit]

To have a place to stay and food, which are both included. Lifestyle is basically paying your stay somewhere. It's basically simplifying your expenses somewhere without having to roleplay a shopping session / inn stay each day

[hard crystal]

actually a monk can get 5 lol

[severe rampart]

If only I could sell the fart sword, I bet that thing would go for millions of gold pieces

[worn lagoon]

That's an unironically strong weapon for that point of the game, y'know

[severe rampart]

YES THAT'S WHY I HATE IT

[worn lagoon]

1d4 bludgeoning + 1d8 thunder +1 enchantment, beautiful little thing

[hard crystal]

so the short answer is : save up + the second worst lifestyle?

[worn lagoon]

I'm gonna come up with an even more annoying, stronger item

[severe rampart]

it's 1d8 or 1d10 slashing aint it?

[worn lagoon]

it's a wooden prop

[severe rampart]

Oh that made it infinitely worse

the max I can do now is 13 damage

[hard crystal]

Imma go create the personality, what’s your method to come up with a non-flat personality?

[worn lagoon]

Gods of inspiration send down a character concept for me to obsess over for the next couple of days after i'm prompted to join a campaign

[severe rampart]

and make it a changeling

[worn lagoon]

I guess try to give them hobbies that make sense after you have a backstory down

[worn lagoon]

a +1 longsword does 11 , with a 10 on the damage roll, no?

[severe rampart]

I thought it was 1d4 bludgeoning

[silk hare]

tree sentinel build from elden ring

[reef copper]

Make a vague story for their whole life, develop the more important parts they have as core memories, add relations to other living or dead characters, and then just do every interaction based on that information the character has as their life experience

[worn lagoon]

no, just comparing it to a +1 longsword

1d4+1d8 > 1d10

[severe rampart]

well I guess it is better than a regular long sword

[worn lagoon]

i'm gonna give it psychic bonus damage later, just to upset you

[hard crystal]

ok

[severe rampart]

When I said it here people debated making it deal poison damage or psychic damage

[glass granite]

1d10 avg is 5.5
1d8+1d4 avg is 7

[worn lagoon]

oh lemme see the convo

[severe rampart]

hold on

[reef copper]

Try to understand the character as much as possible, philosiphise as that character and try to think how they would act in a sitiuation and what they would take away from an interaction after it happened, maybe they are pesemistic and find that the betrayal was just expected and others cant be trusted, or maybe they are naive and take it in chock for example

[worn lagoon]

saw it, i'm glad to give more people mental damage.

[hard crystal]

tysm

[worn lagoon]

I hope you look forward to Disintegration Tennis.

I will not be telling you anything more.

[severe rampart]

Right here Evren

Evren, someone also suggested that when you unsheath it it makes a squeaky noise

alright well the session got cancelled for the campaign I told you about

[worn lagoon]

You're free!

[severe rampart]

too bad I was looking forward to it lol

[worn lagoon]

oh right true

[worn lagoon]

grudge's rusty sword would've been repairable into something decent if he had used enlarge-reduce

[severe rampart]

How could we have solved that puzzle

[worn lagoon]

🥱 creativity

things like these won't make you miss great or important stuff dw

but it is a bit unfortunate there are no wizards nor sorcerers

[severe rampart]

I might give the fart sword to Grudge

[severe rampart]

If I die in the campaign I'll give you a Sorcerer Changeling

[worn lagoon]

bro is the changeling connoiseur

[severe rampart]

Changelings are amazing and they are the best

[meager fractal]

We're fighting a beholder with no ranged capability, how screwed are we

[fossil hollow]

That sounds like a dead beholder

[woven flint]

Midlings

[fossil hollow]

a beholders main strength is their range capabilities lmao

[glass granite]

I think they mean the characters have no ranged capabilities

[eager marsh]

If that’s the case the party is dead objectively

[devout niche]

hi :D

[wanton sorrel]

tomb of horros is the most scariest op adventure i have ever seen.

[fossil hollow]

Oh, characters with no range? uh. Run

[fossil hollow]

I got news for you, Accerack has an even better dungeon called Tomb of Annihilation!

Its the sequel everybody didnt ask for but ended up dying to anyway!

[glass granite]

Remember: crying is a free action
And cowards survive. If things go south, run.

[craggy summit]

ToA is a very fun adventure 😌 I made a character that was so loved that he became a celebrity among everyone at our local game store lol

Even people that weren't even at our table knew about him lol

[wanton sorrel]

you might be right i'll take a look on that

[fossil hollow]

one day i will run hardcore ToA

PHB only, roll for species, background, class and stats. 3d6

[meager fractal]

We ran

[eager marsh]

Me rolling 14+ intelligence and wisdom and deciding after the first room the dungeon wasn’t worth it and leaving

[fossil hollow]

great, roll up your new one!

[eager marsh]

Dang

[fossil hollow]

that one lives to retirement, this one has to do the adventure

[maiden loom]

i'm in dire need of joining a D&D campaign

[woven flint]

I was gonna say something, but then I realized "wait a minute, that's TOO freaky"

[fossil hollow]

#find-a-game

[glass granite]

If it’s too freaky for the Lord of Goofy, I fear it

[coarse ravine]

Eh not if you are a Kobold

[fossil hollow]

Youve heard of Crocodile Tears, get ready for Dragon Tears

oh wait, i farm those on Monster Hunter

[stone elk]

Amen

[cosmic roost]

Ready to play Dungeons & Dragons?

Visit #find-a-game for everything you need to start your search, including:

• Instructions for finding a game here on the server (including how to post in our #looking-for channels).
• Suggestions for finding a game outside of this server.
• Basic advice to help you in your hunt.

[crimson gulch]

And hp

[fossil hollow]

ooh yes

[remote wadi]

So...

I got pulled off of a rope I tried to climb up and got body slammed to unconsciousness

[crimson gulch]

Climbing is dangerous

[eager marsh]

just fly. ez

[hidden spindle]

Hmm... no Climber Kit?

[blissful ibex]

it's kinda heavy to be fair q_q

[fossil hollow]

youre not carrying it though

youre using it when you climb

[topaz eagle]

wait gang is darkvision a spell ?

[eager marsh]

You are until you need it

Yes it is. One that usually isnt prepared though

[fossil hollow]

its a spell that gives Darkvision

[topaz eagle]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[eager marsh]

torches are free

[glass granite]

Chill on the caps

[fossil hollow]

the sense and the spell share the same name

[topaz eagle]

I tought it was passive

[fossil hollow]

it is. the spell just gives you Dark Vision

[glass granite]

Darkvision is both a feature and a spell

[topaz eagle]

breh

[eager marsh]

It's passive if you have Darkvision from a race or class feature

[fossil hollow]

if you dont have it

[topaz eagle]

I'm an elf so I have infinite darkvis right

[fossil hollow]

If you dont have it, you use Darkvision (the spell) to get Darkvision (the sense)

[glass granite]

You have it

[blissful ibex]

Elves have a passive dark vision up to 60 feet
drow get 120

[eager marsh]

Darkvision having a range limit doesnt really make sense technically speaking, especially when you realize how little 60 ft is in realistic distance

[fossil hollow]

shhh

[topaz eagle]

thanks gang 👍

[fossil hollow]

imperial is a shit measurement anyway

[topaz eagle]

dnd discord server is always the solution

[hidden spindle]

I'm spatial unaware how far things are

[eager marsh]

changing the distance to metric wont change the facts

[fossil hollow]

and my mouse died on me when i typed that.

[eager marsh]

the empire punished you

[fossil hollow]

nah, you change the unit, keep the number

[hidden spindle]

And I use math for work every day.

[severe rampart]

Did you forget to feed it

[blissful ibex]

make fractional inches base 12 instead of base 10 c:

[eager marsh]

That would be altering the scale entirely and wouldn't be equivalent. just play pathfinder. no vision ranges

[fossil hollow]

same here. Framer. Use Imperial exclusively. I hate it

[glass granite]

Poor Hakos

[vagrant quartz]

i use meters for everything, but damn it i can't use meters on dnd, 5 beeing the base number for stuff is just so much better

[fossil hollow]

look, not my fault there was a piece of furniture there

[eager marsh]

feet dividing by 12 inches is in fact objectively better from the standpoint of construction and architecture

[hidden spindle]

I've only just learned to convert in <--> mm too

[fossil hollow]

as a framer, hell no

[severe rampart]

Isn't it like 1:2.14

[blissful ibex]

12 is anti prime, easier to devide

[remote wadi]

I forgot I had poor AC because I traded my leather armor for studded that I did not receive yet. And surrendering didn't seem like a good option

[hidden spindle]

25.4
Multiple for inches --> mm
Divide for mm --> inches

[eager marsh]

can you easily and simply divide 1 meter by 1, 2, 3, and 4 mentally with ease?

[fossil hollow]

yuh

[eager marsh]

ok human calculator

[fossil hollow]

base 10 ez. Plus Asian genes

minor math boost

[eager marsh]

base 10 doesnt divide by 3 and 4 into even whole numbers

[glass granite]

lol

[severe rampart]

That's an advantage on all Int saves

[fossil hollow]

cancelled out by my ADD though

[eager marsh]

comes free with overbearing parents tho

[fossil hollow]

Cant even Concentrate on spells

[vagrant quartz]

depends on the spell

[fossil hollow]

Nah, ADD gives me perma Disadvantage

No War Caster meds for me

[eager marsh]

Bro is just too poor. can't pay attention

[vagrant quartz]

they be paywalling everything these days

[glass granite]

Attention is the meanest landlord

[fossil hollow]

why i gotta pay rent

[eager marsh]

because capitalism. It's so bad it gave you ADD

[fossil hollow]

why are humans the only species to pay to live

[eager marsh]

same answer

[vagrant quartz]

did it also give me adhd?

[eager marsh]

Yes

[vagrant quartz]

dangit

[fossil hollow]

I will hunt down the Capitalism Demon and feed it to Pochita

[vagrant quartz]

thats why my perception goes to -3 when i concentrate on spells

[eager marsh]

You can't. The Capitalism Demon is protected by the War Demon that they fund. Which means you have the michigan sword coming at you

[hidden spindle]

Do you ever sit at the table and already calculated your party members rolls before they say it?

[fossil hollow]

I will beat up ||Yoru||

[eager marsh]

I do that because I have to unfortunately

[fossil hollow]

oh wait thats spoilers

[clear trellis]

what websites can i use to find games to join

[fossil hollow]

Start Playing, Facebook, Reddit

[severe rampart]

And #find-a-game

[blissful ibex]

r/lfg on reddit tends to be fairly lively if you need a specific subreddit

[remote wadi]

So

Wizard had the bright idea of fireball on every guard carrying my unconscious body

And me alongside it. For some reason, remaining guard didn't think to run and decided to just kill me instantly

He's dead now. And I don't know if I can be in the DnD calls right now

Does everything gotta be this depressing, man?

[glass granite]

How long has it been?

In game, since your character died

[remote wadi]

5 minutes. As for the death, no one has the materials for revivify, so tough crap

[glass granite]

Been too long for revivify too

[remote wadi]

In game, idk

I left when I died

Can't catch a single break, can I?

[wintry spindle]

I like the idea of sneaking in somewhere by being dead and reviving when you are there. But in theory it would be very complicated

[glass granite]

And in practice, revivify has too short of a timer

[remote wadi]

Yeah, I'm just done

[glass granite]

That being said, there’s the slim chance there’s some diamonds just lying around

[remote wadi]

Left the voice call and VTT. I'm not in the best mood for trying to hear anything fron the DM or party

[lean lark]

What happened?

[karmic pendant]

I think you should still be able to join the dnd calls

[severe rampart]

His character died

[lean lark]

How?

[glass granite]

Teammate fireball

[severe rampart]

Wizard fireballed

[karmic pendant]

You just have to not use any information you hear

[remote wadi]

Combined with a lone guard who saw 6 of his friends die from one attack decide "You know what? I'm not going to run for my life and instead just kill this guy I barely know before I die"

[severe rampart]

I mean, if I was in his shoes, I don't think I would've ran either, wizards have insane range

[wintry spindle]

yeah and the players can just go "oh i want to recap what happened while they were dead"

[blissful ibex]

it's purpose is to be the cheap, quick and dirty option
raise dead is the real 'basic' resurection spell

[glass granite]

Yeah, dead man walking

[woven flint]

Yeah, you might as well take someone with you before you die lol

[severe rampart]

Assuming the guards were close as well, probably also revenge for killing his buddies

[blissful ibex]

issue is it's not available until level 9 vs level 5 for revivify

[woven flint]

"Welp. That was a wizard attack... I'm taking at least one of you blokes down with me!"

[glass granite]

And Bloodlines party is only lvl 5

[blissful ibex]

yep :x

[severe rampart]

Oh my it has been a hot minute since I've played a session of DnD

[remote wadi]

So yeah. At this point, part of me wants to just say I'm done and move on

[glass granite]

You could roll up another character

[remote wadi]

Tired of the crappy luck and having to do so much for so little

[severe rampart]

Time to draft another character

[blissful ibex]

was this the campaign with your ranger and the party who couldn't stay off of you long enough for you to capitalize on PWT?

[wintry spindle]

is it a bad table?

[crimson gulch]

You had not been enjoying that game from the start blood

[severe rampart]

Yeah, he's been getting power crept for so long

[remote wadi]

Not an actively bad one. But like... it could be a lot better

[muted slate]

yea how attached are you to this dead feller. you should have the chance to roll up somenoe new. or maybe talk to the DM after session about what happened and why what was done..was

[woven flint]

Honestly. Admittedly, the Wizard is a Bozo for throwing a fireball when his friend is RIGHT THERE

[wintry spindle]

For a second I though Ulritz were using blood as slang lol

[crimson gulch]

Lol

[woven flint]

I can't blame blood for being pissed

[severe rampart]

Like a count

[remote wadi]

I did get PWT willingly at the end, but that doesn't really matter when a guard sees you anyways and DM doesn't let you make Stealth checks

[wintry spindle]

My opinion is some things at a table is ok to accept but you shouldn't accept everything

[crimson gulch]

I could, he's been complaining about this game constantly for weeks

[severe rampart]

It was boiling down to this

[crimson gulch]

I think 10 of us told him to leave that game as early as the last week of November

[woven flint]

Ah...
Then yeah

[wintry spindle]

Personally as a player there is stuff I don't like at a table, but my dislike for it isn't big enough for me to not play at that table. Some things I care a lot about then I don't want to play at a table that doesn't provide that

I don't like playing at tables where it's only rule of cool and rules are rarely respected

[woven flint]

The only times I'd fireball my teammates is if it's a Monk or Rogue with Evasion.. or somebody with fire resistance lol

[blissful ibex]

or absorb Elements Prepared c:

[woven flint]

Yeah

[severe rampart]

Or when you find out they're mind flayer spawn

[woven flint]

I'm not gonna full send if I know it'll do more harm than good

[remote wadi]

So like, I was totally willing to keep working it out with them because they really were making good progress

But now he's just... dead

[remote wadi]

I did have it prepared, but I was unfortunately unconscious

[steady kraken]

Howdy howdy yall

[woven flint]

My Celestial Warlock hit a clean fireball when our Rogue was standing beside someone and she successfully avoided it

[remote wadi]

And I had low health ti begin with thanks to a crappy short rest. 3d10s +6 only to heal 15 damage

[woven flint]

It was glorious

[blissful ibex]

But like, they didn't let you hide or anything outside of LoS?

[crimson gulch]

Dying should be fun, I killed one pc 3 times last Thursday and it was a wild.memorable session that will live on in infamy.

[wintry spindle]

I think it depends always on how you die

[severe rampart]

Go out in a blaze of glory

[remote wadi]

Nope. Only one who made stealth checks was Wizard because he was on rooftops

[woven flint]

Ay, My Genies Paladin died defending the party from a Lich attack so they could escape once

And if my Celestial Warlock dies, at least his soul will be able to stay in his Ring of Mind Shielding lol

[wintry spindle]

My previous barbarian is delisoulal of the idea of death being permeanent because he has been revived so many times it becomes fun every time he almost dies

[blissful ibex]

yeah, that's completely unreasonable

[woven flint]

I'd say Goodbye and Good Riddance lmao

There are better games to be had

[severe rampart]

This actually might make me leave one campaign I'm in, sounds like blood had a horrible experience

[remote wadi]

The part leading up to it was, I guess. But overall, the experience wasn't that great, mostly because of out of campaign problems like a very intrusive and foul mouthed brother deciding to actively inconvenience me

[crimson gulch]

What? Your brother was in the campaign too?

[remote wadi]

Just general things like that made what little fun I have just fizzle out. The campaign wasn't half bad, but the problems are more me than them

[fervent jasper]

Hi I’m new in here

[remote wadi]

No, I have to live with my family irl for the time being. He's the worst

[blissful ibex]

Hi new in here c:

[glass granite]

My influence spreads

[fervent jasper]

I’m not gonna lie I’ve never played in a campaign because no one I know is into dnd and no shops in my area have campaigns

[muted slate]

hi im new too

[blissful ibex]

it do be like that
online games are a great option in that case c:

[glass granite]

Hi new too, I’m Nugget

Both of yall should check out #learn-to-play and #find-a-game and #dnd-newcomers

[woven flint]

Sigh.
Gonna have to put Nugget and Méabhy down.

[muted slate]

im new too this discord lol

[remote wadi]

So like, I could go back in. Make a new character and all of that

But my headspace is already quite damaged as is

[severe rampart]

Hello new too this discord lol, I'm Echo

[muted slate]

I am DMing a session right now but they are arguing

[blissful ibex]

namely, make sure to read the information in #learn-to-play and 'Playing the Game'; Then follow allong with 'Creating A Character' using either the dnd beyond character builder or roll20 to make a practice character before heading over to #character-discussion to have it looked over.

Feel free to ask any questions you still have in #dnd-newcomers; There's a short interactive module you can play to get a feel for the game, or you could seek out gameplay videos online. Once you're ready to play, head over to #find-a-game, one of the many LFG discord servers, r/lfg on reddit, or your friendly local game store. If you'd like a printable character sheet, those can be found here.

[glass granite]

I see

[severe rampart]

Is it serious?

[remote wadi]

And I don't want ti cause or think if more trouble than I already have. I just want to lie down and pretend thus never happened

[blissful ibex]

anything spicy?

[woven flint]

Quick, everyone, grab your popcorn!

[naive cedar]

Do you guys put Parmesan on your popcorn?

[wintry spindle]

I do butter popcorn

[muted slate]

our Bard was giving an inspiring speech and then had a brain fart and paused with "what am I even saying" and then everyone started yelling at him and our barbarian took a bonus action to eat a ration to get health back in battle they honestly all sound like new york mobsters right now hey yo hey yoo whatre you doin

[woven flint]

No, I put the souls of the damned on mine

[remote wadi]

So I guess that's the scenario right now

[blissful ibex]

I like nutritional yeast with Cumin Adobo seasoning c:

[vagrant quartz]

what did you just say?

[naive cedar]

I guess I’m the only enlightened person here /j

[vagrant quartz]

bro is not enki

anyways

[naive cedar]

Yeah I am

[vagrant quartz]

hi everyone how are we?